Coaching Quiz: Name the five current longest-tenured coaches in
the four major team sports. #5 is at 12 seasons. [Hint: None are
in hockey.] Answer below.
Talkin’ Baseball
One of the things that makes baseball unique is that the off-
season can still supply a lot of chatter, be it free agent signings or
deals cut at the recently concluded winter meetings.
Barry Bonds got his $16 million to stay with the Giants for
another season and pitcher Andy Pettitte is returning to the
Yankees after three years in Houston, also for $16 million. But
it’s not just about the money, Andy assured us.
[The Yankees starting staff now includes Randy Johnson ($16
million), Pettitte ($16 million), Mike Mussina ($11 million) and
Carl Pavano ($10 million), though who knows if Pavano will
ever see Yankee Stadium again.]
Then there is the signing by the Kansas City Royals of Gil
Meche. Dave Sheinin of the Washington Post had this:
“The popular game of ‘Rank the Stupidest Contracts,’ which was
a favorite pastime of small-revenue executives whiling away the
hours in the teeming hotel lobby this week, received one new
prospective entry Thursday when Gil Meche, the underachieving
right-handed pitcher, closed in on a five-year deal with Kansas
City for $55 million.
“ ‘I’m surprised at the stultified dollars that have been spent on
mediocre players,’ said Jim Bowden, general manager of the
Washington Nationals, speaking in general about the market.
‘It’s just amazing to me, because even with the revenues being as
high as ever in the game, there’s not enough to support the type
of signings that are being done.’”
Meche is 55-44 in his career with a 4.65 ERA. In other words, a
guy who is a #4 or #5 starter on just about every club, but he’s a
poster boy for today’s totally out of whack salary structure.
Separately, regarding the Red Sox’ signing of J.D. Drew for $70
million, Drew’s former team the Dodgers is claiming collusion
on the part of Boston, especially since Drew had been telling
L.A. he was staying, even though he had a clause in his contract
where he could opt out with three years to go. It’s clear Drew’s
agent, Steve Boras, was talking to the Sox and negotiating a
better deal before Drew suddenly pulled the plug on L.A. Boras
and Boston, of course, deny this.
And then there is the ongoing saga of Mark McGwire and the
Hall of Fame vote.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
“I’m curious, but I don’t feel that I’m in a position to judge.
History will judge us all in some way. And, if you’re content
with the truth coming out, then whether your judgment day is
now or 50 years from now doesn’t matter.”
On steroid use, specifically:
“A smarter person will have suspicions when you look around
and see people coming back (after the off-season) a lot bigger
than they were. I realize that steroids were an issue in other
sports. But no way did I know it was as big as it’s starting to
show it was.” [ESPN.com]
Tom Verducci / Sports Illustrated
“McGwire admitted in 1998 to using andro, which since has been
classified as a steroid, but that should not ruin his candidacy.
Andro was perfectly legal and available over the counter in ’98.
“Far more damaging were the revelations by Canseco in his 2005
book, ‘Juiced,’ that he and McGwire injected each other with
steroids and the ’05 report by the New York Daily News in
which an FBI agent said McGwire had been provided with hard-
core steroids – charges that McGwire has never challenged in
court. McGwire also awkwardly refused to deny he used steroids
when he was called before a congressional committee in ’05….
“Give McGwire some credit for going down with a shred of
honor; a decent man, he was not raised to blatantly lie under
oath. But if McGwire, with his professional reputation at stake,
cannot defend his own career, how can a writer?
“Actually, I came closer to voting for the late (Ken) Caminiti
(also on the ballot for the first time) than for McGwire. While
his numbers (239 homers and the 1996 NL MVP award) don’t
approach McGwire’s, Caminiti was an agent of change in the
game. It was Caminiti who, in a 2002 interview with me, boldly
spoke the truth about what had been a conspiracy of silence. He
admitted using steroids (he was the first player to do so) and
expressed no regret about his behavior because so many of his
teammates and competitors were doing the same – though not
once did he mention a single other name to me. His honesty, not
his drug use, made him a rebel. Their dirty little secret exposed,
owners and players agreed to a first-ever drug-testing plan just
three months later. ‘Think of the courage it took for him to come
out,’ Padres G.M. Kevin Towers said. ‘He was the ultimate
man’s man. It’s not an exaggeration to think that he had a part in
saving lives.’”
Flip Bondy / New York Daily News
“The Hall of Fame ballot is in the mail, and I voted for Mark
McGwire.
“This was no easy decision, and I understand those who would
leave him off. There are many reasons to do so, as there also are
grounds to banish Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and even Ty
Cobb from the place. But I am not voting for heroes here, just
great ballplayers. And the fact is, these guys are already
entrenched at Cooperstown, in one fashion or another.
“The museum’s collection has the McGwire bat that knocked
homers 56 through 62 in 1998. It has the bat he swung to smack
homers No. 66 through 70. It has the bat from his career homer
No. 500. It has his uniform….
“So even while the ballots are being counted to decide whether
McGwire will be elected to the Hall, baseball writers can’t keep
McGwire out of the building. They can only eliminate the
plaque, not the plague.
“And that’s the point, really. Players like McGwire and Jose
Canseco are a big part of baseball history now, even bigger since
the furor surrounding the steroid hearings and investigations.
They must not be removed as subjects of debate. Inclusion and
full disclosure are a better way to go. They should never
disappear again into the dark corners of the sport.
“With this vote, I am challenging the Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum to educate visitors about the steroid era, to show films
of the hearings and to make relevant documents available to both
the icon worshippers and scholars….
“The Hall must provide context about this modern drug scourge,
the way it has to some degree with Rose and with the Black Sox
scandal. There are more than 20 items at the museum related to
Rose, along with an explanation in the text that he was banished
from baseball.
“So far, there is no mention of steroids in the place. This is very
troubling.”
Joel Sherman / New York Post
“Jay Buhner does not belong in the Hall of Fame, so neither does
Mark McGwire. For the first 990 games of his career, a period
from 1986-94, McGwire was an injury-prone first baseman who
produced an offensive performance roughly equivalent to that of
Buhner: a low batting average (.250) with very good, but hardly
historic on-base (.362) and slugging (.502) percentages. If you
need an active equivalent, think of the hardly Cooperstown-
bound Troy Glaus.
“Then, suddenly, McGwire’s career swerved toward greatness.
His body broadened and his success soared. Suddenly, he was
among the greatest homer hitters ever. It could have been a
natural growth, both in body type and production. But I don’t
believe that, especially after seeing McGwire’s non-denial denial
nonsense before Congress.
“I differentiate McGwire from Barry Bonds. I still have time to
decide about Bonds, at least six years. But, at present, I would
hold my nose and vote for Bonds because he was a Hall of Fame
caliber player prior to when his body began to thicken seemingly
unnaturally around 1999. By then, he had used his five-tool
skills to accumulate three MVP awards and probably should have
had at least two more. From 1986-98, he was the majors’ best
player.
“McGwire never approached anything of that sort in his pre-Hulk
version, and 990 games is hardly a small sample size.”
George Vecsey / New York Times
“The sight of Barry Bonds lurking in a hotel lobby at the winter
meetings was so delicious that the baseball press could not resist
making him sound like some unemployed first-base coach.
“Bonds’s agent termed that conclusion the most irresponsible
story in the history of journalism. As far as I’m concerned, if
sullen, swollen Barry Bonds trudges through a lobby at Disney
World, reporters have a free pass to imagine him bearing a tin
cup, mooching for nickels.
“The man with the outsized mandible has left himself open to
such flights of fancy by consorting with seedy types like the boys
from BALCO and a personal trainer-supplier. Major League
Baseball, which raked in the shekels from the steroid-driven
home run frolics, is not about to bust Bonds or take back a
percentage of his home runs. But we all pretty much know what
happened when Bonds used those drugs and cream that people
just kept giving him.
“As it happens, Bonds agreed to a one-year, $16 million contract
with the Giants, so he can collect his 22 home runs to pass Henry
Aaron’s career record of 755, a chase that figures to be mostly
joyless.
“The steroid years – if they are indeed over – keep ticking, with
the duration of Chernobyl. Mark McGwire, the bulked-up
behemoth who briefly held the single-season home run record, is
on the ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame, but he is likely to be
shunned by a significant percentage of the voting baseball
writers.
“The New York Times does not allow its employees to vote for
awards – a sensible policy, since the paper wants us to report
news and comment on news rather than make news. So here’s
my opinion.
“There are plenty of worthy candidates for the Hall this year –
Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr., both no-brainers, and also Rich
Gossage (more fearsome than Bruce Sutter) and Jim Rice
(comparable to Billy Williams and Tony Perez). Let McGwire
wait a decade or two, by which time he may be growing a second
head from the androstenedione and whatever else he might have
been using.”
[Ed. By the way, I’m sponsoring McGwire’s page on baseball-
reference.com. I paid up for it anticipating all the coverage this
month. Mr. McGwire is undoubtedly not too happy about this.
When you Google his name, for example, baseball-
reference.com is #1.]
Stuff
–LaDainian Tomlinson set the single-season TD record with
another three on Sunday and now has 29. San Diego is also
suddenly in the driver’s seat to clinch home-field advantage in
the playoffs. Ergo, they’re Super Bowl bound! And Tomlinson
is your 2007 Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year.”
[Looking ahead….another free feature of Bar Chat.]
–Remind me not to write something glowing about Jets coach
Eric Mangini until they get to a Super Bowl. What an egg they
laid on Sunday.
–I put my Christmas tree up Saturday and the toughest part each
year is deciding where to place Joe Namath and Arnold Palmer.
And this year I added Elvis after picking him up in Tupelo. I
imagine Chicago tree trimmers have trouble deciding where to
put Ernie Banks and Walter Payton. Cowboys fans have to
concern themselves with Bob Lilly and Roger Staubach.
–Ohio State’s Troy Smith kicked butt in the Heisman vote,
accumulating the second-largest margin of victory in the history
of the award next to O.J. Simpson, 1968. Smith captured 801 1st-
place votes and next on the list was Arkansas running back
Darren McFadden’s 45.
–The New York Post’s Mike Vaccaro on coach Isiah Thomas.
“It’s beyond laughable, and beyond pitiful, what’s happening at
Madison Square Garden now whenever the Knicks take the floor
in their clown shoes and their bright red noses and become more
hospitable hosts than Mr. Roarke.
“Seriously. It isn’t just that the self-titled World’s Most Famous
Arena has become its most comfortable garden spot for visiting
basketball players. It isn’t simply that Knicks fans who pay
higher ticket prices than any fan in sports anywhere in America
are being treated to the sight of what might be the least-inspiring
team in franchise history.
“No, now there’s an extra-special treat in store for these long-
suffering die-hards. Now, when you pay your admission price,
you are well advised to wear a rain coat, to avoid the spittle
flying from the lips of the head coach/general manager/
president/impresario. Yes, it’s true. Isiah Thomas is no longer
intent on solidifying his place as the single-most destructive,
incompetent, inept, bungling person ever entrusted with one of
New York City’s charter organizations.
“No, now it’s more than that….
“Now, he figures he can spit on you, too. And get away with it.
“If this isn’t the thing that finally compels DNA Dolan to do
something, to finally make Isiah disappear, then it’s obvious that
DNA Dolan is even simpler, and stupider, than he has appeared
all these years. And that is utterly impossible to believe.
“Even Dolan has to understand that the moment you start to dare
fans to stay away, the instant you start to criticize the very people
who allow you to exist in the first place, then you have officially
lost your last tie to reality. Isiah Thomas can run the Garden
payroll past Pluto. He can engineer every conceivable brand of
mindless, senseless trade. He can render his basketball team
completely unwatchable. Hell, for kicks, he can hit on any
honey he wants.
“But the moment he lasers a loogie at paying customers, as he’s
hinted at doing all season, as he finally did in total on Thursday
afternoon, then he has to go. He has to go. This is what Isiah
Thomas said that day, in regards to Knicks fans – the zanies who
still show up anyway – who serenaded him with chants of ‘Fire
Thomas’ and booed his players ceaselessly during that
humiliating splattering the Wizards laid on them the night before:
“ ‘I can’t expect them to understand the game the way I
understand it or see it the way we see it,’ is what he said.
“Look at that sentence again. Study it….
“ ‘I can’t expect them to understand the game the way I
understand it or see it the way we see it.’
“That has to do it. That has to tear it. They have been playing
basketball at Madison Square Garden since 1930. They have
been playing professional basketball there since 1947. Knicks
fans don’t have to be given any kind of remedial study course on
what constitutes good basketball; they’ve seen it with their own
eyes, with their own teams, with clubs that weren’t put together
by this poser from the West Side of Chicago.
“There isn’t a Knicks coach, Knicks player or Knicks opponent
who has ever set foot in the Garden who didn’t take great care,
when dipping into their personal supply of purple prose, who
didn’t make sure to mention how ‘knowledgeable’ and/or
‘sophisticated’ New York basketball fans are.
“Except Isiah Thomas thinks you need a ‘Hoops For Dummies’
book whenever you enter the Garden. What an intolerable,
insufferable buffoon.”
So, do you think Mike Vaccaro is going to be invited out to
dinner with Isiah anytime soon? Do you also see why it’s far
more fun to follow the Knicks when they suck? Unfortunately,
Eddy Curry is beginning to play some and the Knicks may win
as many as 30 games this year, not my projected 16. We need a
big losing streak.
–It’s true, Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsman of the Year” Dwayne
Wade spells his first name Dwyane. I’ll be damned if I’ll
continue to remember that. I hereby name you…“Dwayne.”
–The other day I said Division I football coaches were now all
making such great money, the incentive to jump ship isn’t as
strong as it once was, citing the examples of Greg Schiano of
Rutgers and Wake’s Jim Grobe as two who recognize the grass
isn’t always greener on the other side. West Virginia’s Rich
Rodriguez also saw the light in turning down Alabama.
But then Boston College’s Jim O’Brien, 75-45 in ten seasons at
BC, shockingly jumped to conference rival North Carolina State.
This just doesn’t happen. It came to light, however, that O’Brien
was earning ‘only’ $737,000 and will undoubtedly be taking in
over $1 million at NC State. O’Brien also complained that BC
couldn’t compete with the attention given to Boston’s pro sports
teams.
Incidentally, according to USA Today, the average Division I-A
head coaching salary is $950,000, not counting benefits and
perks. This is beginning to create some problems on campus, as
you can imagine, especially with the professors.
Meanwhile, Miami linebacker coach Randy Shannon was tabbed
to succeed Larry Coker. Shannon is the 6th black head coach
among the 119 I-A schools, joining Mississippi State’s Sylvester
Croom, UCLA’s Karl Dorrell, Buffalo’s Turner Gill, Kansas
State’s Ron Prince and Washington’s Tyrone Willingham.
[Man, I forgot about Tyrone.]
–The last time Wake Forest won the ACC Championship was
1970 and Phil W. passed along a note in that regard. Wake was
only 6-5 overall that season, but they went 5-1 in the conference
after losing their first three games, all on the road, to Nebraska,
the eventual national champs, South Carolina and Florida State.
South Carolina was an ACC school back then and the Deacs
proceeded to win their last five ACC games.
But having lost those first three contests, as John Dell of the
Winston-Salem Journal reports, the Deacons were nonetheless
“feeling good about themselves on the bus trip back to Winston-
Salem” after winning their first up in Charlottesville against
Virginia.
“Quarterback Larry Russell’s girlfriend had come down from
Massachusetts for the game. She was driving her car ahead of
the team buses back to Winston-Salem when she was involved in
an accident and was killed.
“ ‘It was just devastating to us and to Larry,’ linebacker Ed
Bradley said.
“Russell missed most of the next week of practice to attend the
funeral in the Boston area. But, Bradley said, at Thursday’s
practice the team was already on the field when Russell came
trotting out in uniform ready to go.
“ ‘You want to talk about some emotion when he came out,’
Bradley said. ‘That’s something I don’t think any of us will ever
forget. I still get goose bumps thinking about Larry coming back
to practice that day.’”
[Wake is doing a super job selling its 17,000 Orange Bowl
tickets thus far…and may just sell them all…quite an
accomplishment considering we have only 4,000 undergrad.]
–SPLAT! ……………..that was the sound of yours truly
tumbling off the Butler train. Goodness gracious. 15th-ranked
and undefeated Butler lost to Indiana State (5-3) on Saturday. I
know I said I’d stay on thru one loss if it was at least to a team
with a .500 record, but ISU lost to Ball State, 73-70, on 12/2 after
Butler defeated Ball State 65-41 on 12/6. In other words, what a
choke job. Johnny Mac and I are searching for a new squad.
#23 Air Force got off to a 30-0! lead over Division III Colorado
College on Saturday, on the way to a record 50-6 margin at half,
the six points representing an all-time low. [The final score was
82-31.] But to tell you the truth, I’m not even sure Colorado
College exists. Supposedly it was their first game of the year,
though the school doesn’t even have a schedule, at least
according to the ESPN web site. I’m thinking this game was
totally fabricated.
–Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Delthia O’Neal became the 8th
Bengals player to be arrested this year when he was charged with
DUI on Saturday. Nice franchise.
–I just have to note for the archives that the Steelers’ Willie
Parker set the club’s single game rushing record with 223 yards
on Thursday night versus the Browns. Parker broke John
“Frenchy” Fuqua’s record of 218 set all the way back in 1970. It
makes one feel old to remember Fuqua, the one of a kind
character who had goldfish in his platform shoes.
For the 1970 season, Fuqua rushed for 691 yards, overall, and a
5.0 average, his finest year in a career that saw him pick up 3,031
yards on the ground. But 1970 was my big year for playing
Strat-O-Matic and Frenchy had one helluva card that season;
remember that, guys? In fact, what’s funny about 1970 was his
running mate was one Preston Pearson, who toiled with the
Steelers for five seasons before making a big name with the
Cowboys. Pearson only averaged 2.9 a carry in ’70. So like do
you think I ever rushed him, sitting on my bedroom floor with
football on the tube? Hell no.
–Former shortstop Jose Uribe was killed in a car crash in the
Dominican Republic. He was 47. Uribe played 10 seasons,
mostly with the Giants, and hit .241.
–Another for the archives. Last Thursday, the Nets’ Jason Kidd
tied Wilt Chamberlain with his 78th career triple-double as the
Nets lost to Phoenix in stupendous fashion, 161-157 in double
overtime. Kidd finished with 38 points, 14 rebounds and 14
assists. It was the biggest game in all three categories since Wilt
had 53 points, 32 rebounds and 14 assists in a 158-128 contest
while Chamberlain was with the Sixers. [Wilt is the only player
to ever have 20 in each category…22 pts., 25 reb., 21 assists.]
The record for most triple-doubles is Oscar Robertson with 181.
Magic Johnson is next at 138. Of course Robertson once
averaged a triple-double for a season…1961-62.
[In Kidd’s next game, Saturday, he went 1 for 11 from the field
in a loss.]
–In your “For Better or For Worse” update, I have to admit some
of us are suddenly excited because Cop Paul is going to be
visiting Elizabeth over the holidays. My brother is predicting a
big fight between Anthony and Paul, though he admits to a
certain soft spot for Anthony because he’s so pitiful. Jeff B. still
wishes Liz and her folks had driven off a cliff following the trial,
as do I. But we have to deal with the cards that have been dealt.
No one ever said life was easy.
[Oh no….Monday we learned Grandpa Jim is recovering, so we
have to throw him in the holiday mix. Some of us were hoping
he’d just disappear.]
–On December 11, 1946, the United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was created to aid
children left at risk by World War II. A grade school in Carson,
Washington, made the first contribution: $2.16. In 2005
UNICEF spent more than $2 billion on programs to help kids in
157 countries. [Smithsonian]
–Goodness gracious. There was a rather racy picture in the Star-
Ledger the other day, a ‘nurse’ / waitress at the Heart Attack
Grill in Tempe, Ariz. The place serves up specialties that include
the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, cooked in pure
lard, while “waitresses wear skimpy, cleavage-baring outfits,
high heels and thigh-high stockings – playing to a male fantasy
that some nursing organizations say is an insult to the
profession.”
Huh.
By the way, the quadruple consists of four half-pound beef
patties, four pieces of cheese and a mound of bacon.
–According to BBC News, “A Norwegian appeals court has
ruled that striptease is an art form and should therefore be
exempt from value-added tax (VAT). The owners of the
Diamond Go Go Bar in Oslo had refused to pay VAT of 25% on
entry fees as tax authorities demanded….Lawyers for the club’s
owners argued that striptease dancers were stage artists just like
sword-swallowers and comedians and deserved the same status.”
Ain’t touchin’ this one, know what I’m sayin’?
–Sports Illustrated’s “Sign of the Apocalypse”
“Parents at Castro Valley (Calif.) High demanded that the girls’
basketball team be chosen by a six-person panel instead of the
coach.”
–The other day Trader George was getting all bummed about the
melting ice caps and the plight of the polar bears and I couldn’t
help but point out polar bears aren’t stupid. They’ll begin to
catch on soon that it’s time to go brown and black, as in brown or
black bear. Like after a while, polar bears, tired of swimming 50
miles between rapidly decreasing ice flows, will just throw up
their paws and say “This is stupid. I heard it was much easier in
New Jersey, plus that new governor won’t even allow a hunt.”
–David Lister of the London Times had the tale of a pelican that
has fallen for a 47-year-old who nursed the pelican back to
health.
The bird had been found on the Isle of Man in October, suffering
from blood poisoning, and Alexis Bailey, who works with the
Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, took
charge.
But now the pelican is displaying “mating rituals whenever she
enters the room and bit others who approached.”
Ms. Bailey said, “He looks right into my eyes and puts on what I
can only describe as a mating display, with his wings up and his
head bowed down. He’ll walk over to me, snuggle in and preen
me. He loves to take my hair or my hand in his mouth and he
also plays with my shoelaces.”
Hey, Pelican! You don’t know where those shoelaces have been!
Anyway, it’s pretty clear that the bird was sick of the pelican
dating scene and just wanted to try something else. As for Ms.
Bailey, my only advice is to remember that pelicans can break
your heart….or so they say.
–Awful story by Randal C. Archibold in the New York Times
concerning poaching in America.
“The reports keep coming in – elk, deer, antelope, bighorn sheep
and other big-game animals – killed in a wave of poaching that
has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials…
“ ‘There is almost a fixation on possessing or obtaining trophy-
class animals,’ said Jim Kropp, the wildlife law enforcement
chief for Montana. ‘People will go to any length to have these
things in their possession. It’s big antlers and big egos.’”
The National Park Service estimates poaching has contributed to
the decline of 29 species of wildlife.
In Nevada, for example, officials tallied 70 animals in 2005 that
were found, the highest number ever…but this could be only 5%
or so of the total victims.
Of course this hurts the legitimate hunters, who also eat
everything they take down. The poachers are just out for the
antlers and/or the head in many cases and disgustingly leave the
rest. Give these a-holes, many of whom are Wall Streeters, I
suspect (or Wall Streeters hiring others), life in prison and then
see how quickly the practice stops.
–The normal wind velocity on Jupiter is a steady 200 to 300
mph, so I’m thinking if Dave Kingman was in Wrigley Field for
a full-season under those conditions, and assuming it was
blowing out all the time, he would have hit 235 home runs each
year. [216 at home, 19 on the road.]
The Washington Post’s Michael E. Ruane had a story on Sunday
about the big storm on Jupiter that has everyone ga-ga. It’s been
given the name “Oval BA” and is 7,000 miles across with winds
topping out at 500 mph. My guess is at 500 any baseball game
would be called. Football, however, is a different story. You’ve
got to believe those with the best ground games would prevail
under those conditions. Pooch punting would undoubtedly be a
real art form as well.
–The Three Little Pigs would have a tough time living on
Jupiter, come to think of it.
–So I’m listening to the 60s channel on XM Radio when I hear
this oldie “Baby Take Me In Your Arms,” which actually is a 70s
tune, technically, because I think it peaked in January 1970.
Anyway, this was a one-shot wonder for what artist? Answer
below. And the group Ronny & The Daytonas had the #1
“GTO”. What was their only other Top 40? See below.
–Prince is performing at halftime of the Super Bowl.
Top 3 songs for the week of 12/8/84: #1 “Out Of Touch” (Daryl
Hall / John Oates) #2 “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go”
(Wham!) #3 “I Feel For You” (Chaka Khan…chaka khan chaka
khan)…and…#7 “Sea Of Love” (The Honeydrippers) #8
“Penny Lover” (Lionel Richie)
*Answer to the above questions….one-shot wonder ‘Jefferson,’
while Ronny & The Daytonas’ other Top 40 was “Sandy” [#27
1966]
Coaching Quiz Answer: Longest-tenured coaches – Jerry Sloan
(19 seasons) / Utah Jazz; Bobby Cox (17) / Braves; Bill Cowher
(15) / Steelers; Jeff Fisher (13) / Titans; Mike Shanahan (12) /
Broncos.
Next Bar Chat, Thursday.
