http://www.sportsbybrooks.com Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:28:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While sitting in an unlocked media room adjacent to a Texas Tech practice field on December 19, 2009, Adam James sent his father, ESPN announcer Craig James, a series of text messages. The text messages, sent while practice was underway on a 66-degree day in Lubbock, included the following: Hey, ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/craig-james-expected-leach-fired-and-apology-29972 Not many are truly qualified to pass judgement on Joe Paterno's actions following the the Nov. 4, 2011, arrest of former longtime Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on dozens of charges related to child sexual abuse. Let alone those who might try to accurately characterize Paterno's reaction to Sandusky ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/completely-unbiased-final-judgement-of-paterno-29966 Two days before Mike Leach was fired, Dec. 29, 2009, Chris Fowler appeared on Colin Cowherd's nationally syndicated ESPN Radio show. (Leach's life went up in flames thanks to claims by Fowler 'close friend' James ) Fowler appeared on the show to, in part, discuss complaints made about Texas Tech football ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/fowler-48-hours-before-ouster-leach-clueless-29965 Last October the Mountain West and Conference USA announced the "consolidation" of the 22 football programs from each league into an "association." As first noted last month by Brett McMurphy of CBSSports.com and two weeks ago by Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com, the conferences are now entertaining the prospect of merging ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/mwc-cusa-all-sport-merger-in-hands-of-lawyers-29963 During an appearance on the Paul Finebaum Radio Network Wednesday, an attorney for Mike Leach provided more striking revelations about the behavior of Craig James while directly under the auspices of ESPN. (Leach lawyer for ESPN suit: James called TT coaches from ESPN booth) Lead Leach attorney Steve Heninger reported ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/espns-james-called-tech-coaches-during-games-29962 UPDATE: (Jan. 25, 2011, 9:21aPT): Jay Paterno Tweeted the following Wednesday morning: To clarify: Our family looks forward to welcoming everyone to a celebration of Joe Paterno's life tomorrow afternoon. UPDATE (Jan. 24, 2011, 5:13p PT): The HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS reports that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who ordered all state government flags ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/gov-buries-paterno-to-distract-from-own-inaction-29961 Sunday night George Schroeder and Adam Jude of the EUGENE (OR) REGISTER-GUARD reported online that "University of Oregon football coach Chip Kelly has reached an agreement to become the head coach of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a highly placed UO athletic department source told The Register-Guard." (Unlike Online, where both ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/online-no-longer-honors-prints-right-to-wrong-29960 FootballScoop.com was first to report the news Sunday night that Chip Kelly has accepted an offer to become the next head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (Kelly was in Tampa to visit USF Coach Skip Holtz last March) SbB has since confirmed that Kelly is already assembling a coaching staff ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/chip-kelly-leaves-oregon-for-tampa-bay-bucs-29959 A member of the Penn State Board of Trustees told the CENTRE (PA) DAILY TIMES Thursday that during an official briefing last May the Trustees were told by a Penn State lawyer that Jerry Sandusky had previously been the subject of four Grand Jury investigations. (Same day Trustees claim tenured Spanier ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/psu-lawyer-4-sandusky-grand-jury-investigations-29958 After co-opting the WASHINGTON POST with his own personal crisis communications manager and high-priced criminal defense lawyer last weekend, somehow Joe Paterno still ended up in the RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER's department of corrections on Sunday: That'll come as no surprise to Penn Staters, who haven't been shy in decrying the ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/media-sentenced-paterno-to-dept-of-corrections-29957