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NEWS ABOUT: coaching

coaching stories: 6 news summaries

 NBA's Lone Constant: 
 Free-Throw Stats 

NBA's success rate has hovered around 75% for half-century

Mar 4, 09 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Basketball's free-throw statistics have stayed steady at a rate that amazes academics, the New York Times reports. While most aspects of basketball and other sports have seen records steadily edge up over the years, free-throw shooting hit a plateau of a 75% success rate in the NBA more than 50... More »

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NBA • basketball • statistics • coaching • Pro basketball • college basketball

Michelle Obama's Brother
Will Pen Memoir

Craig Robinson hopes to inspire with book due next year

Jan 29, 09 4:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Craig Robinson, brother of First Lady Michelle Obama, is working on a book to be published next year, the AP reports. Robinson, who coaches the men’s basketball team at Oregon State, hopes the book—entitled A Game of Character—will be part memoir, part inspirational guide. More »

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Michelle Obama • Oregon State Beavers • memoir • brother • inspiration • coaching • Craig Robinson • college basketball • Obama administration

(Newser) - In the annals of coaches' motivational stunts, it might not rank with "win one for the gipper," but the 49ers' Mike Singletary sure caught his players' attention. With his team trailing 20-3 at halftime last week, Singletary—in his first game as a coach—dropped his pants in... More »

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NFL • San Francisco 49ers • Seattle Seahawks • coaching • Mike Singletary

Glory Road Coach
Haskins Dead at 78

Beloved icon broke race barriers in college ball

Sep 8, 08 2:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don Haskins, the beloved coach famous for smashing racial barriers in college basketball during the 1960s, died yesterday at age 78, reports the El Paso Times. Haskins, one of the winningest coaches in the history of collegiate basketball, is best known for his groundbreaking decision to start five black players... More »

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NCAA • coaching • racial equality • University of Kentucky • college basketball • Don Haskins • Texas Western University • 1966

 Young QBs Fall 
 Through Cracks 

So much promise is lost to a haphazard training system, bad luck

Aug 31, 08 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - All too common are the hopeful young quarterbacks who found themselves not taking snaps, the New York Times reports, but instead drifting around the NFL as human debris. Blame insufficient coaching, the win-now mantra of teams these days, or plain bad luck —for whatever reason, there are big problems... More »

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NFL • NCAA football • Ben Roethlisberger • football • Bill Walsh • quarterback • David Carr • Mike Holmgren • coaching

Long-Held Secret Takes Man Off
Death Row

Ethics board allows lawyer to speak up

Jan 19, 08 4:11 PM CST
(Newser) - A Virginia lawyer revealed a 10-year-old secret last year that had put a man on death row: Prosecutors coached another suspect to make his testimony match the evidence. When the state's legal ethics board reversed its gag order on Leslie Smith, the lawyer spoke up last week, and the sentence... More »

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death penalty • Virginia • death sentence • murder trial • Leslie Smith • Virginia bar • coaching

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