WBAP-FM sports-talk host Randy Galloway has lost his entire "Firing Line" lineup since moving his sports column from the Dallas Morning News to the rival Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The feature has been a longtime staple on Galloway's top-rated drive-time show during the NFL season. "Firing Line" members Rick Gosselin and David Moore both NFL beat reporters for the Morning News can now be found on WBAP's rival, KLIF-AM, talking to morning drive-time king Norm Hitzges. Joining them on the "Monday Morning Quarterback Club" is Galloway's replacement at the Morning News, Tim Cowlishaw. The third member of Galloway's "Firing Line," Morning News columnist Frank Luksa, is missing in action. Galloway has replaced Gosselin, Moore and Luksa with a group of NFL reporters from the Star-Telegram. Galloway has said that the Morning News pulled its team from his show.
FRESH MEAT: Packers quarterback Brett Favre's second steak house is opening at, appropriately enough, 1004 Brett Favre Pass in Green Bay. As part of the grand opening, Favre's father was to host a Mississippi Mardi Gras on Sunday while Favre and the Packers played the Baltimore Ravens at Lambeau Field.
TIGER'S LOOSE: Tiger Woods has split with his agent, IMG's Hughes Norton, who had represented him since Woods was 15. Earl Woods, Tiger's father, said Norton was more interested in money than was Woods (the agent was responsible for nailing down $90 million of it in endorsement contracts). Woods will remain with IMG, although a new agent has not been named. Norton, who also represented golfer Greg Norman for 11 years, will also remain at IMG.
BREAKING THE ICE CEILING: Cindy Dayley, named coach of the University of Washington's ice hockey team, is believed to be the first woman to take the helm of a collegiate men's hockey team. Dayley has coached hockey for the past 12 years and is a co-founder of the 49th Parallel, which holds clinics and college prospect camps for female youth hockey players in the United States and Canada.
GOING, GOING, NOT GONE: It's football season now, but is there still money to be made on Mark McGwire? Sure, say St. Louis-area McDonald's restaurants, which rolled out "designer footballs" with three McGwire scenes Oct. 17 to coincide with the start of the World Series. Part of the price went to St. Louis Cardinals Care, the team's charitable arm.
TAKE THAT: Mike Dunleavy, who recently settled a lawsuit against the Milwaukee Bucks over back pay he said the team owed him, beat the Bucks in competition for an assistant coach. Dunleavy hired Tom Grgurich, whom the Bucks were also pursuing, to be on his staff with the Portland Trail Blazers.
CONN-GRATULATIONS: Scott Burrell, a reserve on the NBA champion Chicago Bulls, got the star treatment in his home state of Connecticut, where Gov. John G. Rowland declared Tuesday as Scott Burrell Day in a ceremony at the Capitol. Burrell played at the University of Connecticut and Hamden High School in Hamden, which presented him with the key to the city earlier in the fall.