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thanksgiving
November 21, 2022

Your Guide to the Thanksgiving College Football Schedule

Thanksgiving Day is typically reserved for football at the high school and professional levels. But this coming Thursday and the ensuing Black Friday, there are a handful of college football games to help digest all the turkey and stuffing. Bel...


strength & conditioning
November 17, 2022

How To Gain Buy-In & Support For Your Strength & Conditioning Program

Being a high school strength & conditioning coach is one of the most rewarding careers a person can have. We have the opportunity to not only make young people healthier, stronger, and faster but also can instill lifelong values of hard work, ove...


leaders
November 15, 2022

6 Qualities of Great Leaders

Leadership is more than levying authority, it’s about being a source of inspiration and empowerment for others in achieving success. It entails making decisions based on the good of the group rather than self-gain.  Great leaders aren’t passi...


virginia
November 14, 2022

3 Virginia Football Players Killed, Ex-Player in Custody

A former University of Virginia football player suspected of killing three football players and injuring two other students on campus over the weekend is in custody following a town-wide search in Charlottesville, VA, police confirmed Monday. Auth...


unified
November 10, 2022

Unified Sports on the Rise Across the Country

Unified Sports was inspired in 2008 by a simple principle — training together and playing together is a quick path to friendship and understanding for athletes with and without intellectual disabilities. Beau Doherty, Special Olympics Connecticu...


sportsmanship
November 9, 2022

Leaving a Worthwhile Legacy as an Athletic Director

As an athletic administrator, you have an enormous number of tasks and responsibilities. This means that there is never a time in which you don’t have something to do. Whether you are in the position for one or twenty years, therefore, you probably...


essentials
November 8, 2022

Seven Essentials of Great Teams

If you have ever experienced the miracle of a great team as either a player or a coach, it is something that you will always remember. Making a team a great team involves choices that are in the control of the participants. Building that team inv...


auburn
November 3, 2022

Auburn Fires Harsin After Less Than 2 Seasons

Mediocrity on the gridiron can't survive long in the rough-and-tumbled Southeastern Conference (SEC). In less than two seasons at the helm of Auburn's football program, head coach Bryan Harsin found out the hard way. After a 9-12 record in a seaso...