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Rose Bowl To Get $152 Million Facelift
From the Los Angeles TimesUCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero might be feeling the euphoria of a reality show contestant picked to receive a free home makeover.The Rose Bowl is set to undergo $152 million in renovations after the Pasadena City Counci...
UNC Assistant Track Coach’s Death Ruled Suicide
From dailytarheel.comAn autopsy released this morning ruled the death of UNC assistant track and field coach Antonio Pettigrew to be a suicide.Pettigrew was found dead in his car in Chatham County early the morning of Aug. 10. He was 42 years old.The...
UIL Proposes Tight Rules On Concussions For Texas Athletes
From kens5.com (Channel 5, San Antonio)AUSTIN -- Texas public high school athletes who get a concussion wouldn’t return to play until the next day at the earliest under new rules proposed by a medical panel of the University Interscholastic Lea...
Inspirational Former Softball Coach Succumbs To Breast Cancer
From kens5.com (Channel 5, San Antonio)SAN ANTONIO -- Former Edison High School softball coach Mary Ann Villarreal, whose indomitable spirit inspired a community and shone through even in the final days of her battle against cancer, died Tu...
Candidate Uses Confrontation With Calhoun In Campaign Ad
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Green Party congressional candidate Ken Krayeske (kry-EHV'-skee), who infamously questioned Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun about his $1.6 million salary in 2009, is using video from that confrontation in a campa...
Street Named In Honor Of Bob Hurley Sr.
First, it was the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.Now, it's his own backyard.Legendary St. Anthony High boys basketball coach Bob Hurley Sr. was scheduled to be honored for the latest time Tuesday afternoon when 8th St. in Jerse...
Groundbreaking Planned For New Florida Atlantic Stadium
From the South Florida Business JournalWork is already under way, but Florida Atlantic University will have the official groundbreaking ceremony for its $70 million, 30,000-seat football stadium at 4 p.m. Friday.The new home for the Owls is expected ...
Cal Begins To React To Losing Baseball Program
From the San Jose Mercury NewsTHE SIX MEN returned to the scene of their baseball triumphs, Evans Diamond on the UC Berkeley campus. Two of them are hobbling, but all six were agitated as they envisioned something special disappearing before their ve...