After all the doom and gloom over Chad LaRose moving on — he’s staying put. Jim Rutherford, who has done a fantastic Eeyore impersonation during free agency negotiations, announced that Carolina got LaRose to finally sign a two-year contract. The deal will pay $1.5 million in 2009-10 and $1.9 million in 2010-11.
Transfer news that doesn’t involve North Carolina? Whaaa!? NC State is dealing with roster changes of their own this week. Wolfpack coach Tom O’Brien announced that Tyson Chandler (OL), Raynard Randolph (DT) and Bryan Underwood (WR) will not enroll at NC State at this time. All three players were part of the February recruiting class.
Yesterday we heard rumblings that sophomore cornerback Dominique Ellis would not be part of the upcoming season for NC State. Turns out that will be the case. Ellis, who played in all 13 games last season, will transfer for “personal reasons.”
Erik Cole dropped by the morning show to talk about his quick dip in the free agency pool. Turned out the local waters were just fine. Cole also called because we were babbling on about ugliest rock singers and he felt the need to save the program. So we talk about the market, golf, Michael Jackson, locker room playlists and a game of “hot or not”.
Erik Cole w/ AG & Joe
First, pigs will fly. Then, that check will really be in the mail. And finally, you’ll keep your promise to her. After that, anything is possible. I’ll explain in a sec…
The totally cool and taller thn Joe and I combined, Penn Holderness of NBC 17 Sports will hang with us this morning, so let’s pretend we all get along, cool?
The Carolina Hurricanes found $5.8 million over the next two years and stuffed it in the pockets of Erik Cole. I’m a huge personal fan of Cole. He’s a super guy, and we all know what Cole is capable of accomplishing on the ice. But, it’s extremely risky to devote nearly $3 million of your payroll to someone on the hopes that he will return to what he was three years ago.
There was a time, remember, when Cole was one of the best power forwards in the NHL.
Andy Roddick won a match that he would have lost the last few years. He beat Leyton Hewitt to reach the Wimbledon semi finals, where he will meet Andy Murray on Friday. Roger Federer will stomp Tomy Haas in the other Final Four match. Thursday is semi final day for the women, and unless something strange happens, we’re going to see an all-Williams final for the second straight year and the 4th time this decade.
I’m sure I’m not the only one out there who has had an automobile run-in with a deer. In many cases, it’s the deer that runs into the vehicle — at least that was the case with my collision. Aparently, that happens with pedestrians as well.
And, we can’t be all things to all people. Someone should point that out to Jim Brown.
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According to TSN, the Carolina Hurricanes have re-signed veteran winger Erik Cole to a two-year deal. The deal will pay Cole $2.8 million in 2009-10 and $3 million in 2010-11.
Word on the twitterlators earlier in the day was that Buffalo was interested. As we discussed this morning, ol’ JR had a good read on Cole’s market value from the jump.
Via Uncrate, it’s the “Man Wall”. It’ll set you back $15k, but it comes with 52″, two 26″ LCD HDTVs and room for another set. 1200 watt Panasonic 5.1 Home Theater System with DVD player, iPod docking station and wireless surround sound speakers. The “Wall” also includes a built-in refrigerated beer keg and a humidor. Coolest feature? The 7-foot sports ticker with built-in computer.
…on second thought, maybe I don’t want lunch downtown. Based on this footage taken in the sewers under Cameron Village, I’ll be preparing for the monster invasion apparently slated for later this year.
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski is holding his summer press conference this afternoon. It didn’t take long for K to deny the Lakers coaching rumors, telling the assembled media that he won’t be going to Los Angeles. Krzyzewski added that if he was going to leave Duke, it would be a retirement from coaching. So much for the tempest in a teapot started by the Wisconsin Illuminati.
Check Bomani’s live Twitter updates for more tidbits from the press conference.
The N&O’s Joe Giglio, who will occasionally hate your posse, reports that the one-time 17-scholarship discrepancy is now a three-scholarship surplus for Tar Heels coach Butch Davis. The coaching staff can fire up “No Woman No Cry” after kicker Jay Wooten decided to transfer and three recruits plan to attend prep school.
Watching PTI yesterday, I noticed “Coach K” on the rundown. News on coaching USA Basketball? Perhaps there was some movement on the whole K to the Lakers rumor?
Nah. Just more speculation, this time from Charley Rosen of FOXSports.com.
Krzyzewski is making a colossal mistake if he believes that coaching Team USA in Beijing would constitute even the slightest resemblance to coaching an NBA team through an 82-game season. Directing the fortunes of 12 highly motivated All-Stars over the course of a two-week tournament against mostly inferior opponents is one thing. Coaching a collection of less talented (overall), routinely ego-driven players for 6-8 months is another.
Rosen is a respected writer with 15 books to his name, but doesn’t have much respect for the critical thinking abilities of Krzyzewski if he honestly believes the paragraph above. And it’s not just Rosen. Several other knowledgeable pundits who should know better use the same line of thinking, which boggles my mind. Phil Jackson just needs to hurry up and make his decision. Stay or go, my man. Your zen is screwing up my summer state of peace.
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