WATERCOOLER CHAT: CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR COLTS, COUSINS BACK TO KINGS
FOOTBALL
In the NFL, with no Monday Night Football game, the big news was Colts Head Coach Chuck Pagano returned to the Colts. The Christmas present for the Colts came in early Monday morning to the Colts practice facility to take the reigns back over from interim coach Bruce Arians. The Colts have left the light in his office on for almost three months. Pagano has been battling leukemia all year and has finally beaten the cancer. And now he walks into a team led by rookie quarterback Andrew Luck that has clinched a playoff spot. The Colts are playing the Houston Texans this weekend in the final game of the season.
BASKETBALL
In the NBA, the Sacramento Kings reinstated their young center DeMarcus Cousins after just a one game suspension. The suspension was after an argument with coaches in the locker room on Friday night against the Los Angeles Clippers. The Kings suspended Cousins indefinitely for “unprofessional behavior and conduct detrimental to the team.†Cousins only sat out one game, and the Kings missed their chance to send a real message to the young center.
