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BELLVILLE ? Meeting in the Hines Avenue cafeteria, the Clear Fork Board of Education on Monday discussed changes to classified substitute pay rates. Due to the new minimum wage, $6.85 per hour, taking effect Jan. 1, 2007, a few of the hourly rates will need to be adjusted. The board will act on those changes at the December meeting....more... Women's Basketball falls short to No. 23 New Mexico, 63-60 (Texas Longhorns)
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico -- The No. 25 Texas Longhorns made a gallant run in the final seven minutes of play, overcoming a 17-point deficit by out-scoring No. 23 New Mexico in that span, but fell just short, 63-60, in women?s basketball play Friday evening in a game played at University Arena (The Pit) on the UNM campus in front of 10,085....more... Jack Herman: Special edition reveals a special man (Michigan Daily)
In nearly 21 years as a sports fan in New Jersey, I learned that Bo Schembechler was a great coach. But in just 12 hours as an editor at the Daily Friday, I learned that Bo Schembechler was a great man. When I woke up on Friday, I heard that Schembechler had been rushed to the hospital after he collapsed while taping his weekly TV show....more... San Jose Hall of Fame banquet notes, quotes (San Jose Mercury News)
Pure coincidence at the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame banquet Tuesday night. Seated at adjacent tables on the HP Pavilion floor were the 49ers, represented by owner John York; and the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee, one of the now-dead 2016 Olympic bid's driving forces, represented by President Anne Warner Cribbs....more... NCAA defends tax-exempt status (The Indianapolis Star)
NCAA president Myles Brand defended college sports' tax-exempt status, responding to questions from Congress by saying diverse competition from non-scholarship lacrosse to basketball's Final Four, however lucrative, is all related to education....more... Tom Housenick's college basketball column: Flannery let truth be told (The Daily Item)
Bucknell coach Pat Flannery stayed quiet during the post-game press conference after Tuesday's game with visiting Wake Forest about as long as any stretch during the game when the three officials' whistles weren't be used....more... Complaints mount against Altus (Denver Post)
Barbara Mattern called Altus Real Estate as soon as she heard the radio ad touting no mortgage payments for a year. The "Freedom Loan" sounded too good to be true. For Mattern, who later lost her Morrison home to foreclosure, it was....more... |