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March 18, 2010

Connecticut Legislature Education Committee Meets About Concussions

Connecticut lawmakers are weighing a bill that would require all intramural and interscholastic coaches to complete a training course on concussions and other head injuries. The bill also would require athletes to be pulled from competition if there ...

March 18, 2010

Coach Returns To Sideline After Hard Year Off

Tom Vix didn't travel or relax with his year off from coaching last season. The Rushford-Peterson High School (Minn.) boys coach spent extra time with his older sister, who was battling cancer. She passed away in June. Vix said the year off from the ...

March 18, 2010

Could Poor Graduation Rates Lead To NCAA Tourney Ban?

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is pushing a proposal to bar men's basketball teams from postseason tournaments if the team fails to graduate 40 perecent of players. If that were the case this year, 12 teams would not have been allowed to com...

March 18, 2010

Seton Hall Fires Gonzalez

Hours after its loss in the first round of the NIT, Seton Hall fired head men's coach Bobby Gonzalez. In that game, Gonzalez picked up his seventh technical foul of the season and had a player ejected for punching an opposing player below the below. ...

March 17, 2010

Ohio State Extends Jim Tressel

Jim Tressel is now locked up to coach the Ohio State football team through the 2014 season after receiving a two-year extension Tuesday. Tressel led the Buckeyes to a Rose Bowl victory over Oregon last season.http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7...

March 17, 2010

Mora Not Coaching At High-School Level

Despite reports to the contrary yesterday, Jim Mora said he will not be a part of the Bellevue High (Wash.) football staff this season. Mora said he might have an informal role with the team but nothing of consequence. After being fired by the Seahaw...

March 17, 2010

Massimino Still Coaching At Age 75

Rollie Massimino, 75, who led Villanova to one of the great upsets in NCAA Tournament history when his Wildcats knocked off Georgetown in the 1985 title game, still continues to coach. But, he’s doing it at the NAIA D-II level. Massimino just c...

March 17, 2010

Massimino Still Coaching At Age 75

Rollie Massimino, 75, who led Villanova to one of the great upsets in NCAA Tournament history when his Wildcats knocked off Georgetown in the 1985 title game, still continues to coach. But, he's doing it at the NAIA D-II level. Massimino just complet...