1. After bashing the NFL for years for its anti-celebration coverage, the No Enjoyable League modified issues up in an enormous means. Now it's time to show our consideration to varsity soccer and its actually weird head coaches.
On Saturday evening, 6'4″, 315-pound Clemson defensive sort out Christian Wilkins scored a dashing landing in opposition to South Carolina and adopted it up with a really low-key however enjoyable Heisman pose celebration.
It apparently infuriated his head coach, Dabo Swinney. The AP reported that Swinney “received in Wilkins' face for a minute or two on the sideline” after which informed Wilkins he would by no means get one other carry “if he ever pulled a trick like that.”
Stunt? Doing the Heisman pose as a joke is now a gimmick? Did you get in a child's face as a result of he did a Heisman pose? What would you do if he really did one thing improper? Get a grip, Dabo.
The coach was clearly upset as a result of the NCAA desires to verify children who generate hundreds of thousands for his or her colleges however get nothing in return don't have enjoyable. The Heisman pose received Wilkins a 15-yard penalty, which is pathetic.
What's additionally pathetic is that Swinney — who makes practically $7 million a 12 months and thinks it's regular to get in a participant's face over one thing innocuous — had no drawback working up the rating on the Gamecocks.
With Clemson main 49-35 with a minute left, Swinney didn't inform his gamers to take a knee. He was nonetheless enjoying video games. And with 39 seconds left, the Tigers scored one other landing to win 56-35.
Very elegant.
2. Now you've seen the video of Patriots quarterback Cordarelle Patterson grabbing a handful of Jets defensive sort out Henry Anderson.
The perfect response to the groping got here from Anderson's fiancé.
3. What a distinction a coach makes.
4. Different notable objects from NFL Week 12:
• Browns working again Nick Chubb had essentially the most ridiculous landing of the day.
• Broncos working again Phillip Lindsay had the smoothest sport of the day.
• Folks in Los Angeles nonetheless don't care about soccer.
5. Blake Griffin is the most recent superstar to take the Scorching Ones problem. The Pistons ahead tried exhausting, however ended up in tears. At 14 minutes it begins to get sizzling.
6. The most recent SI Media Podcast options an interview with The Athletic's Stewart Mandel, who’s the editor-in-chief of the school soccer web site. Stew, who additionally writes for the location, talks in regards to the enterprise of sports activities media and what it's like working for a paid subscription website. Along with discussing the present state of sports activities media, we touched on the School Soccer Playoff and the dilemma going through Central Florida. The top of the podcast ends with reminiscing about Stew's days at SI.com and his “Mailbag Crush” characteristic, which led to him as soon as exchanging messages on MySpace with Workplaceis Jenna Fischer. You may take heed to the podcast under or obtain it on iTunes.
7. RANDOM YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE DAY: Whereas I used to be down the YouTube rabbit gap over the weekend, I got here throughout this interview that I had by no means seen earlier than. Who would have thought that that is the man who will lead the WWE sooner or later?
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IN CONCLUSION: Below 42.5 goes into Monday evening's Titans-Texans sport.
