John Ninfo, a U.S. bankruptcy judge from New York, is on a crusade about credit. He believes that many Americans that have brilliant intelligence are severely lacking in financial IQ. He sees it constantly as folks who have lived beyond their means on debt for years reach the end of their rope and end up […]

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There’s a new magazine in town - High School Sports The Magazine. The publisher is Maria Decamillis Raque, who has spent a hectic few months readying the first issue for publication. The magazine is a franchise based in Tulsa, and is published in 13 other U.S. markets.
The decision to put the Dupont Manual basketball […]

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“Don’t get involved in athletics with your child if the goal is a college athletic scholarship.”
That’s the advice from New York Times reporter Bill Pennington, who wrote a fascinating series this week examining the availability, and the costs, of earning an athletic scholarship. He was quoted from an audio interview on the Times’ website.
Pennington generated […]

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This morning, David Hawpe writes in the C-J about a letter he received from an unnamed high school junior, apparently an intelligent young man caught in a First Amendment quandary. He wants to expose some poor management decisions at his unnamed school, but fears some sort of reprisal if his name is exposed. So he […]

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Back in December, I wrote here about how odd it was that a highly-touted sophmore, Aaron Cosby, had suddenly left the Manual High School basketball team. My sources told me he was transferring to another public school, Eastern, because his basketball prospects there seemed better.
Later, I learned that Cosby, who also played football at Manual […]

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Sports Director Fred Cowgill of WLKY is teaching his trade to five new reporters. So is his assistant Keith Farmer. The reporters are getting paid, but it’s not likely you’ll see them on the air. It’s part of WLKY’s new initiative to focus attention on high school sports with High School Playbook, an idea that […]

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