Links for this week

This is the second batch of links, and I think I've found a rhythm where I'll post links every other Monday or so. Quick comment on the weekend, Tim Tebow won the Heisman, the Seahawks won the NFC West for the fourth-straight year, and the Patriots remained unbeaten. I'll probably post two or three times this week, then we're starting to gear up for college hoops conference play and college football bowl season. On to the links:

We will start off with the insane: New York Knicks owner James Dolan is reportedly saying that head coach Isaiah Thomas' job is safe. This after the Knicks lose two-straight games to the Philadelphia 76ers which gave the Sixers their first winning streak of the season. I, for one, am proud to say I started a "Fire Thomas" chant in Madison Square Garden when I attended a Knicks/Bobcats game last January. Apparently it's gotten so bad, MSG has started to play music to try and drown out those very same chants. The New York Observer wrote a good article about the state of the New York Knicks and how covering the Knicks isn't much better.

Let's move over to the weird. What do you get when you have a half-eaten corn cob, near empty bottle of Coca-Cola, and one single French fry? Enough for an auction apparently.

The Patriots are now 13-0, thanks to a 34-13 thrashing of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But you'd never guess what I found on the internet. Patriots coach Bill Belichick in his old Cleveland Brown days with an instructional video that will leave you speechless. Don't worry, it shows up about 30 seconds in.

Billionaire Donald Trump has an idea for his new business venture: build the "world's greatest golf course."

Time to catch up real quickly with one former athlete and one current athlete. This is a sad article about Texas great Earl Campbell, who is a shining example of why the NFL needs to support its retired players. The second is a great feature on Kobe.

It's Bowl Season, which means it's time to hand out the Heisman Award. Tim Tebow was the winner, but it looks like this was a long-time coming.

That leads me to our final links, which are from YouTube. The first is one of the coolest hockey goals I've ever seen. Nine-year-old Max Gerlach scored with a nifty move that left many in awe at a recent Senators/Stars NHL hockey game. The second is a video of how they celebrate touchdowns in the CFL. Not only did it bounce to an unfortunate place, but he got a penalty for it too.