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JUNE/JULY NEWS
BASEBALL MEDICAL CONFERENCE SET FOR OCTOBER. See Baseball 2017 Youth to the Big Leagues: Managing The Developing Player, October 11 - 13, Rosemont, Il.
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MAYO CLINIC SPORTS MEDICINE ICE HOCKEY SUMMIT ON CONCUSSION SET FOR SEPTEMBER 28 and 29 In Rochester, MN.
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Collins Presents At National Association of Sports Officials Summit
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Collins To Speak On Legal Issues at Officiate Kentucky Day
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July 20, 2017 - San Mateo, CA - What Does An AD Do? Plenty, reported by Nathan Mollat, San Mateo Daily Journal.
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July 18, 2017 - Louisville, KY - Kentucky Becomes First State To Require Face Protection For Softball, USA Today report published in Louisville Courier-Journal.
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July 16, 2017 - New York, NY - Lawyers Make Their Pitch After NFL Concussion Suit. See After NFL Concussion Settlement, Feeding Frenzy of Lawyers and Lenders, reported by Ken Belson, New York Times.
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July 14, 2017 - Southern Utah - Click here for The Spectrum's special report on Is Specializing In Sports Worth It?, reported by Justin Giles.
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July 13 and 14, 2017 - Nashville, TN - Click here for information on the 2017 Youth Sports Safety Conference and Celebration Gala at Vanderbilt University.
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July 12, 2017 - Cambridge, MA - Harvard Takes Stand on Hazing, Sexual Abuse and Alcohol Abuse. Fraternities Cry Foul. See Harvard Proposal Would Ban Fraternities and Sororities, Associated Press Report in New York Times. This proposal comes from the Faculty Committee. The big question is whether Harvard's President accepts the Faculty Committee's recommendation. The AP reports that the Harvard ban is based on similar bans at Williams College and Bowdoin College.
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July 5, 2017 - South Carolina - The South Carolina Youth Soccer Association institutes a month-long "Silent September" to control unruly and verbally abusive crowds. Silent September is part sportsmanship measure and part officials' retention tool as the SCYSA officials' data shows that poor sportsmanship by spectators is making it hard to retain new officials. See Poor Behavior Leads Officials To Silence Youth Fans, reported by Bob Castello, Greensville On-Line, July 5, 2017.
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July 3, 2017 - Wisconsin - Study of 3,904 former Wisconsin high school football players from 1957 finds that the football players were no worse off neurologically than their non-football playing counterparts. See Late in Life, Former High School Football Players No Worse Off Mentally, reported by Andrew Seaman, Reuters News Service. This study mirrors the findings of a Minnesota study that found that high school football players from one school that was studied from 1956-1970 did not have an increased risk of degenerative brain diseases compared with their non-football playing counterparts. See High School Football Players, 1956-1970, Did Not Have Increase Of Neurodegenerative Diseases, reported by Susan Barber Lindquist, Mayo Clinic Press Release.
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July 2, 2017 - NWCA Assembles Blue Ribbon Task Force To Tackle High School Wrestling's Participation Slide., reported on Trackwrestling.com
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July 1, 2017 - New York, NY - The factors that lead to cheating and poor sportsmanship in athletes also affect schools. New York is but the latest example. See This NYC High School Has a Big Grade Fixing Problem, reported by Susan Edelman, New York Post, July 1, 2017, and when New York City principals and teachers don't fix grades, the schools sometime rig the game by lowering the standards. See Regents Math Test Is Easier To Pass Thanks To Low Standards, reported by Susan Edelman, New York Post, June 25, 2017.
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June 28, 2017 - San Diego, CA - Mike Pereira, the former head of NFL Officiating, works with military veterans to attack the officiating shortage. Click here for information on the Battlefields to Ballfields program. Click here for the San Diego Union Tribune's article, Military Seen As Hotbed For Recruiting Sports Referees, reported by Tod Leonard.
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June 28, 2017 - Bossier, LA - Local Youth Sports: Shortage of Officials? KTBS TV, Louisiana.
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June 22, 2017 - Nashville, TN - Tennessee First State To Set Up Safety Ratings For Youth Sports Leagues, reported by Tom Wilemon, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reporter. Tennessee parents can use the Safe Stars Safety Rating System to see if youth sports leagues in Tennessee follow sports safety protocols.
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June 16, 2017 - Forbes's Bob Cook notes that increasing the number of female officials can help with the shortage of youth sports referees. See Women Are Largely Untapped Resource In Alleviating Youth Sports Referee Shortage, Forbes.com
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June 16, 2017 - Washington, D. C. - Verbal Abuse From Parents, Coaches Is Causing A Referee Shortage In Youth Sports, reported by Nick Eilerson, Washington Post.
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June 14, 2017 - Knee Surgery Rates Soaring Among Teen Girls, reported by Lisa Rapaport, Reuters News Service.
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June 12, 2017 - Idaho - They're Out! Umps, Refs Have Had Enough of Your Yelling, reported by Michael Katz, Idaho Statesman.
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LATEST COLLINS ARTICLES/INFORMATION
Collins named the National Association of Sports Officials (NASO), Mel Narol Medallion Award Winner for 2016. The Mel Narol Medallion recognizes an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to the betterment of NASO. You can click the link above for more information and a list of past winners.
Any Limit To Free Speech?, It’s Official: Monthly Newsletter of The National Association of Sports Officials, September 2016, page N6.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
August, 2015 - Title IX has done a lot for girls, but the benefits of Title IX are slower to trickle down to schools with high concentrations of minority and low-income students. See Finishing Last: Girls of Color and School Sports Opportunities, National Women's Law Center Report.
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Collins Interviewed on Adult Violence In Youth Sports, reported by Karen Quant, Medill School of Journalism Newsmakers March 14, 2014.
