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October 20, 2010

Former Coach Wins $180K In Racial-Discrimination Lawsuit

From The San Francisco ChronicleA former Selma High School coach will get more than $180,000 after a jury found he’d be wrongfully fired and discriminated against because of his Palestinian ancestry.The Fresno County Superior Court civil trial ...

October 20, 2010

Coach With Almost 300 Wins Facing Charges Of Raping Former Player

HADLEY — A successful girls basketball coach at a western Massachusetts high school has been charged with raping one of his players.Prosecutors allege that Glenn Cooke, a longtime coach at Hopkins Academy in Hadley, raped the then 17-year-old g...

October 20, 2010

Doc Rivers Encourages Coaches To Get Throat Biopsies

Celtics coach Doc Rivers returned to the team yesterday, two days after a biopsy on his throat. Rivers said the results of the test were negative."I do it every year, for the last three years, '' Rivers said. "I think most coaches should, because we ...

October 19, 2010

Binghamton Avoids Major Sanctions

From The New York TimesBinghamton University acknowledged Monday that its men’s basketball program had made mistakes but said that the N.C.A.A.’s investigation had been closed with no major violations found.C. Peter Magrath, the universi...

October 19, 2010

Gaither Sets Possible Girls Field Goal Record

From The USA TodayWhen girls first started showing up as kickers for high school football teams you’d have thought someone would keep track of their longest field goals.But apparently no such accounting system is in place, which leaves in doubt...

October 19, 2010

Football Coach Killed By Train In Apparent Suicide

From The Belleville News (Ill.)BELLEVILLE -- The Sparta High School head football coach was struck and killed by a train about 1 p.m. Monday in Belleville in an apparent suicide, authorities said.St. Clair County Coroner Rick Stone identified the ...

October 19, 2010

Binghamton Avoids Major Sanctions

Binghamton University acknowledged Monday that its men's basketball program had made mistakes but said that the N.C.A.A.'s investigation had been closed with no major violations found.C. Peter Magrath, the university's interim president, said in a ...

October 19, 2010

University of Evansville Coach Simmons Loses 135 Pounds Since March

When Coach Marty Simmons leads his University of Evansville basketball team on to the Roberts Stadium floor Oct. 30 for an exhibition game against DePauw University, some fans may do a double take.Simmons' wife, Angie, says that's typical."We'll go s...