Dan Le Batard Makes Shocking Announcement, Future Even More Unclear
Dec 30, 2020, 8:34 AM EST
Dan Le Batard finds himself in a bit of a pickle right now. He orchestrated his departure from ESPN without having another landing place secured for his marching band to nowhere to blast their dissonant music.
In this economy? With
finding the most personally beneficial angle for himself at the expense of the larger group? Yikes.
Now, just days before his final show on the network s airwaves, Le Batard did what he always does make it about race with a stunning admission that will rock the industry to its core and send ripple effects from Bristol to suburban Boston to wherever Alec Baldwin s wife s parents used to vacation when they were younger.
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Feel Free to Call Nick Saban By His Name Nick Saban | Chris Graythen/Getty Images
Rick Karle, veteran anchor at Birmingham’s WVTM, is either in the beginning stages of a great bit or has chosen the silliest and self-owning-iest hill on which to plant his flag.
Because his fingers found a keyboard and typed the following blustery prose about Alabama football coach Nick Saban, whose name we can’t stress enough is Nick Saban.
.@AlabamaFTBL coach #NickSaban held his @rosebowlgame newser today & a reporter addressed the coach as “Hi, Saban!”
His name is Coach Saban.
Not Nick.
Karle’s accompanying Facebook post is the type of thing that initially makes most folks angry but is overwhelmingly sad upon any deeper reflection.
Mitch Trubisky Can Still Make Chicago Love Him
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The Chicago Bears’ playoffs hopes ride contingent on beating the Green Bay Packers. It’s the type of big-game atmosphere Ralphie’s dad would be reading about in
A Christmas Story before disappearing to fix the furnace amid a torrent of smoke and profanity. And don’t look now, but Mitch Trubisky is playing the type of competent ball that makes the franchise’s No. 2 overall pick look merely like a seeing-eye single and not a complete whiff.
Hope springs eternal for better futures when the calendar year sees its reflection turn ancient in the mirror. Trubisky, preciously on a razor’s wire and one-way ticket to irrelevance in his online cart, can reshape his entire legacy over the next month. He can erase some of the growing pains and cause fans to put the blade away before the wounds will scar.
A Third-String Coach Beating Tom Brady Would be Classic Lions
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Detroit Lions interim coach Darrell Bevell has made unfortunate history as the first NFL sideline bigwig to miss a game due to COVID protocol. Bevell, who took over for Matt Patricia last month, had a close contact with a confirmed positive case and therefore will be unavailable to coach in Saturday s game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Neither will defensive coordinator Cory Undlin, defensive line coach Bo Davis, linebackers coach Ty McKenzie and defensive backs coach Steve Gregory.
The job now falls to Robert Prince, who is in his seventh season with the team as wide receivers coach. With little to play for and widespread attrition on the defensive side of the ball, shocking the world against the greatest quarterback who ever lived will be a tall task.