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December 7, 2010

Youth Sports Injuries Reaching Epidemic Levels, Experts Report

HealthDay News TUESDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Youth sports injuries have become rampant in the United States, with emergency departments treating more than 8,000 children a day for sports-related injuries, safety experts reported Tuesday. ...

December 7, 2010

Calif. H.S. Team To Return To Court After Accident

The Hoover High boys basketball team is scheduled to return to the court Thursday -- seven days after five players and an assistant coach were involved in an automobile accident on Highway 152 east of Los Banos while en route to a tournament.One play...

December 7, 2010

Reggie Lee Wins No. 500

Reggie Lee, now in his 30th season as Brookhaven (Columbus) (Ohio) girls basketball coach, earned his 500th career victory on Dec. 2 with a 42-38 victory over Africentric Early College (Columbus)."I really wasn't thinking about 500, but you want to ...

December 6, 2010

Runner Collapses Near Finish Line, Crawls For Team, Coach

ABCNews.comThe race was supposed to have been a moment of glory for the top runner at a northern California high school and her teammates.But instead of crossing the finish line in a flash at the head of the pack -- a finish that would have all but g...

December 6, 2010

Coach Downloads App, Saves Player’s Life

Cnet.comOn a whim last week, head high school basketball coach Eric Cooper Sr. downloaded a $1.99 iPhone app called Phone Aid to brush up on his CPR skills. His timing couldn’t have been better.During team practice the very next day at La Verne...

December 6, 2010

Coach Saves Player By Using CPR

La Verne Lutheran Coach Eric Cooper is being credited with helping save the life of basketball player Xavier Jones, who collapsed during practice last week and needed CPR after he stopped breathing.The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported that Jones i...

December 6, 2010

Former Marquette Coach Hank Raymonds Dies

Marquette legend Hank Raymonds, a successful coach and administrator at the University, passed away early Monday morning after a long and courageous battle with cancer. In over 25 years at Marquette, Hank Raymonds served as the program's 10th head m...

December 6, 2010

Granbury (Texas) Coach On Verge Of Becoming Nation’s All-Time Wins Leader

Some things just aren't meant to be.It seemed too perfect, too fitting and too scripted. Leta Andrews, the all-time winningest girls basketball coach, passing longtime Fort Worth Dunbar coach Robert Hughes' boys national mark of 1, 333, on a court na...