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San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh has been hired as head coach by the New York Jets, making him the NFL’s first Muslim head coach in the league’s history, NBC News reports. “We’ve reached an agreement in principle with Robert Saleh to become our head coach,” the Jets announced in a statement on Thursday. “We […]
During a recent appearance on Club Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe, Tony Dungy was asked about his controversial rankings of NFL quarterbacks. The former Colts coach caused a stir several years ago when he placed Tom Brady as No. 6 on the list of the toughest QBs to defeat. Many accused Dungy of failing to give the future Hall-of-Famer enough credit and […]
Nick Nurse is not your typical head coach. Ahead of our chat earlier this week, he put an entire Toronto Raptors leadership meeting—which sounds very, very important—on hold in order to call me and ask if it’s alright if he’s literally two minutes late for our interview. (“Can I apologize real quick and can I ask you for just a couple more […]
The Indiana Pacers have hired former Toronto Raptors assistant Nate Bjorkgren as their head coach, the team announced on Tuesday. Bjorkgren spent the last two seasons under Raptors coach Nick Nurse, helping Toronto win its first NBA title in 2018-19. Given that the team followed that up with the league’s second-best regular-season record—resulting in Nurse […]
The Texans have stumbled out of the gate, forcing the organization to make a drastic change before things get even more out of hand. On Monday, Houston fired head coach and general manager Bill O’Brien. The Texans lost to the Vikings on Sunday, giving the team a 0-4 start for the season. While this is a […]
In the end, it wasn’t even close. While a few seeds of doubt were planted when coaches voted Milwaukee Bucks’ Mike Budenholzer and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Billy Donovan as co-coaches of the year in their vote, the media made it loud and clear who the winner of the official award should be. Raptors head coach […]
Mark Jackson and George Karl got into a back and fourth after the former shared his thoughts on Carmelo Anthony‘s defense during Thursday’s Lakers-Blazers playoff game. Jackson, who’s an ESPN NBA color commentator, said that “there should be a shared responsibility for whoever allowed that defense to be played” when talking about Carmelo’s defense in the […]
The Oakland A’s and bench coach Ryan Christenson have issued an apology after he used a Nazi salute twice during a game on Thursday. “I made a mistake and will not deny it,” Christenson said in the statement, while maintaining that the gesture was unintentional. He threw up the salute at the end of the game, […]
Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden is currently in the hospital after contracting COVID-19. At least, that’s what Raiders assistant coach Rich Bisaccia wanted to make his players believe when he falsely informed them of Gruden’s positive coronavirus test result over Zoom, according to NFL Media’s Mike Garafolo. “Bisaccia told them, ‘Guys, Coach Gruden has COVID, and he’s […]
Iowa State guard Rasir Bolton shared on Twitter Monday that his decision to transfer from Penn State last year was due to a comment from Nittany Lions head coach Patrick Chambers where he referenced that Bolton had a noose around his neck. Bolton said Chambers’ remark was made one day after the coach served a one-game suspension for shoving Penn State’s Myles Dread during a […]
