Program Reaches Over 13,500 High School and Junior High Student Athletes Achieve College Dreams, Including Dandy Dozen 

Jackson, Miss., (July 21,2010) - Cellular South revealed its signature Cellular South Gameplan educational initiative will continue to expand due to its overwhelming success. To date, the program has helped more than 13,500 high school and junior high student athletes meet NCAA requirements so they can attend college. The Cellular South Gameplan, designed to inspire, prepare and inform participants about college opportunities and reaching their dreams through academic excellence, started in Mississippi in 2007 and has grown to support students in Alabama and Tennessee. 

"The Cellular South Gameplan has added real value in our academic and athletic community and been a great resource for all parties involved," said Orien Watson,Scholastic and Sports Marketing Director at Cellular South. "The Cellular South Gameplan has a proven track record that shows early intervention, academic collaboration, personal accountability and community dedication can improve lives and change the tide for academics in communities."

The Cellular South Gameplan provides junior high and high school student athletes with the tools they need to succeed and attend college. Through its renowned Web-based and on-site workshops that feature a specially designed curriculum, the program provides students, coaches, counselors, teachers and parents with necessary information on the course and grade point average requirements needed to meet NCAA standards (NCAA Division 1 core course requirements).

MURFREESBORO, Tenn.—Dr. Colby B. Jubenville, professor of sport management at Middle Tennessee State University, was selected by the Nashville Business Journal

for its second annual Forty Under 40 special section spotlighting top Nashville-area business leaders under the age of 40 who excel in their industries and show dynamic leadership.

Winners were chosen from a pool of more than 300 names and more than 450 nominations.

You probably read that headline and thought, "Fixing a youth basketball game? Who is betting on youth basketball games? What bookie is taking that business?" (Hopefully you didn't ask that last question because you really are looking for a bookie to take that business.)

The motivation for the game-fixing allegedly attempted by Michael Kman, 45, of Enola, Pa., was even more pathetic than a guaranteed gambling win.

The church youth league coach allegedly offered referees $2,500, and maybe more if they could be trusted, because, well, he was frustrated with the calls and figured that would guarantee they would go his team's way. Did he think Tim Donaghy was reffing youth league now?

Samuel MTSM ’10 Knocks the Cover Off It

By David Climer, The Tennessean

As the region recovers from the Flood of 2010, credit Vanderbilt's baseball program for pitching in.

The Commodores are offering free tickets to their game with powerful Louisville on Tuesday night. Instead of paying for a ticket, fans are asked to donate money for flood relief.

There is a heavy dose of irony at work here. Tim Corbin, Vanderbilt's baseball coach, is no stranger to bad weather. He is notorious for playing games in terrible conditions.

Corbin takes his marching orders right out of the U.S. Postal Service code: Neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night will stay these Commodores from the first pitch.

A story like this illustrates that sometimes the game can be the most powerful teacher for us all. - Dr. Jubenville

When losing a golf tournament really makes you a winner

By Shane Bacon, Yahoo! Sports

There are times to be competitive. Moments when all you want to do is humiliate your opponent as you defeat him. It's the nature of sports, and what our internal competition meters usually read.

That, we all know, is how athletes feel most of the time. But, at times, and these are few and far between, we see acts that defy wins and losses. A moment when a girl is brought in on crutches to score a layup to break a record or someone being carried around the field after she twisted her ankle rounding the bases. Opponents coming together to transcend the game.

That is what happened between two collegiate golfers, vying for a spot in the NAIA National Championship.