Bobby Petrino new job--ESPN’s Brett McMurphy is reporting that Petrino, who was the offensive coordinator for the Cardinals in 1998 before a four year stint as head coach from 2003-2006, is one of the three finalists for the job after interviewing with UL athletic director Tom Jurich Tuesday.
According to the Courier-Journal, there has been support for Petrino in the Louisville area and Petrino’s father, Bob Sr., said that Petrino has been thinking about Louisville too.
“He told me this weekend he would like the opportunity to coach at Louisville again,” Bob Sr. said Monday. “He said that he’s been everywhere, the NFL and everywhere else, and he said probably the biggest mistake he’d ever made as a coach was leaving Louisville.”
Since leaving Louisville for a brief stint with the Atlanta Falcons in 2007, Petrino coached at Arkansas from 2008-2011 and is currently the coach at Western Kentucky. Petrino’s time at Arkansas ended unceremoniously after he was fired for misleading Arkansas officials about a relationship with a mistress on his football staff.
Petrino went 41-9 during his time at Louisville and after an 8-4 season at Western Kentucky, it appears that Petrino’s past successes could make him Jurich’s pick to replace Charlie Strong. Bob Sr. certainly thinks he deserves the shot.
“I don’t think there’s any other place in the world where (Bobby) can do the things he can do in Louisville,” Bob Sr. said. “I don’t think there’s any question, if he was offered this job, he’d take it.”
Usain Bolt Chicken Nuggets--When you're an Olympic athlete, your body is a finely tuned machine, a precise instrument of competition dependent on exactly the correct mix of nutritional elements to fuel optimum results.
Unless you're Usain Bolt, in which case you just devour Chicken McNuggets by the truckful and outrun the entire planet anyway.
In his newly published memoir, Bolt reveals that during the two weeks of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, he scarfed down an estimated one thousand nuggets. In excerpts referenced by the New York Post, Bolt called Chinese food "odd" and decided to give McDonald's a try. And for the publicity he's about to give McDonald's, he deserves some sponsorship coin:
“At first I ate a box of 20 [McNuggets] for lunch, then another for dinner," he writes. "The next day I had two boxes for breakfast, one for lunch and then another couple in the evening. I even grabbed some fries and an apple pie to go with it."
Apparently that wasn't enough; Bolt estimates he vacuumed down 100 nuggets every 24 hours for ten days. Also during that time, he happened to win gold medals in the 100 meter, 200 meter, and 4x100 meter relay events. It's reminiscent of the old story about swimmer Michael Phelps, like Bolt one of the most decorated Olympians in history, eating 12,000 calories a day during his training. (Phelps later said the story was untrue.)
Nutritionally, each nugget contains 47.5 calories and 3 grams of fat, so Bolt was consuming 4,750 calories and 300 grams of fat from nuggets alone. For perspective, the average American male takes in 2,512 calories and 93 grams of fat per day, while the average woman takes in 1,778 calories and 66 grams of fat.
In other words, if you're not running fast enough to burn off nearly 5,000 calories of nuggets each day, you might want to avoid Bolt's diet.
Alvin Gentry fired, The Phoenix Suns have fired coach Alvin Gentry, calling it a mutual agreement in announcing the decision Friday.
The Suns said in a news release that no interim coach has been chosen but that one would be selected in the next couple of days.
Coming off a home loss Thursday night, their first loss in Phoenix to the Milwaukee Bucks in 26 years, the Suns (13-28) apparently decided it was time to make a coaching move.
Gentry, Suns managing partner Robert Sarver and president Lon Babby reportedly had a late-night meeting, but Gentry was not let go at that time. A decision was made Friday morning.
The Suns lost star guard Steve Nash in the offseason and sought to offset that loss by adding Wesley Johnson and Michael Beasley. But Phoenix finds itself in last place in the Western Conference with the fourth-worst record in the league.
The Suns have lost 13 of their past 15 games and 20 of 26.
Still, some Phoenix players praised Gentry while confirming the dismissal. Suns forward-center Channing Frye, for example, tweeted:
"I have grown so much under @AlvinGentry. I wish him and his family the best. He's a great coach and a better man. #thanksalvin"
Gentry, 58, was in the final contract year of his contract. He was 158-144 with the Suns, his fourth head-coaching stint.
Calvin Johnson 100 yards--Detroit fans are thankful for Calvin Johnsontoday.
Megatron already has five catches for 103 yards at halftime, including a 22-yard touchdown catch just before the two-minute warning, which gave the Lions a 21-14 lead over the Texans. Johnson has been hobbled by multiple injuries and missing a lot of practice in recent weeks, but it hasn’t affected him on game days: This is Johnson’s fourth straight game over 100 yards.
The Lions’ passing game is working as well as it has all season, aided in part by the absence of Texans cornerback Johnathan Joseph. Receivers Ryan Broyles andMike Thomas are having solid games (and perhaps supplanting Titus Young, who was benched this week for bad behavior, on the depth chart), and tight endsBrandon Pettigrew and Tony Scheffler are playing well too.
The Texans’ passing game is looking good as well. Andre Johnson has made a couple of huge plays himself, and has three catches for 87 yards at the half. Matt Schaub has played very well despite a lot of pressure (and some borderline cheap shots) from Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.
At halftime, Boomer Esiason of CBS said of Suh, “I would never shake this guy’s hand. Once again he has crossed over the line and it’s obvious it’s on purpose.”
Houston’s offensive line needs to keep Suh away from Schaub, and Houston’s secondary needs to find an answer for Megatron, or else the Texans are heading for their second loss of the season.
As chance would have it, I was on the phone with Barry Sanders while working on this edition of the mock draft and I figured why not have him pick No. 4 overall for me? Sanders is an Oklahoma State guy, so he's got some bias there, but as he told me during the interview, he also believes a franchise running back is worth an early pick in the draft. School loyalty, or positional loyalty?
source: cbssports
Frank Martin takes South Carolina job, South Carolina has hired Frank Martin to revitalize its basketball program.
School trustees approved the six-year contract worth more than $2 million a year on average Tuesday morning. Martin is expected to be introduced by the school later.
The former Kansas State coach will take over a team that finished dead last in the Southeastern Conference last season.
Martin advanced to the NCAA tournament four times in five years at Kansas State. His Wildcats reached the regional finals in 2010. His overall record as a head coach is 117-54, and he is 6-4 in the NCAA tourney.
Mar 19, 2012 - Phillies second baseman Chase Utley missed almost 60 games' worth of the 2011 season with various knee issues, and when he did play, his performance was far beneath his usual level: .259/.344/.425 with just 11 home runs in 103 games.
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NCAA Tournament play in games tuesday wednesday, The fallout from a season where Pac-12 basketball was held in little esteem nationally has landed Cal in an NCAA tournament First Four game against South Florida on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio.
"I feel like it is a little disrespectful. It shows you how they feel about the conference," Cal sophomore point guard Justin Cobbs said.
"We have to go in with a chip on our shoulder," added sophomore Allen Crabbe, "and prove we can compete with any team."
The Bears (24-9), who tied for second in the Pac-12 standings, fared better than Washington. After losing in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 tournament, the Huskies became the first regular-season champion from a BCS conference in the modern era to be left out of the field.
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Had the Wildcats not thrown in a few meaningless threes in the closing minutes, the score would have been more indicative of what actually transpired.
Syracuse was expected to win, so this is no bragging point for an Orange team that is one win away from matching its best start ever.