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Rolph, Pennington awarded Jack Freeman scholarships

Danville and Boyle County high school seniors have been named recipients of the Jack Freeman Scholarship. Mary Caitlin Rolph of Danville High School and Emily Kristin Pennington of Boyle County High School each will receive a $1,000 scholarship,...

Tags: High Schools, Science, Awards and Prizes, Cancer, Financial Aid

KSD seniors eligible for Freeman scholarship

Kentucky School for the Deaf seniors are eligible this year for the Jack Freeman Scholarship administered by the Wilderness Trace Community Foundation. Applications, available through the KSD High School guidance office, are due March 1.  The...

Tags: High Schools, Awards and Prizes, Human Interest, Social Issues, Canadian Football

Advocate sports editor Larry Vaught named Kentucky Sportswriter of the Year for sixth time

Larry Vaught, longtime sports editor for The Advocate-Messenger, has been named Kentucky Sportswriter of the Year for 2010 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. The award marks the fifth consecutive year Vaught has earned that...

Tags: ABC (tv network), College Basketball, Bob Uecker, High School Sports, ESPN (tv network)

Teel Time: Hokies' Beamer, UVa's London make their pitches in Hampton on Thursday

Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Atlantic Coast Conference, Virginia Cavaliers, Keith Urban

Joe Paterno dies at 85; transformed Penn State into football power

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

During a six-decade career, Joe Paterno transformed sleepy Penn State University into a national football power, creating a legacy that no one thought could be beaten — or tarnished. But the Ivy League-educated coach who demanded that his players...

Tags: Nebraska Cornhuskers, Jerry Sandusky, Rose Bowl Game, Kyle Brady, Big Ten Conference

A happier time: Was the 2001 Miami Hurricanes team the best ever?

Backup offensive lineman Brad Kunz was already wearing his national championship T-shirt and hat as the final minutes melted off the clock during Miami's 37-14 Rose Bowl win over Nebraska. The redshirt freshman was celebrating with teammates. The victory...

Tags: Nebraska Cornhuskers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Andre Johnson, Rose Bowl Game, National Football League

Greencastle-Antrim graduates finish school careers by 'starting our new day'

As the sea of 190 graduates made its way to Kaley Field for their commencement Saturday, Megan Misiak stood out as the embodiment of strength and perseverance in Greencastle-Antrim Senior High School’s Class of 2012. With the look of...

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt, Graduation, University of Alabama, College Baseball, College Sports

Book review: Frank Deford goes deep, as usual

Special to the Los Angeles Times

A bio on NPR's website of its commentator Frank Deford notes that the magazine GQ christened him, quite simply, "the world's greatest sportswriter." (Is he?) A story on ESPN's companion website, Grantland, referred to Deford as "a writer who had...

Tags: Ted Tinling, Jimmy Connors, Radio, ESPN (tv network), Anna Kournikova

NASCAR’s Clint Bowyer to honor Crimson Tide with car, helmet

The last of his kind in college coaching

AP College Football Writer

There will never be another coaching career like Joe Paterno's. His time at Penn State started long before coaches were pulling down multimillion dollar salaries, before fire so-and-so.com web sites and win-now-or-else attitudes at programs that have...

Tags: Jerry Sandusky, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Kansas State Wildcats, Frank Beamer, Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Paterno dies at 85; transformed Penn State into a football power

Joe Paterno, the Ivy League-educated coach who transformed sleepy Penn State University into a national football power with an academics-based philosophy only to see his career end abruptly and his legacy tarnished by a child sex abuse scandal involving a...

Tags: Nebraska Cornhuskers, Jerry Sandusky, Obituaries, Rose Bowl Game, Big Ten Conference