talking about it and a lot going on cnn and msnbc and people talking about mike rice and the fact that he was having on the program to see the wie he behaved on those practice tapes and the language he used and the physical nature of throwing balls at kids heads and kicking kids, i was just embarrassed to be tagged along with the university at that time. of course. any anger you feel at the university as well? i play football, not basketball, but same, we have had coaches growing up that tried different things to motivate players, but the extent he went, it s never okay to go that far. the former atlantic director getting robbed, he said his first instinct was to fire rice and he was overruled. when you re in that situation, you have to go along
gust, large hail, and a tornado is a concern. 77 degrees for a high temperature in tampa. the temperature out there not too bad. but look at atlanta, raleigh, only in the 40s. actually colder out there than it will be today in new york city and in minneapolis. new york city, high temperature expected to reach 52. over the next several days, the eastern half of the country will be warming. in the northeast, it will be most noticeable during the nighttime hours with those warming low temperatures. otherwise, that storm in the southeast is headed northbound and we could be dealing with a couple of showers by tomorrow morning here. steve: but warm coming. all right. thank you. brian: so much for our outdoor show. 24 minutes before the top the hour. rutgers university made headlines for alt wrong reasons recently. firing its head coach after this video surfaced showing abusive behavior on the courts. throwing balls at players and using homophobic slurs. gretchen: they re asking is the
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chicago bears and pummeled the cowboy quarterbacks, particularly danny white. that game changed how defense was played. people were very aggressive rather than passive. pretty good guys playing in the defense. you talk a lot about a guy named sid gillman, someone casual fans may not know. you think of today s game, the nfl is becoming a passing league. sid gillman, with the san diego chargers spread the field, started throwing balls down the field, sideline to sideline and end scozone to end zone an then began to run traps. and he revolutionized the passing game as we see it in today s national football league. how is the health of the national football league. we know there s talks of strikes, it s america s game, making loads of money, how is it doing? the numbers of viewers are through the roof. i wouldn t be surprised if last
this guy more aggressively. howie: he will say he was responding to unfair coverage and he needs to push back. he did it successfully during the campaign. the president says something untrue, the media says that s not right, and he says, fake news. we are entering a vicious spiral. but at the end of the day the press has a job to do to call balls and strikes. when he s throwing balls they will call him on it. this idea that reporters are calling balls and strikes in this white house or that they call balls and strikes in the obama administration is preposterous. the point is they are overwhelmingly bias. they were softer upon obama than