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First, Class: Elevating the Role of Ethics in Sports

Post author By YankTank
Post date January 29, 2009
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“Winning is nice if you don’t lose your integrity in the process.” –Arnold Horshak, Welcome Back, Kotter

Forget steroids. Forget asterisks. Forget gambling, sideline taping, dogfighting, DUIs, and firearm possession. While they all are the headlining stars of the dramatic Demise of Sports feature film, they are also eclipsing other infractions that may be technically legal, but are much more cancerous.

The most salacious sins and underhanded offenses occur squarely in the gray area, the insidious trap of loopholes and defendable vices. On the contrary, performance-enhancing substances and criminal misdemeanors stack up neatly in the black and white areas, the right and wrong silos.

Tags david wells, ethics, highschool basketball, joe torre, ted williams, willie randolph

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Texas High School Offenses Applying Old Concepts to New Situations

Post author By JPotts68
Post date October 16, 2008
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Veer, midline, speed option, and load option are things of the past in Texas high school football, right? These “old school” option plays might be appropriate for a wikipedia article on Tom Osborne, but certainly don’t apply to high flying, spread attacks that are common amongst one of the nation’s strongest high school football states, do they? Fact is, more and more teams are incorporating these time honored schemes into their already complex offensive systems. After all, with the cyclical nature of football, it was only a matter of time before integration of old and new would occur.

Tags high school football, texas

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LIVIN’ BY THE LETTER "C"

Six words, derived from one letter, drives Steve Just to success. He never lets a bad day get in the way of what he, and more importantly, his team, wants to accomplish.

Tags high school baseball

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Rule Number 76: Play Like a Warrior!

Post author By cernig
Post date June 9, 2006
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Tell them it wasn’t easy.
When they look back on their 16 wins, tell them we never took a single one for granted.
Teach them about our passion and our patience.
If they ask who was our star, give them 20 names.
If you forget our names, just tell them we were Warriors.
And in the season of our lives, we became a team.
A team that made people believe that baseball could be magic.
And men could be perfect.

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A dream season ended.

I play on the varsity basketball team for Northland High School. We have a lot of talent, but the other schools in the conference are much bigger and have powerhouse basketball programs. We faced the best team in the conference, the Prentice Buccaneers, at home last night. One senior, an all-conference post man, had his season end in ruins.

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Let’s Go Wolfpack: One Team’s Improbable Championship Run

Post author By SoxFan05
Post date March 23, 2005
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In today’s society, high schools are often deeply divided. Students are so concerned with popularity, that it is a rarity that students from different social classes can come together and even so much as peacefully coexist, let alone actually get along.

This winter, the Boston Latin School Boys’ Hockey team captured the hearts of fans in a way quite similar to that of the Red Sox only a few months earlier. The team transcended cliques and captivated all levels of the social hierarchy. This is their story.

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For Once- They Got It Right

Post author By bsd987
Post date February 22, 2005
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They never get it right.

Never.

But Monday at Stony Brook University, the Section XI Division I wrestling coaches got it right: Chris Iorio was voted Most Outstanding Wrestler.

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Second quarter 3-pointer proves decisive

Post author By coreymac
Post date January 20, 2005
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The headline of this story is the actual headline from a story that I read on foxsports.com.
You can read it here: msn.foxsports.com/story/3323258

Indeed, a 3-pointer in the second quarter of a Vermont high school boy’s basketball game sealed the win for Bellows Free Academy-Fairfax, who defeated Milton 5-2. That’s right – five points to two. Bellows made two baskets while Milton made a grand total of one. No foul shots were taken.

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Surprise!

Boxer Phil Chason got a shock at the start of his Northeast Regional Championship bout
By Shawn French (Windham Independent, Nov. 10, 2004)

Following his appearance in the Golden Gloves national tournament in Kansas City, Mo., Windham’s Phil Chason took four months away from the ring. He returned on Oct. 30 in a four-round brawl against Alex Ayala in the Northeast Regional Championship semifinals.

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A league of their own

The Windham Wiffle®-ball League is up and running
By Shawn French (Windham Independent, Nov. 10, 2004)

With football season over and several cold months before baseball starts up, Andrew Shute and company put together a new sports league. The Windham Wiffle®-Ball League is several games into its season and already the competition for the title is heating up.