Archive for high school sports

Father allegedly issues death, rape threats against daughter’s volleyball coach

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

An angry father in a suburb outside of Chicago was arrested last week after he made several direct threats to his daughter’s high school coach after benching her for a volleyball game last week. John Kasik, 61, reportedly became extremely angry after his daughter was pulled from a Lisle High School volleyball match in which ... read more »

Most Excited High School Basketball Announcer Ever

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Brian Snow, a play-by-play basketball announcer for IU Northwest and High School Cube doesn’t take his job lightly. When he calls a game, he gives it everything he’s got, even if it means verging on the edge of blowing out his vocal cords: Deadspin has the follow-up. P.S. If you made any assumptions about what ... read more »

Teenage athletes with heart problems may be slipping through screenings

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

A new study shows that doctors are skipping parts of screening exams, which may be allowing teen athletes with cardiac risks to fall through the cracks. A report presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association stated that than 6 percent of doctors followed the screening guidelines suggested by the group when conduction ... read more »