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Volunteer coaches participating in youth athletic leagues would be required to have their backgrounds screened under a bill proposed for next spring's legislative session....more...Soccer Player Is Latest Athlete To Be Benched For Head Scarf (The Tampa Tribune)
TAMPA - The benching of a teenage Muslim athlete from a soccer match in Palm Harbor is one in a series of local incidents in which female athletes were prohibited from playing sports in traditional Islamic dress....more... Cheering with dignity (Cavalier Daily Online)
I LOVE baseball, but I cringe during every Cleveland Indians playoff game. Their mascot and logo, Chief Wahoo, depicts Native Americans as grinning, bent-nosed morons. Sadly, the Cleveland Indians franchise is not alone -- similarly disrespectful examples are ubiquitous at all levels of competition....more... Bill seeks coach ID checks (Pensacola News Journal)
A state senator has sponsored a bill requiring fingerprints of sports coaches be checked by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement....more... StubHub FanStats(SM) - 2007 Top 25 College Football Rivalries (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
StubHub, the fans' ticket marketplace, opens Week 8 of arguably the craziest college football season ever with the return of its StubHub Top 25 Rivalry Rankings. While traditional rivalry week does not happen until late November, this week's college football slate sees three storied rivalries being renewed....more... Lifestyles of the Rich Evangelists | In wake of former ORU professors' suit against Richard Roberts, an inventory of ... (Urban Tulsa)
You don't have to be a Christian to relate to the biblical story of Jesus' temptation in the wilderness. According to the Gospel writers' accounts, before the launch of his career as the Savior of the World, the young rabbi from Nazareth got a motivation check from his archrival for the souls of hu... By Brian Ervin....more... YMCA competition sees more success in second year (Jacksonville Daily Record)
It wasn?t much of a surprise to see Steve Beard atop the podium at the Yates Family YMCA in Riverside on Saturday. In fact, he didn?t even wait for his team?s name to be called before he walked up to claim his prize....more... Habs' Price takes one for the team (Canada.com)
There was a scary moment at the Canadiens' practice yesterday when captain Saku Koivu unleashed a harmless looking wrist shot and caught goaltender Carey Price square on the collarbone....more... Bill pushes checks of volunteer coaches (Florida Today)
Legislators are pushing for fingerprinting of youth sports coaches. Will the cost be too much of a burden?...more... |