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High school coaches vie for Ceres mayor; one long on experience, one new to politics
The Modesto Bee
After 17 years of uncontested mayoral races, Ceres residents will choose between two men who have both coached high school football but otherwise have vastly different political experience.
Longtime Ceres Councilman Bret Durossette is running against political newcomer Javier Lopez in a race for the city’s top elected spot. Both men have coached high school athletics, Durossette as Ceres High head baseball and football coach and Lopez as a freshman football coach at Central Valley High.
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Friday night lights shine virtually thanks to Atlanta-based NFHS network
Hypepotamus
Days of grabbing a seat in a crowded bleacher section for a high school football game certainly feel long gone in 2020. But school athletic departments have learned to adjust in the wake of COVID to ensure student-athletes can compete during what has been a modified fall season.
And it is a group of Atlanta-based entrepreneurs who are making sure fans can still safely watch their favorite high school teams from the comfort of their own home.
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Mobile app monitors Bullard student-athletes' brain health from sidelines
KLTV-TV
A mobile app is helping athletic trainers with Bullard Independent School District better monitor the brain health of their student-athletes.
HitCheck, the latest assessment aid employed by Bullard ISD athletic trainers, is an app that, according to its website, helps track individuals' unique performance over time and screen for sudden changes after a potential brain injury that may be cause for concern.
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AutoZone Liberty Bowl, SCS partner up to host High School Football Showcase
WMC-TV
For the last 19 years student-athletes in the Memphis area have participated in the Liberty Bowl High School All-Star Game, but since that is not happening this year due to COVID-19 SCS and the Liberty Bowl came up with a new plan to get the kids some exposure.
AutoZone Liberty Bowl and Shelby County Schools have partnered up to co-host a High School Football Showcase for student-athletes in the Memphis/Shelby County area.
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High school sports league considers spring football season
WJAR-TV
The league in charge of Rhode Island's high school sports is pushing the football season to the spring. But without many specifics, it has many wondering: What's the game plan?
The Rhode Island Interscholastic League said it's working on a four-season athletic schedule.
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Physicians underscore importance of masks, distancing while playing school sports during pandemic
WRAL-TV
A program that pairs scientists and physicians with school districts is preparing to release guidance about team sports during the coronavirus pandemic, but some of the guidance could differ from protocols schools are already following.
The ABC Science Collaborative, which is partnered with 60 school districts in North Carolina and represents two-thirds of the school-aged children in the state, including in Wake, Durham, and Orange Counties, will release guidelines soon.
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A framework for leaders facing difficult decisions
Harvard Business Review
Many decision-making frameworks aim to help leaders use objective information to mitigate bias, operate under time pressure, or leverage data. But these frameworks tend to fall short when it comes to decisions based on subjective information sources that suggest conflicting courses of action. And most complex decisions fall into this category.
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Study hints that early morning exercise may reduce cancer risk
Medical News Today
New research has suggested that people who exercise in the early morning may have a reduced risk of developing cancer than those who exercise later in the day.
The research, appearing in the International Journal of Cancer, may help inform future research into the timing of exercise as a potential way of reducing cancer risk.
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Obesity and disease tied to dramatic dietary changes
Princeton University via ScienceDaily
The 'mismatch hypothesis' argues that our bodies evolved to digest the foods that our ancestors ate, and that human bodies will struggle and largely fail to metabolize a radically new set of foods. This intuitive idea is hard to test directly, but the Turkana, a pastoralist population in remote Kenya, present a natural experiment: genetically homogenous populations whose diets stretch across a lifestyle gradient from relatively 'matched' to extremely 'mismatched' with their recent evolutionary history.
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