RIP Rick Majerus

If you go back and check the time stamp on your original post, I bet you'll see that it says 5:30 - KYSW is correct in that the clock defaults to Pacific Time. You have to go into your Account Settings and override it manually.

 

Hoo, boy. Dave Jones in Harrisburg writes a blog post that's going to earn him lots of hate mail.

http://blog.pennlive.com/davidjones/2012/12/rick_majerus_death_food_heart.html

 

The columnist as food police. Not cool.

 

When Mantle died, were there a lot of columns saying "He shouldn't have been a drunk!!!"

When a smoker dies of lung cancer, do we immediately say, "He shouldn't have been a smoker!!!!"

Overweight people are still the main ones people can look at and say, "Tsk, tsk."

Dave Jones in Harrisburg is apparently desperate to get his paper some attention, following the departure of Sara Ganim, its only national name.

 

According to a linked Miklasz column, Majerus' father, grandmother and several uncles all died prematurely from heart failure. So sounds like genetics might be equally or more to blame as gluttony.

Perhaps David Jones should've at least acknowledged that fact alongside the finger pointing.

 

Of all the chickenshit things the NCAA has issued sanctions for, going after Utah and Majerus was the worst. RIP.

 

Good, and objective, read on Majerus by SI's Seth Davis:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/seth_davis/12/02/rick-majerus/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t13_a0

It's not quite as good as Bubbler's writeup, though.

 

"....and while we're at it, fuck those Marshall plane crash victims. It's been long enough."

 

" ... and that tattooed quarterback? Somebody get the FBI on that guy."

 

"....Andy reid's son? Fuck 'im. Goddam junkie..."

 

“Coach dedicated his life to ball. I can’t think of anything better than the way we played tonight."

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/joe-strauss/a-coach-s-coach-a-friend-s-friend/article_31f8e247-150b-5a52-bc3c-f829e952907a.html

 

Dale Hofmann, one of the best sports writers and columnists to not go national, covered Marquette in those McGuire, Raymonds, Majerus years. He's been retired for seven-plus years but checked in with a strong Majerus tribute.

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/majerus-was-one-of-us-and-he-never-really-left-wisconsin-ak7sfmv-181776141.html