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In recent weeks, we've seen head-scratching firings of championship contending coaches. Now people are suggesting Bo Pelini should be fired if he doesn't win 11 games in 2013.

Inane attempts by CBS analysts Greg Anthony, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley to further the media narrative of unreasonable Bruin basketball fans

Did the UCLA make the right call in firing Ben Howland? Who would be the ideal new coach for UCLA that they could probably realistically get?

Rumors are floating that Brad Stevens is on UCLA's basketball coach short-list and BN takes a look at one of the less-informed talking points about the Indiana native: that he is John Wooden 2.0.

Multiple media reports indicate that Ben Howland has already been told he's been fired, although there has not been any official confirmation from Chianti Dan or UCLA.

With the Bruins set to take on Tubby Smith's Gophers, Bruins Nation takes a look at a numbers comparison between the former Kentucky coach and Ben Howland, showing that apparently Kentucky's AD expects more of its elite program than UCLA's does.

Bruins Nation gets the work-week started with the Monday edition of the wrap-up of the various bits and pieces of news from around the UCLA-iverse, focusing on Ben Howland's soon possible departure to Pitt and the hot-seat in Westwood.

Hard to know if this is true, but with the continuing speculation that Ben Howland wants to (or will be forced to) leave UCLA, the Dixon to USC rumor mill is heating up. My good sources tell me...