Forget finding a coach. Find the Miami Dolphins’ real problem through the lost years. When Steve Ross bought the team in 2009, incoming team president Mike Dee, a marketing guy, told football people previously reporting to vice president of football Bill Parcells to report to him. That caused “communication and collaboration” problems to cite a…
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While it deals with the stubborn COVID-19 pandemic, California is also contending with a smorgasbord of equally resilient social pathologies, including chronic illness, homelessness, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness and street crime. State and local governments have created programs to ameliorate the effects of these maladies, but they generally operate in silos, each…
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I know, I know. You’re weary of yet another prediction column. By the time you read this, we are well into January, I’ve celebrated another sun orbit, and the Super Bowl has been moved to Texas – now there is a prediction! But I digress. I’m a bit leary to prognosticate as my crystal ball…
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The Chicago Bears have reached out to at least 13 general manager and 10 coaching candidates for interviews. As they go through the process, we’re looking at each of the prospects. Leslie Frazier will interview for the head coaching position Sunday. <mark class=”hl_orange”>Leslie Frazier</mark> Age: 62 Title: Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Experience Frazier has been…
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The Chicago Bears have reached out to at least 13 general manager candidates and 10 coaching candidates for interviews. As they go through the interview process, we’re looking at each of the prospective hires. Brian Daboll will interviewed for the coach opening Sunday. <mark class=”hl_orange”>Brian Daboll</mark> Title: Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Age: 46 Experience Daboll…
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The Chicago Bears have reached out to at least 13 general manager and 10 coaching candidates for interviews. As they go through the process, we’re looking at each of the prospects. Joe Schoen will interview for the general manager position Sunday. <mark class=”hl_orange”>Joe Schoen</mark> Age: 42 Title: Buffalo Bills assistant general manager Experience Schoen has…
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The Chicago Bears are in the market for a new general manager and head coach. While the move to fire coach Matt Nagy was expected as the losses piled up in his fourth season, GM Ryan Pace’s fate after seven years in his role seemed less clear over the last month. Ultimately after the 6-11…
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Now, that’s funny. I was taking a hike the other night, after work, listening to the news, which is a crazy place these days to try to find funny. Still, there it was, in my headphones — the slimy and, yes, evil Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, accusing President Joe Biden of engaging in “a…
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On January 6, President Joe Biden gave a weirdly bitter speech. “He values power over principle,” the president sneered about the man he wouldn’t name. “He can’t accept he lost even though that’s what 93 United States senators, his own attorney general, his own vice president, governors and state officials in every battleground state have…
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In David Guterson’s new novel, “The Final Case,” a White fundamentalist couple from outside Seattle is charged with abuse and the murder of the daughter they adopted from Ethiopia. An aging attorney named Royal agrees to defend the mother even though he finds everything about her distasteful. At first glance, this may sound like it…
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