NFL Week 11: Patriots Revenge, the Oakland Fly Trap Eats Again, and More…

Jay Cutler contemplates the latest way he found to lose a game for the Chicago Bears. Oakland (3-7) 20, Cincinnati (7-3) 17. Sunday showed the Bengals immaturity. After jumping out to a quick 14-0 lead, too many Bengals players took the reset of the game off thinking the Raiders would pack it in; some appeared mot to show up at all [read more...]

The Top 50 Head Coaches Continued: The Greatest Hockey Bench Jockeys (and all the coaches, so far)

 Last but least - just kidding - hockey bench jockeys. Who are the best of the best of the men pacing incessantly in that tiny area behind those sweaty Canadians, Euro-dudes, Northeastern and Minnesotan Ameros with big curved sticks in their mitted-up hands, sitting awaiting their turn to once again hit the ice and do the bidding of the pacing [read more...]

The Top 50 Head Coaches Continued: Major League Baseball Managers

It is time to move one step closer to finishing the revised list of the Sporting News Top 50 head coaches. Today we look at MLB managers. Tomorrow I’ll deal with NHL coaches and Monday I will reveal the revised list. Here is TSN’s list: 1. John Wooden, college basketball 2. Vince Lombardi, NFL  3. Bear Bryant, college football  4. Phil Jackson, NBA  5. Don Shula, [read more...]

The Top 50 Head Coaches Continued: NBA and NCAA Football Coaches

So far in our top 50 head coaches we have the following hallowed team leaders: From NCAA Hoops: 1. John Wooden. 2. Pat Summit. 3. Geno Auriemma. 4. John McLendon. 5. Bob Knight. 6. Mike Krzyzewski. 7. John Thompson. 8. Jim Calhoun. 9. Dean Smith. From the NFL: 1. Paul Brown. 2. Bill Walsh. 3. Vince Lombardi. 4. George Halas. 5. Sid Gillman. [read more...]

The Sporting News Top 50 Coaches: Beginning a Revised Top 50

I‘m going to take a little break from the craziness of Plax, Mike Vick, Daniel Hood, and more. On ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning show Thursday morning, Mike Greenberg nd Mike Golic are discussing the coaches listed on the Sporting News Top 50 head coaches. I’ll give up the list and then begin dissecting the coaches, sports by [read more...]

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