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October 21, 2009

Finnish & Irish National Coach Takes Over At East Lyme High (Conn.)

New England Basketball Hall of Fame member Bill Reagan has returned to the United States to coach the East Lyme High (Conn.) girls basketball team. Reagan had spent the last nine years coaching the Finnish and Irish women's national basketball teams....

October 21, 2009

Ky. H.S. Freshman Dies During Tryouts

Waseeq Shahid, who had an unknown heart condition, died during basketball tryouts Monday at Western Hill High School (Ky.) Full autopsy results won't be available for five to six weeks. Shahid collapsed six minutes into the tryout while running his f...

October 21, 2009

Manitoba Team Takes On Breast Cancer

The University of Manitoba women's basketball team is beginning its third annual Breast Cancer Awareness/Prevention Week in which the team attempts to raise $10, 000 for the cause. The team is hosting a tournament, auctioning special pink jerseys and...

October 20, 2009

Dayton Asks Donoher To Step Down

The all-time winningest coach in University of Dayton history has stepped down. Don Donoher had coached the Flyers for the last 25 years and had compiled a record of 437-275 but the university asked him to step down due to struggles during the last t...

October 20, 2009

Death Of UConn Football Players Hits Hoops Team Hard

For the first time in his 25-year coaching career at the University of Connecticut, head women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma canceled practice as his team was overcome due to the stabbing death of football player Jasper Howard.http://www.rep-am.co...

October 20, 2009

WNBA’s Shock Moving To Tulsa

The Detroit Shock, winners of the WNBA title in three of the last seven years, are moving to Tulsa, Okla. The ownership group in Tulsa already had selected Nolan Richardson as its new coach and general manager. As of now, the status of current Shock ...

October 19, 2009

Drunk ‘shaming’ Incident Forces Coach To Quit

Tim Beebe has resigned as girls basketball coach at Haslett High (Mich.) after a "drunk shaming" incident from 2007 recently came to light. The incident included several teachers excessively using alcohol and drawing on an unconscious female teacher....

October 19, 2009

Keeping An Eye On Academics

Joliet Township (Ill.) boys basketball coach Luke Yaklich has instilled stronger academic standards at school and players seem to be responding (all 15 seniors from his first two years on the job have gone on to college). Find out what he's doing at ...