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October 14, 2010

UCLA Students Celebrating John Wooden Day

UCLA students will honor John Wooden today on what would have been the late basketball coach's 100th birthday. UCLA students will visit UCLA Community School in Koreatown and University High School in West Los Angeles to speak with students about the...

October 14, 2010

Vin Baker Competing For Varsity Coaching Job

This just in: School systems, in the business of teaching lessons, ought to remember that teaching outside of the classroom counts, too.Such is the case in Old Saybrook, where the intoxication of celebrity may trump doing what's right.Here is the ...

October 13, 2010

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...

October 13, 2010

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...

October 13, 2010

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...

October 13, 2010

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...

October 13, 2010

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...

October 13, 2010

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...