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July 26, 2010

Evansville Soccer Player Is Alive, Team Told She Was Dead

The University of Evansville soccer team had been told that 19-year-old teammate Abby Guerra had been killed in an Arizona traffic accident last week. Now, Evansville athletic director John Stanley says Guerra did not pass away and it was a case of m...

July 26, 2010

Wrestling Coach, 41, Dies While Running In Road Race

John Chapman, considered by many to be the greatest wrestler to ever come out of Galesburg High School (Iowa), and who had been the head wrestling coach at the school for the last 11 years, died Sunday after he suffered a heart attack while participa...

July 26, 2010

NCAA Bans Hiring Search Firms That Finance Prep Teams

The NCAA has prohibited school from hiring coaching search firms that also are associated with college basketball prospects, Yahoo! Sports is reporting. This ban strikes at the heart of ChampSearch, run by Dana and David Pump.http://www.sportingnews....

July 26, 2010

UAH’s Acuff Elected To NABC Board Of Directors

Lennie Acuff, the head men's basketball coach at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). Acuff has been the coach at UAH for 13 seasons.http://www.n...

July 23, 2010

GTM Sportswear Announces Sponsorship Of 11 NFL Cheer Teams

GTM Sportswear® has announced it has signed sponsorship agreements with 11 NFL cheer teams for the 2010-11 season, including Arizona, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Denver, Indianapolis, Minnesota, New Orleans, San Francisco, Tampa and Tennessee.http://www...

July 23, 2010

5 Assistant Coaches Resign, Allege Racism

Five African-American assistant basketball coaches at Bishop Ford High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.) have resigned after not having the opportunity to interview for the vacant head coach position. The school hired the girls coach, Denis Nolan, as the new b...

July 23, 2010

WBCA Launches New Website

The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) has launched a new website, wbca.org. Learn more about what the site has to offer at the link below.http://www.sportspagemagazine.com/content/bb/wc-bb/ln-wc-bb/womens-basketball-coaches-association-la...

July 23, 2010

What’s Wrong With College Basketball?

ESPN.com's Dana O'Neil conducted a fascinating survey of 20 big-time college basketball coaches and got them to discuss some of the hottest topics in the game right now.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=5398415 What'...