Good morning, all! It is hump day!
The world of golf could be undergoing another shift, now that Brooks Koepka has left LIV and is returning to the PGA Tour. I break it all down in the video.
Here are some other thoughts, as the NFL coaching merry-go-round continues:
The number of big name head coaches available to coach another NFL team is growing, now that Mike Tomlin has stepped down as coach of the Steelers after 19 seasons. That places Tomlin and John Harbaugh as leaders of the pack with nine vacancies. The rumor mills, of course, are having a field day, with one story out there claiming the Giants and Harbaugh have met and New York has offered him a $20M per year contract. We shall see.
Do not be so sure Tomlin is going to coach next season. He might take a year off and do TV.
If the New York Jets do not part company with Aaron Glenn and make a move for either John Harbaugh or Mike Tomlin, they will rue the day.
The Cardinals really wanted to get rid of Nolan Arenado, didn’t they? They traded him to the Diamondbacks on Tuesday and were willing to kick in $31M of the $42M he is still owed over the remaining two years of his contract.
There is a tremendous channel on You Tube, devoted to Boston sports. It particularly focuses on the Red Sox and old television broadcasts, starting with the early 1960s. It is fascinating to watch, because you get an idea of what TV coverage was like back then - better than you think - and you learn the Red Sox were playing in front of a lot of empty seats at Fenway Park, “back in the day.” The channel is operated by Peter Goodwin, who once worked for the Boston Globe. He also has mixed in some games from the real Yankee Stadium. Here is his latest post: Yankees-Red Sox at the Stadium, the “Voice of the Red Sox,” Curt Gowdy at the mic along with Ned Martin, Aug. 28, 1964. Enjoy.
This is a significant game, by the way, because even though the Yankees lost, they won the next three games from Boston, starting a winning streak that jumped the Yankees from also rans in the American League to pennant winners. It was not enough, however, to save manager Yogi Berra’s job. He was fired, after the Yankees lost an exciting, seven-game World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals.
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DAN
