Youth basketball coach accused of trying to fix games
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?
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.
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.
Moving past 10,000 unique visitors a month to his website, Dr. Colby Jubenville's message is being heard and virally spreading though the industry and academia. In particular, his blog is reaching national attention as most recently evidenced with an invitation to participate in the dialogue found on www.opposingviews.com
The Los Angeles based site seeks to uncover all sides of issues that experts care about the most. "Opposing Views" introduces the topics of discussion, the experts state their case and impart their knowledge, and the audience connects with a body of knowledge to make a well-informed decision in order to take action.
Sports Editor, Alex Groberman contacted Dr. Jubenville for his expertise in the sport industry and will feature him on his own profile page. With a direct link to his blog, "Opposing Views" will republish Dr. Jubenville's work on its site in order to reach a wider audience nationally while adding value to the current body of work surrounding the sport industry.
Board Member, Meadows, Continues to Provide Leadership to Papajohns.com Bowl
Fifth Annual Papajohns.com Bowl Set for Jan. 8 on ESPN
By Jenny Zimmerman, ESPN
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - ESPN Regional Television announced today that the 2010-11 Papajohns.com Bowl will be played Jan. 8 at Legion Field.
The game, in its fifth year, will feature a team from the BIG EAST Conference against a team from the Southeastern Conference and will be televised nationally at noon ET on ESPN.
"We are excited about playing on a Saturday as we have done in three of our four previous games," said Mark Meadows, executive director, Papajohns.com Bowl. "Saturdays have always been popular with fans, giving families an opportunity to attend the game together. Additionally, as the only bowl game televised on January 8th, more national attention will be focused on the Papajohns.com Bowl and Birmingham."
Punch Will Stay With Brittney Griner Forever -- Just Ask LeGarrette Blount
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By Michelle Smith, FanHouse
There are such things as freshmen mistakes - and most of them have to do with ill-advised turnovers, not knowing which play you're running or taking a bad shot at the wrong time.
What Brittney Griner did Wednesday night was not a freshman mistake. It was just a big, fat, ugly public mistake.
Griner became a "SportsCenter" fixture for the night after punching Texas Tech's Jordan Barncastle in the face with 9:01 to go in the second-to-last Big 12 game of the season.
The video shows Barncastle and Griner (right, battling in Feb. 17 game) getting their arms tangled in the paint, breaking free aggressively and then Griner charging Barncastle and simultaneously throwing a round-house punch to Barncastle's face.
Many areas of academic research, including child psychology, education psychology, and organizational psychology, all tell us the same things: to create behavioral policies that work, you must craft a clear message based on a set of core values, communicate that message constantly and clearly, and be consistent in follow-up and reinforcement.
Obviously, the AHSAA did just that: they created a values-driven message, reinforced it through their use of the Learning Through Sports modules, and showed they meant business with sanctions for offenders.
Not only did they accomplish their objective of reducing ejections, but they positioned themselves as a leader in interscholastic athletic policy after whom other state high school associations should model themselves.
