Montana Officials Worried About Participation Decline in Girls Sports

From DesertNews.comNine years ago at Memorial Stadium in Great Falls, Montana, the girls’ track team from Anaconda High School clinched a state championship as four athletes combined to win both the 400 and 1600 relays.Simply assembling a fours...

High School Sports Participation Increases for 24th Straight Year

NFHS.orghttp://www.nfhs.org/content.aspx?id=9628Participation in high school sports increased for the 24th consecutive year in 2012-13 and passed the 7.7 million mark for the first time, according to the annual High School Athletics Participation Sur...

North Syracuse HS Budget Cuts 25 Coaches, 8 Teams

Syracuse.comhttp://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/06/north_syracuses_amended_budget.htmlThe North Syracuse (N.Y.) Central School District’s amended budget for the 2013-14 school year cuts 25 coaches and eliminates eight teams.The cuts wil...

Time Warner Gets Exclusive Cable Rights For N.Y. High School Sports

The Daily Newshttp://thedailynewsonline.com/blogs/guywitharemote/article_823b9086-cf6d-11e2-8e65-001a4bcf887a.htmlThe New York State Public High School Athletic Association has signed a 10-year rights agreement with Time Warner Cable Sports, that mak...

U. Of Iowa Athletes’ Funds Not Used For Athletes

Press-Citizen.comhttp://www.press-citizen.com/article/20130214/NEWS01/302140023/Athletes-funds-didn-t-go-Iowa-athletes?nclick_check=1University of Iowa Athletics Department officials last year erroneously spent thousands of dollars from a fund intend...

A.D. Worries Olympics Decision Will Hurt High School Wrestling

Patch.comhttp://northhills.patch.com/articles/north-hills-athletic-director-cutting-olympic-wrestling-could-hurt-sport-at-high-school-levelTuesday’s decision by the International Olympic committee to cut wrestling from the games in 2020 stunned...

U. Of Tennessee Fundraising Down 25 Percent

Knoxville News Sentinelhttp://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/feb/10/tennessee-athletic-department-wrestling-with-in/Donations to the University of Tennessee athletic department, and the number of people who gifted that money, fell by more than 25 percent...

Huffington Posthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/students-disabilities-school-sports-obama_n_2546057.htmlWhen Kareem Dale, now a special advisor to President Barack Obama, was in high school, all he wanted to do was wrestle. But as a student w...

Light Fixture Falls On Wrestler During Match

The Argus Leader (S.D.), Dalton Walkerhttp://www.argusleader.com/article/20130121/UPDATES/130121015/Video-Light-falls-high-school-wrestler-during-match-MadisonMadison high school wrestler Michael McComish was bloodied and knocked to the mat Friday ni...

Jersey City Football Team Returns To Facilities After Massive Cleanup

The Jersey Journal, Patrick Villanovahttp://blog.nj.com/hudsonhssports/2013/01/st_peters_prep_athletes_are_ab.htmlThe St. Peter’s Prep football team officially kicked off its offseason workouts last week at the school’s football fieldhous...