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Delaware Scales Back Plans For New Athletic Facility
A year after proposing a plan for a new athletic performance center for sports medicine, athletic training, strength and conditioning and academic purposes, as well as a new football stadium, the University of Delaware now has scaled back its plans. ...
Cornell To Name Austin As Head Coach
Cornell is set to name Ole Miss offensive coordinator, Kent Austin, as the school’s new football coach. Austin had been at Ole Miss, his alma mater, for the last two seasons. His other coaching experience comes from the Canadian Football League...
Cornell Football Coach Resigns
Jim Knowles, Cornell football coach, has resigned from his post and it is being reported that he has accepted a coaching position at an unnamed program Knowles was 26-34 in five years with the program.http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20091223/...
Continuing To Break Down H.S. Head Injuries
The Los Angeles Times continues to break down the controversial topic of head injries at the high school level.http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/nfl/wire/sns-ap-fbh-youth-concussions,0,3104916.story...
Connecticut Releases New Concussion Legislation
Legislation in Connecticut has been released that would require high school coaches to be trained to spot the signs of concussion and injured athletes would have to sit out practices and games until cleared by doctors. The legislation needs to be app...
Coaches Sue Rival Assistant For Internet Libel
Sacred Heart-Griffin High (Ill.) head football coach Ken Leonard and assistant Frank Steele are suing former Springfield assistant coach Dale Sprague for Internet libel. They are seeking damages of $200,000. In the past three years, Sprague has calle...
CoachComm, GamePlan Announce 2010 HD Line Of Products
CoachComm and GamePlan have announced their 2010 HD line of products and services being demonstrated at the American Football Coaches Association annual convention for colleges and high school programs. As innovation leaders in sports technology, Coa...
Coach Who Integrated West Virginia Football Dies
Earl Eugene Corum, the West Virginia football coach who recruited the school’s first black players, died Jan. 2 at the age of 88. He coached the Mountaineers from 1960-65.http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/92/2010/january/05/c...
Coach Wants Fencing To Remain Varsity Sport
Rachel Dean is not pleased that the Maine Twp. High School District 207 (Ill.) has a proposal on the table to drop her Maine West High fencing team from varsity to intramural status. District officials say it will save them $24,000. Dean wants to kno...
Coach Should Have Stopped Punishment, Says Board
David Croissant, the wrestling coach and business teacher at Wiggins High (Colo.), had his teaching license suspended until the end of the school year. The reason dates back 3-1/2 years ago when Croissant did not stop a volunteer assistant wrestling ...