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PROBLEM: Tom Crean  was seated in the back of the cafeteria with classic rock playing from the speakers as  he  huddled with  his  notes and film on  his  laptop to prepare for Tuesday nightâs game between Oklahoma and Kansas.
 Crean   the former Marquette and Indiana head coach  is out of coaching for the first time since  he  entered the profession  but  he  is as attached to the game as ever.  Crean  said  he  is learning a fresh perspective as an ESPN analyst  and  he  has received credit for offering keen insight during games.
 Crean  was fired in March 2017 after  his  ninth season at Indiana  which ended with an 18-16 record.  His  Hoosiers teams made three Sweet 16 appearances in the NCAA tournament but couldnât advance further.
Now   Crean  spends  his  time at  his  home in Florida  where  his  son Riley â a 35th-round draft pick of the White Sox â is playing at IMG Academy and will be eligible for the baseball draft again in June.  Crean  had time to help  his  older daughter move to California and rarely misses  his  younger daughterâs volleyball games.  He  runs into fellow Florida resident Dick Vitale  who âpumps me up.â
And of course  Crean  is still on the road  soaking in college basketball from the media side.
 His  former Hoosiers team  now coached by Archie Miller  plays at Illinois on Wednesday.
Hereâs what  Crean  told the Tribune in a phone interview about a year of transitions and when  he  would like to get back to coaching:

SOLUTION: Tom Crean

PROBLEM: Here is your lifeline  Washington Nationals. We have gone from theory to reality in 24 hours.  Joe Girardi  no longer manages the New York Yankees. There is one potential managerial candidate who represents an obvious upgrade from Dusty Baker  both in the near term and long range.  He  is  Joseph Elliott Girardi .
Go get  him .
If the Nationals â and by âthe Nationalsâ here  we are speaking of the Lerner family  which owns the team â even are going to consider  Girardi   they have to go in with two things wide open: their eyes and their wallet.
Baker  whom they didnât invite back  felt  he  was woefully underpaid at $2 million annually  and the main reason  he  is no longer here anymore is because  his  contract was only for two years. Those two years expired  the Lerners had no further financial commitment  there was some ham-handedness in both public relations and game management in the division series against the Cubs  and so  he âs gone.
[ Girardi  made sense for the Nats even before the Yankees let  him  go]
 Girardi  isnât coming here for any two years and $4 million.  His  last contract with the Yankees  the one that expired following this year  was for twice that â four years and $16 million. Thereâs your starting point. If you want  him   Mr. Lerner  be prepared to value the position of manager more than you have at any point in the past. Take a number youâre comfortable with â and triple it.
Joe Maddon hadnât won a World Series when he agreed to a five-year deal worth a reported $25 million. Could  Girardi  ask for such a sum? Sure.
We donât yet know that  Girardi  will require that or that the Nationals will even inquire about  Girardi âs needs. But logic tells you General Manager Mike Rizzo  who did not return a message Thursday  has to reach out. Follow that logic further  and Rizzo has the toughest sell job of  his  career to  his  own bosses.
If Rizzo calls Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman and gets a favorable report on  Girardi  â and given their long run together  why wouldnât  he ? â and the rest of Rizzoâs reporting reveals no red flags  then  he  must present a case to ownership that what they have before them is an opportunity. Forget the money it will cost. Consider it found money.
 Girardi âs side is important in this  too. On Thursday  in the hours after the Yankees announced they would not bring  him  back  a person close to the (now former) manager said the situation was too âfresh â and we couldnât yet analyze whether  Girardi  would want to move on to the Nationals â or anywhere else â immediately.
But we do know a bit more about  Girardi âs state of mind than we did at the end of the American League Championship Series  when  he  said  he  would have to consult with  his  family â  his  wife and three children live in South Florida â before deciding whether  he  could be all-in as a manager again.
On Thursday   Girardi  issued a statement that thanked just about everybody in the Yankee organization. But it opened with this: âWith a heavy heart  I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back.â
Sounds like someone who was ready to reload for another run.  He  just needed to be asked.
One reasonable question  Girardi  would have â and one that  once a manager is in place  could hang over the entire 2018 season â is: Who would I be working for? Not next year but down the line. Rizzoâs contract runs only through 2018. He and his front office built the team that won four division titles in six years and is poised to contend again. If he convinces  Girardi  to come here and convinces the Lerners to pay for him  wouldnât another extension be in line for the general manager?
A final piece: At 53   Girardi  is too young to really be into evaluating  his  âlegacy.â But here is a list of managers who have won World Series titles with two franchises: Sparky Anderson  who did it in Cincinnati and Detroit  and Tony La Russa  who did it in Oakland and St. Louis. Short list. Everyone on it is in the Hall of Fame.
If  Girardi  wins another World Series   he  joins that group. Could  he  do it in Washington? The Nationals have stated thatâs the only goal that matters. A manager who has done it is now available.

SOLUTION: Joe Girardi

PROBLEM: Karen Byrne's  left hand sometimes operates on  its  own terms.  It  has unbuttoned shirts and stubbed out cigarettes  without  her  permission. Oh  and a few times   her  own hand has slapped  her  across the face.
Invisibilia featured  Byrne  and  her  alien hand last summer  and Giant Ant Studios recently created an otherworldly animation of  Byrne 's story.
 Byrne  says  she 's gotten used to  her  left hand's new attitude  but alien hand syndrome is a pesky  strange condition.
The pianist's corpus callosum showed missing connections on an MRI  and  Byrne 's left hand developed its disobedience after a surgeon severed her corpus callosum in an operation to treat epileptic seizures.

SOLUTION:
Karen Byrne