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 GiveBIG has been extended to midnight tonight because of technical difficulties yesterday.  Please consider giving so that your donation gets stretched from their giving fund. Have you been keeping up with the story on Bellevue High school and their football team ?  Long story short, they became a football powerhouse when they hired a new coach around 2000.  The team has won multiple state titles since then.  But their school board heard rumors of improprieties and hired two lawyers to investigate. The main issue is students who don't live in their district being on the team as well as some of them not even attending the school and being at some off-site non-Bellevue district diploma mill program. And, Bellevue High had many more transfers of students who ended up playing football there than other high schools in the district.

From the Herald, a local story but with national implications - the use of rubberized fields and the incidence of cancer for young athletes (mostly soccer players who are goalies.)

I attended three Work Sessions last week and here are highlights Athletics I have to say this one seemed to be one of the less dry and more animated Work Sessions that I have attended in years.

The Seattle Times is reporting that the Ballard and Garfield football teams got in a brawl last Friday night at Ballard's homecoming game.  The Beavers were up 26-0 with five minutes left and going for a two-point conversion.  It failed and, to the Ballard coach, it looked like his quarterback took a late hit but there was no penalty.  A Ballard player pulled the Garfield player off the quarterback and the Garfield player threw a punch.  Game on and the benches cleared.  It all got settled down with no one hurt.  The officials did eject 8 players from the game ( 3 from Ballard and 5 from Garfield) and they will all be ineligible to play this week.  This is the second incident this season for Garfield.  Their coach had been suspended after the first incident and an interim coach was in charge at this game.  Last year, two of their coaches had to resign after playing ineligible players.  I would suggest that the principal at Garfield...

From the Seattle Times news about Garfield Athletics and a story about UW admissions.