EThe internet's favorite new hobby: declaring coaches fired before the school does.
EA post from Pirate Radio is going around saying NC State has fired Dave Doeren after Friday night's overtime loss at Stanford.
EAnd I get why people are fired up. The Wolfpack lost to a Stanford team that had been getting crushed by everyone.
SBut it's not true. Doeren is still the coach. I checked.
EI know, I know. The post cites ESPN's Pete Thamel. Thamel never reported that.
SRight. And the details are off too. It wasn't overtime. Stanford won in regulation, 31-28.
EBut the heat on Doeren is real. NC State is 3-4. They lost by 24 to Wake Forest. And now this.
SHere's the thing about Stanford's season. Miami beat them by 39. Duke by 28. Notre Dame by 51.
SLosing to THAT team, on Friday night, with the whole ACC watching? That's the kind of loss that gets people inventing firings.
EAnd Doeren knows it. After the game, he said, and I quote: 'It starts with me.'
EThat's a coach who knows exactly how bad that loss looks.
SBut he's still the coach. USA Today confirmed it. The fake report even name-checked a reporter who never wrote it.
EAnd that's the part that bugs me. Someone made up a quote, attached Pete Thamel's name, and a lot of people believed it.
SDoeren is the second-longest-tenured coach in the ACC, behind Dabo. He beat Appalachian State and Louisville this year.
EBut he also lost to Vanderbilt, who's not good.
SSo we're not defending the guy. We're just pointing out the fake firing.
EFair. But let's be real. If they lose the next two, that fake tweet becomes the truth.
SThat's the cold reality of big-time college football. The fake news is just the preview.
ESpeaking of football and wildly different worlds, here's one that won't cause any arguments at all.
EPSG players are going to miss the Ballon d'Or ceremony Monday night. Their match against Lyon got moved to 8:30.
EThe ceremony is in London at 8. So, even with a private jet, they're not making it.
SThe most Paris thing ever. 'Oh, we have a scheduling conflict with our own greatness.'
EThe account Official Miracle posted it. No word from the club, but the schedule math checks out.
SWho from PSG was even in contention?
ENobody. That's what makes it funny. They're all home watching like the rest of us.
SAlright, shift gears to something that actually happened. Cynthia Erivo hosted SNL U.K. last night.
SAnd she did a sketch called 'Nigerian Wicked' where Glinda 'wants a BBL that defies gravity.'
EShe's one Oscar away from the EGOT, and she uses her monologue to say the only thing she still wants is a 'Hollywood handshake' from Paul Hollywood on Bake Off.
SA woman with an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony is out here competing for a judge's approval on a baking show. I respect the priorities.
SAnd Variety's got a fun story about Shia LaBeouf trash-talking 'Lizzie McGuire' while filming 'Even Stevens.'
EChristy Carlson Romano says he was 'definitely beefing' with Hilary Duff. Shia wanted 'Even Stevens' to be the number one show on Disney.
SThere's something so pure about a child actor having real beef over Disney Channel rankings.
EAnd Hilary Duff had no idea. She was just doing her own thing, probably winning.
SThe lesson is: the most intense rivalries are the ones the other side never even notices.