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Santa Cruz Coaches Asked To Forgo Pay
To keep costs down for student-athletes, the Santa Cruz City Schools (Calif.) is providing an option for coaches to turn down their pay stipend to reduce the costs for students to compete on the team. If every coaches decides to give up their stipend...
Saving Money To Save Sports
USA Today profiled what several schools are doing to save money in order to save their sports programs, including basketball. For example, the Palm Springs Unified School District has merged all of its junior varsity and freshman teams to save $140, ...
Seattle U Hires Bonvicini
Seattle University has hired Joan Bonvicini as the school's new women's basketball coach. she had been fired by Arizona in 2008 after 17 years. Bonvicini has amassed 612 wins in her 29-year coaching career.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/200...
Spoelstra-Riley Take Pay Cuts To Avoid Layoffs
Eric Spoelstra, Miami Heat head coach, and Pat Riley, the Heat's team president, are among the the team's employees taking up to a 20-percent pay cut to avoid layoffs. Player salaries are not affected.sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4475244 Spoe...
Storm Signs Agler To 2-Year Deal
Brian Agler received a two-year contract from the Seattle Storm Monday. Agler has taken Seattle to two consecutive playoff appearances and last season's mark of 22-12 was the best in franchise history.www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=39...
Stringer’s Road To The HOF
The New York Times published an interesting piece on Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee C. Vivian Stringer and her path to greatness.www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/sports/basketball/10rhoden.html?_r=1 Stringer's Road To The HOF The New York Times ...
Successful Coach Shifting To Softball
After putting together 324-285 career record as a high school basketball coach in Connecticut, Tom Pardalis is switching sports after accepting the head softball job at Manhattan College in New York. Pardalis, 59, had coached at Danbury High, his alm...
Tenn. Tech Hires Messer
Tennessee Tech University has named Sytia Messer as its new women's basketball coach. Messer played for the University of Arkansas and had been an assistant at Arkansas State, the University of Memphis and Georgia Tech prior to the Tennessee Tech job...
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