FOOTBALL: BSU excited for exposure of ESPN (Ball State Daily News)
The largest sports entertainment company in the United States has arrived in Muncie for the Ball State University, Navy football game. Two semi's pulled in Wednesday afternoon outside Scheumann Stadium carrying all the equipment ESPN will need to broadcast Friday night's game.
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Vermillion Youth Football Association kicks off inaugural season (Vermillion Plain Talk)
The Vermillion Youth Football Association is set to kickoff their inaugural season after turning a dream into reality in four short months. Full tackle football with pads is under way this fall with teams competing at the third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade levels. Approximately 85 total youth football players are competing at the various grade levels with the third grade fielding the ...
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Scheeringa as essential to Griffith football as Radtke (Post-Tribune)
It's a ritual for me now. A phone call to Russ Radtke the last week of July to set up an interview for the Post-Tribune's 68-page TimeOut preview football section. I head out to the high school the first day of practice. We shake hands and then Russ tells stories about how much potential his team has and about how they have about 100 kids out.
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More saving than splurging in lean back-to-school (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
This back-to-school season, high school student Tony Lopez is sticking to basics like jeans and shirts so he has enough money to buy his football equipment and go out on weekends.
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A class by class guide to a Notre Dame football weekend (The Observer)
After impatiently waiting for the past nine months, and avoiding excuses for that abomination of a season, it's morning again at Notre Dame. Our football team is back in action this weekend, and campus is morphing to account for it.
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Veteran football coaches have seen game change (Dayton Daily News)
Friday nights are different now for Alter High School football coach Ed Domsitz.
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Veteran football coaches have seen game change (The Oxford Press)
Friday nights are different now for Alter High School football coach Ed Domsitz. Just about everything in football has changed since the 33-year head coach first led a team in the mid-'70s.
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Yards 4 Youth Football Program with Jay Novacek (KCBD-TV Lubbock)
Three-time Superbowl Champion and former Dallas Cowboy Jay Novacek, joined us this Thursday morning to discuss Alltel Wireless' "Yards 4 Youth" Football Program.
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Redskins' football team set to host first-ever Kickoff Classic fundraiser (Morris Daily Herald)
On Saturday, Aug. 9 at the Morris Moose Lodge 3835 on Rt. 47 south of town, a fundraiser for the Morris Community High School football team and the Quarterback Club will be held. Tabbed the Morris Redskins' Kickoff Classic, the event is set to feature an afternoon of fun while supporting the local gridders.
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GITTELSON: The cost of playing on Friday nights (Los Angeles Daily News)
With high school football teams going high end more and more these days - spiffy new uniforms every year, fancy pregame food spreads, state-of-the-art equipment and luxury buses transporting teams on road trips - the natural question is who foots the bill for all of it?
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