Coaching
Hearing Hurdles Drive College Athletes   Last year, 76 deaf and hard-of-hearing students played NCAA and NAIA sports, according to Deaf Digest Magazine, and 39 of them played in D1. USA Today, 9-15-09
 
The ultimate shout-out for Rutger’s Coach Vivian Stringer    Coach Stringer was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Sept. 11.   Scarlet Knights.com, 9-12-09
 

Dashing through the Week 1 roundup     Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author resumes his infamously delightful and derisive “dash” through the weekend’s football action.   Pat Forde, ESPN.com, 9-8-09

 
Schedule padding, David & Goliath and creampuffs   Guarantee games are the norm in big-time football, but the Pac-10 and ACC play considerably less of them than the other BCS conferences.   AP, 9-8-09
 
Coaches of Color   . . . . continued . . .    News flash: There’s a great discrepancy in head coaching racial ratios in the NCAA and pro leagues.   The Tennessean, 9-6-09
 
Top 10 College Football Entrances   From the distinctly creative lists section of RealClearSports come the loudest, most intimidating and fan-invigorating college football psych-outs.    RealClearSports, 9-1-09
 
When Rivals ranks, football fans listen   Here’s Rivals.com’s pre-season take on the best offensive and defensive coordinators.   Rivals.com, 8-31-09
 
August 2009
College football’s crying shame    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author expounds on “how absurd it is to both hype these guys [football coaches] up as Mother Teresas with whistles and then tear them down based on a rule book that as important as it is, shouldn’t define someone’s soul.”  By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports, 8-31-09
 
They’re coming to America    International athletes have become more than just a trickle on some teams at US schools.  Most people are okay with that, but some aren’t.   NCAA Champions Magazine, Summer 2009
 
Heat injuries in FB: a very real and serious problem   A 4-part, 6200-word series details how heat-stroke deaths are preventable with the proper precautions.   Fanhouse, 8-14-09
 
Urban Meyer gets $750,000 raise     Florida coach Urban Meyers has been rewarded handsomely for winning two national championships in the last three years.   Orlando Sentinel, 8-3-09
 
50 greatest coaches of all time   Sporting News Mag polled 114 Hall of Famers in several sports, plus assorted experts in the field, and came up with a multi-sport, melded and agglomerated top 50 coaches of all time.   Sporting News Magazine, 7-29-09
 
July 2009
The latest D1-A football head coach salaries   Yup, here they are, from Pete Carroll's $4.4 mill on down to Doug Martin's (Kent State) $170,000.   Coaches Hot Seat.com, 7-29-09
 
Lack of signed contract leads Gillespie, UK to court   Clips Guest Commentary   With the messy Gillespie-Kentucky litigation looming ahead, our guest authors provide insights for both coaches and university athletic administrators about memorandums in the coach-school employment context.   Matt Wilson & Stu Brown, SportsBusiness Journal, 7-27-09
 
AAU recruiting ban causes unforeseen consequences   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author observes that new NCAA recruiting rules always seem to be stricken by the law of unintended consequences, and the recently imposed ban on observing April AAU tournaments now seems like “fixing a flat tire with a roll of duct tape.”   Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News Today, 7-24-09
 
Big-money coaches not immune   Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author reminds us that even well-paid college coaches are feeling the financial pinch.   By Pat Forde, ESPN.com, 7-15-09
 
Strong still below the glass ceiling   Florida’s defensive coordinator is one of many that face inequality in coaching.  Tampa Tribune, 7-5-09
 
Illustrious AD announces retirement    Henderson State AD Sam Goodwin -- true blue to his alma mater forever – is finally stepping down.  HSU press release, 6-26-09
 
A thorough exam of the Euro    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author reports on the good and bad of big time basketball on the other side of the pond.  (And it’s mostly good.)   By Marc Isenberg, 7-2-09
 
June 2009
Iconic Iowan high school football coach murdered   A former player – who was not supposed to be on the loose – inexplicably sought out, and gunned down a great coach and a great man.   Des Moines Register, 6-24-09
 
 
Florida's miseducation of college sports    Clips Guest Commentary   Our guest author probes the subject of coach salaries as related to academic priorities.   Jordan Kobritz, Prescott Daily Courier, 6-19-09
 
Cupcakes on the schedule: Big 12 version    This is the first of a series of Clips summaries from a series of best / worst nonconference schedules articles from Matt Hayes of Sporting News Today.  Matt will provide his expert opinion on the nonconference schedules of the six so-called “major” BCS conferences.   Sporting News Today, 6-18-09
 
Title IX: New York City style   A lengthy front page article (above the fold) in the Sunday New York Times illustrates the disparity in girls’ sports at the middle school level in the greatest city in the world.  New York Times, 6-14-09
 

2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: NBA   Sometimes numbers don’t lie, and the best source of numbers for gender and racial diversity are annually tabulated by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. Here’s this year’s report on the NBA.

 
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