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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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...