Word: coachly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Wrestling Coach Jay Weiss is never one to give excuses. But this time, he had plenty of excuses to be proud as his team captured third place--the best finish in the program's history--at the EIWA Championship this past weekend...
...days later, after the former Chicago Bull had officially signed, it was Laker coach Del Harris who broke down. Not because he'd have to baby-sit Rodman (whose last coach would be wearing a straitjacket today were he not a Zen master) but because Harris had just been fired after a 6-6 start with a team that had had ring-ceremony potential...
...against Rodman with owner Jerry Buss. The Laker organization, one of the most successful sports franchises in the history of overpriced beer, is in lock-the-doors identity crisis. They fire a gentleman who represented the class of the past, and they bring in Rodman's history of tormenting coaches and alienating teammates with tardiness and demon-seed weirdness. Before he'd even put on a uniform, Rodman said the Lakers "don't know the game of basketball." And since they'd fired Harris, Rodman volunteered to coach, saying that'd be something, him coming out in "a pimp-daddy...
...Laker coach Kurt Rambis also owns a championship resume. And as a Laker starter in the '80s, he was a sort of geek god, selflessly supplying rebounds and passing options for Magic Johnson's Showtime offense. So very...Dennis...
...Lakers fire coach Del Harris...