Jury Clears School Coach in Player's Heat Death

Reggie Garrett has seizure on sidelines

(NEWSER) - Sad news in high school football: A Texas quarterback collapsed and died after suffering an apparent seizure on the sidelines. Reggie Garrett had just thrown his second TD pass of the game when he came off the field in the second quarter. Players started noticing he was in trouble after the extra point, reports the Beaumont Enterprise . More»

Adult gunman in custody

(NEWSER) - A top Iowa high school football coach is dead after he was shot by a former player in the school’s weight room—with students nearby today, the Gazette of Cedar Rapids reports. Ed Thomas was shot point-blank in the head; no one else was hurt. The suspect, 24-year-old Mark Becker, is in custody. With a 292-84 record over 37 seasons, Ed Thomas was NFL high school coach of the year in 2005; he coached four NFL players. More»

(NEWSER) - A high school football coach in Kentucky has been charged with reckless homicide after one of his players collapsed during practice on a sweltering day and later died, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. The coach faces five years in prison if convicted. He and his assistants reportedly denied players water and ran them hard on a 94-degree August day. The student who died had a temperature of 107 degrees at the hospital. More»

Former Penn State coach takes turn for the worse with lung cancer

(AP) - Joe Paterno's doctors say the former Penn State coach's condition has become "serious" after he experienced complications from lung cancer in recent days. The winningest major college football coach of all time, Paterno was diagnosed shortly after Penn State's board of trustees ousted him Nov. 9 in the aftermath of the child sex abuse charges against former assistant Jerry Sandusky. More»

7 suffer minor injuries as unmanned cart ploughs into people

(NEWSER) - The winning coach and several other people were bowled over by a runaway electric cart that raced across the field after a weekend high school football playoff game at Cowboys Stadium. Seven people were treated for minor injuries caused by the cart, which was stopped by a field worker after it raced from the end zone to midfield, the AP reports. Workers were clearing yard markers and pylons when the cart took off, apparently with a pylon jamming its accelerator to the floor. More»