Blame the culture, not the coach, says Donnie Nelson
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Folks back in the United States are searching for an explanation to their basketball team&#39;s misfortunes.
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- Avery Johnson, signed as a player-coach less than a month ago by the Dallas Mavericks, retired from the players ranks to focus on his duties as an assistant coach to Don Nelson.
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For Norm Roberts, the basketball coach at St. John's, one of his first rules was a simple one: Don't talk about the past.
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To his coach and teammates, Chris Simon isn't the stick-swinging, skate-stomping fiend outsiders view him to be.
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Criticized for faulty clock management going back to his days in New York, Herman Edwards isn't sitting still for this one.
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Jim Furyk has the reputation of being a rock, so it was strange to see his eyes suddenly glass over with tears and his answers become short and direct. All because he was asked about Byron Nelson.
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Herman Edwards' mantra isn't complicated: "You play to win the game."
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Make no mistake about it. Ron Artest of the Indiana Pacers was to blame for the ugly fans-players brawl at The Palace. That&#39;s not to give the dumb fan who threw a cup of beer
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I was always led to believe that America is the land of opportunity. Apparently, that does not apply to African-Americans seeking coaching jobs in college football.
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Manny Ramirez's work habits are more important than his words to Boston manager Terry Francona.
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But Ponder, the head football coach at Rider High School in Wichita Falls, Texas, said Nelson, the star wide receiver who committed to the Irish in July, could be re-thinking his commitment in the wake of Tyrone Willingham&#39;s firing.
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JACKSONVILLE - It&#39;s not about me, Ron Zook told his players prior to the one game that could make his firing look like a mistake.
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Earlier this week, Jets coach Herman Edwards said his team could take something positive from playing a close game with New England despite losing. But Edwards took a different tack Wednesday, railing against the perception the Jets took a moral victory from the 13-7 loss.
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Ireland coach Eddie O&#39;Sullivan described his side&#39;s performance in the 32-17 defeat of minnows Namibia as horrible, but that damning criticism could well have been applied by coaches of the other northern hemisphere heavyweights after their first matches in the World Cup.
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Neither did 95 percent of the other coaches. But in the case of Lenny Wilkens, this particular flaw became part of his legacy, along with the NBA title, the record numbers of wins and losses and the trademark crossed arms and cold stare.
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Maybe the reason so many coaches have steered clear of the job at Notre Dame is that they got a look at the people they would be working for, and under what circumstances.
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Hanover boys' soccer coach Jim Sylvia is beginning to see a pattern in his team's play. Luckily, it's not the kind of trend to complain about.