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Archive for September, 2009

A Step In The Right Direction

September 28th, 2009

SK considers tough drug, alcohol policy for athletes

By Liz Boardman/Independent Staff Writer

 
 

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Under the terms of the new Athletic Handbook proposed by the school district, student athletes must leave a party if alcohol or illegal drugs are present, and may be required to report the incident to their coach and the athletic director. If they are caught at such a party three times – cell phone photos and Facebook postings will be considered evidence – they will be banned from all sports teams for at least one calendar year.

For now, students participating in other extracurricular activities like drama, band or Model United Nations will not be subject to the code, though the committee plans to expand it to them within a few years. (more…)

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More Behavioral Issues With NCAA High Profile Athletes

September 25th, 2009

KU basketball, football players involved in three altercations

By J. BRADY McCOLLOUGH

The Kansas City Star

KU guard Elijah Johnson was escorted out of Wescoe Hall by assistant athletic director Sean Lester this morning. Johnson and other teammates left in a van driven by former player Brennan Bechard after police responded to an incident involving members of the basketball and football teams.
Ryan Waggoner | Copyright The University Daily Kansan
KU guard Elijah Johnson was escorted out of Wescoe Hall by assistant athletic director Sean Lester this morning. Johnson and other teammates left in a van driven by former player Brennan Bechard after police responded to an incident involving members of the basketball and football teams.

 

LAWRENCE | Tuesday night’s conflict between Kansas football and men’s basketball players spilled into this morning, and the latest incident reportedly involved prominent players from both teams.

The University Daily Kansan, KU’s student newspaper, reported on its Web site that witnesses saw basketball players Sherron Collins, Tyshawn Taylor, Marcus and Markieff Morris, and Mario Little, among others, at the scene of the altercation outside Wescoe Hall.

Football players Dezmon Briscoe, a standout wide receiver, and Chris Harris, a starting cornerback, were seen talking to police.

Taylor was the only player known to have been involved in one of the two incidents that occurred Tuesday night. He was treated at a hospital for an injury that he revealed on his Facebook page at 12:10 this morning as a dislocated finger he hurt while throwing a punch. Schuyler Bailey, the captain of the KU Public Safety Office, said that his officers had been called to skirmishes between football and basketball players three times in the last 24 hours. Each time, the reporting officers couldn’t find anybody involved who considered themselves a victim or wanted to press charges. Bailey said his office can’t do anything until someone comes forward. (more…)

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The AAI Alcohol Enforcement Training Division

September 23rd, 2009

The American Athletic Institute is proud to announce the implementation of an Alcohol Enforcement Training Division

To educate law enforcement and prevention specialists on the “best practices” of environmental strategies. Heading up the division will be Travis Bruyer, headquartered in Montana.

Travis Bruyer began his Law Enforcement career by joining the US Coast Guard in 1991. He was assigned to a small boat search and rescue unit in the San Francisco Bay area where he began as a rescue swimmer and boarding officer.

Mr. Bruyer was assigned to the Detective Division of the Flathead Valley Montana Sheriffs Department in 2005, as the Alcohol Enforcement Team Coordinator (AET). At that time, the Flathead Valley claimed one of the highest youth underage drinking rates in the United States. Establishing a model Alcohol Enforcement Team, the Flathead began an all out assault on illegal alcohol use. Utilizing the most successful environmental and legal strategies, and working in conjunction with the Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center, The program has become widely viewed as a nationwide community model.  . Travis will be responsible for helping communities establish law enforcement priorities to fight underage drinking and to establish a community Alcohol Enforcement Team (AET). (more…)

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Coaches Need To Be Role Models

September 10th, 2009

Two varsity coaches face DWI charges

By DON LEHMAN
dlehman@poststar.com
Updated: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 11:06 PM EDT
Two varsity sports coaches at Queensbury High School have been arrested on drunken driving charges in recent days, and school officials are looking into whether they should be disciplined.

State Police records show that Sarah A. Currier, 28, of Gansevoort, was charged with felony DWI early Saturday in Saratoga Springs. Felony DWI charges are filed when a driver has a prior misdemeanor DWI conviction within 10 years. Her blood-alcohol level was not released. (more…)

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Athletic Director and coaches work towards prevention methods

September 8th, 2009

Drake football to suspend several athletes for alcohol violations

Matt Vasilogambros and Peter Zemansky

Issue date: 4/20/09

 

Several Drake football players, including three starters, have been suspended for violating the team’s alcohol policy, days before the season opener against Grand View.

Head coach Chris Creighton confirmed the suspensions of the three starters, although he would not name them. Several players on the team told the Times-Delphic that up to 41 players could be suspended, but Creighton said the total number would be less than that. (more…)

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New Bill Proposes Banning Alcohol Advertisements on All State Owned Property

September 3rd, 2009

Massachusetts Leads the Nation in Proposing an Act to Protect Young People from Alcohol…

Wed Sep 2, 2009 5:00am EDT

Massachusetts Leads the Nation in Proposing an Act to Protect Young People

from Alcohol Advertising Statewide


New Bill Proposes Banning Alcohol Advertisements on All State Owned Property


BOSTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Massachusetts State House hearing

is scheduled to be held on September 8, 2009 for House Bill 1113; an act to

ban alcohol advertisements on Commonwealth property.  With this legislation,

Massachusetts is taking a bold stance on alcohol advertising directed at youth

and children and could become the first in the Nation to prohibit alcohol

advertising on state-owned property.  House Bill 1113 was introduced by

Representative Martin J. Walsh with support from the collaborative --

Supporting an Alcohol Ad. Free Environment in Massachusetts (SAFE MA).  (more...)

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Athletes Face Peer Pressure To Party

September 2nd, 2009

At this time of year, sports and social life can collide

Athletes face peer pressure to party

Times Herald-Record
May 10, 2009
They all crowded around him when he arrived to the parties in the woods.

Good game, they told former Monroe-Woodbury star quarterback Greg Sullivan, after he carved up another team under the Friday night lights.

Guys patted Sullivan on his back.

Girls smiled at him.

Then, usually, a classmate offered him a beer, fresh from a keg or in a can.

It was like that almost every Friday night.

“My junior year, it was always awkward, it was like peer pressure,” says Sullivan, a sophomore at Colgate who led Monroe-Woodbury to the Class AA state championship in 2005. “It was like you were almost obligated. I knew it would make me a better leader if I stayed away and, as I got older, people stayed away from me.”

High schoolers have been drinking alcohol pretty much since high school was invented, especially this time of year as proms and graduation parties fill the social calendar and the school year comes to a close. But at the intersection of teen partying and competitive sports lies a whole new set of questions. (more…)

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