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El Gráfico, a Salvadoran sports newspaper, headlined the match “En una hielera.” Translation: “In a freezer.” Snow flurries fell during warmups and the temperature was the same as for the “Guerra Fria” win over Mexico at old Columbus Crew Stadium in February 2001 and the Snow Clasico victory over Costa Rica at Commerce City, Colorado, in March 2013.
League sources indicate Eberflus hopes to hire Rich Bisaccia, who finished this season as the interim coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after Jon Gruden stepped down. Bisaccia has been special teams coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Diego Chargers and Dallas Cowboys, with whom he was on the same staff as Eberflus.
Yes, the Bears had spent a week and a half interviewing at least 10 known candidates for head coach in the initial phase of their search. But that was before they had a GM in place. That, naturally, raises a series of legitimate questions. For starters, was Poles truly given full autonomy to decide who his coaching finalists would be? If so, how did he settle on his list of Eberflus, Dan Quinn and Jim Caldwell? And why did he meet with only three head-coaching candidates — and in such rapid fashion after he was hired? (The interview with Caldwell, for what it’s worth, took place Tuesday night just hours after Poles agreed to become the new GM.)
The Bulls have plenty of stakes left in the All-Star selection process. Zach LaVine, a 2021 All-Star reserve, was a close competitor to earn a starting spot in the Eastern backcourt and the guard is still expected to make the bench lineup. Rookie Ayo Dosunmu could also be named to the Rising Stars tournament, which features rookies, second-year players and G-League standouts.
In terms of these stories and how they’re told, I couldn’t speak exactly to who’s getting it right, who’s not getting it right. This film was really about the relationship between an athlete, their past, and the city through the prism of a camera lens. It’s just trying to provoke thoughts about how we look at our athletes and how they are human; that in itself is something that is continuing to be told. I think it’s been told more in the last five years especially with the player empowerment movement as more athletes continue to commission their own projects and really harness the power of their own voices. This film was made before that movement started. And I’ve been a big part of that movement and working with athletes in my life as I’ve lived my art over the last five years. I’ve spent a lot of time with embattled athletes, athletes struggling with mental health, athletes in rehab, athletes who are entrepreneurs — all different sorts of dynamics.
Instead, they went 22-27 over the next three seasons, averaged only 19.7 points per game and, due to both injury and inconsistency, cycled through five starting quarterbacks. The energy and euphoria that accompanied Nagy’s first season was replaced this past season by chants calling for his job and an unending chain of questions about when he would have to pack up his office and leave.
“I think the world of Matt as a coach, as a person, as a defensive coordinator — that we can … have the continuity and just keep building, growing and adapting the system to our players,” Reich said. “I’ve just seen ‘Flus’ continue to grow and develop in that role as well, really connecting with players, making a conscious effort every week to put our players in the best position possible.”
Most of the support in the first match, obviously, was for Barty. Chants of “Let’s go Barty, Let’s go!” — combined with coordinated clapping — were regular at each changeover, with pockets of fans wearing the yellow shirt synonymous with the Australian player scattered around arena. Rod Laver, the aging Australian tennis great, was in the stadium himself.
The Fire, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th, and Chicago Housing Authority CEO Tracey Scott on Thursday announced the start of preliminary discussions for the team to build in Addams/Medill Park. The space is roughly bordered by Roosevelt Road to the north, 14th Street to the south, Ashland Avenue to the east and Loomis Street to the west.
All of those who interviewed for the Broncos’ vacancy are at least a decade younger than Fangio, who was 60 when he was hired as a first-time head coach in 2019, and six of them — Moore, Callahan, O’Connell, Gannon, Mayo and Getsy — are in their 30s.