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Abusive high school coach to varsity player with a learning disability: “You Suck!”

October 6, 2011
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Abusive high school coach to varsity player with a learning disability: “You Suck!”

There are different theories on how to motivate players and turn young boys into men. San Diego’s Poway High School varsity football coach Damian Gonzalez stated in an interview that his coaching philosophy is to “teach the game of football to develop quality character, discipline, integrity, commitment and work ethic in our student-athletes.” Well Gonzalez may want to rethink his approach. As a result of constantly belittling and berating one the members of the Titans football team, coach Gonzalez...

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10 surprising athletic programs that used to be powerhouses

October 4, 2011
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10 surprising athletic programs that used to be powerhouses

College sports fans often complain about the disparity between the “haves” and “have nots.” In college football, Alabama, Notre Dame, USC and Oklahoma own a bulk of the national titles from the last 90 years. In college basketball, UCLA, Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Indiana and Kansas are the dominant six that have presided over the sport over last several decades. While parity may never truly take hold, the powerhouses will likely change over time, as evidenced by the examples...

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Wake Forest boasts new video board against FSU

October 4, 2011
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Wake Forest boasts new video board against FSU

The picture is looking brighter for Wake Forest football, and I’m not talking about the Demon Deacons’ 3-1 record and 2-0 record in conference play. When the old gold and black host ACC powerhouse Florida State this Saturday at 12:30, fans will be in for a treat as Groves Stadium will feature its newly minted 6,500 square foot video board atop Deacon Hill. The 22 ton, 1,512,000 pixel screen will be operational for the first time in what will...

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Ndamukong Suh rescues Detroit area high school football team

October 1, 2011
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Ndamukong Suh rescues Detroit area high school football team

Detroit’s Frederick Douglas College Preparatory Academy for Young Men’s football team was about to forfeit Friday’s Homecoming football game because the team locker room was burglarized and over 20 sets of helmets, pad, and cleats were stolen earlier in the week. With no money in the budget, head coach Al Demps was concerned how he would field a team for Friday’s game. Earlier in the week, some players were wearing street shoes during practice because there were no cleats...

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Arizona sports bar discriminates against pregnant women

September 28, 2011
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Arizona sports bar discriminates against pregnant women

The Sandbar Mexican Grill (Sandbar) in Peoria, Arizona, does not want pregnant wait-staff working on football Sundays believing patrons do not like the combination of football and pregnant women. Sandbar’s management was so adamant in its position that it instituted a policy that specifically removed all visibly pregnant women from the lucrative game-day Sunday shifts. Ms. Keli Kozup was adversely affected by this policy when she was removed from her Sunday shift despite her positive work performance. She was...

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10 Modern Corruptors of College Sports

September 20, 2011
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10 Modern Corruptors of College Sports

The utterance of the term “student-athlete” induces a chuckle from those who are familiar with what really drives the highest levels of college athletics — money. With so much at stake for the universities beyond just the publicity that comes with having a winning football or basketball program, the gatekeepers have conveniently snoozed on the corruption that has blatantly occurred over the last few decades. Some of the most notable manipulators of the system from the last 20 years...

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9 Craziest Sports Rituals

September 15, 2011
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9 Craziest Sports Rituals

For as arrogant as professional athletes can appear, their strong belief in superstitions suggests they don’t have as much faith in their abilities as they’d like us to believe. Most athletes have some kind of ritual they go through before playing a game, which can be as simple as putting on their equipment in a certain order or eating a specific food. But some people take their compulsions to an extreme, whether it’s a player, a team’s fans, or...

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10 football programs that could benefit from conference realignment

September 12, 2011
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10 football programs that could benefit from conference realignment

The impending move of Texas A&M to the SEC ushers the captivating conference expansion saga into its second year. With the Pac 10 now the Pac 12, the Big 10 now a 12-team league and the Big 12 now a ten-team (soon to be nine-team) league, it’s blatantly obvious that further movement will eventually occur. Speculation about possible 14-or 16-team “super-conferences” has college football fans hoping their programs will benefit from the massive changes and not be left out...

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