With Deion Sanders thriving as a college football coach, other former football players seem to be interested in that model. Those who cover football need to be wary that they’re sometimes being used as pawns in the effort to get the former football player a job.
It happened last month, when Adam Schefter of ESPN.com swallowed the hook on the notion that Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis was a candidate at Florida Atlantic University. He was not. As someone else at ESPN.com reported.
It happened again today, when Schefter reported Mike Vick is a candidate at Sacramento State…