Retirement comes with its benefits
Running back Brandon Jacobs has retired from the NFL, so he doesn’t have to worry about remaining in the good graces of anyone who might think about hiring him in the future.
Or anyone who hired him in the past, for that matter.
Jacobs spent a frustrating 2012 season as a member of the San Francisco 49ers. He spent most of his time on the inactive list before getting suspended for conduct detrimental to the team.
Jacobs, who was released at the start of the 49ers’ playoff run and returned to the New York Giants in 2013, had tweeted something about hating your boss before his suspension.
He said at the time that he wasn’t talking about 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh and insisted during an interview Thursday on WFAN radio in New York that he was always respectful toward the coach while he was in San Francisco.
The catch, of course, is that he isn’t in San Francisco anymore.
“He is a b****, and that’s why he’s never won anything,” Jacobs said later in the radio interview.
“It is what it is. I’ve got two rings.
Harbaugh, though, he’s a b****. So it doesn’t matter.”
Especially now that he doesn’t play for him anymore.
Empty head
The Denver University Pioneers’ club hockey team scored a big victory over rival Utah State University last Friday night, thanks to an overtime goal from defenseman Robert Biedron.
With 15 seconds remaining in overtime and the Pioneers shorthanded, the puck came to Biedron off a defensive-zone faceoff, and he instinctively fired it 200 feet into the empty net to win the game.
No, Utah State did not pull goaltender Keegan McHenry to go 5-on-3 for the final 15 seconds.
He was on the ice, but he was in the corner chatting with fans.
He returned to the crease just in time to miss the puck with a desperation dive.
“I am ashamed and disgusted with myself. With what happened and how I acted. I let myself and more importantly my team down,” McHenry tweeted afterward.
“An overall hard fought weekend by the boys being shorthanded many players,” the Pioneers said on their Facebook page.
“Even though we came out 1-2, we learned we have what it takes to compete with the better teams in our region.”
In this case, it just took an embarrassingly distracted goalie playing for the other team.
Daddy’s girl
Megan Pettine has become a bit of a household name, and not just because she is the 19-year-old daughter of Mike Pettine, who was hired Thursday as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns.
It all goes back to a tweet she sent during her father’s interview process with the Browns.
Megan Pettine, while replying to a tweet, said that her father’s interview had gone well and that he was going back for another interview. Unfortunately, she ended her tweet with: “Its the browns .. But hey, still pretty cool!”
That didn’t sit too well with some Browns fans, one of whom replied: “We’re not thrilled with choice of your Dad either, but hey, at least we have coach now so guess we are even.”
Like any good father, Mike Pettine came to his daughter’s defense, explaining that he was a Baltimore Ravens assistant when Megan was young and that was where “she was trained to not be a Browns fan.”
It sounds like Megan should just chalk this up as another learning experience.
“She learned a very valuable lesson in the power of social media,” Mike Pettine said.
Quote of the day “We try to tell him don’t even worry about scoring, because he can impact the game without scoring a point.” Arkansas guard Kikko Haydar, on teammate Michael Qualls
Sports, Pages 20 on 01/25/2014