Month: April 2008 (Page 20 of 30)

      San Francisco Tabs Walters

      April 14, 2008 /

      Moves from East Coast to West Coast continue with the hiring of Rex Walters (Florida Atlantic) at San Francisco. On the surface this hire looks as bizarre as the hiring of Craig Robinson at Oregon State. Walters, who is coming off a losing season at Florida Atlantic, is 31-33 as a head coach. That means that this AD forced out Jessie Evans for a guy with a losing record. Let me say that again. The AD at San Francisco fired a coach with an overall winning record to replace him with a guy with a losing record. Oh, and by the way, this same AD spent money on hiring a search firm to find this gem. When will she lose her job?

      Marist Update: There are two left standing at Marist. Memphis assistant Chuckie Martin and Tom Herrion (Pitt) are the final two candidates. My money is on Martin.

      Getting back to Florida Atlantic      . This job is a sleeping giant. Not only have they boosted budgets, but they have spent millions on renovating the arena and locker rooms. More importantly, they have a power forward by the name of Carlos Monroe who has NBA potential.

      Look for a slew of former coaches to be all over this job. Mike Jarvis (St. John’s), Eddie Sutton (OSU) and Jim O’Brien (Ohio State) will all be involved. Odds are the AD will try to make a splash like when he hired Matt Doherty a couple of years ago. Hiring Eddie Sutton would be a perfect match with football coach Howard Schnellenberger. Then they would have two of the oldest coahes in college sports today.

      College Basketball

      Mariotti calls out Tiger

      April 14, 2008 /

      Chicago Sun Times columnist and everyone’s favorite bigmouth Jay Mariotti called out Tiger Woods for not backing up his words at this year’s Masters, won by Trevor Immelman on Sunday.

      In one disjointed sense, this truly was a piece of history we should tell the grandkids about. Never before has Tiger Woods been so fantastically presumptuous — and so gloriously wrong. Without prompting from any source but his own inner voices, he had the temerity to suggest that a calendar-year Grand Slam was “easily within reason” for him.

      While we applaud him for manufacturing drama that otherwise wouldn’t have existed in April, do note that unkept promises usually aren’t part of a sports legend’s resume. What does it say when Plaxico Burress nails a Super Bowl prediction but the extraordinary Woods, never known for outlandish boasts of any sort, instantly blows the forecast and loses the Masters by three strokes to the worthy but previously obscure Trevor Immelman?

      It tells us that Tiger, who made the comments on his personal Web site as the season began, might want to withhold such bold opinions if he can’t take the heat. As dusk fell over Augusta National, he clearly wasn’t happy that his self-fueled Slam talk had become such a hot-button topic — and a major letdown Sunday. What, when Eldrick Woods interjects “Grand Slam” into the discussion, people aren’t going to listen and react? Um, aren’t we talking about the world’s biggest sportsman, the first billion-dollar athlete?

      Tiger can’t take the heat? After one bold comment on his personal website that wasn’t even that bad to begin with? Stop stirring the pot Mariotti – Tiger has nothing to prove and he’s always been a class act. And the comparison to Plaxico Burress was a reach to say the least.

      Photo Courtesy of Flickr

      Golf

      What’s wrong with Big Papi?

      April 14, 2008 /

      ESPN.com wants to know what’s wrong with Boston Red Sox slugger David Oritz, who is hitting just .070 on the season.

      I love ESPN. Without fail, whenever a player or team is slumping, they run the “What’s wrong with…” segment. Big Papi isn’t 28-years old anymore and he’s battling a nagging knee injury. He’s going to turn things around and once he does, ESPN can run the “Which Big Papi is the real Big Papi – the Big Papi who started the season batting .070 or the Big Papi that is on a 34-54 tear?” segment.

      MLB

      Providence Coaching Search

      April 13, 2008 /

      The search for a new coach at Providence continues. With Travis Ford (UMass) pulling out a couple of names have come to the forefront. Kevin Willard (Iona) and Larry Shyatt (Florida). Willard is a former Pitino assistant, but has not proven himself as a head coach yet. There are two better candidates in his own league. Both Jimmy Patsos, who took a dead in the water Loyola to 3 straight winning seasons. The first timke that has happened since the early 80’s. Also, Fran McCaffrey who led Siena to the NCAA tournament this year.

      The stumbling block for these two candidates is their agent, Rob Ades. Ades was also Tim Welsh’s agent and from what I hear it didn’t end well. Seems like the Providence brass don’t want to deal with Ades again. That’s too bad for both Patsos and McCaffrey as they both would do a great job.

      All that being said, look for Karl Hobbs to sneak in. The head man at George Washington has experience in the Big East at UConn and is from Boston. Write it down.

      Brown Update:

      The Ivy League school is looking hard at Tim O’Shea from Ohio U. The former Rhode Island and BC assistant would be a steal.

      College Basketball

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