Over the last four years the Falcons, under General Manager Thomas Dimitroff, Head Coach Mike Smith, and Quarterback Matt Ryan, have been one of the best franchises in the NFC.

First-year head coach Mike Smith was named 2008 NFL Coach of the Year.

* Mike Ditka Coach 1997 – 1999 ( inducted for playing career with Chicago Bears and other teams, 1961 – 72 )

Under head coach Mike Ditka, who won the 1985 NFL Coach of the Year Award, the Bears went 15-1 in the regular season, becoming the second NFL team to win 15 regular season games, while outscoring their opponents with a staggering margin of 456-198.

* Mike Young ( Joined Australia Cricket Team in 2001, a former Professional Baseball Player, Manager & Coach )

Former head coach Mike Brown ( basketball, born 1970 ) | Mike Brown, who was NBA Coach of the Year for 2008 – 09, and was the head coach of the Eastern Conference for the 2009 NBA All Star Game | 2009 All Star Game.

Head Coach Mike Brown won NBA Coach of the Year honors and LeBron James finished second in the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award and won the NBA MVP.

Two Hall of Fame coaches, Lenny Wilkens and Jack Ramsay, have patrolled the sidelines for the Blazers, and two others, Mike Schuler and Mike Dunleavy, have won the NBA Coach of the Year award with the team.

Although this was the only year the city of Chicago would host a concurrent NBA / NHL finals in the same year, Blackhawks Coach Mike Keenan would see this again in New York when he coached the Rangers to their first Stanley Cup in 54 years two years later.

* Mike Davis, University of Alabama-Birmingham Men's Basketball Head Coach

* Mike Ekeler-Linebackers Coach, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

* Mike Waufle Currently the Assistant Head Coach / Defensive Line Coach for the St. Louis Rams.

* Mike Sutton-Head Basketball Coach, Tennessee Technological University

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

After a falling out with Head Coach Mike Ditka, and to a larger extent team president Michael McCaskey, McMahon was traded to the San Diego Chargers.

Mike Thibault received the WNBA Coach of the Year Award, and it appeared as if no team could stop the Sun.

* Mike Pelino-Head Coach Peterborough Petes

Doug Flutie won the Most Outstanding Player award, Mike Kiselak as Most Outstanding Lineman, Derrell Mitchell as Most Outstanding Rookie and Don Matthews as Coach of the Year.

* Mike Sherman, former Green Bay Packers Head Coach, former Head Coach for Texas A & M Aggies

On May 5, 2009, Red Wings Coach Mike Babcock announced Rafalski would miss Game 3 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals.

Coach Waqar Younis also expressed his unhappiness at having no input in selection, however Mohsin Khan, the chief selector, defended the decision, stating " it is not written down in the PCB constitution that the coach and captain ( s ) must have a say in the selection of any squad ".

Five years later in 1985, the Cahns decided to sell Coach after determining that none of their three children had any desire to take over the family leatherware business .< ref >" Coach Leatherware.

`` We're just real happy for the players '', Coach Bill Meek said of the 9-7 victory over the Air Force Academy.

The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

Secondary Coach Emmitt Thomas was named interim coach for the final three games of on December 12.

* In Cheers, the slow-witted bartender known as " Coach " in one episode claimed to hold a minor league record for being hit by pitches.

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

Marvin Lewis was rewarded for the accomplishment with the NFL Coach of the Year Award.

Coach Wyche was notified that the Commissioner had ordered the " no-huddle " illegal for the game.

** Eight players from the 1950 team played for Head Coach John Longfellow as the United States ' Gold Medal Basketball team at the inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games.

* Tom Fears Coach 1967 – 1970 ( inducted for playing career, 1948 – 1956 )

Ross was named NFL Coach of the Year for the Chargers ' dramatic turnaround by Pro Football Weekly.

Despite an abrupt ending to their season, Head Coach Marty Schottenheimer was named NFL Coach of the Year for the season, and Brees was named NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

Mumphord and Coach Don Shula were involved in a feud at the time and it is thought that Stuckey was given the starting job for this game because of Shula's and Mumphord's differences of opinion.

On the first play of their drive, Coach Joe Gibbs had Theismann run a screen play called " Rocket Screen ", but Raiders linebacker Jack Squirek intercepted the pass and returned it for a touchdown to give the Raiders a 21-3 halftime lead.

In his book " The Education of a Coach ", David Halberstam writes that one of Bill Belichick's specific plans to combat the Bills involved convincing his defense ( who had been the best unit against the run in the NFL that season ) that they would win the game if Thurman Thomas ran for more than 100 yards.

** Victoria Coach Station, which owns and operates London's principal terminal for long distance bus and coach services.

In the science fiction anthology Far Boundaries ( 1951 ), the editor August Derleth identifies the short story " Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism ", written for the Dublin Literary Magazine by an anonymous author in 1838, as a very early time travel story.

Coach Denis Pagan designed the team's offence around Carey, instructing other forwards to draw their direct opponents outside the 50 metre arc to make space for Carey, a tactic which became known as " Pagan's Paddock ".

Head Coach John Calipari, who left Memphis to coach for the University of Kentucky, was not reprimanded by the NCAA.

Walter Matthau ( October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000 ) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.

Ryan played baseball for Coach Jim Watson at Alvin High School for all of his high school career.

After an impressive underdog triumph in making the playoffs in 2010, and Coach Sacco finishing third in Jack Adams Trophy voting, the Avs failed to qualify for the playoffs in 2011.

The Championship marked the seventh title for Coach Riley ( fifth as a head coach ), and fourth for O ' Neal, both of whom fulfilled promises to Miami ( when Riley first came to Miami and said he " envisioned a parade on Biscayne Boulevard ") and ( when O ' Neal first arrive he vowed to " bring the title home ").