This and that

• Congrats to Brandon Phillips, the Reds' first Gold Glove winner since 2000. Reds.com has a story about Dusty Baker shooting down any speculation that Phillips will be moved from second base to shortstop.

• If you watched Ball State-Northern Illinois last night on ESPN2, you got to see Dante Love - the Cardinals' leading receiver (at the time) who suffered a spinal injury in a game earlier this season against Indiana - walk to midfield with teammates for the coin toss. Great stuff. Having seen and talked to Love when he was a quarterback at Withrow, I got a little choked up in a good way. Rece Davis also interviewed him at halftime. Mike Lopresti wrote a nice column about Love.

• Sporting News had a head-to-head about who should replace Phil Fulmer at Tennessee. Matt Hayes' pick is Brian Kelly. A popular UT site listed Kelly among its Top 10 candidates to replace Fulmer (though I can't find the list on the site anymore, which is why it's not linked). Kelly, of course, continues to insist that he's not leaving UC, but I think there are plenty of UC fans who realize it would be tough for him to turn down a Tennessee if they decide that Kelly is their guy.

• Check out ESPN.com's Survey says - ding! - Bengals fans fed up. Before you skip this one because of the no-duh headline, there are some fairly surprising results (even if they only asked 100 fans) as far as who is most to blame and who should be traded and/or re-signed.

• Jack Del Rio has been on quite a rampage since the Jaguars fell to 3-5 with Sunday's loss to the Bengals. ESPN.com has the latest about linebacker Mike Peterson getting called out during a meeting and sent home, allegedly for responding. Sources say Del Rio criticized Peterson for celebrating a sack of Ryan Fitzpatrick with the Jaguars trailing 21-3 in the third quarter. Peterson defended himself, Del Rio didn't like what he heard and didn't want to engage in a back-and-forth and he either sent Peterson on his way or Peterson left (depending on who you ask).

Anyway, the point is things are pretty ugly all of a sudden for the Jaguars and Del Rio. This is the type of thing that could snowball for Del Rio, especially if the Jags fall out of playoff contention. And it a lot of it apparently has to do with a disappointing loss to the black and orange.

• From DDN's Chick Ludwig: Andrew Whitworth is expected to learn Friday how much he'll be fined for his fight with John Henderson.

• Non-local link of the day: Great piece from ESPN.com about Bryan Pata's murder. A must-read if you have a few minutes.