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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2022
September 30, 2022 - Are things getting worse at our games? See 'A Quiet Phenomenon': The Rise of Gun Violence at School Sports, reported by Michael A. Fletcher, ESPN.
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September 30, 2022 - Yuba City, CA - There's trouble in Yuba City: Usually Schools Wait For The Game To Start Before They Commit Bad Acts, But River Valley High School Just Couldn't Wait to Show Their True Colors. See High School Football Team Forfeits Game After Video Surfaces Of Players Acting Out "Slave Auction." CBS 13 TV (Sacramento, CA).
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September 28, 2022 - Santa Clarita, CA - First Amendment Battle Averted at Saugus High School. See Saugus High School Dropping Tradition of Taking Field With 'Thin Blue Line' Flag, reported by Gina Silva, Fox TV 11 (Los Angeles).
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September 27, 2022 - Philadelphia, PA - Police Release Surveillance Video In Deadly Ambush Shooting Near Roxborough High School; 1 Dead, reported by Jacklyn Lee and Annie McCormick, ABC 6, September 28, 2022. Video shows five shooters attacking after a high school football scrimmage.
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September 24, 2022 - Chicago, IL - Kenwood vs. Morgan Park High School Football Game Ends With 18-20 Players Ejected After Post-Game Fight, reported by Michael O'Brien, Chicago Sun Times. The headline understates the ugliness of this game, which was marred by incidents throughout.
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September 23, 2022 - La Verne, CA - Ugly postgame fight after Bishop Amat vs. Damien football game leads to coach suspension. See Bishop Amat Football and Richie Munoz Too Much for Damien (During Postgame, Both Teams Were Involved In Pushing and Shoving), reported by Fred Robledo, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, September 23, 2022; see also Bishop Amat Football Playing Without Head Coach, Top RB One Week After Post-Game Altercation With Damien, reported by Fred Robledo, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, September 30, 2022.
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September 22, 2022 - Linden, NJ - Linden High School Football Player Dies Weeks After Game Injury, District Announces, reported by Suzanne Russell, mycentraljersey.com.
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September 21, 2022 - Senators Demand Answers From Dept't of Defense After Reports of JROTC Instructor Abuse, reported by Deepa Shivaram, NPR.
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September 20, 2022 - Sutter Creek, CA - Prep Football: Amador Suspends Season After Discovery of Players' 'Disturbing' Group Chat, reported by Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, September 20, 2022. UPDATE: Amador's season was canceled on September 27, 2022. See Amador High School Varsity Football Out for Rest of Season After 'Highly Inappropriate Group Chat Thread,' KCRA TV 3 (Sacramento).
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September 17, 2022 - Montgomery County, MD - Football Operations Temporarily Suspended At Gaithersburg, Northwest High School After Large Fight During Game, reported by Chioma-Emilia Ahaghotu, WUSA 9 (Washington, DC). Click here for coverage and video of the fight.
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September 16, 2022 - Laurens County, GA - A group of high school students known as the 'Rowdy Raiders' confused racism with cleverness (or maybe they just meant to be racist). The group went to a high school football games with shirts that spelled out the "N" word. And, the boys were quite proud of themselves as they posed for a photo, which is now on-line, meaning that for the rest of their lives these rowdy boys will always be one click away from future employers, prospective friends, and - one day - even their own children seeing them in their rowdy, racist glory. See Laurens County Neighbors Want Action From School After Students Take Offensive Photo At Football Game, reported by Kamilah Williams, WMAZ TV (Macon, GA), September 19, 2022.
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September 15, 2022 - San Diego, CA - San Diego Area High School Football Game Canceled, Coach on Leave Amid Allegations of Assault In Locker Room, reported by Bodie De Silva, MSN.com; See Also Massive Outrage, Support At Protest For Teen Assaulted At Vista High School, reported by Liberty Zabala, Fox 5 TV
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September 15, 2022 - Chicago, IL - Female Football Coaches At Chicago High Schools Meet In History-Making Game, reported by Will Jones and Rob Elgas, ABC 7 TV (Chicago).
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September 8, 2022 - Fort Worth, TX - Players and Fans Duke It Out At HS Football Game. See Fight Breaks Out On Field Between Fort Worth, Dallas High School Football Teams, reported by Paul Wedding, WFAA TV (Dallas), September 15, 2022. Yes, like so many things, this fight was captured on video.
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September 7, 2022 - A win for Alice Dearing and her Soul Cap. See Olympic Swimmer Wins Fight To Reverse Ban On Cap Made For Black Hair, reported by Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post.
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September 6, 2022 - Mobile, AL - Shocking Video Allegedly Shows Blount High School Head Football Coach Spanking Player, reported by Emily Pounds, NBC News Channel 15.
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September 5, 2022 - Lauderdale Lakes, FL - 'Kids Still Traumatized": Father Says Son Among 4 Injured At Boys' Football Game In Broward, reported by Alex Finnie, Parker Branton, Bridgette Matter, and Andrea Torres Local10.com (South Florida); and see 3 People Shot at Sporting Event In Lauderdale Lakes, reported by Yarden Ben-David and Terrell Forney, Local10.com.
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September 3, 2022 - Greenville, SC - New Rockstar Cheer Lawsuit Alleges Sexual Abuse, Attacks Competitive Cheerleading Culture, reported by Clare Amari and Kathryn Casteel, Greenville News.
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September 3, 2022 - Lubbock, TX - High School Football Player Dies After Suffering Head Injury In Game, reported by Daniel Bates, MSN.com
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September 2, 2022 - Katy, TX - Fans Jeer Volleyball Players With Monkey Noises. See Mother Blasts Texas School For Allowing Students to Make Monkey Noises At Black Athletes, reported by Angel Saunders, Revolt TV, September 7, 2022; See Also Katy ISD Students Heard Making Monkey Sounds To Other Students During Volleyball Game: Video, reported by Gabby Hart, Fox 26 TV, Houston, September 7, 2022.
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September 1, 2022 - San Jose, CA - Police: Volleyball Ref Arrested For Child Sex Assault, reported by John Ferrannini, KRON TV4, September 7, 2022.
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August 31, 2022 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Youth Football Team Fled Gunfire Twice But Won't Be Crushed By Violence, reported by San Francisco Chronicle, (the article ran on page A-1 under the headline, "Football Is A Game; It's A Game of Life.").
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August 30, 2022 - East Peoria, IL - Sometimes the problems in the community spill over to the game. See Video Surfaces of Brawl At East Peoria High School Football Game, reported by Jon Schoenheider, Channel 25 News.
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August 27, 2022 - Sometimes schools don't react well when they see girls on the opposing football team. See If Christian School In California Won't Play Football Against Girls It Can Stay Off the Field, Editorial in Fresno Bee.
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August 26, 2022 - Strasburg, VA - Shenandoah Co. High School Football Game Canceled Over Social Media Comments, WHSV TV (Harrisonburg).
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August 26, 2022 - Windsor, CA - Huge Fight at Front Gate of High School Football Game. See Parents Join High School Football Game Brawl, California Cops Say. Two Adults Arrested. Reported by Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, August 29, 2022.
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August 26, 2022 - South San Francisco, CA - Is High School Football Endangered? Inside a Bay Area Coach's Fight To Save His Team, reported by Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle.
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August 25, 2022 - Vicksburg, MS - Prominent High School Coach Fights Fan At HS Football Game. See Watch: Jimbo Nowell Gets Into A Fight At A Game, reported by Keith Phillips, Vicksburg News; see also High School Football Coach Bloodied In Brawl In Stands In Mississippi, reported by Jenna Lemoncelli, New York Post, August 26, 2022.
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August 24, 2022 - Alamo Heights, TX - Hazing Incident Prompts Suspensions For 21 Alamo Heights Football Players, Source Tells KENS 5, KENS 5 San Antonio.
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August 23, 2022 - Slow Football Equipment Reconditioning Plagues High School Sports In Some Parts of the Country. See High School Sports Teams Missing Equipment Due to Supply Chain Issues, reported by Lesya Feinstein, WSAZ Channel 3 (Huntington, WV)(reporting on an Ironton, Ohio high school with a reconditioning issue).
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August 19, 2022 - Atlanta, GA - The Controversy Over The Proposed Biden Changes To Title IX Continues. Transgender Women Are the Primary Battleground. Rob Jenkins from Georgia State University states his case. See FMR. Collegiate Athletic Director: Biden's Proposed Changes To Title IX Will Harm Women, Professor Rob Jenkins, Campus Reform, August 19, 2022.
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August 19, 2022 - Utah - Youth Sports Transgender Politics Come To Utah. First, Utah passed a transgenderban. See Utah Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto of Transgender Sports Ban, reported by Katie McKellar, Salt Lake City Deseret News, March 25, 2022. Once State legislation was passed, the Utah High School Activities Association had to enforce the law. Unfortunately, they walked right into the worst possible cases – parents whining that the girls who beat their daughters must have been transgender. Well, so far the girls that parents have complained about haven't been transgender. The basic allegation in the complaints boils down to parents complaining that their daughter lost to a girl who doesn’t look all that feminine. It’s governance by rumor, and one of the cases just hit the news. See Utah Officials Secretly Looked Into Female Athlete’s Gender, AP Wire on MSN.com, August 18, 2022. Well, you can guess what came next: that’s right, a lawsuit and an injunction. See Transgender Girls In Utah Can Compete Again After Judge Grants Injunction Blocking State’s Sports Ban, reported by Courtney Tanner, Salt Lake Tribune, August 19, 2022.
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August 19, 2022 - Female Collegiate Athletes Stiffed On Scholarship Money, Press Reader report from USA Today, reported by Kenny Jacoby, Rachel Axon, Lindsay Schnell and Steve Berkowitz, August 19, 2022.
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August 17, 2022 - Georgia - How Georgia Reduced Heat-Related High School Football Deaths, reported by Molly Samuel, All Things Considered Show on NPR News.
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August 13, 2022 - Lancaster, TX - Footage Allegedly Shows Former NFL CB Aqib Talib's Brother Involved In Deadly Shooting At Youth Football Game, reported by Darrelle Lincoln, totalprosports.com, August 14, 2022; see also, Man Accused of Fatally Shooting Lancaster Coach Surrenders Monday, NBC 5 Dallas/Fort Worth, August 15, 2022..
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August 12, 2022 - Middletown, PA - Football Hazing Hits Middletown. See Middletown Board Gets An Earful Over Response To Accusations of Hazing, reported by Ivey DeJesus, Pennlive.com, and Scott Acri Resigns As Middletown Football Coach; District Plans To Release Hazing Investigation Info, reported by Brian Linder, Pennlive.com.
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August 12, 2022 - Canada - Calls For Accountability And Changes Within Canadian Hockey Mount In The Wake of National Scandal, reported by Karen Pauls, CBC News; See also Sexual Assault Revelations Turn Canada's National Game Into The Nation's Shame, reported by Ian Austen, New York Times, August 14, 2022.
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August 10, 2022 - Michigan - Judge Rules Michigan State Not Title IX Compliant, But Doesn't Have To Reinstate Swimming, reported by Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press. Note: Don't let the headline fool you. Michigan State will have to get Title IX compliant. They simply have the option of doing so in a number of ways. It does seem cruel to the swimmers who lost their program in a Title IV violation, but Title IX protects the overall interests of the student body/school; it does not necessarily mean that the sport that generates the complaint has to be the sport that gets saved.
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August 9, 2022 - Waco, TX - This Little League World Series Hug After A Batter Was Hit In The Head Is Perfect Sportsmanship, reported by Ricky O'Donnell, SB Nation.
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August 5, 2022 - Pac-12, Northeast Conference To Pay Basketball Referees Equally; Data Found 22% Gap Last Season Among Top D-1 Conferences, Associated Press Wire Story, ESPN.com.
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August 1, 2022 - Argentina - A Soccer Player Was Arrested On The Field After Sucker-Punching a Woman Ref Over Minor Foul Call, MSN.com.
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LATEST COLLINS ARTICLES/INFORMATION
Collins Retires As CIF-San Francisco Section Commissioner, It's Official, Monthly Newsletter of the National Association of Sports Officials, April 2022, page 4.
Contract Unfulfilled, Referee Magazine, December 2021, page 80 (National Association of Sports Officials).
IC Chaos in California, Referee Magazine, January 2021, page 80 (National Association of Sports Officials).
Gig Economy Bill, Referee Magazine, January 2020, page 80 (National Association of Sports Officials).
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Background Check Standards, NASO Advisor, July 2020, page 4 (National Association of Sports Officials).
Of The People, By The People: How To Ensure That Legislators Hear Your Voice, Referee Magazine, July 2001 page 42 (co-authored by Jennifer Rardin).
