Given that both men's quest for control led them to insist on "manager" rather than "head coach" titles and that they share a common interest in forensic, hi-tech statistical analysis, the case for not merely a permanent ceasefire but some unlikely male bonding seems overwhelming.
Riley won his first coaching title and McAdoo a championship ring few people believed was in his reach.
PAGE B5 Sports PLAYOFF TEST FOR WOODSON, AS WELL AS FOR KNICKS The Knicks did not remove the interim tag from Mike Woodson's coaching title leading into their first-round playoff series, nor should they have.
If his Lakers can overcome the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association finals (they trail by 2 games to 1), Jackson would collect his 10th coaching title, breaking a tie with Auerbach.
It was his second coaching title, and a harbinger of things to come.
An N.F.L. official familiar with his contract said Accorsi was now among the 10 highest-paid general managers in football that do not also hold coaching titles.
On Monday afternoon, Phil Jackson, the New York Knicks executive who coached title-winning teams in Chicago and Los Angeles, delighted in the postseason struggles of teams like Golden State, the Houston Rockets, and the Atlanta Hawks, who play a similar offensive style.
Scott Loeffler, who has worked as an assistant with Michigan and the Detroit Lions, is the leading candidate to become the quarterbacks coach, a title Mullen also held.
At the site of Brown's greatest achievement as a coach, his title game victory that ended the University of Southern California's dynasty here, Brown's team sustained perhaps the biggest loss of his tenure.
That was Majerus, a basketball coach in title but a teacher at the core, blunt until the end.Chris May, the St . Louisathletic director, used to watch Majerus conduct practice, in his element, all those X's and O's, and he saw not a coach but "an artist".
