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Coughlin: Let’s take a look at 2019

As usual, I’ll take the New Year’s Day theme in the same direction I’ve gone for over 40 years. While others predict events in the upcoming year, I look a little further than that — 10 years! Here’s what we can expect in the year 2019. (I should be ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  28 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Josh Cribbs,  University of Notre Dame,  LeBron James,  New York Yankees,  National Basketball Association

Dan Coughlin: Everybody’s hurting except the Yankees

Newspapers are laying people off. So are television stations. Even Fox 8, the most successful televison station in Cleveland, has a growing number of empty desks. The NFL just laid off 10 percent of the workforce at league headquarters. I was ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  14 Dec 2008
Related Topics: NFL,  New York Yankees,  Arizona Diamondbacks,  A.J. Burnett,  Hank Steinbrenner

Dan Coughlin: You can call Browns kicker Phil Dawson the best, just don’t call him a hero

Browns kicker Phil Dawson rejects the hero’s crown. “I don’t like it. I’m more comfortable going to work,” he said the other day in the Browns’ locker room. He thinks of himself simply as a guy with a job and, in this economy, anyone with a job ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  23 Nov 2008
Related Topics: NFL,  Phil Dawson,  Don Cockroft,  Matt Stover,  Matt Bahr

Dan Coughlin: Indians great Feller was deprived of Cy Young glory

With Cliff Lee and CC Sabathia putting up consecutive Cy Young Award seasons, we are reminded how long it’s been since the Indians have had dominant pitchers. The only other Indians pitcher to win the honor was Gaylord Perry in 1972. Keep in mind, ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  17 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Cy Young,  Cliff Lee,  Gaylord Perry,  Bob Feller,  Roger Clemens

Dan Coughlin: Herb Score always had respect for the game

Indians vice president Bobby DiBiasio liked to say that millions of kids became Indians fans because of Herb Score. “They’d go to bed listening to him on the radio. We lost one of the greatest men in the history of this franchise,” DiBiasio said upon ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  13 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Herb Score,  Rocky Colavito,  Tom Hamilton,  American League,  Boston Red Sox

Dan Coughlin: It might be time to split up Division I in high school football

That’s an interesting proposal to equalize the high school football playoffs here in Ohio. Good thinking by the Ohio High School Athletic Association, the governing body of scholastic sports. With six divisions structured according to male enrollment, ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  2 Nov 2008

Dan Coughlin: When it comes to baseball bats, ash is still the best

As kids we swung bats with nails in them and tossed balls wrapped in black electrician’s tape. We patched our equipment as best we could. Now, check out the World Series. Actually, you undoubtedly have noticed this and commented about it at any ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  26 Oct 2008

Dan Coughlin: What’s in a name? If only we could ask the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame

Sportswriter Jim Lefebvre became obsessed with the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame after he asked a clerk in the Notre Dame bookstore for a book about them and the clerk could find only a picture. “You don’t have any information on them?” he asked. The ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  12 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Grantland Rice,  Jim Lefebvre,  Paul Gallico,  Damon Runyon,  Rudolph Valentino

Dan Coughlin: When it came to sports movies, Paul Newman had the magic touch

Among other things, Paul Newman led the league in great sports movies. Having said that, courtesy requires that I doff my cap to Kevin Costner, Robert Redford and Robert De Niro. Costner hit the trifecta with “Field of Dreams,” “Bull Durham” and “Tin ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  5 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Paul Newman,  Kevin Costner,  Robert Redford,  Robert De Niro,  Sylvester Stallone

Dan Coughlin: Count on it, here comes another Browns quarterback change

As the great philosopher Yogi Berra said, “It’s deja vu all over again.” That’s where Derek Anderson stands, on the threshhold of repeating history. A year ago Anderson won the Browns quarterback job in the identical manner he likely will lose it ...

From DAN COUGHLIN, Elyria Chronicle-Telegram,  28 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Derek Anderson,  Yogi Berra,  Brady Quinn,  Charlie Frye,  Pittsburgh Steelers

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