he has a strong committed relationship with his lover of over 5 years.
he is openly gay and brings his significant other to parent meetings, games, other events coaches bring their wives.
he treats his significant other as his wife
he has never had a history of harassing his players
he is a...
Leading up to Wednesday's Game 1, Puck Daddy is previewing every facet of the Stanley Cup Final between the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins — on the ice and off the ice.
“I've been here for six years. I think I've been fired five times.”
That was a quote from Boston Bruins head coach...
Ralph Krueger was named the head coach of the Edmonton Oilers on June 27, 2012. On June 8, 2013, after 48 NHL games, and less than a calendar year after Krueger took the job, the job has been taken from him.
Oilers' GM Craig MacTavish announced Krueger's surprise dismissal at a press conference...
When Dave Duncan elected to step away from his duties as St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach following their miraculous postseason run to the World Series championship in 2011, it wasn't to join his longtime colleague and friend Tony La Russa in retirement.
As was always the cause for Duncan...
After months of uncertainty, the Sacramento Kings finally have some degree of ownership stability, with software executive Vivek Ranadive officially approved as the franchise's new owner and the Maloof brothers officially deposed from their despotic thrones. In many ways, they're now just like...
They've taken out newspaper ads, donned T-shirts and launched websites to no avail, so now Wake Forest fans eager to see a change in leadership in their basketball program are upping the ante one step further.
They've raised $4,500 to erect a billboard calling for the firing of fourth-year...
It’s not exactly a state secret as to why the Nashville Predators finished outside the top 8 in the Western Conference. They regressed from the eighth best offensive team in the NHL (2.83 G/G) last season to 29th this season at 2.27 goals per game, tied with the Florida Panthers for the most...
Former Notre Dame coach and current ESPN analyst Digger Phelps is battling bladder cancer, the network announced Thursday.
Phelps has already had surgery and will begin follow up treatment next week with doctors near his home in South Bend, Ind. Phelps has worked as an analyst for the network...
The first thing I thought of after news broke Tuesday afternoon that the Charlotte Bobcats had fired head coach Mike Dunlap was the scene in "Major League II" in which radio announcer Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker) narrates the aftermath of pitcher Rick Vaughn (pre-the-worst Charlie Sheen) convincing...
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• Here’s Tampa Bay Lightning star Marty St. Louis from the April 15 ESPN Magazine, in all his chiseled glory. Click the...
Florida wide receivers coach Joker Phillips is apparently just figuring out the wonders of Photoshop and he’s using his newfound skills as a way to entice recruits.
Monday morning, Phillips tweeted out a picture of himself on a makeshift poster with a fake Florida Gators jet in the background...
Shock waves were sent through the Orlando youth sports community when one of its longest serving coaches was arrested on charges of performing a lewd act in front of one of his athletes.
As reported by the Orlando Sentinel and TV network WFTV, 54-year-old Jeffrey McWhorter was arrested and...
Let's make a pact to remember next year that Tony Levine loves April Fools' Day.
Did he get you last year? He put out a press release and had an interview in which he said all-conference running back Charles Sims was moving to cornerback. April Fools' prank, of course.
And even if you swore...
The 10-year contract extension Steve Alford signed earlier this month apparently wasn't worth the paper on which it was printed.
UCLA announced Saturday it has hired Alford as its next coach, surprising news since the New Mexico coach hadn't been one of the names commonly linked to the Bruins'...