Off the Record (OTR)

The NFL is becoming a lot like the music industry anymore. Record labels aren’t going to wait for you to find your groove and hope the third album is a hit. Your first album only sold 300,000 copies? See ya.
Much is the way of the NFL. You were here [...]

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The New York Giants have fired their defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan after just one year on the job, according to Mike Garafolo’s twitter account.
“Bill Sheridan fired, #NYG announce,” Garafolo tweets.
This isn’t a huge surprise to anyone that caught a whiff of the Giants defense in the second half of the season. They were injured, [...]

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In a surprising twist at the end of Washington’s season, the Redskins organization has chosen to cut ties with head coach Jim Zorn.

PHOTO CAPTION:  “What do I care, I still got paid.”
Zorn was viewed by many to be the best coach in the toughest division in football, the NFC East.  Although he was 4-12 this [...]

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Sources tell the Kansas City Star that Kansas University head coach Mark Mangino and the school have reached a settlement and he will no longer be the coach of the football team. The school has been investigating his treatment of players since November 17th and several players have come forward and alleged verbal and [...]

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I don’t think this is much of a shock to anyone, but Notre Dame has fired Charlie Weis as their head football coach.
PHOTO CAPTION:  ‘Charlie Weis’ is latin for ‘man fupa’
“We have great expectations for our football program, and we have not been able to meet those expectations,” said Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick.
That’s [...]

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A day after ESPN terminated baseball analyst and former Mets GM Steve Phillips, the company today announced Brooke Hundley has also been fired. The reason Hundley (the 22-year-old production assistant Phillips was banging on the side) was let go was not revealed. If we had to guess, we’d say she was showing up late [...]

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Mike Siano of MLB.com tweets that the Houston Astros have fired manager Cecil Cooper.
“#Astros have relieved Cecil Cooper of his managerial duties. 3B coach Dave Clark will take over on an interim basis through remainder of 2009,” he tweets.

OTR does not know at this time if it had anything to do with the [...]

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According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Mets have fired VP of Player Development Tony Bernazard. But why? Because the Mets farm system sucks a big one and they have no one to replace the injured lineup right now? DUI? Dog fighting? What could it be?

Was it [...]

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After just one year as the Detroit Pistons head coach, Joe Dumars has kindly asked Michael Curry to get the hell out and never come back.
Curry only managed to squeeze out 39 wins for the Pistons this year, including a first round playoff loss against the Cleveland Cavaliers.  The last-year Pistons led by Flip Saunders [...]

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The Minnesota Timberwolves have decided that Kevin McHale can do anything he wants in the whole world, as long as anything he wants doesn’t include coaching the Timberwolves.

“This is going to be a transition period,” said president of basketball operations David Kahn. “And with the changes that have occurred, and with the changes that [...]

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The Colorado Avalanche have told head coach Tony Granato that he’ll no longer have preferred parking at the Pepsi Center. The team fired Granato and five other members of the organization.

In addition to Granato, the Avalanche fired assistant coaches Jacques Cloutier and Dave Barr, goaltending coach Jeff Hackett, assistant to the general manager Michel [...]

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