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Bill Belichick wants coach’s challenges allowed with under 2 minutes
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots’ Bill Belichick, the league’s longest-tenured head coach, repeated his stance Monday that coaches should be allowed to challenge plays under two minutes.
Belichick did so after being asked about a key play in the Minnesota Vikings’ thrilling 33-30 overtime victory over the Buffalo Bills, in which Buffalo receiver Gabe Davis’ 20-yard catch with 17 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter wasn’t reviewed by officials.
NFL senior vice president of officiating Walt Anderson later said the play — which was critical in setting up a tying field goal to send the game into overtime — should have been reviewed and ruled incomplete.
The NFL doesn’t allow coaches to challenge plays in the final two minutes before halftime or the end of regulation, in part so they aren’t allowed to manipulate challenges strategically to stop the clock.
“Provided the team has a challenge, they should have the opportunity to challenge really any play. I’m on record on that,” Belichick said in his Monday videoconference.
In a Monday interview on sports radio WEEI, Belichick added: “There have been other examples of that, plays that have occurred in situations where teams couldn’t challenge because the rules prohibited [it].
“I get forward progress, and things like that, that you can’t challenge. I’m not talking about that. I’m saying not having the ability to challenge a play that could impact the outcome of the game — even calls like holding and pass interference and things like that — I don’t see why those plays can’t be reviewed [by a coach’s challenge].”
Belichick is in his 48th season coaching in the NFL, his 28th as a head coach, making him one of the more influential voices on league matters.
First-year Minnesota head coach Kevin O’Connell, who was drafted by Belichick in 2008 as a quarterback, said of Davis’ reception Sunday: “It was right in front of me. I didn’t think that was a catch. In that mode, that needs to be something that either is from up top [in the press box with the replay official], or possibly New York [at the replay center]. We didn’t get any clarification on that. I did ask.”
As for Belichick, whose team was off over the weekend, he often prefers to keep his comments on NFL rules private among coaches at the league’s annual meeting.
After sharing his thoughts on the Davis play Monday, he added: “The rules are the rules. The competition committee and the league votes on those rules. Whatever they are, that’s what they are.”
Suspect in Broadway Singing Coach’s Attack Arrested on Manslaughter Charge
Former students remembered her as fierce, supportive and loving. She taught out of her apartment, with a grand piano in her living room and an electronic piano in her bedroom, where her pupils practiced vocal exercises so as not to disturb her neighbors.
Melinda Pope DeRocker said she first turned to Ms. Gustern in 1997, when she was looking to return to singing after becoming a music director. Ms. Gustern taught her how to open up her vocal range, she said. When Ms. DeRocker had her thyroid removed 11 years ago, it was Ms. Gustern who gave her the confidence to sing again without fear.
“She didn’t just change the voice,” Ms. DeRocker said. “She changed lives.”
Upon hearing of Ms. Pazienza’s arrest Tuesday, Ms. DeRocker said she broke down in tears.
“Relief was the biggest emotion, but then it was right back into sadness,” Ms. DeRocker said. “Frankly, I felt sad for this woman. With one shove, she’s ruined her life.”
Relatives of Ms. Pazienza could not be reached for comment.
A LinkedIn profile for Ms. Pazienza, which had been taken down as of Tuesday afternoon, listed her as an event coordinator for Roche Bobois, a high-end furniture company. A spokeswoman for the company confirmed that Ms. Pazienza had worked there but resigned last December.
Ms. Pazienza stood silently during her arraignment hearing Tuesday, handcuffed behind her back as the assistant district attorney, Justin McNabney, read off the charges against her. Mr. McNabney said that after the shove, surveillance footage showed Ms. Pazienza spent more than 20 minutes in the area, having a “physical altercation” with her fiancé and watching the ambulance arrive at the scene.
Though Ms. Gustern was small in stature, at about five feet tall, she was strong and healthy for her age, students said. Annie McGreevey, who had been seeing Ms. Gustern once a week for the past year, said she was a fast walker and lifted weights that she kept in her bathroom.
Chicago-area high school apologizes for “Fire Nagy” chants directed at Bears coach’s son
Bears coach Matt Nagy has been under an intense spotlight in Chicago, but students at one Chicago-area high school crossed the line by targeting Nagy’s son.
Cary-Grove High School has issued an apology for the conduct of some of its students toward Nagy’s son, who played for Lake Forest High School in a playoff game on Saturday.
“At the recent Cary-Grove vs. Lake Forest 6A high school football game played on Saturday, November 20, members of the Cary-Grove student body began a chant targeting the parent of one of the Lake Forest team members and his family,” the statement from Cary-Grove’s principal said. “On behalf of Cary-Grove High School, I want to assure our community that the chant was not acceptable nor appropriate and was immediately addressed by administration at the game. We also felt it was important to meet with our student superfans that lead our chants and cheers to talk about what happened and give them an opportunity to reflect and correct their actions.”
Cary-Grove beat Lake Forest to advance to the state championship game against East St. Louis on Saturday.
Raiders reach undisclosed contract settlement with Jon Gruden just weeks after coach’s resignation over emails
When Jon Gruden originally signed on to coach the Raiders back in 2018, the long-time NFL coach signed a monstrous 10-year deal that was scheduled to pay him nearly $100 million. After his resignation on Oct. 11, one of the key things that had to be figured out between Gruden and the Raiders was how much money he was going to walk away with.
Apparently, the two sides have finally hammered out a deal. At the NFL owners meetings in New York on Wednesday, Raiders owner Mark Davis confirmed that he has reached a settlement with the team’s former coach, according to the Athletic.
Although the details of the settlement aren’t known, the team still owed Gruden nearly $40 million in guaranteed money at the time of his resignation. Due to the way his tenure ended with the Raiders, there’s a good chance Gruden didn’t walk away with the full $40 million, but you can also probably assume that he didn’t walk away empty-handed. The former Raiders coach resigned from his job after multiple emails leaked earlier this month that showed him using misogynistic, homophobic and racist language during conversations with former Washington Football Team president Bruce Allen.
During his talk with the media on Wednesday, Davis made sure to note that he wasn’t happy with the NFL about how the situation played out. If the NFL had access to the emails in the summer, Davis wants to know why he didn’t get them then.
“It’s a timing issue, that’s probably the disappointment that I had,” Davis said. “If we had gotten the information in the summer, when they learned about it, it would have been a lot easier for everyone involved.”
If that had happened, the Raiders could have parted ways with Gruden during the offseason, which would have given a new coach some time to get acclimated to the team. Instead, Gruden resigned five weeks into the season, which means the Raiders will have to play the rest of the year with an interim coach.
Davis was so upset with how the email situation was handled that he actually called on the NFL to release a written report of the entire Washington Football Team investigation.
“I think that there should be, yeah,” Davis said when asked if there should be a written report, via ESPN.com. “Especially with some of the things that were, I guess, charged. Yeah, I believe so, I think people deserve [a written report], especially people that were, quote, victims.”
As for the Gruden situation, Davis was asked why he let him coach in Week 5 against the Bears even though some of the emails had been leaked out in the days before the game.
“We found out about it Thursday [before the Bears game] from the Wall Street Journal,” Davis said. “We didn’t hear about it from the league. And (the Wall Street Journal) wouldn’t give us the email at that time, so we didn’t really have it, it was a rumor to us. We then spoke with the league and they said they had that and other emails. We didn’t see those until Friday.”
After getting the emails on Friday, Davis didn’t just want to dump Gruden without looking into things first.
“I wanted to do the due diligence, I wasn’t just going to rush to judgment on Jon,” Davis said. “So we went through the process. We talked to a lot of the alumni, we talked to a lot of the players, we talked to a lot of the people involved in the situation and came to the decision.”
Less than 24 hours after the Raiders 20-9 loss to Chicago, Gruden had resigned his job.
“He’s hurt,” Davis said of Gruden, via ESPN.com. “He’s really hurt, and I understand that. But he understands the ramifications of what he said.
The Raiders have actually been on a roll since Gruden’s resignation. The team has gone 2-0 without their former coach to push their record to 5-2, which is tied for the best mark in the AFC.
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Blue Jackets goalie died of fireworks blast at coach’s home
Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Matiss Kivlenieks died in a freak fireworks accident at the Michigan home of the team’s goaltending coach — on the same day as his daughter’s wedding, according to reports.
Kivlenieks, 24, was in a hot tub at the home of Manny Legace in Novi when a mortar-style firework tilted slightly and struck him in the chest Sunday as it fired toward a group of people.
The wedding of Legace’s daughter, Sabrina, to real estate agent Nick Howell, was held at the home earlier in the day, the Daily Mail reported.
An ensuing “night of relaxation and uninhibited revelry” was held at the home, with guests clad in Hawaiian-style dress, according to the report, which cited the couple’s wedding website.
Police Lt. Jason Meier said Kivlenieks tried to avoid the fireworks blast while in the hot tub with several other people. Authorities earlier said the Latvian died of an apparent head injury, but preliminary autopsy results released Monday afternoon clarified his cause of death of chest trauma.
“At the moment, we’re pretty certain this was a tragic accident,” Meier said.
There’s no indication the person who lit the shell-and-mortar-style fireworks had been drinking alcohol, Meier told the Detroit News.
Legace declined to comment when reached early Monday, the Detroit News reported. The president of a neighborhood homeowner association, Kendall Joy, confirmed to the newspaper that the incident occurred at Legace’s home. The goaltending coach and former NHL netminder joined the team in 2018, according to his team bio.
Kivlenieks’ teammate and fellow Latvian native, Elvis Merzlikins, posted a photo of the pair on Instagram in Hawaiian shirts, thanking Kivleniek for being such an “amazing person” and sharing details of their final moments together.
“I really love you, I’ll miss you, we had our last basketball game in the pool and we enjoyed before you left me right after,” Merzlikins wrote. “We love you and fly high baby, fly high! You saved your last puck! You will be our guardian angel.”
Police said Kivlenieks was roughly 10 feet away from the mortar when he was struck, the Daily Mail reported. He died from a percussive injury caused by the blast, causing major damage to his heart and lungs.
Firefighters and paramedics responded to Legace’s home at about 10:15 p.m. Sunday. Kivlenieks told one teammate not to get into the ambulance with him, according to the Daily Mail.
“[Kivlenieks] didn’t want him to have to see that,” the late goalie’s agent, Jay Grossman, told the outlet.
Kivlenieks, a native of Riga, Lativa, who signed with the Blue Jackets in 2017, was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
A moment of silence was held for Kivlenieks prior to Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Monday between Tampa Bay and Montreal. The Canadiens won Game 4, but trail the Lightning 3-1 in the series. Tampa Bay’s coach, Jon Cooper, addressed Kivleniek’s family after his team’s overtime loss.
“It’s an awful tragedy for anybody, any family to go through that,” Cooper told reporters. “But somebody in the NHL family, as close as we all are as the teams even battling out there, from all the Lightning, our condolences.”
With Post wires