News

June 25, 2010

Former Fayetteville State Coach Files Appeal In Suit About Job

Former Fayetteville State University (N.C.) women's basketball coach Eric Tucker has filed an appeal in his lawsuit against the school for wrongful termination in April 2009. Tucker was going to be fired or needed to retire due to allegations of verb...

June 25, 2010

Wisconsin Adds Another Division To H.S. Basketball

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control has added a fifth division to the boys and girls state basketball tournaments. The state had been a four-division state tournament since 1991..http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/art...

June 24, 2010

Former Revere Baseball Coach Ready For Football Team Challenge

After six seasons as the Revere High School baseball coach, Phil Heyn is ready for a new challenge — as the Revere High School football coach.“It has been a longtime dream of mine to become the head football coach at Revere High School,&r...

June 24, 2010

KU Athletic Director Catching Heat From All Sides

The University of Kansas’s athletic department and, specifically, its Athletic Director Lew Perkins are catching all sorts of heat in the wake of its recent ticket scandal.Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News sees an athletic department in c...

June 24, 2010

Santa Clara’s Keating Urging Coaches To Stop Texting While Driving

Santa Clara head men’s coach, Kerry Keating, has created a Do Not Drive While Texting (DNDWT) campaign aimed at coaches who are hitting the road this July during the intense recruiting period. Keating has not been personally affected by a texti...

June 24, 2010

Sayler Leaves Rice For A.D. Position at South Dakota

David Sayler, who was serving as interim athletic director at Rice University and eventually did not receive an offer to become the full-time A.D., has accepted the A.D. position at the University of South Dakota. South Dakota is in the third year of...

June 24, 2010

Cahill Named National Swim Coach Of The Year

Tim Cahill, who had been nominated for the National High School Athletic Coaches Association’s National Coach of the Year in swimming three previous times (2005, 2006 and 2007) but, finally, in 2010, he has won the award. Cahill has coached for...

June 24, 2010

Calipari Returns From Haiti After Making Donations

John Calipari, head men's basketball coach at Kentucky, has returned from a trip to Haiti. He went to the earthquake-ravaged country to see the effects of the earthquake from six months ago and to donate the more than one million dollars he raised in...