Reid confirms Bowles as secondary coach; Castillo remains DC
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01/31/2012 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid said Tuesday that Juan Castillo will remain the team's defensive coordinator and also confirmed that Todd Bowles will join the staff as secondary coach.
Bowles finished the 2011 season as the interim head coach for Miami after Tony Sparano was fired with three games remaining. He was considered for the full- time position with the Dolphins, who instead went with Green Bay offensive coordinator Joe Philbin.
Castillo, meanwhile, had come under fire last season, his first as defensive coordinator. He moved over from the offensive side of the ball and the Eagles struggled defensively.
There had been speculation that Reid might make a change, especially when former Eagles assistant Steve Spagnuolo became available after being fired as Rams head coach.
"Steve and I are good friends," Reid stated Tuesday. "When Steve was released from the Rams, I did offer him a spot here to coach if he needed one.
"My feeling was if you could have two great coaches on defense, it was better than one. That's as far as it went. I didn't offer him any titles. He wanted to look at other places."
Spagnuolo did and is set to become the defensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints. He left Philadelphia after eight seasons to become the defensive coordinator for the division-rival Giants in 2007, and spent two years with New York before taking the Rams' top job in 2009.
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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.
De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.
But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.
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