News
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...