At Louisville, Hermann oversaw all but a few of the university's 23 sports programs.
The sports programs' defenders cite many benefits besides the social glue it can provide to communities.
But instead, because of budget crunches, we are actually cutting back on school-based sports programs.
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My daughter and niece both go to separate well-known private schools, and they both have sports programs.
Once invested in the sports programs, our members come together to build a community they can call their own.
His father headed the local community recreation center, running sports programs for children.
Officially, the sorts of events that have attracted the largest mass audiences have been scheduled entertainment or sports programs.
Volunteering to lead after school clubs, coaching school sports programs and stuffing envelopes for the home and school (PTA) should count.
Michigan has a surplus (a non-profit word for profit) that exceeds the entire Florida Gulf Coast budget, subject to the way Michigan subsidizes its other sports programs.
Longtime producers of sports programs and telecasts are all too familiar with the stock phrases about defensive plays and going out there and giving it your best.
Many of those tweeters were teenagers whose public Twitter accounts feature their real names and advertise their participation in the sports programs at their respective high schools.
We cut 7 sports programs this year as a result.
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With the allure of college athletic scholarships, the focus in our youth and high school sports programs has increasingly been on the development of elite athletes vs. participation for all.
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And this calculation does not attempt to measure the value of having a football program that is essentially self- supporting and probably subsidizing other sports programs, which liberates University funds for other projects.
Time after time, parents step up to make cookies for the bake sale, coach sports programs after school, weed and maintain the school grounds, put up bulletin boards, work the book fair and more.
In an interview with CNN, Ings called the report a "wake-up call" for sports and suggested that other countries should take a look at their own sports programs to check for doping and corruption.
Maryland cut seven sports programs earlier this year just to get under budget, and Rutgers recently outspent its revenue to the point that it required non-athletic funding from student fees and tuition to cover its losses.
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Greek sports programs have been hobbled by budget slashing, but other European countries in the throes of austerity, such as Ireland and Portugal, have been more protective of elite sports budgets ahead of the Games this month.
Back when UCLA started its streak there were essentially no limits on the number of athletic scholarships NCAA schools could dish out and title IX had not yet begun to drain the top male sports programs of cash.
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With wider oversight responsibilities, the NCAA will help prevent all types of violence because schools that fail to deal appropriately with misconduct in their lucrative sports programs will soon learn the difference between winning a championship and not even being allowed to compete.
However, despite the positive outcomes that coaches can have on children, a GAO report from February 2012 confirmed that quality coaches are in short supply because of low pay and the large amount of time that must be devoted to after-school sports programs.
While the medical community has traditionally focused on increasing daily amounts of exercise and participation in sports programs, what we should be more concerned with is the time when we are awake (up to 15 hrs per day) which we do not spend exercising.
On March 19th and 20th, NCMEC is sponsoring a conference called Safe to Compete: Protecting Child Athletes from Sexual Abuse, where it will convene more than 50 youth-serving organizations, including the YMCA, Special Olympics, USA Swimming, USA Gymnastics, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to talk about the issue of preventing abuse of children in sports programs.
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Many schools and sports medicine programs offer tests to athletes before they start contact sports to measure their cognitive function, which can then be compared with the same test administered after a concussion.
It has even reached the point in New York where the debates on sports talk radio programs have focused on whether or not Derek Jeter should hit leadoff and when will Eduardo Nunez become the everyday shortstop.
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Do franchisors use advertising and their investments in sports, television programs, magazine rankings to make their brand popular or is their franchise opportunity popular because of the numerous success stories of franchisees and happy franchisee customers buying a product or getting a service?
If I still believed that childhood obesity was something that I was called to dedicate my life to, then I could find a way to create after-school sports and fitness programs, educational seminars, or new school curriculum that developed fundamental changes in the habits of parents and children.
For years, you have been sponsoring sports leagues, afterschool programs, summer jobs and more.
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So how should Penn State and other sports teams and college programs respond?
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The company decided to investigate, looking at 36 major sports advertisers across 11 product categories and measuring the degree of "lift" each got from its sports advertising and sponsorship programs.
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