Wednesday Blogdome: Basketball coach could lose job because of baseball tirade?

Fred Hill could lose his job over baseball meltdown. Rutgers basketball coach Fred Hill is 47-77 in four years with the Scarlet Knights and has never finished better than 14th in the Big East. Given a three-year-minimum stint, he has the worst record in Big East history. Popular opinion holds that he, like Maryland’s Ralph Friedgen and Colorado’s Dan Hawkins in football, still has his job mostly because the university can’t or won’t pay his buyout. This would be a good time to lay low, smile for the folks around you, and not go nuts at a baseball game, right? [The Sporting Blog]
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* Bradley seeking ideas for new mascot. Soon, Bradley University will decide whether it can add a face to its Braves nickname without using American Indian imagery that might cross the NCAA’s bid to weed “hostile” and “abusive” mascots out of college sports. The Peoria (Ill.) school was flooded with more than 100 suggestions after launching a grass roots campaign Tuesday seeking ideas for a new mascot, which would replace an unpopular bobcat retired in 2000 after briefly replacing an American Indian caricature dropped about a decade earlier. [The Southern]
* David Ortiz Has A (Bleeping), No Good, (Expletive) Potty Mouth. The Slugger Formally Known As David Ortiz – maybe we should refer to him with a symbol like Prince. And considering his expletive-laden tirade last night after writers for various Boston media outlets questioned whether Ortiz should be pulled from the DH spot as well as beginning the season 0-for-7, perhaps it should be a combination of symbols – like #@!!%.[Sportress of Blogitude]
* Jonathan Toews pig nose/Stanley Cup mural getting whitewashed. Last night, we heard from a source in Chicago that the mural was being whitewashed. The Chicago Blackhawks confirmed to us this afternoon that, in fact, the mural’s going to be lost in art history (but its memory kept alive by puckheads, no doubt). [Puck Daddy]
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