There are many ways for a coach to deal with a tough loss. Most involve profanity, raised voices, and a hair-trigger temper, ready to unload a fusillade of invective at that miserable fat piece of f*cksh*t who missed on that block in the third quarter and let the defensive end decapitate the star QB. That’s usually how a loss goes. But longtime Ohio State coach and opponent-puncher Woody Hayes had his own way of dealing with the stress of a loss: conducting post-game interviews naked.

(OSU wins, and the pants stay on… for now.)

These guys approve, Woody.

That got us to wondering, though: Seeing Woody Hayes give an interview while buck naked would be repulsive. But it could probably get worse, yes? Of course it could; Hayes is hardly the worst-physiqued man in college football history. So after the break, we present the 5 worst coaches to see naked in college football today. Buckle up, bulimics; today’s your lucky day.

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• Please don’t bother Erin Andrews while she’s trying to work  - or her Bristol-based bodyguards will beat you up.

(”If you come even this close to me, my boys will snap your neck.“)

• Yardbarker’s Dewey Hammond gets all choked up meeting MMA fighter Frank Shamrock.

• An ex-Florida Gator who swiped a dead woman’s credit card is charging toward a spot on the Ole Miss roster.

• The Massillon Tigers get their own 80,000-square foot indoor football practice facility. Did we mention that Massillon is a high school in Ohio?

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The week before Halloween at a bar in Los Angeles, an alumnus of KU told me about an awesome Halloween pic going around of a baby who looked like Mark Mangino. He then emailed me the pic the next day. On Halloween, I posted the shot on SbB:

DEADSPIN also posted the pic, and whaddya know, the little fatty ended up on ESPN-TV shortly thereafter.

And now, the WICHITA EAGLE is reporting the identity of the “celebrity” baby. (Gah, things must be getting slow since Pizza Hut and Boeing pulled up stakes.)

Mike Leach’s undefeated Texas Tech Red Raiders will be center stage Saturday as they host #1 Texas in Lubbock. The game reps the pinnacle of Leach’s coaching career, which has seen him go from the smallest of colleges to coaching football in Finland to an assistant-ship under Bob Stoops at Oklahoma.

(Creepy: Leach has painting of himself as Van Gogh in his office)

I’ll be rooting like crazy for Leach, because he’s the kind of guy that makes the main media uncomfortable. The reason he isn’t a bigger name on the national scene? He’s always in control of the conversation during interviews, which the hair-gelled types in Bristol despise.

He doesn’t fit into the little, tidy box that the College GameDay crew wants him in. The Bob Stoops, Urban Meyer buttoned-down profile. Kinda like Kansas’ Mark Mangino last season, who was generally ignored by ESPN & Co. despite authoring one of the most astonishing stories in the history of college football.

Mangino and Leach, though different personalities, are the same guy. Outsiders. You can put Pat Hill in that group too. Too honest, too quirky, and in some cases, too innovative. Take for instance Leach’s attempt to get the head coaching jobs at UCLA and Miami in recent years. Read more…

I’m not much into Halloween, and the blizzard of sports costumes are tired. But here’s good one:

Now if I can only get a shot of Bill Snyder as Mr. Burns.

• Seems the WNBA is becoming more like its big brother league everyday.

• Keith Hernandez doesn’t have time to respect the Reds’ Hall of Fame.

• Fans won’t be chanting for Melky Cabrera if he keeps this kind of play up.

• No wonder the Cubs were doing so well - they cheated in the MLB Draft!

• The Baltimore Ravens draft a four-year basketball collegian who hasn’t played football since high school.

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One of the more enjoyable stories of the 2007 season was the enormous rise of Kansas football, thanks in no small part to enormous coach Mark Mangino. And as the wins kept coming in Lawrence, shirts celebrating the grand girth of the KU coach kept selling. You’ve probably seen or at least heard of the some of the fat-focused fashions, such as “Our Coach Beat Anorexia” or “Our Coach Can Eat Your Coach“.

Sure, such shirt slogans may be all in good fun, but as Jeff Flanagan of the KANSAS CITY STAR discovers, some Jayhawks aren’t enjoying the fat jokes. Read more…

• Remember those lovely Packers fans and their cheese bra? Well, FAN IQ wheys in on where you can get your very own pair.

(Don’t break your neck, kid.)

• WIZZNUTZZ takes a letter, as Richard Nixon writes a note to the Washington Bullets.

• This white boy’s got mad skillz, as a geeky Sonics fan raps about Dirk, Kobe and Nash.

• BUSTED COVERAGE takes a slow boat to China, and find Patriots cheerleaders working the bars:

• 100% INJURY RATE gets out their shovel & pail, as Russia plans on building a billion-dollar island for the 2014 Olympics.

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SbB is now hiring people professionally proficient in the following areas.

• Sportswriters
• Graphic Design
• CSS
• PHP
• WordPress
• Photoshop
• Access to Joe Paterno game-used colostomy bags

Skill level, enthusiasm, and ability to work on deadline is more important than professional experience (and those rumors of you having to be a Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan … not true). So if you’re interested in working with a sports blog that is now nearly as big as Mark Mangino’s pancreas, email a résumé and examples of relevant past work to us.

LAWRENCE REPORTER MENTIONS MARK MOVING TO MOUNTAINEERS: Our big buddy Mark Mangino has another accolade to add to his ever-growing waistline trophy case, as the King Kong of Kansas was named the Associated Press 2007 Coach of the Year.

When you get such recognition, other schools are sure to come calling. Or at least that’s what this reporter thought.

DEADSPIN has the tale of Ryan Wood, reporter for the LAWRENCE WORLD-JOURNAL, who thought he had a scoop of Mangino hoofing it to Morgantown to fill West Virginia’s coaching vacancy. (Mangino is big enough to fill a lot of coaching spots - all at the same time!)

A man claiming to be Mangino’s agent called Wood on Wednesday and told him about Mangino’s contract negotiations with the Mountaineers. Wood went ahead and posted the story.

However, it turns out ol’ Ryan was a victim of a hoax. KU officials called Wood back and said no such talks had taken place, and West Virginia had not contacted Kansas about speaking to Mangino. The World-Journal posted a correction, apologizing for “misleading any readers.”

But not all news outlets were fooled. The TOPEKA CAPTIAL-JOURNAL received the same prank call, but checked with the Jayhawks SID first, who said there were no such talks. When told by the Topeka paper that they thought he was joking, “The caller said, ‘Well, whatever,’ and hung up.”

So, it looks like the Mangenius will keep grazing in America’s Heartland for now - as long as his heart can handle it.