As I Also Predicted, Bowling Green High School "PURPLES" Football Wins Class 5A State Championship. It Is Good To Be A PURPLE! Congrats, Guys.

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We Congratulate Bowling Green Purples Football Team's Win Over 62-20 John Hardin, On Their Way To The State's Class 5A Championship. Next (And Last) Victim On December 3? Anderson County. Way To Go Purples!

Purples give John Hardin first loss of season to reach Class 5A final
By MICHEAL COMPTON

Forget about Black Friday. This Friday was purely Purple.

The No. 1-ranked Bowling Green football team rode a wave of first-quarter momentum, crushing No. 2 John Hardin 62-20 in the Class 5A state semifinals at El Donaldson Stadium.

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The Purples used three first-quarter turnovers to build a 34-0 lead and cruised from there, clinching their first state title appearance since 2007.

“That’s pretty good stuff right there,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said. “That’s a great football team over there. A lot of things went wrong for them tonight, and a lot of things went right for us. I’m just happy it went our way.”

Bowling Green (14-0) set the tone defensively, with three turnovers and two three-and-outs on John Hardin’s first five possessions.

Armando Music recovered a fumble on the second play of the game, setting up a Scooter Hollis 10-yard touchdown run 94 seconds into the game.

Bowling Green scored again 13 seconds later when Montel Carpenter stripped Jeremy Harness and raced 15 yards into the end zone to make the score 14-0.

It was the first of two defensive touchdowns in the quarter for the Purples, who capped a 34-point outburst with a 25-yard fumble return by Daquan Irvin late in the opening quarter.

“Turnovers are killers,” Wallace said. “For the last three weeks we’ve seen them on film and they’ve really turned the ball over - putting it on the ground. We talked to our kids about stripping the ball and trying to make good things happen. I’m so proud of them.”

The offense kept the pressure on John Hardin, with Hollis hooking up with Nacarius Fant on a pair of touchdown passes.

BG’s defense picked up one more turnover late in the second quarter, setting up a Brandon Green touchdown run.

John Hardin (13-1) picked up the final score of the half - a 12-yard reception from Harness - but still went into the locker room trailing 48-13.

The Bulldogs added another touchdown reception from Harness late in the third quarter before Bowling Green sealed the win with a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns.

“It feels so good (walking off this field for the last time with a win),” Carpenter said. “Since seventh grade (the seniors) have been playing together, talking about getting a ring. We’re finally here, so I’m happy.”

Bowling Green finished with 372 yards of offense.

Hollis was 8-for-11 with 208 yards and three touchdown passes. The scores gave the senior 26 for his career, passing Trent Steelman’s school record of 24.

Fant finished with six catches for 158 yards.

“We came out and worked as hard as we could in practice to get the routes down and the timing right,” Fant said. “Me and Scooter have had this connection for the last two years. We just have to keep it going.”

John Hardin finished with 107 yards of offense. Harness, who entered the game with more than 1,500 yards rushing, was held to 18 yards on 11 carries and added five catches for 62 yards.

“We’re a good defensive team,” Wallace said. “I think he is probably less than 100 percent, but I thought we did a super job.”

Bowling Green will finish its season where it began - at Houchens-Smith Stadium with a 48-0 win over Allen County-Scottsville - but this time it will be for the 5A state championship at 7 p.m. Dec. 3. The Purples will meet Anderson County, a 49-8 winner over Southwestern.

“We’re going to go play at Western,” Wallace said. “We’re going to finish where we started and we’ve got to finish our business. I’ve been in five finals and I’ve been a part of winning one of them as an assistant. There is a whole big difference in how you feel when it is over with. I want to make sure we have a good feeling next Saturday night.”

JHHS 0 13 7 0 - 20

BGHS 34 14 0 14 - 62

We Congratulate Bowling Green Purples Football Team For WALLOPING Warren Central Dragons 52-9 On Their Way To Becoming State Champions.

Region champs: Purples beat Dragons for the second time this season to reach state semifinals
By MICHEAL COMPTON

The Bowling Green football team moved one step closer to a Class 5A state title, knocking off crosstown rival Warren Central 52-19 on Friday night at El Donaldson Stadium.

In a rematch of a regular-season game won by BG 21-0, the Purples exploded for 35 second-half points to down the Dragons and claim their fifth region title in the past seven years.

“It was fun,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said. “I thought we really played well offensively. Obviously we have to get some things cleaned up in terms of our kicking game, but this was a pretty good night for the Purples.”

Bowling Green’s defense dominated in the regular-season meeting. While defense was again key, it was the offense, led by senior quarterback Scooter Hollis, that shined in Friday’s rematch. Bowling Green racked up 418 yards of offense. Hollis had 190 yards passing and 120 yards on the ground.

“We didn’t think we played very well the first time we played them,” Wallace said. “If you looked at it statistically we had pretty good control of that game too, but we didn’t finish drives. We talked to our kids for four weeks, telling them if we would finish drives and play a little better in the passing game. We didn’t think we threw it and caught very well the first time. We threw it and caught it OK tonight.”

The Purples scored on their opening drive of the night - getting a 2-yard touchdown run from K.J. Cofer.

Warren Central (11-2) got a blocked punt to set up an Eric Brown touchdown run late in the first quarter that made the score 7-7.

Both teams missed field goals in the second quarter before the Purples took the lead for good on a 52-yard touchdown pass from Hollis to Nacarius Fant.

The Dragons turned the ball over twice in the final three minutes of the first half, with the Purples getting a Sam Williams field goal to take a 17-7 halftime advantage.

Bowling Green extended its lead on the first offensive play of the second half when Hollis took off around the left end and raced 69 yards for a touchdown run.

That spark started a second-half explosion for the Bowling Green offense, which scored touchdowns on four straight possessions.

“The first half, we knew what they were going to do, but we were overthinking it a little bit,” Hollis said. “We were tight. Some of my balls weren’t going where I wanted them to. The second half, we got things rolling and got some momentum.”

The Dragons tried to stay within striking distance, but were stopped on fourth-and-inches on their first drive of the second half deep in BG territory.

After a Hunter Neveras touchdown run made the score 31-7, Warren Central scored on the first play of the fourth quarter to pull within 18 points.

Bowling Green put the game away though with 21 straight in the final period, capped by a 50-yard fumble return by Michael Bailey.

Warren Central added a touchdown in the final minute to shave the final margin to 33 points.

“We just didn’t play well,” Warren Central coach Mike Rogers said. “There is no sugar coating it. They’ve got a great football team and you see our youth. We’ll just continue building.

“This is more about the accomplishments of my senior class and how much they’ve helped me build the program back. Getting to two regional championship games in a row, there’s not a whole lot of schools that do that. We’ll get over the hump here and keep building.”

Michael Bush threw for 127 yards for Warren Central, while Brown had 66 yards rushing in his final game as a Dragon.

Fant finished with five catches for 106 yards for the Purples.

Bowling Green will host John Hardin in a battle of unbeatens at 7 p.m. Friday in the Class 5A semifinals.

“It’s the way it ought to be,” Wallace said. “We’ve been the best two teams in the state in 5A all year long. I saw them play in person the first game of the season and thought immediately that they were better than us. We’ll go back and look at film and see what we can do to win the football game. I wouldn’t trade our guys and I know we’ll give great heart. We’ve got to fight, fight, fight to make sure we have a chance to win a state championship.”

WCHS 7 0 0 12 - 19

BGHS 7 10 14 21 - 52

First quarter

BG - K.J. Cofer 2 run (Sam Williams kick), 5:54

WC - Eric Brown 3 run (Adel Muskic kick), 1:06

Second quarter

BG - Nacarius Fant 52 pass from Scooter Hollis (Williams kick), 3:01

BG - Williams 31 field goal, 0:06

Third quarter

BG - Hollis 69 run (Williams kick), 11:42

BG - Hunter Neveras 55 run (Williams kick), 3:39

Fourth quarter

WC - Bryan Stovall 8 run (pass failed), 11:55

BG - Hollis 9 run (Williams kick), 9:11

BG - Brandon Green 24 run (Williams kick), 6:03

BG - Michael Bailey 50 fumble return (Williams kick), 4:47

WC - Daryen Ross 3 run (pass failed), 1:04

We Applaud Bowling Green Purples Football Team For "Taming The Tigers" Of St Xavier 28-20.

Taming the Tigers
Purples get program’s first win against St. Xavier
By ZACH GREENWELL

LOUISVILLE — The Bowling Green Purples were all business as they left the football field Friday night.

But there was no hiding the significance of the situation.

Bowling Green (3-0) overcame a 14-7 deficit at halftime to top St. Xavier, 28-20, at Brother Thomas More Stadium, beating the Tigers for the first time in nine all-time tries.

“The old, grumpy man side of me says we have another game next week,” Bowling Green coach Kevin Wallace said. “But this is special. We’ve been knocking on the door against St. X and Trinity for a number of years, and our kids fought their hearts out.”

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The victory also marked the first time a Kentucky team other than Trinity has beaten St. X since Male did it in 2006.

“We came in confident that we could do it, knowing that we could do it,” Purples senior quarterback Scooter Hollis said. “We were able to execute, and we pulled it out.”

Hollis and St. X quarterback Alex Mattingly accounted for four rushing touchdowns in the game, but it was two big defensive plays that were the difference for the Purples.

After Hollis tied the game in the third quarter with his second score, senior Michael Bailey returned a blocked punt for a touchdown to give Bowling Green a lead it never relinquished.

Senior Jerrett Ingram later recovered a Tigers fumble, setting up the Purples to ice the game with a touchdown run by senior running back Hunter Neveras.

“We had a couple big turnovers ourselves,” Wallace said. “It was just an ebb-and-flow kind of game, and we seemed to get the plays at the right time late.”

St. X advanced into Bowling Green territory on its first drive, but the Purples stifled the threat with an interception by senior Landon Turner at their own 14-yard line.

Bowling Green then marched 86 yards in 11 plays on its opening possession, capped with a 34-yard touchdown run by Hollis at the 4:20 mark of the first half.

Hollis finished the game 8 of 13 passing for 86 yards, rushing for 147 yards on 18 carries.

“We talked to Scooter about it all week,” Wallace said. “We said if they played us in man coverage and the pocket breaks down, you’re more athletic than the one guy you’ve got left. He did a great job, but I don’t think it was a matter of luck. It was something we prepared for.”

Mattingly wasn’t going to be outdone, however, breaking off a 25-yard run with a dead sprint up the right sideline for a score.

That scramble came on the first play of the second quarter, and a missed extra point by St. X kicker Brad Shickel made it 7-6 with 11:50 left in the first half.

Bowling Green gave the Tigers good field possession with about seven minutes to go in the half after a 35-yard punt return by Matt Wempe.

Charles Walker carried the ball 28 yards to the BG 1-yard line, and Mattingly punched it in for his second rushing touchdown of the game. The quarterback also ran in a two-point conversion try, pushing St. X’s lead to 14-7 with 6:58 left in the second.

Hollis was the one who answered out of halftime, ending Bowling Green’s first drive of the second half with a 35-yard touchdown run.

“It was a challenge to me because he was scoring, and I was trying to score,” Hollis said. “I got caught up in it and was trying to make big plays, and that actually led to my interception. But he’s a great quarterback, probably one of the best I’ve played against.”

St. X got nothing going on the ensuing possession, and Shickel’s punt was blocked into the hands of Bailey.

Bailey scooped up the ball and returned it 28 yards for a score, giving Bowling Green a 21-14 advantage at the 7:37 mark.

The Tigers added a 33-yard field goal by Shickel after that, but Neveras provided the exclamation point - a 1-yard touchdown run with 1:34 left - after Ingram’s fumble recovery.

St. X also tacked on another field goal with less than a minute left but couldn’t recover an onside kick attempt.

Bowling Green outgained the Tigers 327-241 in the game. Mattingly finished 6 of 19 passing for just 137 total yards, and St. X was limited to 94 total yards in the second half.

The Purples play their first true home game of the season Friday, when they welcome Henderson County at 7 p.m. at El Donaldson Stadium.

“It’s a great moment, but when Henderson County rolls in next week, it all starts over,” Wallace said. “We don’t get any points for that. I like the business-like approach of our football team. We’ve got a lot of places we can improve, but I like our kids.”

BGHS 7 0 14 7 - 28

STX 0 14 3 3 - 20

First quarter

BG - Scooter Hollis 34 run (Sam Williams kick), 4:20

Second quarter

STX - Alex Mattingly 25 run (kick failed), 11:50

STX - Mattingly 1 run (Mattingly run), 6:58

Third quarter

BG - Hollis 35 run (Williams kick), 9:30

BG - Michael Bailey 28 blocked punt return (Williams kick), 7:37

STX - Brad Shickel 33 field goal, 1:13

Fourth quarter

BG - Hunter Neveras 1 run (Williams kick), 1:34

STX - Shickel 33 field goal, 0:47

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Former Western Kentucky HillTopper Head Football Coach, David Elson, Goes From "Top Of The Hill" To Be Defensive Cordinator At Franklin Simpson High School.

Former WKU coach Elson joins FSHS staff
By the Daily News
Franklin-Simpson football coach Tim Schlosser confirmed Wednesday afternoon to the Daily News that former Western Kentucky University head football coach David Elson

has joined Schlosser’s staff at FSHS.

Elson is the new defensive coordinator for the Wildcats, returning to the Bowling Green area after a year as defensive quality control coach at Indiana University.

“There’s no question we’re excited,” Schlosser said. “As a coach, you always want to do things to make your program better. I think we took a step in the right direction. You don’t always get to hire a coach of his caliber and when the opportunity presented itself, we were obviously excited about it.”

Elson was fired during his seventh season as WKU coach - a winless 2009 year that made him 39-44 overall and 2-22 in his final two seasons.

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Lexington Herald Leader: Max Gilpin's Legacy.

Max Gilpin's legacy

A jury has decided that David Jason Stinson is not guilty of reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of Max Gilpin, a 15-year-old who played football for him at Pleasure Ridge High School in Louisville.

That may have been the only decision the jurors could reach after days of conflicting expert testimony and divergent accounts of just what happened that hot August afternoon last year.

Gilpin's mother, Michele Crockett, acknowledged that prosecutors took a big chance pursuing the case, which she described as "an uphill battle." But it was worth it, she said, to have a public telling of the events that led up to her son's death.

It's a gruesome story.

Players testified that Stinson, wanting to punish them for lack of effort during practice in the 90-plus degree heat, ordered them to sprint until someone quit the team. They ran for 40 minutes. A player said Stinson called him a coward when he vomited during the sprints; two adults watching a soccer game nearby were appalled by what they saw.

Two players did walk off the team; two others were taken to a hospital. One of them, Max Gilpin, died there. A paramedic who treated him on the way to the hospital said Gilpin's skin was hot to the touch. In the hospital more than an hour after he collapsed, Gilpin's temperature was 107 degrees and he was unresponsive.

Stinson, in a statement to the Louisville police, said he never saw players vomit during the sprints and didn't see Gilpin go down. He said he didn't know anything about Gilpin's collapse until later, during a team meeting.

The Jefferson County Public Schools, which has seemed more than content to stay on the sidelines in this story, announced Monday that Stinson, who had been in a non-teaching position since January, was cleared to return to the classroom. He's also free to apply for a coaching position, the district said. Stinson, who appeared on Good Morning America Tuesday, wants to coach again, his attorney said.

So many questions remain unanswered in this case. Could Gilpin have been saved if an athletic trainer had been on the scene or the coaches who were there had better training and equipment to deal with heat-related stress? Why didn't Stinson know that Gilpin and other players were stressed in the heat? Was the school district more concerned about managing the public relations damage than getting to the truth about why and how one of its students died?

The big unanswered question, though, is this: Will it happen again?

The prosecutors and Gilpin's parents believe that prosecuting this case will cause coaches to pay more attention to their players. A state law passed in the wake of Gilpin's death mandates that at least one coach who has passed a four- to five-hour online sports course is present at all practices and games. Many schools and districts made water breaks more frequent and took other precautions against heat-related illness after Gilpin died.

So, there's evidence that Gilpin's death and Stinson's prosecution have served as a wake-up call in high school athletics. The challenge will be to assure that the adults in charge stay awake in years to come when this trial is history and impressionable young people go out on hot summer days to prove themselves.

OK, Back To Kentucky Where The Prosecution In The Max Gilpin Case, Against PRP Football Coach, Jason Stinson, Is About To Lose The Case. Read More.

From excerpts in today's story, we get this DAMAGING set of facts for the prosecution:

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Earlier in the day, Lois Gilpin, Max’s stepmother at the time of his death, told jurors that the teen was sick on the day he collapsed and should not have gone to school.

Lois Gilpin, who has been separated from Max’s father since November, testified that Max wasn’t feeling well on Aug. 19, 2008, and went to bed early without eating dinner. The next morning Max felt hot said he had a headache and was ill before he went to school, Lois Gilpin.

Max’s father, Jeff, told the teen he needed to go to school, she said.

Her “biggest regret is that I didn’t fight Jeff” and allow Max to stay home that day, she told jurors.

“I wish he had stayed home, but did what his dad said,” Lois Gilpin told jurors. “…The truth is, he was sick.”

Under cross-examination by prosecutors, Lois Gilpin acknowledged that she has refused to talk to prosecutors about the case, has supported Stinson’s defense fund and attends church with Stinson.

“I didn’t feel like I had to speak to you,” Gilpin told Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Leland Hulbert.

She also said that Max’s mother and stepfather talked about filing a civil lawsuit against PRP’s football coaches while Max was in the hospital. She denied prompting Jeff to get involved in the suit.

On the first day of defense testimony Tuesday, former state medical examiner Dr. George Nichols testified that Max’s death from heat stroke was an accident and “should not have been foreseeable.”

Nichols and Dr. Daniel Danzl, chairman of the University of Louisville department of emergency medicine, both testified that heat strokes aren’t often preventable, require hospitalization and often end in death.

Both also said Max was not dehydrated and that excessive running did not contribute to his heat stroke. They said more likely causes were taking Adderall, an amphetamine used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Max’s use of creatine, a supplement intended to build muscle mass, as well as a possible viral illness the teen suffered the day of practice.

Reporter Jason Riley can be reached at (502) 582-4727.

I Know It's One Side Of The Story Still, But I Don't See PRP Football Coach, Jason Stinson, Getting Away "Scott Free" In Death Of Max Gilpin. No, Sir.

Players testify they were vomiting, gasping at practice where Max Gilpin collapsed
By Jason Riley

Several current and former Pleasure Ridge Park High School football players testified Wednesday that they saw teammates who were vomiting, stumbling, crying — and even having trouble breathing — at the Aug. 20, 2008, practice where teammate Max Gilpin collapsed from heat stroke.

Most of the players estimated they ran 20 to more than 30 wind sprints — far more than normal — and described former head coach Jason Stinson as being angry, yelling at players and denying them water.

Stinson is standing trial in Jefferson Circuit Court on felony charges of reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in Max's death, three days after that August practice.

Christian Vincent, 17, said Stinson called him a “coward” after he vomited and took a break from running wind sprints to catch his breath.

And Charles “Chase” Sweat, 16, told jurors he was running next to Max when he saw the 15-year-old sophomore lineman vomit and stumble during sprints and fall to his knees trying to catch his breath.

But under cross-examination from Stinson's attorneys, the players acknowledged that the wind sprints were not timed — as was customary — and players were running at their own pace.

Some sat out the sprints if they weren't feeling well, without punishment, and one player testified that he vomited because he drank too much water before running sprints.

Sweat testified that he and a teammate had to lift up Max during a break to help him keep running sprints, which Stinson told the team would continue until a player quit.

As Sweat testified, Michele Crockett, Max's mother, left the courtroom sobbing.

David Thompson, 19, said after Gilpin collapsed, he was unresponsive and had “white stuff” around his mouth as teammates carried him off the field.

“His face was like a pale blue,” Thompson said.

Prosecutors have told the jury the practice was “barbaric.” But Stinson's attorneys have said that while the practice may have been hard, players were given water breaks and were allowed to stop if they were filling ill.

The defense has also repeatedly told jurors that the practice had to end by about 6:15 p.m. that day because buses were coming to take some players home, meaning the team knew Stinson couldn't make them run all night.

And some of the players testified they didn't have troubles running — or complaints about Stinson's conduct.

David Englert, a wide receiver on the team when Max died, testified that he was the player who quit the team and ended the running at the Aug. 20 practice. But he said he quit because Stinson was yelling at him, not because he was feeling ill or tired.

Englert, who said a friend quit the team with him, told jurors he was never denied water and that the practice wasn't the hardest he had ever attended.

Senior Daniel Farris said he was allowed to skip the sprints and sit in the shade with an ice pack because he felt sick.

And Vincent acknowledged he had no problem with Stinson before or after the practice and that the coach often called players cowards to motivate them.

Vincent, a defensive lineman, also said he was allowed to take a break from three wind sprints when he began to feel ill.

And he testified that coaches did not make him run again. Vincent said he was motivated by Stinson calling him a coward and began running again on his own.

Vincent said the team got water breaks during practice but that Gilpin and other linemen missed the last water break before Stinson ordered players to start running sprints because they were receiving extra instruction from four assistant coaches.

The defense has argued that medical tests on Max when he arrived at the hospital showed he was not dehydrated, indicating that a lack of water had nothing to do with the teen's death.

Vincent testified that practice was tougher than usual and the wind sprints made it “so hard to catch a breath and keep a breath.”

When he arrived home, Vincent's family told him he was pale and didn't seem himself, so his uncle, a firefighter with training as an emergency-medical technician, checked his vital signs.

Brandon Kitchens, who was an eighth-grader practicing with the PRP freshman last year, said the team normally ran about four sprints but that day they ran about 30. When he asked to get water, Kitchens said a coach told him to wait until Stinson gave permission.

“My body was completely numb and my mouth was dry,” Kitchens said.

And Cordell Watts, a former PRP defensive end, said after the sprints, he was lightheaded, but when players tried to get water, Stinson told them “I didn't tell you all to get water; you get water when I tell you to,” and had them attend a team meeting first.

The defense noted in cross-examination with players that the team meeting lasted five minutes and then players were allowed to get water.

Sorry For S-L-O-W postings, As Professional Duties Took Precedence. Let's Start With News That Should Make Us Say: What Did You Expect?

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Jefferson County prosecutors want a school district report on the death of Pleasure Ridge Park football player Max Gilpin excluded from ex-coach Jason Stinson's trial because it selectively used information to reach a "self-serving and wholly inaccurate conclusion."
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Arguing that the Jefferson County Public Schools investigation is "factually and logically unsound," the Commonwealth's Attorney's office is asking a circuit judge to keep the report out of Stinson's Aug. 31 trial.

Superintendent Sheldon Berman released the report earlier this month, concluding that neither then-head coach Stinson nor his assistants violated state rules or district policy at the Aug. 20 practice where Max collapsed from heat exhaustion. Max died three days later.

Stinson has pleaded not guilty to reckless homicide in Max's death.

In a motion filed in Jefferson Circuit Court, prosecutors wrote that the school district "omitted relevant information that it believed was damaging to its position" and included information in its findings that is not included in statements witnesses made to police or the district.

Judge Susan Schultz Gibson set an Aug. 14 hearing date to hear arguments.

Superintendent Sheldon Berman said Monday that the district conducted "a very thorough investigation" and "we stand behind the findings."

Berman said "certain witnesses say different things to different people" and noted that some of the statements collected by the district were lengthier than those given to police.

The district's 271-page report says players got four to five scheduled water breaks, and the practice was "normal" until Max collapsed.

Berman has said the district's investigation, which included interviews with 125 witnesses, "clearly indicated that Max Gilpin did not die as a result of any restriction in water breaks or denial of water."

But Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Jon Heck claims that the school district's findings differ from those of the Louisville Metro Police Department — most witnesses gave statements to both police and JCPS investigators — and he provided three "of several" examples.

Editor's comment: read JCPS' "self serving" report.

PRP Coach, Jason Stinson, Who Denied Football Player Water During Practice FIRED. Good Riddance.

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I wonder if we can deny him water on a hot day, too?

OK, Here's The Story Of Coach Jason Stinson. How Much You Wanna Bet The Coach Will Cop A Plea?

OK, Back To Kentucky. As I Called It, Football Coach Is Charged With "Negligent Homicide" In Death Of Football Player. Notice To Coaches: B-E-W-A-R-E!

Good News For Bowling Green.

Read below. It came from the C-J:

Kentucky football title games heading to Bowling Green
By C. Ray Hall

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Kentucky's state high school football championships will be played in Bowling Green in 2009 and 2010.

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association board of control voted 14-1 today to play the six title games at Western Kentucky University's Houchens/L.T. Smith Stadium Dec. 4-5 2009 and Dec. 3-4 2010.

The finals have been played in Louisville since 1979. But the University of Louisville could not guarantee that its Papa John's Cardinal Stadium would be available for those dates.