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Encouraging Athletes to Participate in Multiple Sports

David Hoch, a retired athletic administrator with 16 years of experience, talks about sport specialization and how coaches can encourage student-athletes to participate in multiple programs....


April 9, 2014

Alabama Athletic Revenues Greater Than any NHL Team

From CBSSports.comThe movement at Northwestern to unionize college athletes has (no surprise) sparked fierce debate -- particularly in the big-money fields of college football and men’s basketball -- over what those athletes deserve, and don&rs...


February 14, 2014

Michael Sam has Already Proved Critics Wrong

Michael Sam is an All-American football player who dominated one of college’s best conferences last season, leading the Missouri Tigers to a 12-2 record and a Cotton Bowl championship.He’s also gay.There will be a number of people who rem...


December 6, 2013

D.C. Area Athletic-Based Transfers Becoming an Alarming Trend

Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/in-district-high-schools-athletic-based-transfers-are-becoming-an-alarming-trend/2013/12/03/629a192a-5af3-11e3-801f-1f90bf692c9b_story.htmlThe District’s high school football champ...


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Challenges in Getting Athletes Involved in Multiple Sports

Rockford High School (Rockford, Mich.) girls track coach Randy Vanderveen discusses the challenges in getting athletes to participate in multiple sports.  ...


November 1, 2013

Strength & conditioning: A multi-faceted profession

So you want to train athletes for a living? Here's what you need to know. Whether the title is in the vein of “director of sports performance” or simply “strength and conditioning,” the duties and responsibilities of the position are bro...


October 18, 2013

Sport Specialization Hurting Athletes, Programs in Calif. Schools

San Francisco ChronicleOf the 54 football players at Serra-San Mateo, 39 play another sport. Head coach Patrick Walsh doesn’t like that.He wishes more of them would play a second sport."I hate specialization,"...


October 16, 2013

Arrowhead High School Special Report (Home)

Arrowhead High School Special Report Coach And Athletic Director's entire September 2012 issue is dedicated to our first-ever, head-to-toe coverage of the inner workings of one of America's most-envied public high-school athletic programs—Arrowh...