Natalie Nakase, the WNBA’s first Asian American head coach, is channeling the spirit of a Valkyrie woman warrior as the season gets underway Friday. With Nakase, 45, on their team, the Golden State Valkyries are making waves as the WNBA’s first new team in the league in more than 15 years. Nakase told she’s had to fight her whole life to get where she is now. “I’ve always been the only girl walking into the NBA gym and all guys — it’s the same,” Nakase said. “No big deal.” The addition of the Valkyries marks the first new WNBA team since the…
Author: Benjamin Scott
Hall of Fame coach Don Nelson is clearly not a fan of how the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Dončić earlier this year, and he found a novel way of expressing his disapproval. The 85-year-old was at Game 2 of this year’s NBA Finals on Sunday to pick up the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award winner, recognition for his 31 years as one of the most successful coaches ever. But it was Nelson’s choice of footwear which made the headlines, with the former Mavericks coach wearing Dončić’s signature Jordan Brand sneakers. “I want everybody to know I’m wearing Luka’s shoes, his new shoes from Nike…
Whether he knows it or not, Matt Rhule has cemented his place in the National Football League’s coaching history books — before he’s coached a single professional football game. Rhule, who signed a seven-year deal worth $60 million to become head coach of the Carolina Panthers, sent shock waves through the NFL when the news leaked last week. His deal is also being celebrated throughout coaching circles as other coaches hope it will push their salaries higher as well, according to interviews with sports agents and league officials, many of whom didn’t want to be identified because contract terms are…
The Chicago Bears have fired Head Coach Matt Eberflus. The Bears announced they had fired Eberflus on Friday after the Bears’ failed comeback against the division rival Detroit Lions on Thursday afternoon. Eberflus posted a 14–32 record as head coach, and in 2024, led the team to a 4–8 record. “This morning, after meeting with [chairman] George [H. McCaskey] and [President and CEO] Kevin [Warren], we informed Matt of our decision to move in a different direction with the leadership of our football team and the head-coaching position,” General Manager Ryan Poles said in a statement via the team’s official…
The New England Patriots have hired former Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Vrabel as their head coach, the team announced Sunday. Vrabel, 49, went 54-45 in six seasons as the Titans’ coach, plus a 2-3 record in the playoffs. He is also a former player for the Patriots, playing linebacker for the team from 2001-2008, winning three Super Bowls. Vrabel was hired to replace Jerod Mayo, another former New England linebacker, who was fired after only one season with the team. Mayo went 4-13 in his lone year at the helm. During the 2024 season, Vrabel was a coaching consultant…
Ryan Giggs is viewed as a key individual in Manchester United’s battle to get Wayne Rooney’s career at the club back on track, after his appointment as a player coach today. Giggs’ new role was announced as United also confirmed that Phil Neville would join David Moyes’ backroom staff – a move independent.co.uk revealed earlier today. Giggs, 39, who signed a one-year contract extension with United in March, has just returned from an intense eight-day Pro-License coaching assignment at the under-20s World Cup, where his physical fitness “astonished” observers, one professional who was with him there has told The Independent.…
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is one of the highest-paid coaches in NFL history. He also still drives a nearly century-old car that he says his dad bought for $25 after World War II. The car is a 1928 Model A, Ford’s follow-up to the iconic Model T. Reid fully restored the classic car after inheriting it from his father, who died in 1992, and still occasionally takes it out for a spin, a Chiefs spokesperson tells Reid, 66, certainly doesn’t drive the Model A daily and can probably afford a whole fleet of new cars. He’s one of…
Nicky Butt believes Erik ten Hag was “born” to manage Manchester United. The former Ajax boss has overcome a difficult start to make a huge impression in his first season in charge at Old Trafford. United, who won the Carabao Cup earlier this month, are third in the Premier League and still in contention in two other knockout competitions. It is a far cry from last season when the team was managed by three different people and finished in sixth place, 35 points behind champions Manchester City. Former United midfielder Butt told the PA news agency: “I think he’s done a great job, no…
Being a private person from a small town, Kim Caldwell keeps her business to herself. That’s why she ducked and dodged questions for months about her first pregnancy. Then the woman who announced with a social media post on Sept. 3 that “Baby Caldwell” was on the way realized that being the first-year coach of the historic Tennessee Lady Vols’ women’s basketball program allows her to help other working mothers not stress out or feel alone. “I have an opportunity here to help the next person that is going to get pregnant during basketball season or anyone that’s going to…
Even as the conversations advance and President Donald Trump says that there is hope of an agreement, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, made the proposal of President Donald Trump to recognize the occupation of Russia of the Constitution of Crimea, saying less the Ukrainian victory. This week, President Donald Trump said in an interview with Time magazine That one of the final results of the war is that “Crimea will stay with Russia”, and after an agreement was close, with Ukraine and Russia Noving to meet in person in negotiations for the first time to “finish it.” However, the…