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May 2, 2012

North Carolina Exploring National Certification Of H.S. Coaches

The Cary News, Tim Stevenshttp://www.carynews.com/2012/05/02/56523/nchsaa-may-consider-national.htmlForty-three states require high school coaches to have some sort of national certification based on a coaching education program before being hired. N...

May 2, 2012

SMU Athletics Deficit Rising

The Daily Campus, Mackenzie O’Harahttp://www.smudailycampus.com/athletics-deficit-still-on-the-rise-1.2865199#.T6FGGb9fvcHDozens of SMU students, faculty members and staffers spent the first Thursday of the 2012 spring semester celebrating a ne...

May 1, 2012

Successful Coach Let Go Due To Allegedly Using Profanity In Locker Room

Prep Rally, Cameron Smithhttp://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/successful-respected-hoops-coach-ousted-over-allegedly-using-164708908.htmlA legendary Pennsylvania basketball coach has been fired despite significant public protest to try...

May 1, 2012

USC Receives $8 Million Gift For New Aquatics Center

USCTrojans.comhttp://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-wpolo/spec-rel/050112aaa.htmlThe University of Southern California Athletic Department has announced an $8 million gift from alumnus Wilfred "Fred" Uytengsu ’83.The gift - the largest ever made t...

May 1, 2012

14-Year-Old Offered College Scholarships

You don't see this every day.Two major-college basketball programs offered basketball scholarships on Monday to a middle schooler who is only 14 years old, is an eighth grader, and has yet to play in a high school game.The young phenom is Chris Lewis...

May 1, 2012

Olympic Squad Receives Tough Draw

Yahoo.comhttp://sports.yahoo.com/news/us-coach-sees-tough-draw-olympics-000138554--nba.html US Olympic basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski said his reigning Olympic champion squad of NBA stars received a tough grouping on Monday in FIBA's draw for the L...

April 30, 2012

Oregon State Board Of Education Drafts Rule To Ban American Indian Imagery In Athletic Programs

Forest Grove News, Stover E. Harger IIIhttp://www.koinlocal6.com/news/local/story/Momentum-moves-toward-Native-American-mascot-ban/gTj6dynqR0aoVFc4eng9wg.cspxA majority of feedback to a proposed public school ban on Native American mascots received b...

April 30, 2012

H.S. Squash Team Fighting For Survival

TimesUnion.com (N.Y.)http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/Difficulties-don-t-squash-school-s-hope-for-a-team-3518784.phpKelsey Burhans and her family are doing everything they can to establish a squash program at Albany Academy.It hasn’t be...