Easing away from coaching

2010-03-19T02:17:43Z

<div id="subtitle">Local iconÕs last season to hold new thrill: Helping sonÕs team in game on national TV</div><div><p> IF YOU GO</p><p>What: Green Valley vs. Bishop Gorman</p><p>football</p><p>When: 6 p.m. Friday</p><p>Where: Fertitta Stadium,</p><p>Bishop Gorman High</p><p>Tickets:...

Redskins invite local coaches to concussion forum

2010-03-17T17:45:07Z

<div id="subtitle">GM says Redskins invited 500 area high school football coaches to minicamp, concussion forum</div><div><p>The Washington Redskins are inviting 500 area high school football coaches to a concussion forum during a minicamp next month.</p><p>Speaking Wednesday at a panel discussion as part of Brain Injury Awareness Day on Ca...

Football Coach Shot Trial

2010-02-25T10:00:43Z

Aaron Thomas, son of slain high school football coach Ed Thomas, listens to public defender Susan Flander's closing statements in the Mark Becker trial on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, in Allison, Iowa. Becker is accused in the shooting death of ...

Patriots fan favorite Tatupu dies

2010-02-24T11:00:28Z

<div id="subtitle">Mosi Tatupu, Patriots fan favorite and father of Seahawks linebacker Lofa Tatupu, dies</div><div><p>Mosi Tatupu, one of the most popular players in New England Patriots history known for his inspired special teams play, has died.</p><p>Tatupu died Tuesday at

Ga. prep star killed; was to play at Vanderbilt

2010-02-22T08:47:15Z

<div id="subtitle">High school football star slain in apparent murder-suicide in Ga.; had signed with Vanderbilt</div><div><p>A high school football star who had signed to play at Vanderbilt University was shot to death early Thursday by his mother's ex-boyfriend shortly after police arrived to investigate a report of a person with a weapon, auth...

Psychiatrist: coach murder suspect was delusional

2010-02-22T09:10:00Z

<div><p>A psychiatrist has testified that a former football player accused of murdering his high school coach had been suffering from severe delusions but that his condition improved just before the killing.</p><p>Testimony Thursday provided the closest look yet at the mental state of Mark Becker in the days before June 24 when, prosecutors say, Becker repeatedly shot Mark Becker, 24, right, with his defense attorneys Derek Jones, center, and Susan Flander, left, are seen Friday Feb. 12, 2010 at the Butler County Courthouse in Allison, Iowa for opening statements in Becker's trial. Becker is accus...

Trial begins in slaying of Iowa high school coach

2010-02-22T09:46:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Trial begins in slaying of Iowa high school coach; defense says suspect saw victim as Satan</div><div><p>Attorneys have opened the murder trial of a former football player accused of killing his high school coach by concurring on the facts of the case.</p><p>Prosecution and defense attorneys agreed Friday in their opening statements that 24-year-old

Can Texas do more to make football safer?

2010-02-22T13:10:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Texas among nation's leaders in laws to protect athletes, but many want to see more</div><div><p>Something was very wrong with Cameron Schlegel.</p><p>Schlegel, a member of his school's gifted and talented program, could barely walk and couldn't count to 20 after collapsing during a conditioning workout at football practice in the fall of 2008. Doctors ...

NFL honors high school coach of year

2010-02-22T13:49:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Robert Johnson of Mission Viejo High School is NFL high school coach of year</div><div><p>Robert Johnson from Mission Viejo High School in California has been chosen the NFL's high school football coach of the y...

Business Shooting St Louis

2010-01-08T15:16:01Z

In this photo taken Sept. 25, 2009, Cory Wilson is seen during a high school football game between the Edwardsville Tigers and the Collinsville Kahoks in Collinsville, Ill. Wilson was one of three shot to death at the ABB Company in St. Louis on Thursday Jan. 7, 2010 by an employee who...

Storm Rdp

2009-12-19T12:00:30Z

Paula Harhai, center, sits bundled in a blanket as she watches a high school football game between Lancaster Catholic and Greensburg Catholic during the first half of their Class AA Championship football game at the PIAA High School Football Championships in Hershey, Pa...

Jim Litke

2009-12-18T14:30:55Z

In this photo taken Dec. 17, 2009, in Chicago, Gordon Tech High School football standout Tory Squires' bulletin board, outside his room at the Mercy Home for Boys, is decorated with awards and congratulatory messages from college football programs. (AP Photo/(M. ...

Snoop Football

2009-12-18T03:16:27Z

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Crenshaw High School football wide receiver, Geno Hall, wide receiver practices at the Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles. He, and six others on the team, went through rapper Snoop Dogg's Sam Boyd Stadium, 7000 E. Russell Road</p><p>Cost: $5 for students, $7 for adults</p><p> Minutes before the Del Sol High football team started its Monday after...

Younger Favre a chip off the old Brett

2010-02-23T20:35:06Z

<div id="subtitle">The second coming? Younger Favre shows he's got a spring-loaded arm, just like Uncle Brett</div><div><p>There's a guy named Favre who's having an MVP season, owns all the records you can name and has his team poised to win a title.</p><p>Sounds like Brett Favre, right? Think again.&am...

Football semifinal to be preview of college talent

2010-02-24T05:34:40Z

<div><p> For more coverage of the high school football playoffs, go to lasvegassun.com/hsfootball.</p><p> IF YOU GO</p><p>What: Sunset Regional semifinal football games</p><p>When: 7 p.m. Friday</p><p>Where: Palo Verde High at Bishop Gorman...

Going For It Football

2009-11-04T15:30:48Z

Pulaski Academy High School football coach Kevin Kelley works with his team in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Virtually every time the Pulaski Academy Bruins face fourth down, the prep school team from Little Rock, Ark., goes for it. No matter the distance. And here's the thing _ the str...

Girl shot dead after Calif. school football game

2010-02-24T11:45:41Z

<div id="subtitle">16-year-old girl fatally shot after high school football game in California, 2 others injured</div><div><p>Police were searching Saturday for a person who shot and killed a 16-year-old girl and wounded two men when firing into a crowd following a football game at a high school in Southern California.</p><p>The girl, a student at Troy Bullard, center, celebrates with his team after they defeated Goodwell, Okla. and won their 91st consecutive high school football game, which sets a national record for 8-man teams and is the third-longest streak among prep football teams at any level of competition, in Shattuck, Okla...

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