Coach's Corner
Coach's farewell column, after a 10-year run, laments the bloated, mercenary state of "amateur" athletics in the U.S.
Andy "Coach" Cotton
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Columns, Aug. 30, 2002
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Odds and Ends: Hello to Rich Beem and the baseball strike; farewell to Dennis Miller and Terrell Davis.
Columns, Aug. 23, 2002
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Cedrick Trout (shudder) comes to dinner. But that's not quite as big a joke as Major League Baseball's idea of steroid testing.
Columns, Aug. 16, 2002
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Coach's old Vail nemesis Cedrick Trout has jumped on the Redskins / Steve Spurrier bandwagon, but Coach figures he's at least a year or two early. And in college -- surprise, surprise -- UT's really as good as their hype
Columns, Aug. 9, 2002
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Coach gets his disconnection notice, courtesy of Allen Iverson.
Columns, July 26, 2002
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Why you want to read about golf, Coach's great metaphor for life
Columns, July 19, 2002
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Anna wants to become a top-flight tennis star? Kan o' kourn. Just become a Williams sister.
Columns, July 12, 2002
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Coach ventures forth to a pre-dawn World Cup-watching party.
Columns, July 5, 2002
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Attending an Astros game with the wife, in the sterility of the new Minute Maid Park, is an iffy proposition. But with the help of a friendly scalper and a lot of Shiner Bock, it's not half bad.
Columns, June 28, 2002
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Tiger Woods is a great golfer, no doubt, but it's a shame there's no one else around who can really challenge him.
Columns, June 21, 2002
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Attending his son's graduation at UC-Santa Cruz, Coach is struck by a sudden infatuation with alternative sports: college baseball, horse racing, hockey, even World Cup soccer.
Columns, June 14, 2002
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The abuse heaped on Ken Caminiti for his Sports Illustrated expose on steroid abuse is disgraceful. Actually, he's done the game a favor by shining a light on the situation.
Columns, June 7, 2002
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After a century of "development," baseball needs to reinvent itself. If it takes a long, bloody strike for the players and owners to understand that they have to work together, then so be it.
Columns, May 31, 2002
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Mike Tyson's a punk who doesn't deserve the cover of Sports Illustrated; the Spurs and Mavs are pretenders who don't deserve better than they got; and baseball fans … well, they deserve a league that can deal with its labor problems
Columns, May 24, 2002
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Coach is a proud papa; his son Adam graduated from college last week.
Columns, May 10, 2002
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Odds and ends: David Stern … Drew Bledsoe … KevinGarnett … Rick Reilly … and more.
Columns, May 3, 2002
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Kings?Blazers?Mavericks? Forget it -- the only team with a chance to unthrone the Lakers is the San Antonio Spurs. And that second-round series will likely be decided by a couple of injuries.
Columns, April 26, 2002
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Tiger Woods is a column-killer; what more is there to say about The Glory of Tiger?
Columns, April 19, 2002
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San Antonio and Dallas are two of the best teams in pro basketball. Their meeting this weekend was just a preview of a playoff showdown.
Columns, April 12, 2002
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San Antonio and Los Angeles are the two best teams in pro basketball. Their meeting this weekend was just a preview of a playoff showdown.
Columns, April 5, 2002
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Let's have a little historical perspective here. Rick Barnes is doing a fine job as the UT basketball coach, but he didn't single-handedly create the UT basketball program. That was Abe Lemmons, in 1976.
Columns, March 29, 2002
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You might not guess it, but Coach is a rabid UT basketball fan. He's also one of the world's foremost pessimists.
Columns, March 22, 2002
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It's odds & ends week as the basketball playoffs (college and pro) approach.
Columns, March 15, 2002
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Poor Nolan Richardson. Why's everybody always pickin' on he?
Columns, March 8, 2002
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Coach's new dog, Jasper, is a joy. So was the Canadian gold medal in men's hockey.
Columns, March 1, 2002
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When even the duffers at the muni golf course are talking about the Olympics, you know the ratings are through the roof.
Columns, Feb. 22, 2002
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Coach pretty much stays out of political discussions these days -- but did you catch our president at the Olympics the other night? What a doofus!
Columns, Feb. 15, 2002
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Mark Cuban has transformed the once-pathetic Dallas Mavericks into an elite NBA squad -- but they're not quite there yet.
Columns, Feb. 8, 2002
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The agony and the ecstasy of the Bears
Columns, Feb. 1, 2002
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In a Vail sports bar, Coach once again meets up with his old pal Cedrick Trout, and the mad-dog Raiders fan isn't in a good mood.
