Who Will Replace Urban Meyer as Head Coach at Jacksonville?

The Jaguars already have an initial list of candidates for their head coaching vacancy after firing Urban Meyer 13 games into the season.

That list includes Buccaneers offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich as well as former head coaches Jim Caldwell and Doug Pederson. The league allows teams to begin interviewing candidates this Tuesday, meaning the process can start moving in short order.

The Jaguars saw their season derailed by a series of embarrassing incidents involving Meyer. That culminated in his firing after a Tampa Bay Times report detailed that Meyer had kicked kicker Josh Lambo during practice, just days after an NFL Network report chronicled a number of internal issues, including the former Ohio State coach berating his assistants.

The job will still be desirable, though, with No. 1 overall pick Trevor Lawrence a potential franchise cornerstone.

All three names have good experience with quarterbacks, which makes them logical fits for a job in which success will begin and end with Lawrence’s future.

Hall Of Fame for Negro League Baseball Players

Bud Fowler, Buck O’Neil, and Minnie Minoso have been elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The famed Negro League baseball players joined three other candidates — Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, and Tony Oliva — to be chosen for the Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022.

The six players will officially be inducted in Cooperstown, New York, on July 24, 2022.

Fowler, O’Neil, and Miñoso were three of the seven Negro League and pre-Negro League players who were being considered for induction into the Hall of Fame.

This year marked the first time O’Neil, Miñoso, and Fowler were considered for the Hall of Fame due to new rules that recognized the Negro Leagues as a major league. Last December, about 3,400 players’ statistics were added to Major League Baseball’s record books after Major League Baseball announced that it was “correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history.”

Six Great Players Make the Baseball Hall of Fame

The lasting impact of six former players was formally recognized on Sunday with their selections to the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022.

Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Miñoso and Tony Oliva were elected by the Golden Days Era Committee, and Bud Fowler and Buck O’Neil were chosen by the Early Baseball Era Committee in voting that took place in Orlando, Fla.

They will all be honored, along with any selections from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot, at the July 24, 2022, induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y.

This was the first meeting of both the Early Baseball Era and Golden Days Era Committees. The Early Baseball Era Committee considered candidates who made their contributions to baseball prior to 1950, while the Golden Days Era Committee considered candidates from 1950-69.