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Chip Kelly Leaving Oregon to Coach the Philadelphia Eagles

Chip Kelly is leaving Oregon to coach the Philadelphia Eagles

Chip Kelly is leaving Oregon to coach the Philadelphia Eagles

That’s right, news is breaking right now that Chip Kelly will be leaving Oregon to become the new head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) was the first with the news, which has since been confirmed by multiple sources including Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS).

For those who wonder what changed since two weeks ago when Philadelphia tried to hire Kelly, Mike Freeman of CBS (@freemancbs) has some insight:

“Source says Chip Kelly is indeed head coach of the Eagles… I’m told Kelly got large amount of personnel say.”

Meanwhile, Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) of Sport Illustrated say that you should remember that Kelly never said that he was staying at Oregon. Those were only “reports” but no one ever got a direct quote from Kelly.

An interesting thought, but to me it is semantics considering that Kelly personally called the Oregon Athletic Director Rob Mullens to say he was staying.

Another popular thought seems to be that this means Oregon is going to get hit hard for the Willie Lyles NCAA investigation, but the real truth is that no one knows what the punishment is yet. Everything else is pure speculation.

Honestly, the thing I am most interested in right now is a statement from Phil Knight, owner of Nike and huge Oregon booster. In the past, Knight has been known to speak his mind if he feels he has been wronged.

I imagine this is not going to sit well with Knight.

Likely new head coach at Oregon, Mark Helfrich

Likely new head coach at Oregon, Mark Helfrich

As for who Oregon will turn to, common sentiment seems to be that offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich will be hired to replace Kelly.

However, I believe that there are some issues with Oregon state law that require a job to be fully open and posted to the public unless the school can prove a need to make an emergency hire.

Aaron Torres Releases eBook The Year In Sports 2012

Aaron Torres (@Aaron_Torres) has released an eBook today titled “The Year In Sports 2012.” I recommend you get yourself a copy.

If you don’t know about Torres, he writes about a variety of topics on his own website AaronTorres-Sports.com and college football at Crystal Ball Run; in addition to about another half-dozen internet writing jobs.

Torres is also a published author, having authored “The Unlikeliest Champion” after the 2011 UConn Men’s Basketball championship run.

Beyond being a great writer, Torres has been a great asset to me as I have learned the ropes of blogging, getting credentialed and traveling the country attending sporting events.

In a 12-month span, I met up with Torres at 4 different sporting events in 3 states; Connecticut for a football game, Indiana for the Brickyard 400 and California for both the Oregon versus USC and Arizona versus UCLA games.

He has always been there for me, including the time I kept him on the phone about trivial stuff despite the fact I was making him late for a podcast interview with Tracy Wolfson. Yes, THAT Tracy Wolfson.

The book has more than 40 articles and is over 200 pages long. It covers a variety of sports and is well done. At just $4.99 it is certainly worth the purchase. If you want to know more about the book, or to purchase a copy so Aaron can buy a beer click here.

 

NOTE: I have never pimped anything on my site, including magazines I had photo credits in, nor am I getting any commission or pay. Just a post for someone who has helped me out tremendously, and also got screwed out of $20 just to park at the Rose Bowl because I am a terrible person to follow while driving.

Army Hacks Navy Email In Prank

Someone who is a huge Army fan found a way to hack into the Navy email server and send this email out to every Naval Cadet.

Vice Admiral Michael H. Miller

Dec 5

to goarmysinknavy, AllUSNA, USCC, BTD

Greetings,

In preparation for the humiliating defeat Army will be dealing to us in the near future, I have some guidance to pass down.

First: when we stage for march-on, we need to clean up our act. The internet has us pegged as dirty slobs– this year, we need to bring trash bags and clean up after ourselves. From what I understand, Army is embarrassed to even be associated with us.

Second: clean up the actual march-on. Please at least pretend to be in the military. Dress right dress, don’t talk at attention, etc. Seriously, this one is too easy.

Third: we need to have better accountability of our goats. This is also very embarrassing.

Fourth: when Army sings second, we will be respectful and professional.

Fifth: we need to be better at cyber.

Finally, I award you all with PMI (sleep ins) until Christmas. Maybe even a little longer, depending on how morale is going after Army defeats us on Saturday.

Cheers.

Go Army, Sink Navy!

Seriously funny stuff, that I am sure will cost someone their security clearance and entire future. Let’s hope not.

Now, if you would like a real preview of Army trying to break the 10-year Navy winning streak, check out this great story from Kevin McGuire (@KevinOnCFB).

[via @kujoatc75 | h/t @BryanDFischer]