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“This is the first time in my career being in that position to play spoiler,” Heyward said after his walk-off homer Wednesday to beat the Reds. “It’s a lot of fun playing good baseball, of course, but have some incentive to do it and go out there together, it’s really nice to see good results.”
On paper, the trade gave the Sox the most dominant late-inning trio in the game in Hendriks, Kimbrel and Michael Kopech, a future starter working out of the pen to protect his arm two years after elbow reconstruction surgery. If Aaron Bummer could return to form, if Kimbrel’s former Cubs teammate Ryan Tepera continued to excel and if rookie Garrett Crochet matured with experience, the possibilities were endless for manager Tony La Russa, the godfather of modern bullpen strategy.
That makes sense from the standpoint that panicking wouldn’t do the coaches or players any good. It’s not like the Bears can make wholesale personnel moves to the 53-man roster. Maybe they’ll swap out nickel cornerback Marqui Christian, whom they cut in a procedural move before Week 1. But promoting Duke Shelley, who was inactive for the Rams game, wouldn’t make the kind of improvement the Bears can get if players such as Mack, Quinn, Hicks, Smith, Jackson and others step up.
Donte Williams, the Trojans’ cornerbacks coach and associate head coach, is taking over as head coach. Williams, a Los Angeles-area native and the first Black head coach in USC football history, joined the program in 2020 and has played a major role in the Trojans’ significant recruiting advancements over the last two cycles.
“They both tried to nonchalantly tag him, so it was just like, ‘You’ve got to do it more aggressively and you’ve got to make sure that, if anything, you’ve got to hit him. Don’t put any gray in it,’ ” Nagy said. “I guarantee you that entire defense will learn from that, and our offensive players will learn from that too. If you’re not touched, stand up and run and turn it into a touchdown. I know that Sean (Desai) is teaching those guys the right thing to do, and I know that those guys will definitely learn from it.”
“King has played a lot of football for us, been a little injured here and there, but we want him to go out there and play his brand of football,” Brohm said. “Dylan has come in and proven that he’ll run the ball hard, and he understands what we’re doing. He’s a tremendous worker and gives us everything he has.”
Arnold said his team’s proposal would include an ice hockey arena, potentially for a minor league team, along with senior housing, condominiums and apartments, an entertainment district with retail and restaurants, and would potentially include the Bears, if they so desired.
“I’ve been to Cincinnati when they’re at the bottom of the table and they’ve got 25, 30,000 fans,” he said. “No matter what the results are on the pitch, that cannot be any excuse whatsoever for not driving fans into the stadium. And we’ve got a great product to sell today, we’re playing exciting football. And so we’ve got a lot of great entertain(ing) soccer that we can sell to the fans of Chicago.”
“I look back because we had that long period where we didn’t have position players that we needed, but we had our pitching, starters and relievers,” La Russa said. “And then, the irony of baseball, we get as healthy as we can be and we lose three starters for a time. We weathered the storm, basically played .500 here and there.
“When I looked at the list, it was less surprising just because when you add some context to it, you understand why a lot of the moves were made,” a national scout said after reviewing the chart. “Individually, just if you go down and look at it, Lovie Smith had been there in Tampa and hadn’t had success, Whisenhunt and Ruston kind of the same. With Fisher, the defense wasn’t effective anymore and that is supposed to be his expertise. The whole Fox thing, he didn’t know the Bears were taking Trubisky until the morning of the draft. Hue Jackson was a mess in Cleveland. The Todd Bowles firing was a little more interesting. They were just dysfunctional and the GM (Mike Maccagnan) should have been let go at the same time. I don’t know how he wasn’t. Wilks was one and done. Jay Gruden and Bruce Allen, that was a dysfunctional staff within a dysfunctional organization. Anthony Lynn, I think it was game management more than anything that got him and he wanted to start Tyrod Taylor over Herbert.