Since a couple of people sent this to me, and it has been going around.
Nick Rolovich out as football coach of Washington State. Also out: assistants Ricky Logo, John Richardson, Craig Stutzmann and Mark Weber.
This wasn’t a record thing: all five were fired because they refused to get the Chinese Rabies shot.
Not much to say beyond that, but this is sportsfirings.com, so I felt like I had to note it here.
…and Sotheby’s is going to be auctioning off part of Ricky Jay‘s collection starting October 27th.
Link to the auction. Sotheby’s video.
NYT article tied to the auction. It’s worth reading, if for no other reason than the story about Siegfried and Roy’s tiger at the beginning. (Alternative link.)
Not that Jay was a hoarder. With the help of assistants, he photographed and cataloged every item in a digital database. His books were arranged by category — magic, circus, eccentric characters — and his file drawers were labeled, which made it easier, say, to find that handbill for “Prof. William Fricke’s Original Imperial Flea Circus.”
Under “flea bills,” of course.
There’s a punchline at the end that I won’t spoil for you, because Mr. Jay would haunt me in the afterlife.
I don’t think I’ll be placing any bids, as I expect anything from the Ricky Jay Collection will be way out of my price range.