Blowing the whistle on referee shortage: How this program aims to help nationwide issue
The billion-dollar youth and high school sports industry around the country has been plagued by a referee shortage, with overbearing parents and coaches and time demands being examples of why many don’t want to be officials anymore.
Parents of Iowa teen who killed 1 and wounded 7 in shooting say they had 'no inkling' of his plan
The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week said in a statement Monday that they “had no inkling he intended the horrible violence he was about to inflict.”.
‘Iron Boy’ who got UCF prosthetic arm now playing high school football
Alex Pring’s story first made the news when he was a little boy. Pring's mother wanted to find a prosthetic for her son who was born missing most of his right arm. With the help of some student engineers at the University of Central Florida, he was gifted a 3D-printed one for free in 2014.
Light of inspiration: Detroit Edison baseball team advances to state championship against all odds
It’s hard enough for any school to get to a state baseball final, let alone a school in a city where prep baseball is an afterthought. But the improbable nature of Edison’s run goes even further than that.