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May 11, 2010

Eastern Oregon Football Player Dies Due To Brain Injury, Concerns Raised

Dylan Steigers, 21, a football player at Eastern Oregon University, died due to acute subdural hematoma (bleeding on the brain) after playing in a scrimmage on Saturday. Now, players are becoming more concerned about deadly football injuries.http://w...

May 11, 2010

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke Hired To Coach UNC-Wilmington

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, who is set to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this summer, has been hired as the new women's coach at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Cooper-Dyke has been coaching at Prairie View since 2005. In...

May 11, 2010

Robert Morris Hires Toole, 29, As Head Coach

The face of coaching continues to get younger this offseason. Within the last couple of weeks, UW-Green Bay hired Brian Wardle, 30, and made him the youngest coach in Division I. Shortly thereafter, Appalachian State hired Jason Capel, who was a few ...

May 10, 2010

Ineligible Player Sits On Bench, Team Disqualified After Softball Victory

Despite defeating Fletcher High (Fla.) in a regional final softball game, Winter Springs High will not be advancing to the state tournament. Winter Springs won the game, 5-1, but had an ineligible player sitting on the bench wearing a jersey top, jea...

May 10, 2010

Football Coach Resigns After Secret Tape Surfaces

Leesburg High (Fla.) football coach, Charles Nassar, recently resigned from his post after eight years after a secret tape surfaced showing him cursing and criticizing fellow coaches. The tape is from a private, 2008 meeting in Nassar’s office....

May 10, 2010

Examining Arm Issues In H.S. Baseball, Softball Players

The Denver Post takes a look at arm issues in high-school-age baseball players and reports that the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine has found that serious shoulder and elbow injuries in youth baseball and softball players has increas...

May 10, 2010

Calif. Private H.S. Football Coaches Making Six Figures

Budget cuts and pay freezes don’t seem to be affecting the pay of California private-school football coaches these days according to an article in the L.A. Times. The article focuses on a few schools paying their football coaches more than $100...

May 10, 2010

Could New State Immigration Law Affect Recruiting In Arizona?

The new state immigration law making all the headlines in Arizona, and around the country, last week, could affect basketball recruiting to the colleges and universities in the state as well. Some coaches in Arizona commented on the topic for an arti...