It's good to be Charlie Weis.
Despite being fired by Notre Dame after the 2009 football season, Weis remains the highest-paid coach on the school's payroll.
The Associated Press reported that Weis, 59, was paid $2,054,744 last year, which was the same amount he received the previous three years after receiving an initial payment of $6.6 million from Notre Dame after being fired. The payments will continue through December.
Weis is earning nearly twice as much as the man who replaced him, Brian Kelly. Kelly, 53, was paid a base salary of $995,244 and his total pay from the university was $1.18 million.
That's an increase of $297,104 from his base pay a year earlier, but his overall pay was down from $1.46 million the previous season. In 2012, when Kelly led the Fighting Irish to the BCS National Championship game, the school paid him $607,200 in bonus and incentive pay.
Notre Dame isn't the only school paying Weis. Weis is owed $5.63 million from Kansas, which fired him last year.
Weis was 35-27 in five seasons at Notre Dame and 6-22 in two-plus seasons at Kansas.
He said it
Toronto Star columnist Bruce Arthur was critical of New York Rangers right wing Rick Nash after Game 2 of the NHL Eastern Conference final. Nash has scored two goals in 14 playoff games this year and seven goals in 55 postseason games in his career.
The Rangers are tied at 1-1 in their series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
"The great veteran hockey writer for the New York Post, Larry Brooks, was talking about living in New York for hockey players, for the stars," Arthur wrote. "Henrik Lundqvist, he said, was the biggest Ranger since Messier, since Gretzky was in a different category altogether. But for a guy like Rick Nash, it was different.
"'It's funny how you can come to New York and you just disappear,' " said Brooks. "He doesn't like the spotlight, and New York's good for that. When Eric Lindros was here he used to say, 'I can go for coffee here and nobody bothers me! It's fantastic!' "
"He meant players could vanish into the city or Connecticut, whichever applied; he meant that a Rangers star could, if he wanted, choose what Martin Amis once called the strange obscurity of stardom," Arthur added. "Larry didn't mean out on the ice, but it applied there too, if you cared to look."
They said it
• Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett, to John Canzano of The Oregonian, on Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll: "It's like playing for Willy Wonka."
• Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: "A baseball fan in Chicago, eschewing the typical player's jersey, went to last Thursday's Cubs-Mets game dressed as the Wrigley Field ivy. So what's next, the Incredible Hulk showing up in Boston to salute the Green Monster?"
• CBS talk show host David Letterman, on the warm weather in New York City last week: "Tom Brady was deflating footballs just for the breeze."
SPORTS QUIZ
When was the last time the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup?
ANSWER
1994.
Sports on 05/20/2015