Results tagged “coach”

With the New Jersey Nets likely to tie the NBA's record of for most consecutive losses (17) at the start of the season tonight when they play the Los Angeles Lakers, the team has fired coach Lawrence Frank. ESPN reports that the team was going to fire Frank after the game, "Yet it appears that Nets management determined that it had to make the move before facing the Lakers after reports became more widespread that Frank's dismissal was imminent."

For well over two years now, Bronx gym teacher and coach Dan Smith has been sidelined in one of the Department of Education's infamous "rubber rooms," thanks to an allegation of sexual misconduct in March 2007. But while other teachers (over 600 hundred of them!) use their rubber room time to play Sudoku and nap, Smith has been hatching a plan to get out.

A former employee at Coach's flagship Manhattan store is suing the company and his former boss, who he says subjected him to an endless litany of juvenile double entendres and sexual harassment. Oscar Bravo, a former stockroom clerk at the Madison Avenue store, also claims upper management ignored his repeated complaints about supervisor Brandon Williams. Bravo says the annoying behavior included come-ons from Williams to look at his "weiner" on days he brought his pet dachsund to work. "He would say, 'Ok, I have a big weiner, you wanna come see my weiner?'," Oscar Bravo tells the Daily News. "I would say, 'Get the hell out of here, nobody wants to see that.'"

After changing reports about whether he'd speak to the Jets, former Steelers coach Bill Cowher told Gang Green no thanks. The team issued a statement at 11 p.m. last night, "After reaching out to coach Cowher's representatives, we were informed that he is not a candidate for the position." A source tells Newsday's Bob Glauber talks "never advanced to the point of scheduling a formal interview. Material items such as [front-office] structure, money and length of contract were never discussed." The spotlight is now on the Giants' defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo (Glauber calls him "brilliant") and the Daily News reports he "will interview Saturday for the job." And last night, the Broncos fired Mike Shanahan. We guess we'll have to wait until 2009 to see what happens.

Isiah Thomas may still be a part of the Knicks organization, but he's been barred from contacting any of the players. The Daily News says the no-contact policy was "part of his reassignment agreement with Knicks president Donnie Walsh."