Sports this 'n' that

 Northwestern University was hit with a double whammy this week, as their football & baseball coaches were dismissed in the space of 72 hours.

First, three days after he'd been suspended for a 2 week period, football coach Pat Fitzgerald was let go over allegations of hazing involving his players. David Braun, a defensive coordinator brought in during the offseason, will be named interim coach, according to Yahoo!.

Then, on Thursday, two months after the end of a miserable 10-40 campaign, baseball coach Jim Foster was given the boot after reports surfaced that he'd been bullying other members of the athletic staff, and, we presume, some of his players. Foster had only been the coach this season.

In this day and age, some people are just too slow to learn that what constituted acceptable behavior years ago simply isn't anymore.

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Tonight's Mets-Dodgers game will be available only on Apple TV+. Mets fans, of course, are hoping that former radio broadcaster Wayne Randazzo, now one of the TV voices, along with Matt Vasgersian, of the Angels, will call the game.

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Speaking of the Mets, Pete Alonso went one and done in the Home Run Derby on Monday, beaten for the 2nd straight year by Seattle's Julio Rodriguez. The only other NL entry, Mookie Betts, was also one and done, eliminated in the 1st round as well. As we all know by now, Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., steamrolled by Alonso four years ago, won the tournament, besting Tampa Bay's Randy Arozarena in the finals.

Guerrero's win comes 16 years after Vlad, Sr., then with the Angels, won the Derby.

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Soccer star Megan Rapinoe, prepping for the women's world cup, has declared she will retire after the current season. Her endorsement deal with Subway wasn't renewed, probably so they could pay Peyton Manning....!

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The Jests will be this year's subject on HBO's Hard Knocks. QB Aaron Rodgers probably was the lure. Maybe there'll be some psychologists in the viewing audience that can explain the team's perpetual underachieving against certain teams (i.e. New England) every year.