It's crazy rumor day in sports blogdom. We start with chatter about coaching vacancies in the NFL cities like Kansas City, Cleveland, San Francisco and St. Louis. Just type in those seasonal sports clichés; "hot seat" and "coaching carousel" to read all about it. Or go to Jay Glazer at FOXSports.com. Jim Donovan, radio voice of the Cleveland Browns, reported a rumor (which is kind of an oxymoron) that defensive lineman Shaun Smith hit quarterback Brady Quinn in the face. Who hasn't wanted to hit Brady Quinn in the face? Metaphorically, anyway.There are a lot of possible villains in Detroit right now. A disgraced mayor, Big Three car company execs and workers who've run a mighty industry into the ground. Lion's Matt Millen, obviously. Yet, somehow Rob Parker, a writer for the Detroit News, managed to make himself Motown's Public Enemy No. 1 with an absurdly rude line of questioning to Lions coach Rod Marinelli in a postgame press conference. Parker asked Marinelli, who's son-in-law is also a Lions' coach, if he wished that his daughter would have married a better defensive coordinator. The oft-times in hot water Parker was subsequenrly evisetrated on FOX by Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Michael Strahan. Parker, for his part, wrote a column saying that it wasn't as bad as it looked.
For chatter about coaching vacancies in (probably) Kansas City, Cleveland, San Francisco and St. Louis, just type in the seasonal sports clichés; "hot seat" and "coaching carousel." Or check out Jay Glazer at FOXSports.com.
Jim Donovan, radio voice of the Cleveland Browns, reported a rumor (which is kind of an oxymoron) that defensive lineman Shaun Smith hit Brady Quinn in the face during a lockeroom scuffle. Yeah, well.. Who hasn't wanted to hit Brady Quinn?
Speaking of things, like the Browns, which are imploding, the Hoosierdome done got blowed up:
A Dominican newspaper is claiming the Yankees are on the verge of signing Manny Ramirez to a three-year, $75M deal, but none of the New York papers have picked up the story. This smells like Manny-centric PR. The Yankees have got to be more interested in Mark Teixeira and they now have a better shot at signing him since the Angels pulled out of the bidding. Teixeira is eight years younger than Ramirez, doesn't have the self-serving behavioral issues, has normal hair and bothers to play defense.
Competitive latke eating? What would Hannukah be without it? Sunday was the 4th Annual National Potato Latke Eating Competition, held at Zan's Deli on Long Island, New York. This year's champion, "Furious" Pete Czerwinski, is a 22-year-old Canadian student who packed away 46 potato pancakes in eight minutes; about 7 pounds of potatoes total. Yum.
