High Schools Tackle First Football Practice
from Dallas Morning News HS Game Time
 HSGameTime.com staffers visited football practice fields around the DFW area as Class 5A and 4A teams that held spring practice began workouts for the 2008 season. More
Researchers Explore What Makes Better Athletes, the Physiology of Performance, and More
from Science Daily
The world-record pace for the marathon continues to improve for both men and women. For men, the record pace for the marathon is now about as fast as the record pace for the 10,000-meter run just after World War II. Today, champion athletes are running more than four times farther at speeds of well under five minutes per mile. How can this be? Are humans simply built better or is there something else behind the mind-blowing speeds on the racetrack? More
Ennis’ Harrell Voted THSCA President-Elect
from Waxahachie Daily Light
Ennis head football coach Sam Harrell was recently voted as the president-elect for the Texas High School Coaches Association.
“It was just kind of a humbling, overwhelming feeling,” the Lions head coach said about the election. “When you look at the line up of past presidents, they are the icons of the game.”
On July 30, members of the THSCA elected the Lions coach during the three-day coaching school in San Antonio.
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MRSA Infections Becoming Commonplace among Texas High School Football Players
from Natural News
Infection with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is 16 times higher than the national average among Texas high school football players, according to three studies conducted by the Texas Department of Health Services. More
Heat-Related Deaths in High School Football Players Dip, but All are Preventable
from Science Daily
You could say two is a small number. But that's still two too many for Frederick O. Mueller, Ph.D., professor of exercise and sports science in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More
THSCA Admits Five into Hall of Honor
from Houston Chronicle
Five men were inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor as the 76th annual THSCA convention and coaching school wrapped up at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk hotel. Former Needville head coach Roland Conrad and the late Gaylard Fenley, a former Aldine, Baytown Sterling and MacArthur coach, were inducted as part of the Class of 2008. More
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