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MARCH/APRIL, 2026
April 6, 2026 - Dalton, GA - Shocking Video Shows Youth Softball Coach Attacking Opposing Coach, reported by Nicole Reitz, SI.Com.
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March 30, 2026 - Bedford, OH - Armed Robbery At Bedford High School Baseball Game Ends With Man's Arrest On His 18th Birthday, reported by Rachel Vadaj, TV-19 News (Cleveland, OH).
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March 30, 2026 - Minnesota - DOJ Sues Minnesota For Allowing Transgender Girls To Compete In Girls' Sports, reported by Howard Thompson, Fox-9 TV (Minneapolis/St. Paul).
NOTE: See Transathlete.com for comprehensive information on transgender athletic participation and access issues. You can see transathlete.com's list of transgender policies to see how all 51 State high school athletic associations address transgender athletes.
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March 26, 2026 - Riverside, CA - Cal Baptist Wrestlers Challenge The Title IX Proportionality Test! See Three Wrestlers Sue California Baptist, Claiming University Used Title IX to Cut Program, reported by Paul Steinbach, Athletic Business.
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March 25, 2026 - Marion County, SC - A deputy detains a high school baseball player - but it's not clear who the bad actor really is in an odd incident in South Carolina. See Man arrested after viral video involving baseball player and Marion County deputy, reported by Sydney Ryan and Alex Leatherwood, WMBF - TV (Myrtle Beach, SC), March 31.
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March 11, 2026 - Girls suffer far more ACL tears than boys. Can something be done about it? See Teenage girls keep tearing their ACLs. It doesn't have to be that way. Reported by Gabrielle Healy, KUOW (Seattle, WA).
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March 10, 2026 - The colleges set their own rules and built their own brand new system to handle the approval of NIL deals. You'd think that if you set up a system, it would work ... or at least work for you, but this is college sports. The brand new College Sports Commission (CSC) system doesn't work at all. See College Sports Commission's NIL clearinghouse strained by surge in school-linked deals, reported by Brandon Marcello, CBS Sports. Even worse, the new CSC system, is already being tested where it has the gall to say no. See Nebraska players challenge CSC over rejected NIL deals in potential precedent-setting arbitration , reported by Austin Nivision, CBS Sports, March 11, 2026. In short, the colleges set up a system, the member schools won't follow the system that they set up, and the system won't be able to afford what will likely be a massive amount of challenges where they reject an NIL deal. Yes, this is modern day college sports: a complete mess.
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March 10, 2026 - Florida - Florida booster clubs just got more powerful - now, they can spread the money around to coaches without going under the table. See Bill allows Florida high school coaches to get a raise. What we know, reported by Jon Santucci, Florida Today.
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March 9, 2026 - North Fair Oaks, CA - Sheriff: Palo Alto man charged in sex-with-students case. Reported by Arden Margulies, Palo Alto Online.
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March 9, 2026 - Charlotte, NC - College basketball 'fixer' pleads guilty in massive NCAA, CBA bribery and point-shaving scheme. Reported by Scott Thompson, Fox News.
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March 7, 2026 - Poyen, AR - Arkansas high school basketball tournament game ends early in huge brawl, reported by Keegan Pope, msn.com.
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March 6, 2026 - South Bend, IN - ‘Appalling’: Student Calls Black Basketball Player at Rival High School In Indiana the ‘N-Word’ on Live Sports Broadcast, Prompting Calls for Boycott, reported by Jill Jordan Sieder, Atlanta Black Star, March 30, 2026. Please note that this story has a youtube video of the student's offensive broadcast.
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March 6, 2026 - New York, NY - Rick Pitino blame parents, not AAU, for basketball development issues, reported by Logan Newman, USA Today High School Sports.
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LATEST COLLINS ARTICLES/INFORMATION
Assigning Shortage Liability, It’s Official, Monthly Newsletter of the National Association of Sports Officials, April 2024, page 8.
I.C. for U And Almost All, Referee Magazine, March 2024, page 80 (National Association of Sports Officials).
FROM THE ARCHIVES
California Celebrates State Day, It's Official, October 2023, page 4 (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).
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