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April 29, 2010

Arizona Proposing Major Overhaul Of Athletic Classification

The Arizona Interscholastic Association has introduced a plan to reclassify every high school into a division based on size and limit the number of state championships offered in each sport.http://azstarnet.com/sports/article_aa478d22-5508-5ee3-a448-...

April 29, 2010

College Men’s Coach Leaves School To Take Over Girls H.S. Team

In a rare move, Jason Lowery has left the Division III Pacific University (Forest Grove, Ore.) as its men's basketball coach to take over the girls program at Jesuit High (Portland, Ore.). Lowery is a 1993 graduate of Jesuit but has never coached gir...

April 28, 2010

Texas H.S. A.D. Steps Down To Save School District Money

Jackie Stephens, the athletic director and assistant principal at Santo High School in Texas, who also serves as the football and track coach, has decided to retire in lieu of the school district’s budget problems. The Santo Independent School ...

April 28, 2010

2-Time State Champion Football Coach Let Go For Cursing

Cyril Crutchfield led the South Plaquemines High (La.) football team to back-to-back state titles in 2007-08 while finishing runner-up last season. Now, he’s been relieved of his coaching duties due to being accused of using profanity in front ...

April 28, 2010

Wagner High (N.Y.) Baseball Coach Notches 600th Win

Bobby Nappo won his first baseball game in 1981. Yesterday, the coach at Wagner High (N.Y.) won his 600th with a 2-1 victory over Curtis.http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high_school/2010/04/27/2010-04-27_wagner_high_school_baseball_coach_bobby_nappo...

April 28, 2010

Chuck Driesell Takes Over At The Citadel

Chuck Driesell, son of the famous Maryland coach Lefty Driesell, has taken over the men's basketball program at The Citadel. Driesell had been an assistant at Maryland for the last four years.http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/ncaa/04/2...

April 28, 2010

Iowa State To Hire Hoiberg As Coach

Fred Hoiberg, a star for the Iowa State Cyclones in the 1990s, is returning to the school as head coach of the men's basketball team. Hoiberg played 10 seasons in the NBA and retired in 2005 after heart surgery. He had been working in the Minnesota T...

April 27, 2010

Entire Teaching Staff To Be Fired, H.S. Program Steps Up

Central Falls High School (R.I.) was deemed one of the lowest-performing academic institutions in the state recently, which led to the entire teaching staff to be fired at year’s end. With all of the unrest at the school, the athletic program h...