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Coach's Corner

Coach’s Corner: UM’s Shannon Profiled by SI.com

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth and amateur sports:
Miami Coach Randy Shannon Brings Real Life Experience to Hurricane (Dave Hyde, SI.com, 9/23).
“Do you know how many black coaches off America’s meanest streets walk the sideline of big-time college football in these enlightened times of 2009? The one in this office. [...]

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PCA Gives Out Three Honoring the Game Awards

As part of the National Youth Sports Awards Program sponsored by Deloitte, Positive Coaching Alliance now bestows quarterly Honoring the Game Awards to schools and youth sports organizations that embody PCA ideals.
The most recent winners include Mustang Soccer in Danville, Calif., Niles North High School in Skokie, Ill., and Northport Cow Harbor United Soccer Club [...]

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Coach’s Corner: Game On a Must-Read Book

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth and amateur sports. This week’s lead is the Institute for International Sport’s pick of “Game On” as a must-read book for educators. It was chosen in recognition of exceptional sport-themed books that contribute to the education of youth and adults, and to the American [...]

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Coach’s Corner: Pioneer Press Series on Youth Sports

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth and amateur sports. This week’s lead takes a look at St. Paul Pioneer Press writer Bob Shaw’s great four-part series, “A Generation on the Sidelines.”
A Generation on the Sidelines: To Revive Participation in School Sports, Let Kids Be Kids (Bob Shaw, St. Paul Pioneer Press, [...]

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Coach’s Corner: Should Student-Athletes Pay to Play?

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth and amateur sports. This week’s lead tackles the issue of dwindling athletic department budgets in high schools and wonders if student-athletes should pay to play. After the jump we look at women in coaching roles, as well as the rough year youth sports organizations [...]

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Coach’s Corner: Can DNA Predict Athleticism? T-Ball Pioneer Remembered; Allentown Chimes in on Sports

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth and amateur sports. This week’s lead takes a look at whether DNA tests can screen athleticism. If you’re not into controversy, then jump ahead to a look back at the life of Jerry Sacharski, who has the distinction of pioneering T-ball. Allentown’s Morning [...]

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Coach’s Corner: Should Youth Be Allowed to Lose?

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth and amateur sports. This week’s lead takes a look at the “politically correct” culture within youth sports. The issue of fighting in hockey continues to make news, and we’ve got another look at that after the jump. And when it comes to danger, [...]

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Coach’s Corner: Milwaukee High School Basketball Game a Great Display of Sportsmanship

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth and amateur sports. This week’s lead tells the heart-warming tale of a high school basketball player that showed up mid-game the day his mother passed away. Johntell Franklin: “I knew my Mom would have wanted me to play. She was always proud of me [...]

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Coach’s Corner: Is the Goon Era Coming to an End in Hockey? Concussion Panel Seeking Fighting Ban

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth and amateur sports. This week’s lead examines hockey’s impact on concussions and the effort to ban fights in the sport:
Concussion Panel Recommends Ban on Hockey Fights (Canadian Press, 2/10).
Fighting Hockey Violence Will Give You a Concussion; Medical Advice Won’t Change the Cultivated Culture of Violence [...]

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Coach’s Corner: As Colleges Look for Top High School Athletes, is Recruiting Getting Out of Hand?

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth sports. This week’s articles take a look at the national conversation around recruiting:
College Basketball Recruiting Enters Halls of Middle School (Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 2/3).
College Recruiting’s Thin Gray Line (Evans & Thamel, New York Times, 2/4).
As Colleges Woo Athletes, It Adds Up (Todd Holcomb, Atlanta [...]

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Positive Coaching Alliance’s Thompson Shares His Take on 100-0 Dallas Prep Game

With all the recent buzz surrounding the Covenant School’s 100-0 drubbing of The Dallas Academy in a girl’s high school basketball game in Dallas, Texas, Positive Coaching Alliance Executive Director Jim Thompson offers his take on the game.
Under the header, “No Winners in Dallas’ 100-0 Basketball Game,” Thompson writes in this month’s Positive Coaching Alliance [...]

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Coach’s Corner: Elite Soccer Club Forbids Players From Playing on High School Squads

Each week, Progress Avenue lists articles of interest about youth sports. This week’s lead features an article from the Dallas Morning News that examines the FC Dallas Juniors soccer club’s decision not to allow its academy players to play on their high school squads:
Exclusive Club: FC Dallas Juniors Forbid Varsity Play (Brandon George, Dallas Morning [...]

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