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IRVINE, Calif. -- And yet another lesson to be learned when your nearly every move and sentence is being recorded for public consumption.Mom is watching.Los Angeles Rams coach Jeff Fisher learned that after the first episode of the HBO Hard Knocks documentary series aired Tuesday night, capturing him using some R-rated language. The next day, a phone call came.I got one of these yesterday, Jeffrey! Fisher said Thursday. This is from Mom. So I said, Sorry, Mom. Thats our world. Ill try to do better.When I hear Jeffrey! Its uh-oh. Something went wrong.The segment in question captured Fisher addressing the Rams in a morning meeting before the second day of practice. In the opening practice, star receiver Tavon Austin had been carted off when he cramped up after eating only two bananas at lunch. Then he cut receiver Deon Long for having a female guest in his room.Little things are important, you follow me? Fisher said. I am not f---ing going 7-9 or 8-8 or 9-7, OK? Or 10-6 for that matter. This team is too talented. I am not going to settle for that, OK? I know what I am doing. We had some 7-9 bulls--- this morning. Now, Deons gone. That is 7-9 bulls---. We dont need it.The Rams went 7-9 last season. Some wondered just how far he would continue his countdown, how high his expectations for this team.Part of the whole process is inviting them in to the meeting rooms, Fisher said Thursday. But there are spontaneous things that come up, that, as coaches, you have to go and address. So I addressed something that took place in the morning and wanted to get my point across. People can read into whatever they want. But that was me talking to the team as if the cameras werent there. I was OK with what I said.I stopped at that point. I could have gone on. You dont know that I didnt go on because theres an edit guy there. So theres a lot of stuff that takes place that is edited.Just not exactly for Mom. 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McCarthy, a player who played some games in the second tier for Wigan at the start of this season, would go on to shine inside Evertons midfield, outplaying the man he was brought in to replace, on one of the grandest stages in English football. On Saturday, it was fitting that Manchester Uniteds most recent dagger into the chest was delivered by Frenchman Yohan Cabaye, a wonderfully gifted central midfielder who put on an outstanding effort for Newcastle at Old Trafford. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- His Illinois team is a double-digit underdog, but Saturday will bring the kind of game Hardy Nickerson has been waiting for since he decided to transfer from Cal.Michigan. The Big House and 100,000-plus fans. A Wolverines fullback lined up across from him.This is the football that I always thought the Big Ten was about, the Illini linebacker said as his team prepared to face the No. 3 Wolverines (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten). Pro-style offenses for a linebacker are the most fun games. Youre getting downhill, youre making plays and it really comes down to how the linebackers are playing in those games if the defense does well.A lot is riding on Nickerson this week and every week at Illinois (2-4, 1-2).He made the move from Cal as a graduate student, following his dad, former NFL linebacker Hardy Nickerson, when the older Nickerson took the job as Lovie Smiths defensive coordinator at Illinois.At Cal, Nickerson led an eight-win Bears team with 112 tackles, 8.6 a game. That defense, though, gave up just over 30 points a game, living in the shadow of a Cal offense that scored close almost 38.Smith, on the other hand, is a defense-first coach. He needed a player like Nickerson, a linebacker to plug into a slot that had no ready-made starter.Nickerson has done what Illinois has asked and then some. He is leading the Big Ten in tackles with 58, good for 9.7 per game. That puts him at 21st in the country.Nickerson and his father bear a strong resemblance on and off the field.At Cal, the younger Nickerson wore his fathers old number, 47. Both flash easy smiles and both say that, after the past two years of the son playing football on the West Coast while the father coached in Florida as part of Smiths Tampa Bay Buccaneers staff, they are happy they met in the middle.As a dad to just have him around, thats been just an unbelievable experience, the older Nickerson said.As good as it has been to be close, theres a difference now: Coach Nickerson was used to watching linebacker Niickerson in the way a dad does when they were a country apart.dddddddddddd For those two years, we talked every night, especially after games, the older Nickerson said.Now, much like when he coached his son at Bishop ODowd High School in Oakland, California, the coach says now hes just too busy thinking about the next play call and analyzing whats happening to his defense as the game progresses.That is one place, the younger Nickerson says, that the two are close in a different way.On the field were able to diagnose things fast, and Im able to tell him if I have a problem with something or if he has a coaching point, Nickerson said.The linebacker is accustomed to that role of on-field analyst, as well as catalyst.Stanford, he says, was the one downhill, Michigan-type team the Bears faced every season, but the other teams they saw tended to be more up-tempo, like Oregon.Highlights from last seasons Oregon game include Nickerson making big plays, but with each play the scoreboard in the corner of the screen showed the Ducks pulling further away. No matter, after each hit Nickerson popped up, clapping hands hard at teammates, trying to keep them in a game they would eventually lose, 44-38.After the game, Nickerson uncharacteristically let just a bit of an edge come through as he talked to reporters : I think guys are pissed off right now. It hurt.This week, Nickerson laughed when asked if he knew where he ranked in the Big Ten in tackles, saying hed just seen the stat on Twitter. He said he would give up that top spot if it meant something better in the one area that hasnt worked as well as he would like Illinois -- wins and losses.If that means me making 19 tackles or that means me making three tackles, Ill take it.---Follow David Mercer on twitter: (at)davidmercerAP---Online: Associated Press college football coverage: http://collegefootball.ap.org/ ' ' '