Month: January 2021
Bad Coaching in the NFL: Urban Meyer and bad, bad hires
We’ve seen a litany of teams hire their next NFL head coaches, and here at C’mon Coach, we’re already concerned for some of them. In this week’s edition of C’mon Coach, we look into our crystal ball to see precisely how the Urban Meyer era will go for the Jacksonville Jaguars, try to determine just […]
The Whiteboard: Harden-Durant Nets are looking dominant … on offense
The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Two games into James Harden’s tenure with the Brooklyn Nets, the returns have certainly encouraging. Since trading an enormous cache of future draft picks and pick swaps for […]
LaMelo Ball is a 19-year-old rookie already playing like a savvy veteran
LaMelo Ball is already a good rotation player for the Charlotte Hornets, but early returns suggest he’s going to be much more than that in the near future. LaMelo Ball just makes stuff happen on the hardwood. While a boilerplate description, it is the best summation for how a rookie shooting 40.3 percent from the […]
New York Mets fire GM Jared Porter after perverted harassment of female reporter
New York Mets management has fired general manager Jared Porter after an ESPN report detailing his sexual harassment of a female reporter. It took less than 12 hours for the New York Mets to fire general manager Jared Porter after it was revealed he sent explicit photos and messages to a female reporter in 2017. […]