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The article focuses on Norm Chow and his desire to become a college head coach. The Tennessee Titans were not the first National Football League (NFL) team to offer Chow a job calling plays on Sunday afternoons. In the days before and after Chow helped guide USC to a 55-19 Orange Bowl rout of Oklahoma as the Trojans' offensive coordinator, his cellphone rang incessantly. Chow accepted an offer from Titans head coach Jeff Fisher to become the team's offensive coordinator. Last week Chow sent his youngest son, Chandler, 19, off on a two-year Mormon church mission to Hawaii and then prepared to move into a hotel in Nashville. The Titans more than doubled his $400,000 USC salary, but Chow is a guy who stayed at Brigham Young for 27 years to keep life stable for his wife and their four children. Chow said he was swayed by Fisher and a long meeting with Titans quarterback Steve McNair. Chow's departure left a void in Los Angeles, where he had tutored Heisman Trophy winners Carson Palmer in 2002. There was buzz in the L.A. papers that a rift between Chow and USC head coach Pete Carroll precipitated the move. The Titans' job brings Chow a step closer to becoming a college head coach.

This article presents a fictitious conversation between the author and Los Angeles Dodgers Vice President, Lon Rosen, in regards to the possibility of having a sports mascot for Los Angeles Dodgers home games. Dodgers Vice President Lon Rosen says the team is strongly considering creating a mascot to appear during home games. --Los Angeles Times, June. (June 2, 11 a.m.) Phone rings. "Lon Rosen? Lon! Lonnie! Marty Fleck Sports Entertainment Unlimited. Saw the item in the paper, figured you people need help." "Don't take this wrong, you boys have done a swell job over there for the last 46 years, but this pride, tradition and class drum you've been beating don't get people up on the dance floor anymore." "Seriously, why have one when you can run out a different weird character every other inning, like Lou Piniella's doing on the mound in Tampa?" "We get him down here, give him breast implants and a nose job and we're done." "What about an adorable, furry patch of smog that shows up in the third inning and leaves in the sixth?"