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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...

December 15, 2010

Caltech Believes It Will Break 297-Game Conference Losing Streak

PASADENA, Calif. — Of all colleges, it would seem, the California Institute of Technology should have the least problem doing the math. Yet its basketball team was left guessing about the precise length of its conference losing streak, which be...

December 15, 2010

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

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 team tryouts.The parents, ...

December 15, 2010

Will Pitino Coach Puerto Rico National Team?

Is Rick Pitino planning to become coach of the Puerto Rico national team?Sportando.com, a website devoted to world basketball, reported Pitino agreed to terms with the Puerto Rico federation and soon would be announced as its national team head coach...

December 14, 2010

BYU Agrees To Play In 2013 Bowl Game

Salt Lake Tribune blogAlthough we’ve yet to see any official confirmation from BYU, the Cougars have apparently agreed to play in the Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco in January of 2013 if they are bowl eligible after the 2012 season and if t...

December 14, 2010

University of Minnesota Needs To Know If Vikings Plan To Play There

ProFootballTalk.comVikings fans have gotten a Ghost-of-Christmas-Future glimpse of what it would be like for the home team to play a home game in a place other than their home of 50 years.  In six days, Vikings fans may get a chance to see what ...