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Midweek musings: Now that Marc Trestman is leaving the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes to become coach of the Chicago Bears, he will have to re-learn some things. One of them being “rouge” no longer refers to a scoring play but something that can be found in the cosmetic department of certain retail establishments.
Whether to run a photo of Marc Trestman or the renamed LFL was not a hard choice.
* The Chicago Tribune first reported the news. Which probably means very little to anyone outside Tribune Tower. Does anyone remember who is the first with the news? Especially nowadays when appropriating someone else’s work is so easy to do via social media.
* Here’s hoping Bears general manager Phil Emery broke the news to Trestman that NFL teams use 11 players on the field compared to 12 for the CFL. Although you have to think the Bears might before considerably better on defense and marginally better on offense if they could line up 12 players.
* Trestman is 57. Meaning his concern about job security is marginally greater than his concern about receiving Social Security in a few years. For all the ageists out there worried about Trestman, George Halas was 68 when he coached the Bears to the NFL title in 1963.
* So was Jimmy Johnson correct last week when he said the Bears have hired Trestman? Or doesn’t that count?
* Special-teams coach Dave Toub is leaving the Bears for the Kansas City Chiefs. There’s probably a fair segment of Bears fandom that wishes he could take Devin Hester, the former return superstar, with him.
The Lingerie Football League will have a new look and a new name for the 2013 season. Gone will be the garters and lace on the uniform. The league also renamed itself Legends Football League. Whatever that means.
Monica Murphy-Vargas
If it’s Wednesday (which at last glance it was — provided that you are reading this Jan. 16 or some subsequent Wednesday), then it is nearing time for another installment of “Sports & Torts” with co-hosts David Spada and Elliott Harris. The highly acclaimed interview show — highly acclaimed in the Spada and Harris households, among reportedly other locales — features hall of famers and attractive females (not necessarily in that order of importance to some of us) and is broadcast live on Thursdays at noon Chicago time on talkzone.com.
The Jan. 17 show features former Baltimore Colts star Lenny Moore and Monica Murphy-Vargas, founder of SportsDivas, Inc. Her realm includes sportsdivasinc.com, an internet site that focuses on Chicago’s pro sports scene from a female perspective. It’s something akin to a female version of this site (plus sportsdivasinc.com has been known to feature WAGS — wives and girlfriends — of male athletes). Females handle all the writing at sportsdivasinc.com and cover fashion and gossip as well as the Bears, Cubs, White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks. Monica’s site is worth a look regardless of what gender you might be.
Here’s a short video of Monica with your humble correspondent:
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