Updated 1:30 PM 12/8/07 – Paul Wulff has officially been interviewed by the Cougars. The Spokesman has the details. If you’re scoring at home, that’s now three names that have been through the official process – John L Smith on Thursday, Kevin Sumlin on Friday and now Paul Wulff Friday night. We’ll see where it goes.
I had mentioned this a week or so ago, about Jim Walden’s interview on KRKO 1380. Walden has gone out of his way to explain why Wulff is the guy to hire, and it’s a good listen, even if it is a week or so old. Check it out. The recruiting angle in-state is a good point, as well as Wulff’s background. The other thing about this is to listen to his opinion of Mike Price. No, coach Price, Walden will not buy you a mug down at the Cottage, a pitcher at the Page, a pop at the Village (if it’s still there?), or even a calzone at Sella’s!
Jose Mourinho’s agent, Jorge Mendes, was in London yesterday expecting to hold talks with the Football Association over the possibility of his client becoming the next England manager.
Arizona basketball coach Lute Olson is getting divorced.
He filed a divorce petition in Pima County Superior Court on Thursday, the same day the 73-year-old coach said he would extend his leave from the team through the end of the season, Olson’s lawyer, Leonard Karp, said Friday.
“The marriage has been irretrievably broken with no reasonable prospect of reconciliation,” Karp said.
Wednesday’s night’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers left Wild fans with a very bad taste in their mouth. While the effort was certainly not their worst of the season, the team’s execution (or the lackthereof) of the power play drew the ire of many fans back home in the State of Hockey. The team was serenaded to boo’s on more than one occasion, as well as Wild goaltender Niklas Backstrom earning a rather loud ‘Bronx cheer’ after making a save late in the 3rd period after giving up a very soft goal from beyond the blueline. However, Minnesota does have one major feather in its cap when Sports Illustrated’s Larry Farber named St. Paul the new Hockeytown. Take that Motor City! Tonight’s game against the Red Wings, does not have Wild fans feeling too optimistic as traditionally the team has not done well when playing in Detroit. Could the Wild surprise the State of Hockey with a big road win tonight?
Right from the drop of the puck, the Wild clearly wanted to slow things down and attempt to force the Red Wings to play a game where they were not utilizing their great team speed. However, this ’slow it down’ approach made it seem early on as if the Wild were simply hoping to avoid getting blown out as opposed to generating much in the way of chances on Detroit’s Dominik Hasek. The Red Wings were peppering shots on Josh Harding, who almost seemed to be playing the role of sacrificial lamb to the Western Conference’s best team. Early on Harding was up to the task, coming up with big saves as his defense seemed to give up prime opportunities to Detroit’s potent duo of Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. The game simply seemed to be played at two speeds; lethargic for the boys representing the State of Hockey and very fast for the Detroit Red Wings and Wild could only seem to shadow but seldom catch the speedy forwards of Motor City. One of the Wild’s few scoring chances was a wrap around chance by Brian Rolston, but Hasek was able to drop down and make the save. Minnesota had just 4 shots on goal for the whole period compared to Detroit’s 10. The Red Wings would tally late, when Henrik Zetterberg would rifle shot from the right circle over the shoulder of Harding to give Detroit a 1-0 lead going into the 2nd period.
Filippo Inzaghi broke Gerd Muller’s European goal-scoring record when he scored his 63rd goal in AC Milan’s 1-0 victory over Celtic a few days ago.However there’s a theory that he still has 4 more goals to go to surpass Muller’s tally – which according to this report is 66 goals.
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. – Katerena Paliivets of Richmond Hill, Ont., advanced to the final of the girls’ 16-and-under event at the Orange Bowl junior tennis tournament Friday.
Paliivets, the tournament’s No. 5 seed, beat Elizabeth Begley of the U.S., 6-3, 6-3 to advance to Saturday’s final. There, the 15-year-old will face American Lilly Kimbell, who beat Steph Cornish of Britain 6-3, 6-4 in the other semifinal.
