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Ron Newman, dead at 84. He’d been out of soccer for a while — since 1999 when he ceased to be coach of the Kansas City Wizards — as I wrote at the time: “‘resigned’ if youread the press releases, ‘fired’ if you’re not a halfwit.”

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