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Why did Nick Saban hire Lane Kiffin? Taking a closer look at Alabama’s offense during Kiffin’s tenure

September 24, 2023 by admin

Before the Ole Miss Rebels had Lane Kiffin as their head coach, he was like a handful of other renowned college football coaches: under the wing of the legendary Nick Saba at Alabama. Why was he hired by Saban?

Suffice it to say, the two coaches remain linked to each other, even if they’re across the field from each other.

Alabama beat No. 15 Ole Miss 24-10 on Saturday.

Why did Nick Saban hire Lane Kiffin?

Saban hired Kiffin to be the Crimson Tide’s offensive coordinator in 2014 after Kiffin was fired as the USC Trojans head coach in September 2013. Saban gave Kiffin a chance to breathe new life into his career, and Kiffin helped update Alabama’s offense.

Kiffin’s hiring was an excellent fit for Alabama. That’s because his offensive schemes were almost always among the best.

However, the benefits to Saban hiring Kiffin as Alabama OC were almost instantaneous. When asked about being taken under the wing of the iconic college football coach (via ESPN):

“I remember him saying, ‘I feel like our offense is a Lamborghini, but it’s headed off a cliff,’ meaning we’ve got these great players, but are behind the times in what we’re doing. So, we needed to change directions.”

And change directions, things did. That season, Alabama’s offense was as deadly as ever.

Of course, the team eventually ended up winning the 2015 national championship (and Derrick Henry won the 2015 Heisman Trophy) with Kiffin at the helm of the offense. Alabama also won the 2017 national title, with Kiffin departing to become the head coach of Florida Atlantic.

Alabama could surely use someone like Lane Kiffin right now

The Crimson Tide remain among the most celebrated programs in college football history. They still have Nick Saban as their coach. But there are troubles in Tuscaloosa, particularly on the offensive side.

Alabama’s offense has been struggling during the first few weeks. Their quarterback situation, specifically with QB1 Jalen Milroe, has been off-kilter.

Alabama (3-1) is ranked No. 12.

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Miami Dolphins score 70 points in record victory over Denver Broncos

September 24, 2023 by admin

Tua Tagovailoa throws for 309 yards and four touchdowns while Raheem Mostert and De’Von Achane combine for 285 rushing yards and five touchdowns to steer the Miami Dolphins to a team-record 70-20 victory over the Denver Broncos

Last Updated: 24/09/23 11:34pm

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Highlights of the Denver Broncos against the Miami Dolphins in Week Three of the NFL

Highlights of the Denver Broncos against the Miami Dolphins in Week Three of the NFL

The Miami Dolphins posted over 700 yards of offense on their way to a franchise-record 70-20 victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday. 

Mike McDaniel’s side logged the most points in a game by an NFL team since 1966 and the fourth 70-point game in history, falling short of the regular-season record of 72 points set by Washington.

Tua Tagovailoa, who was 16 of 16 in the first half, completed 23 of 26 passes for 309 yards and four touchdowns, before backup Mike White threw for 67 yards and a score upon entering the game late. Rookie running back De’Von Achane meanwhile rushed for 203 yards and two scores in the company of Raheem Mostert’s 82 yards for three touchdowns and Chris Brooks’ 63 yards on the ground.

“Shame on us if you put a ceiling on what you’re capable of,” McDaniel told reporters. “If you just worry about the right things, you don’t worry about anything but your technique and fundamentals and assignment within the team, don’t worry about stats or credit, it’s amazing what a group of people can do going in one direction.

A clever Miami Dolphins play design executed perfectly by Tua Tagovailoa as he finds De'Von Achane with this clever no-look pass for the touchdown

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A clever Miami Dolphins play design executed perfectly by Tua Tagovailoa as he finds De’Von Achane with this clever no-look pass for the touchdown

A clever Miami Dolphins play design executed perfectly by Tua Tagovailoa as he finds De’Von Achane with this clever no-look pass for the touchdown

“The points don’t carry over but I do think this is a meaningful game for a lot of guys to understand to not let an opportunity on the field together slip through your fingers in any way, shape or form, because collectively we have all the right people to do some pretty cool stuff on the field.

“It’s just incredible, it goes through my mind all the intentional work that goes into it.

“I was most proud of the unrelenting nature we had. I think it was the first outside of the Houston game last year where we had a lead of maybe three touchdowns or more going into the half and it ended up being pretty close at the end. So we want guys to learn from stuff. It’s so key you don’t let the ebbs and flows of the game interject with how you play football, that’s the biggest thing the guys can learn from this game.”

Tagovailoa enjoyed another incredible day under center for the Dolphins

Tagovailoa enjoyed another incredible day under center for the Dolphins

Miami had the chance to top Washington’s all-time record when they moved into field goal range, but instead elected to take a knee to ice the win.

“It felt like chasing points, chasing a record is not what we came here to do,” said McDaniel. “Ten times out of 10 you concede and kneel down. The message it would send wasn’t really in line with how I view things.”

Victory moved the Dolphins to 3-0 on the year and, for all of Denver’s struggles, reinforced their Super Bowl credentials behind a red-hot Tagovailoa.

Miami’s previous record had been 55 points set against St Louis on November 24, 1977, the Dolphins surpassing that mark on Achane’s 10-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter and Jason Sanders’ subsequent extra point.

The Dolphins are the first team to score five rushing touchdowns and five receiving touchdowns in the Super Bowl era, per ESPN stats. Their 726 total yards are meanwhile second only to the 1951 Rams’ 735 against the Yanks.

Dave Chisnall wins Hungarian Darts Trophy despite Luke Humphries nine-darter

September 24, 2023 by admin

Dave Chisnall, who earlier on Sunday defeated Michael van Gerwen 6-4 in his quarter-final and Scott Williams 7-5 in the last four, secured his third European Tour win of the season in Hungary

Last Updated: 24/09/23 11:14pm


Dave Chisnall emerged victorious in Hungary

Dave Chisnall won the Hungarian Darts Trophy after a thrilling 8-7 win against Luke Humphries, who produced a nine-dart finish in the final in Budapest.

Chisnall, who earlier on Sunday defeated Michael van Gerwen 6-4 in his quarter-final and Scott Williams 7-5 in the last four, secured his third European Tour win of the season.

Humphries beat Luke Woodhouse 6-0 before a 7-4 last-four victory over Gerwyn Price, but despite his nine-dart heroics in the final he fell to another agonising defeat to bogey-man Chisnall.

Chisnall had beaten Humphries in the finals of both the Baltic Sea Darts Open and Dutch Darts Championship earlier this year.

Successive 81 checkouts by Chisnall, which had both followed 180s, drew him level at 3-3 in the final and a 146-finish saw him edge 5-4 ahead.

Humphries pulled off his nine-dart finish to level it up again at 5-5 and led 7-6, but Chisnall broke his throw to force a nerve-jangling decider and kept his cool to land double 12 for victory.

Hauser on the comeback of Conor Benn

September 24, 2023 by admin

BOXING sank a little deeper into the mud on Saturday night when Conor Benn (who’s not currently licensed to fight in the United Kingdom because of proceedings keyed to his having tested positive twice for a banned performance enhancing drug) fought in Florida on the undercard of Richardson Hitchins vs. Jose Zepeda in a bout that was promoted by Matchroom and streamed by DAZN.

Benn’s drug tests have been discussed at length in Boxing News and elsewhere. His fight on Saturday against unheralded Rodolfo Orozco wasn’t announced until September 20 (three days before the bout). And it didn’t begin until 3:10am UK time, which meant that many of Conor’s fans were sound asleep when the bell for round one rang. But Saturday night was less about Benn-Orozco than it was about promoter Eddie Hearn testing the waters for Benn’s return and seeing how far he can stretch the envelope.

The Matchroom media release announcing Benn’s return declared that Conor was “cleared in July by UKAD and the WBC, and his provisional suspension was lifted after an independent National Anti-Doping Panel review.”

“Cleared” is a misleading term. Benn was provisionally suspended by UKAD after the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA) reported that he tested positive twice for Clomifene last year. Conor appealed the suspension on multiple grounds and, on July 28, UKAD confirmed that he was no longer provisionally suspended as a consequence of a ruling by a National Anti-Doping Panel. Informed sources say that the panel confirmed the integrity of VADA’s testing process (which had been challenged by Benn’s representatives) but ruled that, because VADA is not a national anti-doping agency, its test results could not serve as basis for suspending Benn in the United Kingdom. On August 17, UKAD announced that it had appealed the National Anti-Doping Panel ruling.

Benn is still not licensed to fight in the UK and the charges against him remain unresolved. But pending the result of the appeal, he’s no longer provisionally suspended by UKAD. This means that other jurisdictions can license him to box. The Florida State Athletic Commission chose to do so. That led BBBofC general secretary Robert Smith to declare, “Sometimes people look after themselves rather than the sport in general, which is slightly disappointing. I understand why they do it. But personally, I don’t think he [Benn] should be boxing until this matter is cleared. A number of issues are still outstanding which everybody’s aware of. Once the appeal has taken place, we’ll take it from there. But when Eddie says he’s cleared his name, according to us we haven’t had an explanation of how the positive test came about. So I don’t quite agree with Eddie on that one.”

Meanwhile, after Benn-Orozco was announced, Hearn told IFLTV, “Conor has produced this scientific evidence in the past. It’s not like he’s never, he just kept it under his bed or something.”

But Benn’s “scientific evidence” has been rejected by the British Boxing Board of Control and UKAD. The fact that he and Hearn keep distorting the facts speaks to the merit (or lack thereof) of their position.

Hearn also made the point that Benn was tested by VADA in conjunction with the Orozco fight and tested clean. But in today’s world of microdosing, illegal drug use often goes undetected even with the most sophisticated tests. And VADA tests fighters pursuant to three different mandates: (1) the WBC Clean Boxing Program, (2) contracts that it enters into directly with fighters and promoters, and (3) at the request of various state athletic commissions. In the first two instances, VADA conducts a full panel of tests. But some state athletic commissions save money by limiting their testing authorisation to less than a full panel. Florida cuts corners on PED testing.

DAZN’s commentating team for Benn-Orozco consisted of Corey Erdman, Sergio Mora, and Chris Mannix. Chris Algieri (who has become one of the best commentators in boxing) was conspicuously absent from the proceedings. Algieri was knocked out by Benn in 2021. After it was revealed that Conor had tested positive for Clomifene, Algieri told Sports Illustrated, “I’m not surprised. I had heard mutterings as I was getting ready to fight him. I heard mutterings during our fight week. I always give fighters the benefit of the doubt. I’m never going to call them out, even if I suspect it. But now that this has come to light, it makes you think. And it sucks. If you look at the way his body has changed, even from the [Adrian] Granados fight to my fight – they were only months apart – the difference was visible. That’s hard to do in such a short period of time. Now you may think, ‘Well everyone’s body is different.’ But with this, it makes you rethink everything.”

At the top of the DAZN show, Mannix referenced Benn’s PED problem and acknowledged, “The questions about him still linger. The question of should he be fighting is subjective.” DAZN then played an excerpt from an interview that Mannix conducted with Benn in which Conor said that he was “willing to sit down with UKAD” in an effort to resolve the issue and blamed “politics” and “egos” for his problems before adding, “What’s been out there is a lie.”

One would expect an innocent person in Benn’s circumstances to facilitate the free flow of information at every turn. Mannix didn’t challenge Benn on his lack of cooperation with UKAD to date or the fact that VADA’s positive test results for Benn have been confirmed in multiple adjudications.

The contract weight for Benn-Orozco was 154 pounds. Orozco kept coming forward and was game. But he wasn’t good. His balance was poor. At times, it seemed as though the only time he moved his head was when Benn hit it. Both guys threw punches in bunches but only one guy had the power to hurt the other. Rodolfo was tailor-made as an opponent for Conor and took more punishment than a fighter should. Two of the judges scored the fight 99-91 in Benn’s favour, which was on the mark. The third judge found a way to give four rounds to Orozco.

My own opinion is that Florida shouldn’t have licensed Benn to fight. I agree with Paulie Malignaggi, who recently said, “Benn shouldn’t be in the ring until this whole thing is over. Money always buys you out of problems, so they’ll probably make it go away or say he was not guilty. But I think, for the sake of doing things right, you shouldn’t be fighting until you finish the entire investigation and have a decree and have a decision made.”

There’s also an issue as to whether DAZN should have streamed the fight. DAZN has been hemorrhaging money since its inception. Two of its flagship fighters (Anthony Joshua and Katie Taylor) have had significant problems in the ring lately. Now the network is pinning its hopes on Benn. In its glory years, HBO was known as “The Heart and Soul of Boxing.” DAZN is in danger of becoming known as “The Home of Damaged Goods.”

One might also question DAZN’s moral compass. Its early embrace of “sportswashing” by the Saudi government and its enabling of Dmitri Bivol to become a symbol of Russian power by backing his fight against Canelo Alvarez (a decision that ignored the pleas of Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko) speak to that point.

Writing about the proposed match between Benn and Chris Eubank Jnr last year, Tris Dixon declared, “Anyone who wanted the fight to go ahead did so for their own agenda and to grease their own wheels, not for the good of the sport they laughably claim to be passionate about. Their passion is for the parts that suit them.”

The same was true of Benn-Orozco.

Thomas Hauser’s email address is [email protected]. His most recent book – The Universal Sport: Two Years Inside Boxing – was published by the University of Arkansas Press. In 2004, the Boxing Writers Association of America honored Hauser with the Nat Fleischer Award for career excellence in boxing journalism. In 2019, Hauser was selected for boxing’s highest honor – induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Olympics bound! USA beats Germany to clinch spot in Paris 2024 Games | Volleyballmag.com

September 24, 2023 by admin

The full USA Volleyball contingent in Lodz, Poland, after beating Germany/Volleyball World photo

Annie Drews played like a woman possessed.

And now her USA team — which gold in the Tokyo 2021 Olympics — possesses a spot in the Paris 2024 Olympics.

The Americans lost the first set Sunday, then Drews entered the match, the they stormed to a 24-26, 25-21, 25-9, 25-16 victory in Lodz, Poland, in the Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier.

Drews had 27 kills as the high-flying left-handed opposite demolished Germany almost single-handedly in the last three sets. She had 11 kills in the second set alone and had only two errors — both coming late — in her 46 attacks. She also had 10 digs.

The victory left the USA 6-1 in the seven-match tournament and guaranteed one of the two spots in this portion of the tournament.

The USA’s Annie Drews celebrates with her team/Volleyball World photo

“Annie coming off the bench was exactly what we needed,” said USA veteran Jordan Larson. “We train for this and she showed up and did her job! So proud of her.”

Drews also was a spectacular sub in the Tokyo Olympics, coming in when Jordan Thompson was injured.

“My focus coming into tonight was to just be where my feet were and fill in gaps as needed,” Drews said. “We sometimes talk about how we want to feel after a match is over. We can we truly say we have nothing left in the tank or finished with no regrets. So that was in the back of my mind tonight, playing in a way where I wouldn’t regret anything!”

Larson had 11 kills, two blocks and 16 digs. The other outside, Kelsey Cook, had 12 kills, an ace and 11 digs.

The Americans were coming off their only loss, 27-25, 16-25, 25-23, 25-16 Saturday to Poland when a victory would have likely clinched an Olympic berth then.

“Super proud of our team for coming back after a tough loss yesterday,” Larson said. “Credit for Germany coming out strong in the first set, but proud of how we battled and finished strong.”

“I’m incredibly proud and impressed with this group,” USA coach Karch Kiraly said. “We had a really disappointong match against Poland, especially in the third set, where I think we had a 15-10 lead and then something like a 22-19 lead. But we made 11 unforced errors. I think we served out five times, hit out a few, had a couple of setting errors, a couple of receptions aces, a block into the net or two, and it’s hard to beat a really good team on their home court when we make that many mistakes. And they made us pay for it.

“They also made us dig a little deeper today. And Germany came out strong and at us hard. That was really good for us. We lost the first and I guess that’s part of the tempering process. We talk about tempering steel.

“This was certainly a tougher Olympic qualifiying tournament than the one we played four years ago in Shreveport (Louisiana), which was just Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Three matches in less than 48 hours. This was seven matches in nine days.

“Our whole plan all season was to prepare anyone in a uniform to be able to play every minute of every one of those matches. Nobody actually needed to do that, but everybody was prepared to do that. So I loved the response that this team formulated after losing to Poland and after losing the first game against Germany.”

Chiaka Ogbogu and Karch Kiraly/Volleyball World photo

Chiaka Ogbogu had five kills, five blocks and an ace and Thompson had five kills. Dana Rettke had seven kills, a block and an ace and Ali Frantti had a kill in her only attempt, a late back-row attack it the fourth set. Setter Lauren Carlini had a kill and 12 digs and libero Justine Wong-Orantes has 23 digs.

“A lot of us believe we’re just scratching the surface in terms of what this team can do and accomplish and that leaves us really excited when we get to spend more time as a group preparing for something like VNL next year and the Paris Olympics themselves.”

Germany’s Lina Alsmeier had 15 kills and Kimberly Drewniok had nine.

Later in Pool C, Poland was to play Italy with the winner getting the second spot.

In Pool A, played in Beijing, the Dominican Republic and Serbia got the two Olympic spots.

In Pool B, played in Tokyo, Türkiye and Brazil — which beat Japan for the spot — got the berths.

There are now six teams plus host France qualified for the 12-team Olympic field. The other five will be chosen in June based on rankings and which federations have not yet qualified.

“I am so proud of the women for qualifying for the Paris games and heading to defend their title,” USA Volleyball CEO Jamie Davis texted from Poland. “The entire program pulled together, including players on and off the court, as well as the entire staff to win in a very tough tournament against some of the best teams in the world.

“Grit, determination and heart! Go USA!”

The USA women celebrate a first-set point against Germany/Volleyball World photo

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