Grade-point averages, NCAA compliance, relationships with the athletes. The questions were these: What makes Charlie Weis a good coach at Notre Dame? Why should he be back next year?
They throw Charlie Weis' arrogance and pomposity back in his face, the way Notre Dame football fans threw snowballs at Notre Dame players Saturday. But Weis cannot take cover as easily as his players did.
Greg Couch: The Bears know what the St. Louis Rams are. They beat a tackling dummy Sunday. At least we learned they can do that, anyway. They learned it, too.
He sits tall behind the table with that clean-cut, short-hair look and talks about Northwestern from his heart.
Did you see the Bulls game last night? I hadn't heard that question in years. Now it keeps coming up.
It can't be easy to fire your friend. You promoted him way over his head in the first place, dumping someone far more qualified to make room for him.
Greg Couch: The only beauty in this is that the Bears can stop pretending now. The disarray started in full last week, when the Bears were blaming each other, pointing fingers.
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Greg Couch: Lou Piniella, take a bow. Just a few weeks after the most painful Cubs season ended as a total disaster, a historic disaster that changed Cubs fans forever and still burns in their hearts, Piniella was named National League Manager of the Year on Wednesday.
Greg Couch: If you're going to run a confidence game, you have to keep the pigeons' confidence. That's the problem for Charlie Weis now. He had everyone believing in him when he was hired as Notre Dame's coach, because he was wearing Super Bowl rings. He had never been a head coach, never coached in college, but those rings and his commanding presence, and those overly confident words were such a great sell.
Greg Couch: It’s over for Rex Grossman. That’s it. No more. Never again. Did you see the last drive Sunday? Just 41 yards to the end zone, more than three minutes to go. This was it. For the Bears, for Grossman. For the game, for a career.
The glove and the fist would have been art. Don't question the motives. Pure art.
They propped up Kyle Orton, stuffed his ankle into one of those tight compression sleeves to keep swelling down, and had him walk in, without wincing or limping much, to the weekly news conference reserved for the Bears' starting quarterback. Orton said that he wasn't sure how long he would be out, but that he hoped to play Sunday against Tennessee.
