Archive for September 19th, 2022

Firings watch.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

Herm Edwards out as football coach at Arizona State.

He was 20-26 overall (about five years) and 1-2 so far this season. AZ State lost 30-21 at home to Eastern Michigan, who was playing their backup quarterback.

The bigger issue, though, seems to be that AZ State is under a major NCAA investigation.

In June of 2021 an investigation was launched into recruiting violations which occurred during a COVID-dead period. That resulted in the firing or resignation of five coaches including Antonio Pierce who was recruiting coordinator and defensive coordinator and at one point being groomed to be Edwards’ successor as head coach.

That investigation is still ongoing.

More from ESPN.

Obit watch: September 19, 2022.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

Henry Silva, actor. THR. Other credits include “The F.B.I.”, “Bearcats!”, the good “Hawaii Five-O”, and “Quark”.

Lawrence emailed an obit for Cristobal Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s and the star of “Santa Sangre”.

There was a fatal crash at the Reno Air Races on Sunday. The pilot’s name has not been released yet, as far as I can determine, but I will update when I have more information. Coverage from the Reno paper (by way of archive.is).