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| Coach tantrums come and go, but occasionally an epic on-bench explosion deserves a bit more attention. That's never been more true than with a Manitoba Junior Hockey League coach who absolutely exploded during a playoff loss for his squad.
As noted by Prep Rally's excellent Canadian cousin blog Buzzing the Net, the coach involved in the one-man hockey demolition job you see above is Dauphin Kings head coach Marlin Murray. Evidently Murray had seen enough of his squad's 5-1 loss to the Winnipeg Saints, which put the Kings 3-1 down in their MJHL first round series.
However, rather than try to do something a bit more constructive with his criticism, Murray went destructive. Literally. The coach hurled no fewer than 12 sticks on to the ice . As Buzzing the Net's Neate Sager noted, he threw four sticks at a time on one particularly notable hurl. When he ran out of sticks, he started chucking water bottles. Then he found one remaining stick, gave the officials a mock good-job tap along the boards and continued with a pretty intense screed against their performance in the game.
Perhaps fittingly, Murray received a 12-game suspension for his tirade , all but ensuring that he won't coach again during the 2011-12 season, and likely forcing him out of the start of the 2012-13 campaign as well. That's one game for every stick he threw on the ice.
As it turns out, Murray may have had a point. Winnipeg received an astounding 15 power play opportunities in the Saints' victory, making things more than a tad bit tougher on the Kings, particularly with Dauphin already facing a 2-1 series deficit entering the contest.
Despite the severe sanctions he's facing, Murray wasn't backing off his motivation for the tirade when he was asked about it by QMI News Agency on Saturday.
"Obviously [MJHL Commissioner Kim Davis is] making a statement and making me the poster boy of my inappropriate behavior," Murray told QMI. "I take full responsibility for my actions. Did I go overboard? Absolutely. Do I regret doing it? No, I don't.
"The frustration level as far as the officiating has been concerned for the first four games of our series was at a boiling point with our players, and we had to make a stance."
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| Bob Knight's chair-throwing antics and memorable tirades have earned him a reputation for being surly and stubborn, so it was refreshing to see the legendary ex-Indiana coach show his seldom-seen sensitive side.
Not long after Lamar coach Pat Knight's team secured an NCAA tournament bid with a win over McNeese State in Saturday's Southland Conference title game, ESPN's Brent Musburger asked Bob Knight for his thoughts on his son's accomplishment. An emotional Knight appeared to get a bit choked up as he spoke about how proud he was of his son.
"I've been in basketball for almost 50 years now," Knight said, "and I think that may be the nicest day I've ever had in basketball today."
The accomplishment for Pat Knight was especially significant because of the criticism he has taken in recent years.
Awarded the chance to succeed his father at Texas Tech in 2008, Knight went 50-61 in three-plus seasons and later admitted he wasn't ready for that job. He accepted the job at Lamar last spring and flew mostly under the radar nationally until a heated postgame rant last month criticizing the effort and character of his seniors brought unwanted attention to the program. |
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| Queens Park Rangers captain
Joey Barton has launched a Twitter tirade on Neil Warnock by
saying the team's former manager "needs to look in the mirror"
if he wants to blame anyone for his sacking.
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| The Italian boss reportedly swore at the duo and told them to go back to their countries of birth during the Champions League clash with the German giants on Tuesday. |
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France beat Albania 2-1 in a Euro 2012 qualifier Friday despite a shaky defensive performance to increase its lead atop Group D. France striker Karim Benzema opened the scoring with a low drive in the 11th minute and Yann M'Vila doubled the lead by firing home a diagonal shot in the 18th. Albania forward Erjon Bogdani beat goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to pull one back in the 46th.
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Jose Mourinho's off-field tactics appear to be taking a toll on Pep Guardiola as the normally composed Barcelona coach snapped Tuesday, launching a tirade of expletives against his Real Madrid counterpart ahead of their Champions League semifinal. Mourinho accused Guardiola of going too far in criticizing the Portuguese nationality of a possible referee for Wednesday's first leg at the...
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Albania forward Hamdi Salihi capitalized on a defensive error to score in the 62nd minute and give Albania a 1-0 win over Belarus in a European Championship qualifier Saturday. Salihi pounced on a weak back pass from defender Aleksandr Martynovich to his goalkeeper to score the only goal in a match Albania dominated from start to finish.
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| Mladen Petric slid in to meet a low in-swinging cross from Anis Ben-Hatira in the 25th minute, giving Hamburg a 1-0 win over visiting Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga on Friday night. American Ricardo Clark started his fourth straight match for Frankfurt. Hamburg (9-7-3) moved into sixth place with 30 points, 16 behind first-place Borussia Dortmund (15-2-1). |
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| The Spanish Civil Guard says a football player from the Netherlands has been arrested on drug-trafficking charges in Las Palmas. Spanish news agency Efe reports that the player is Terence Mateus Koetsier, an amateur in the Feyenoord system, and that he was arrested in San Bartolome de Tirajana. Spanish authorities say the player sent more than 55 packages disguised in flower packets. |
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| Liverpool defender Glen Johnson's frustration at a disappointing season for the club have boiled over in a Twitter tirade against Paul Merson, the former Arsenal midfielder turned TV pundit. Merson questioned the attitude of Johnson recently as a Sky Sports program discussed Saturday's departure of Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson. |
