News

December 16, 2010

Schutt Sports Inc. Sold To Private Equity Firm

The State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.)The new owners of Schutt Sports Inc. have agreed to keep 200 to 300 employees on the job for at least a year after a Delaware bankruptcy court approved a $32.5 million winning bid for the Litchfield sport...

December 16, 2010

Reduction In Days Causes Controversy At Minnesota State Wrestling Tourney

West Central Tribune (Willmar, Minn.)When a decision is made on any controversial topic, invariably there are some people that are pleased and some that are unhappy. The same holds true with the Minnesota State High School League and the Minnesota Wr...

December 16, 2010

Oklahoma Women’s Coach Coale Nominated For UN Award

University of Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale has been nominated for the inaugural United Nations NGO Positive Peace Awards in the coaching category for taking her team to Haiti to help earthquake victims.Nominated by Journey Church in...

December 16, 2010

Portland St. Patrick’s (Mich.) Schrauben Wins No. 500

PORTLAND - If the Eagles of Carson City-Crystal were supposed to be the supporting cast in a coronation, they didn't get the memo. Portland St. Patrick girls basketball coach Al Schrauben earned his 500th career win, but it wasn't easy, as the Eagles...

December 15, 2010

Kansas Targets Tulsa’s Cunningham For A.D. Job

The Kansas City StarBubba Cunningham is the University of Kansas’ choice to be its next athletic director, but a deal to hire him was not complete as of Tuesday night, a source close to the situation told The Kansas City Star.Cunningham, 48, ha...

December 15, 2010

Retired NFL Players Lend Support To Student-Athlete Injury Bill

LATimes.comReporting from Sacramento —The NFL is lending its public relations muscle to a proposal that would require California student athletes who leave a game after a head injury to get written medical clearance before returning to the fiel...

December 15, 2010

Coach Collapses In Locker Room Prior To Game, Dies

The Joplin Globe (Mo.)Doug Weatherly, a fixture in coaching at Pierce City High School for more than 20 years, died on Monday night. Weatherly, the junior varsity girls basketball coach and assistant for Chelsea Perry, collapsed in the locker room a...

December 15, 2010

Wichita High School Coach Created ’Pay-For-Play’ Atmosphere

The Wichita Eagle (Kan.)WICHITA | Parents of two Andover High School teens filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that the former boys basketball coach sought loans from more than three sets of parents, causing a "pay-to-play" atmosphere that tainted te...