Laying the Smack down: Holy Cross fires Coach Kearney

Father Michael McFarland must have been feeling the heat and thus Dick Regan was feeling it, too!

Holy Cross has decided to fire first-year men's basketball coach Sean Kearney.

Who says athletics don't matter to the folks high atop Mount St. James?

The College has to keep us with the Jones' now that tuition, room and board for the 2010-2011 academic year will surpass the $50k-per-year mark. (Take solace that the full nut is currently $49,342.)