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July 29, 2010

Sports Saved By Donor, Boosters Raising $150K In Short Time

It looked like athletics in the Saugerties (N.Y.) school district were going to be canceled this year. A generous donor and a dedicated booster club changed that. An anonymous donor gave $150,000 to the cause as long as all sports were to be saved. T...

July 29, 2010

Drexel’s Flint Indefinitely Suspends 2 Players Involved In Robbery

Drexel University head men's coach Bruiser Flint indefinitely suspended two players involved in a robbery last week. This leaves Drexel with nine scholarship players after a third player was suspended (not indefinitely) due to the incident.http://con...

July 28, 2010

Byron Wrestling Coach Marti Covert Steps Down After 32 Seasons

Marti Covert has known for more than three decades when he would cease coaching wrestling.Before taking over Byron’s program in the fall of 1978, Covert spent two years coaching at Redford Union while teaching at a nearby private school.He did ...

July 28, 2010

St. Patrick-St. Vincent Girls Basketball Coach Walker Takes Over Reins From Mentor

Nadine Walker has been patient when it came to her coaching career as she served as a junior varsity coach and a varsity assistant with St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School.However, she finally got the news she’d been waiting for earlier this mo...

July 28, 2010

For Coach White And His WCA Bulldogs, Basketball Season Is Year-Round

It’s mid-July, but Wake Christian Academy boys’ basketball Coach Will White is courtside anyway, watching his players scrimmage and calling out the occasional coaching point.The year-round practice schedule is a sign of a true athletic pr...

July 28, 2010

NFL Releases Critical Results Of Helmet Testing & Affect On Youth Athletes

The NFL’s committee on head injuries joined the league and its player union in publicly releasing the results of helmet testing that outside experts described as potentially compromising the safety of youth athletes.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/...

July 28, 2010

Syracuse Cheer Coach Agrees Cheer Is Not A Sport

Dena Segbers, the coach of the Syracuse University Spirit Program for eight years, agrees with a federal court’s decision last week not to designate cheerleading as an official team sport at the collegiate level. She say there are technicalitie...

July 28, 2010

Hazing Back In Forefront After Bryant Incident

High school and college coaches of all sports need to be thinking about hazing right now as fall seasons are set to begin practice soon. USA Today takes an in-depth look at the humiliation behind hazing after the incident at Dallas Cowboys training c...