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  • It's time for this week's parting shots.

  • As of now, no black head coaches have been hired this NFL off season.

  • But maybe Brahim Morris has figured out how to get a job.

  • Next go around.

  • Morris will be Sean McVeigh's defense of coordinated with the Rams.

  • Next sees working for McVeigh Certainly helps folks get jobs.

  • It got Zach Taylor, who's coaching career got started with his father in law hiring him, and his resume is still paltry with the head coaching job in Cincinnati.

  • Most recently branded, Staley coordinated the Rams defense for a season, his only years in NFL coordinator and at age 38 he now coaches the charges.

  • Morris was named the head coach of the Buccaneers in 2009, when he was just 32.

  • After three seasons, he was dismissed in 2016.

  • He became an offensive assistant as he figured that would make it easier to get back to the top.

  • Now, Morris is 44 he hadn't gotten another head coaching interview until this offseason.

  • Two years ago, I would joke that McVicar fix the NFL's hiring problem by hiring all black coaches since everyone in the league was hiring his guys, but in honesty, it takes a respected coach to make things happen.

  • Bill Walsh's recommendations got black coaches hired saying, with Tony Dungy and to a lesser degree, Bill Belichick.

  • Maybe McVeigh, er Kyle Shanahan will be next in that line, but someone has to do it.

  • Owners won't listen to was right.

  • Maybe they'll listen to the only thing that's ever moved them a little bit.

  • The word to somebody they deem worthy of their respect.

  • Cutting Olympic programs is the hottest trend of the cove in 19 college sports world notice.

  • I didn't say nonrevenue.

  • I said Olympic because, contrary to popular belief, at least some sports called non revenue earned money.

  • One of the hardest hit sports has been swimming and diving in.

  • Michigan State is the latest school to cut both its men's and women's teams, which has resulted in a lawsuit filed by 11 female student athletes against the school for further violation of Title nine rules.

  • Michigan State A D Bill Beekman should be ashamed of himself.

  • This is the Onley program the school is cutting, saying they need to save the roughly $2 million per year the sport reportedly costs this on the heels of paying nearly $12 million in contracts to the football coaching staff hired last year along the way.

  • Beekman, the plaintiffs believe, has provided factually incorrect information regarding the team's facilities.

  • And he hasn't answered some of their simple questions regarding how this decision was made.

  • Oh, and on top of all of this, the lawsuit filed alleged that Michigan State has been inflating scholarship counts in certain sports in orderto have overall compliance with Title nine.

  • Shame on You, Michigan State.

  • No school is allowed to simply defy Title nine regulations, but the school more known for Larry Nassar and the grotesque mistreatment of female student athletes than for anything they've accomplished on the field court or in the pools should be particularly aware of the environment they're creating.

  • This is a reminder of the toxic culture that existed in East Lansing and a staggering statement that it may still exist there.

  • In his memoir, Home Run, Henry Aaron wrote, I was never really a spectacular player, but I might beat you with a home run one day in a good catch, the next with a stolen base or a strong throat.

  • No Erin didn't astound, at least not the way Mantle and Mays and Clemente could.

  • What was astounding?

  • What was spectacular was Erin's consistency in his perseverance, but its greatness must be measured by more than all those home runs, hits and runs batted in.

  • Theocratic rule of Records is only part of the Henry Aaron story.

  • What's more significant is the role he played in advancing the cause of equal rights by Dent of his excellence and grace and fortitude.

  • It wasn't until Aaron was 13 that Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line, and then when Aaron was 40 barely a generation later, he would break the most hallowed record in sports held by the most revered figure in sports.

  • A white man.

  • And Aaron would do so in the face of the most hateful racial invective, including death threats.

  • But Henry Aaron never felt entirely comfortable being celebrated.

  • He would also right.

  • I am in awe of the great home run hitters, the Reverend Doctor, Martin Luther King, for one, Jackie Robinson.

  • For another, they were giants, he wrote.

  • They hit tape measure home runs.

  • I just hit baseballs.

  • Those words reflect Aaron humility and perspective, but they're not exactly true.

  • No one could reasonably argue that Hank Aaron just hit baseballs.

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