It's widely known that new Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll brings an enthusiastic, upbeat style not just to football, but pretty much everything he does. So when the team hired John Schneider away from a position with the Green Bay Packers to be Seattle's new general manager (working extremely closely with Carroll), and Schneider displayed an excitable, Carroll-friendly personality, it only made sense that the coach's notorious energy level would kick into an even higher gear. Based on Schneider's introductory press conference, that happened and a little something more - causing Seattle-based reporters to take notice in strikingly similar ways.

The Washington Redskins and Seattle Seahawks are among the NFL's happiest teams right now - they both fired their coaches (Jim Zorn and Jim Mora Jr.) and replaced them with the guys they really wanted (Mike Shanahan, formerly of the Denver Broncos, and USC's Pete Carroll , respectively). But some prominent voices aren't so satisfied with the way the searches played out.

Twitter has really arrived now. First, Cincinnati head football coach Brian Kelly used it to confirm an upcoming interview with Notre Dame about potentially becoming their next coach. Then, most news outlets didn't even really think it was that big of a deal that he broke the news that way. An AP writeup matter-of-factly says: (more...)

Who: Byron Pitts (“60 Minutes”) What: The New York Press Club’s book event for “Step Out on Nothing” Where: McGraw Hill Building When: November 10, 2009 Thumbs: Down (more...)