Thursday, November 17, 2011
I say fire the coach and throw the book at all of this reprehensible behavior.
Update: I heartedly congratulate Mike Alden for taking a bold first step. Although Mizzou officials did not throw the kitchen sink at their coach, they handed him harsh penalties. He is suspended without pay for a week and will not be able to attend Senior Day at Faurot Field Saturday. He must donate to an alcohol awareness program; do 50 hours of community service and forfeit any bonus for taking his team to a bowl game. Further, his salary is frozen for a full year. Hats off to the university administration for not sweeping this under any black and gold rugs. Call me a moralist, a teetotaler. Call me what you want, but I've grown sick and tired of our so-called sports luminaries getting behind the wheel while drinking and driving. …
Friday, October 7, 2011
Dan McLaughlin, Hank Williams Jr. fall from the ranks of the high and mighty.
This has been a brutal week for off-the-field sports figures. Locally, Cardinals-Blues announcer Dan McLaughlin is having his announcing career completely unravel. Country singer Hank Williams, Jr. can no longer utter the words on ESPNs Monday night football, “Are you ready for some football?” The Cardinals future-star McLaughlin has gone into alcohol rehab, and relinquished his lucrative off-season winter assignments with Mizzou and the local Missouri Valley Conference. Serving as independent contractor to both organizations, officials at the top are saying very little. Media critic Dan Caesar of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and StLToday reports through McLaughlin’s attorney brother Kevin that he has resigned those positions. McLaughlin …
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Two brushes with the law in the same year may force higher ups to end his career?
I used to get upset with the late sports editor of the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Bob Burnes tended to use the word tragic so incorrectly. If the Cardinals would lose three in a row, he’d say that was tragic. When Dan McLaughlin, young up-and-coming broadcaster gets arrested for alleged driving while intoxicated the second time in one year, I’d describe that as traumatic or even really tragic. Because, now he’s letting his family down—his beautiful wife Libby and their four young children. Earning a living describing sports could be going rapidly down the drain. His poor decisions to reportedly drink and drive are forcing bosses and decision-makers to make anguishing choices about his future, something they’d rather not have to do. …
Ballwin Resident
3:43 pm on Saturday, November 19, 2011
Your comment was he should be fired. That is what I was commenting on. He should face the same penalties a cashier would face, no more and no less. more ›