Minnesota hired Northern Illinois Coach Jerry Kill to take over its struggling program.
A team supposedly at its peak ended up looking like its coach: over-the-hill and on its way out.
Just look at the pressure put on the national team and especially its coaches over the decades.
Gone too was the feeling of doom that hovered over this team and its coach for the past two weeks.
Al Groh, the team's new head coach, hired Mike Nolan as the Jets' defensive coordinator, marking a crucial first step in rebuilding a unit that had lost all of its coaches over the last month.
The tension has deepened between the National Basketball Association and its coaches over the issue of requiring miniature microphones to be worn during telecasts, with the league imposing fines of $100,000 apiece yesterday on the Toronto Raptors and the Seattle SuperSonics for the defiant actions of their coaches.
Transport company National Express said about 30,000 people would travel to London on its coaches over the weekend and that the busiest departure points would be Bournemouth, Bristol and Birmingham.
Bayern Munich, having triumphed over the Continent and retired its coach, Jupp Heynckes, had to give his replacement, Pep Guardiola, some spending money to improve on the best.
While there was repeat business, it took over 10 coaching sessions just to break even.
After the sting subsided, it did not take long for Brian Schottenheimer, the Jets' offensive coordinator, to decide to remain with the team despite being passed over for its head-coaching position.
Spurs announced today that Redknapp is taking over as its manager (head coach) from Spaniard Juande Ramos who was sacked Saturday after less than a year in the job, along with sporting director Damien Comolli and first-team coaches Gus Poyet and Marcos Alvarez.
