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More States Accommodating High School Wheelchair Racers
By
Michael Popke,
August 2012
Last October, Jordan Houdeshell won the first wheelchair cross country title in Iowa history, completing a 5,000-meter course with a time of 17:04, as enthusiastic spectators stretched 150 yards along either side of the finish line.
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Live Streaming of Prep Sporting Events Makes Slow But Sure Progress
By
Michael Popke,
May 2012
Locals in southeastern Louisiana call it the “Battle on the River,” the annual football rivalry between Destrehan and Hahnville high schools.
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How to Weed Out Trouble-Making High School Sports Fans
By
Michael Popke,
April 2012
In a brief but volatile confrontation with a referee officiating his daughter's basketball game at Albuquerque, N.M.'s Volcano Vista High School in January, Paul Alfaro flung a vulgarity the official's way.
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High School Sports Teams Stretch Out with Yoga
By
Michael Popke,
February 2012
When baseball practice begins next month at Jeffersonville (Ind.) High School, Matt Rigsby will find out whether the optional once-a-week yoga classes he has been offering his players since September have paid off.
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How High School ADs Can Rein in Questionable Coaching Behavior
By
Michael Popke,
January 2012
The final months of 2011 brought almost weekly stories of high school coaches misbehaving.
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Arizona and Hawaii Introduce High School Sand Volleyball, Surfing
By
Emily Attwood,
December 2011
Athletes in Hawaii and Arizona will soon be taking their game to the beach — well, in Hawaii, anyway.
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League of Fans' Ken Reed Talks Sports Reform
By
Paul Steinbach,
November 2011
Ken Reed doesn’t hate sports. He enjoyed a full scholarship to the University of Denver, where he played baseball and basketball, and holds a doctorate in sports administration.
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High School Senior Ruled One Day Too Old to Play Basketball
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John T. Wolohan,
April 2011
The primary goal of every state high school athletic association is to develop rules and regulations that ensure fair and safe play.
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Overly Aggressive Workouts Put Athletes at Risk of Rhabdomyolysis
By
Paul Steinbach,
April 2011
A University of Iowa investigation into the January hospitalization of 13 football players has determined that an intense exercise regimen on the heels of a three-week layoff from supervised workouts was the cause of the players' rhabdomyolysis, a potentially fatal breakdown of muscle fibers into the bloodstream, where excess proteins can clog the kidneys and cause renal failure.
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School, Park Districts Explore Partnership to Save Sports
By
Michael Popke,
April 2011
When Rockford (Ill.) Public Schools announced two weeks into 2011 that it was exploring a partnership that would transfer operation of interscholastic sports to the Rockford Park District, school officials cited several benefits.
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