Espresso style like mud? Certain, it was simply floor this morning. Notes, quotes and goats for a Sunday morning:
It appears that evidently when Robert Saleh isn’t teaching the Jets, he spends an excessive amount of time watching soccer on TV. Right here’s what he needed to say, final week, about not enjoying RB James Robinson in opposition to the Bears:
“James’ story just isn't over, clearly; I stated that after our sport.
“It’s only a matter of getting north and south, and never each run goes to be good, not each run goes to the home, and simply sticking his foot within the floor getting vertical as rapidly as attainable and exploding by the road of scrimmage.”
Yikes! He has been invaded by Mike Mayock!
Vanderbilt College, prestigious “Harvard of the South,” has recently had some ugly episodes with its coaches.
Wednesday in a loss at Virginia Commonwealth, and as seen on CBS Sports activities Community, basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse, throughout an unrestrained vulgar rant towards the refs, was hit with two technicals, and thus was ejected.
He then needed to be escorted from the court docket by an armed police officer or safety guard.
Final month, assistant Vandy soccer coach Dan Jackson was quickly suspended after publicly supporting Kanye “Ye” West’s hate-filled lunatic ravings about Jewish conspiracies in opposition to blacks. Jackson, earlier than apologizing, claimed, good grief, that West is “two steps forward of everybody.”
Geno Auriemma’s Connecticut ladies’s basketball group has joined the win-at-all-costs Berlitz Membership this season. Recruits are from Canada, Croatia, France, Hungary and Portugal. Surprise if he let any know that they might have a game-long view from the bench throughout blowout wins.
He did, nevertheless, enable one sub 5 minutes in a 98-39 win over Northeastern (two starters performed greater than half-hour in that one), and two subs received three minutes in a 78-50 win over Duke, through which 4 starters performed at the very least 33 minutes.
What number of on Auriemma’s roster are from Connecticut? Zero. However he solely does what the school permits, his annual participant cruelty included.
I’m nonetheless satisfied that administrators of televised sports activities work from the unsuitable place. As an alternative of working from a broadcast truck or management room, indifferent from the here-and-now of video games, they belong in the identical locations as assistant soccer coaches, simply above the motion within the press field stage, from the place they'll higher name their pictures for us.
Final Saturday, for instance, late within the third quarter Auburn trailed at Alabama, 42-21. Final gasp time for Auburn, going for it on fourth-and-1. As the gang noise rose to mirror the circumstance, CBS, as if we didn’t know why the gang was responding, reduce to 3 — three! — consecutive crowd pictures.
It appears inconceivable that a director, working with the sphere slightly below her or him, would select such a second to deal with the gang relatively than present Auburn heading to the road as the gang spoke for itself.
From a truck or a room down the hallway, it’s simpler to overlook a flag, a post-play problem, an off-the-ball foul, the outfield alignment, an off-the-play harm and a coach on the sideline hollering for a trip than it's when you’re seated simply above stay play.
As a matter of utilized sense, I’d relatively the announcers be sequestered from the stay view of a sport relatively than TV administrators.
So for all of the “Finish Racism” virtue-messaging Roger Goodell’s NFL shoves in our faces, from finish zone signage to backs-of-helmets, Sunday, Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, who feels he’s grossly underpaid at $23.5 million per, tweeted a vulgar homophobic return message to some Ravens “fan” logical people would have ignored, after shedding to the 3-7 Jaguars.
So what did “It Takes All Of Us,” “Select Love” and “Encourage Change” Goodell do about this? Nothing, at the very least not publicly, the first-class phony.
Reds and Fox NFL announcer Thom Brennaman spoke a tamer gay slur when he thought he was off the air, apologized profusely, however his profession immediately vanished simply the identical.
Sunday, as Jackson’s Ravens misplaced in Jacksonville, they activated veteran WR DeSean Jackson, who two years in the past suffered no punishment from Goodell’s workplace after he disseminated twisted, bogus Adolph Hitler and Louis Farrakhan propaganda — “details” — condemning Jews.
None of Goodell’s pandering enterprise, I assume.
Why doesn’t The Backyard by now simply set up a bed room, bathe and kitchenette for Kenny Albert?
Friday night time, he subbed in for Sam Rosen on TV for Senators-Rangers. Saturday afternoon, he referred to as MSG TV’s Mavericks-Knicks. Saturday night time, it was MSG TV for Blackhawks-Rangers. Lastly, Sunday afternoon he can be calling Commanders-Giants on Fox.
4 video games, three sports activities, in below three days. He ought to’ve by no means listened to his outdated man.
Whereas we acknowledge that FIFA, as soccer’s governing physique — and a physique worthy of body-shaming — busies itself making doubtful offers, the sport, even on the World Cup stage, suffers from inactivity. For instance, it takes far too lengthy to take free kicks and nook kicks. Play ball!
By the way in which, whereas Qatari males, of their white robes and headdress, have been seen en-masse at World Cup matches, why no Qatari ladies? Not allowed out? Qatar, an oppressive Islamic theocracy, was FIFA’s extremely suspect thought.
And so removed from Fox, not a phrase in regards to the hundreds of imported Third World slave-wage staff, housed in squalor, lots of of whom died constructing Qatar’s World Cup stadiums and services.
As Jets followers ought to know by now, by no means get too excessive. The decisive Mike White-led win over the Bears final Sunday got here with caveats.
For starters, the offensive sport plan made some sensible sense from the beginning. Nibble, nibble passes, then strike deep — all in opposition to a depleted protection.
And that TE C.J. Uzomah, a reasonably good receiver whereas with the Bengals, was included to the tune of three catches, was eye-catching. He was skunked within the earlier week’s loss to the Patriots, and had largely been ignored earlier than that.
It’s additionally nicely price recalling that Chicago’s defensive backs had been pulled from right here, there and all over the place, digital strangers in emergency obligation. White couldn't have requested for higher.
Lastly, the Bears’ double-threat QB Justin Fields was out.
In different phrases, the Vikings in Minnesota this Sunday ain’t the identical as these Bears in Jersey final Sunday.
Hey, community stat grinders! What do the Lions, Cardinals, Falcons and Browns have in widespread, aside from shedding data? Hand over?
All are within the prime 10 of “telltale” Crimson Zone TD success charges. The Lions (4-7) are No. 2 of 32! What’s the prospect you’ll see that in a graphic Sunday?
In view of Gaylord Perry’s legacy as a spit-baller, will his pallbearers select to put on gloves or simply use rosin luggage and/or pine tar?
We additionally misplaced AFL San Diego Chargers QB John Hadl. Followers of a sure age — as in 65-plus — nonetheless recall Hadl bombing away, NBC’s Charlie Jones with the calls.
Doze had been da daze. Because the door in outdated Tigers Stadium learn, “Guests Clubhouse, No Guests.”
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