Archive for January, 2013

New Orleans Becomes The Pelicans…And NBA’s Name Problem

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Jan

The New Orleans Hornets, formerly the Charlotte Hornets, are changing their name, logo and colors. A press conference is scheduled for later today to announce this change, but before the announcement, we got a glimpse at the new logo of the New Orleans PELICANS! I do say…I approve. After running into trouble with the NBA […]

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Upton Brothers Together Again in Atlanta

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Jan

The sports world is brimming with brother stories right now. We are headed to the Super Harbaughl, Super Browl, Sup-har Baughl, or whatever else you want to call it. Manti Te’o having a girlfriend that was actually one of his old friends…possibly his old bro? Now we have two dynamic young outfielders playing on the […]

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Grizzlies Salary Dump: Riding The Luxury Line

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Jan

This morning the Memphis Grizzlies made a trade, just not the one so many people were expecting. Over the last two weeks there have been trade rumors hovering over the Grizzlies season and making focus tough to come by. This move may have put those rumors to bed for now. Memphis has agreed to trade […]

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John Idzik Fills The Final GM Vacancy

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Jan

The final job that opened up on the blood bath that was black monday in the NFL is finally closed. The New York Jets had a LOT of trouble finding someone to bring in as their new GM. Several personnel people were given interviews and asked to come in for second interviews but turned down […]

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Lombardi Reunites With Cleveland as De Facto GM

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Jan

At first it seemed that Alec Scheiner would be bringing in a head coach that would have personnel power on the level of Bill Belichick in New England. When that head coach never surfaced, Scheiner turned to one of the most well-regarded personnel men of recent memory to fill Cleveland’s GM vacancy…Michael Lombardi. Well, to […]

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Gentry Stumbles Out of the Desert

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Jan

The Phoenix Suns are a mess. No other team fires their head coach mid-season and being totally unprepared to do so. They still have not tabbed an interim head coach, let alone found a new one. Regardless of ownership and the front office, there is now a gaping hole on the Suns that was once […]

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Arians Tasked With Leading the Cardinals to Water in the Desert

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Jan

More than a few coaches were terrified of the Arizona Cardinals QB situation and stayed far away from their vacant head coaching position. It was surprising to see the team that hired a new GM, Steve Keim, almost immediately after firing Rod Graves but were unable to find a new head coach until now. It […]

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NHL Head Coach Contracts

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Jan

Parentheses indicate option years *X stands for details that are undisclosed* Contract details are gathered from various sources and are not verified Last updated at 9:19 AM CST on 4/26/2017

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The Gus-Bus Stops in Jacksonville

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Jan

The Seattle Seahawks saw a meteoric rise on defense after the hiring of Gus Bradley and head coach Pete Carroll. Now, Carroll may eventually have to coach against his former defensive coordinator as the Jacksonville Jaguars and new GM Dave Caldwell have hired Gus Bradley as their new head coach. Bradley oversaw a defense that […]

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Manti Te’o Victim of a Hoax or Getting Away With It?

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Jan

I won’t dare take anything away from the great people over at Deadspin.com by trying to write my own article about what they have found on Manti Te’o. If you know nothing yet, the link is in this post. Read it immediately because it is not flattering for Te’o. However, I would like to post […]

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Fool Me Once, Shame On Me, Fool Me Twice…

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Jan

Yes, yes, yes I will get to what is ahead of Kelly in Philadelphia, so if you want that, you can skip ahead, but let’s talk about the way this whole process went down with Chip Kelly and Philadelphia. I wrote an article talking all about Kelly, his offense and how Cleveland, yes Cleveland, was […]

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Marc-y Marc and Chicago’s New Funky Bunch

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Jan

The great white north has shot something back to the NFL after years of taking NFL refuse, Chicago Bears new head coach Marc Trestman. After weeks of interviews for Chicago GM Phil Emery, he finally paired down his search to three finalists and information leaked just after midnight that Marc Trestman would become the 14th […]

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Contracts

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Jan

Listed below are links to the available information for contracts of head coaches and managers for the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. I have scoured the internet to find these numbers. Some leagues have more available, but nothing is generally considered totally public knowledge and none of this is confirmed beyond the sources. NFL Head […]

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MLB Manager Contracts

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Jan

Parentheses show option years *X stands for contract details that are still undisclosed* Contract details are gathered from various sources and are not verified Last updated at 1:49 PM CST on 4/1/2017

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NFL Head Coach Salaries & Contracts

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Jan

Parentheses show option years *X stands for details that continue to be undisclosed* Contract details are gathered from various sources and are not verified. Last updated at 2:24 PM CST on 3/5/2017

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