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• Northside HS Coach Keeps Job After "Bump" Allegations Play Video

  March 6, 2012 7:17 PM

  Northside High School Coach Tawanna Williams testified in her own defense Monday at an administrative hearing at the school board, after being accused of simple battery against a student. Police arrested Williams at school in May 2011, after a student accused her of intentionally bumping into her on campus.... more »

• Ville Platte Coaches Trial Set to Go to Trial

  January 23, 2012 6:45 PM

  Jury selection is underway in Jeff Davis Parish in the trial of a Ville Platte High football coach. It's been more than a year and a half since police said Roy Serie caused an accident that killed two people, including his wife Sheila. Police said Roy crossed the median and... more »

• Ex-Penn State Coach Sandusky Arrives at Courthouse

  December 13, 2011 8:10 AM

  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - Ex-Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has arrived at a courthouse in Pennsylvania where he'll face his accusers in the child sex-abuse case against him. Sandusky is charged with more than 50 counts of child sex-abuse involving 10 boys over a span of 15 years.... more »

• HS FB Coach Arrested on Indecent Behavior Charge

  June 12, 2011 12:06 PM

  HOUMA, La. (AP) - Ellender High School's football coach is free on $100,000 bond after being booked with a charge of indecent behavior with a 15-year-old female student. Authorities tell The Courier that 33-year-old Timothy Betts was released Friday, after his wife posted bond on the charges of indecent behavior... more »

• UL Holding Press Conference to Introduce Mark Hudspeth

  December 13, 2010 10:57 AM

  The University of Louisiana will hold a press conference on Monday, December 13 at 10:00am in the Mardi Gras Ballroom of the Cajundome to introduce Mark Hudspeth as the 25th Head Football Coach in school history. The event is open to the public. Fans and Media should enter the... more »

• Louisiana coach resigns amid flap over racial comments

  October 22, 2010 2:38 PM

  RESERVE, La. (AP) - A southeast Louisiana high school's head football coach has resigned amid complaints about racially charged comments he made during a speech. The Times-Picayune newspaper reports Larry Dauterive stepped down Friday, ending his ninth season with East St. John High School's football team. In his speech Monday... more »

• Ville Platte Football Coach Arrested for Deadly DWI

  August 26, 2010 6:42 PM

  Ville Platte head football coach Roy Serie has bonded out of jail after being arrested today in Jeff Davis Parish for a deadly DWI crash that killed his wife and a woman in another vehicle. At the time of the crash, Serie and his wife were returning from MD... more »

• 'Coach' Blanco Rests in Lafayette Hospital

  August 10, 2010 7:49 AM

  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco's husband, Raymond, injured in a fall more than a week ago, has been transferred from a New Orleans hospital to one in the couple's hometown of Lafayette. Blanco spokeswoman, Marie Centanni, tells said that how long the 74-year-old Blanco known as "Coach"... more »

• 'Coach' Blanco Recovering From Fall

  August 5, 2010 8:57 AM

  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A spokeswoman says Raymond "Coach" Blanco - a former vice president at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and husband of the former governor - is recovering at Tulane Medical Center after a weekend fall. Family spokeswoman Marie Centanni tells The Advertiser that Blanco and former... more »

• Remembering Coach Stokley

  June 7, 2010 7:32 PM

  Friends are remembering former UL Lafayette Head Football Coach, Nelson Stokley. He died Saturday at the age of 66. Stokley was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease over three years ago. Friends say, although the disease became more present in his final days, they're focused on remembering the great life he lived.... more »

• Ville Platte Couple's Wreck

  May 7, 2010 9:03 PM

  In Evangeline Parish, one community is dealing with a tragedy. A Lake Charles woman, Shannon Cox, and Shelia Serie of Ville Platte died in a car wreck this week. Shelia's husband, Roy was driving the vehicle that allegedly caused that crash. He is a coach at Ville Platte High... more »

• New Orleans Hornets Coach Stepping Down

  April 20, 2010 4:39 PM

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jeff Bower is stepping down as coach of the New Orleans Hornets but will remain the team's general manager. Hornets spokesman Harold Kaufman says Bower, who has been general manager since 2005, will turn his focus immediately to the search for a new coach and the... more »

• UL Basketball Coach Robert Lee Fired

  March 8, 2010 5:16 PM

  The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball team was eliminated in the first round of the Sun Belt tournament over the weekend. Today, Head Coach Robert Lee is out. A press conference has been called for 10:00 AM Tuesday morning. It will be announced that Robert Lee will not be... more »

• Texas Tech fires football coach Leach

  December 30, 2009 1:48 PM

  LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- Texas Tech fired coach Mike Leach on Wednesday, just two days after he was suspended by the school as it investigated his treatment of a player with a concussion. The school handed a termination letter to Leach's attorney, Ted Liggett, just minutes before the two... more »

• Hornets Fire Head Coach Byron Scott

  November 12, 2009 2:23 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Hornets announced that they have relieved Byron Scott of head coaching duties. Scott will be replaced by General Manager Jeff Bower. “I want to thank Byron for the hard work he has put in during his time with the Hornets,”... more »

• Ref's call sends IceGator coach over the edge

  November 11, 2009 1:39 PM

  IceGators' interim head coach and president/general manager Brent Sapergia is unable to maintain his composure after a referee's decision at the Pensacola Ice Flyers game on Friday (November 6). Sapergia received a game misconduct for the second straight night and was suspended from coaching, indefinitely, by the league. A new... more »

• Iberia Coach Arrested for Carnal Knowledge

  October 15, 2009 11:07 AM

  Shortly before 5:00 pm Wednesday afternoon detectives from the Bureau of Investigations arrested 29 year old Dwayne Bernard of New Iberia. Bernard is a coach at Jeanerette Senior High School and was arrested for 17 counts of Carnal Knowledge of a Juvenile and 3 counts of Prohibited Sexual Conduct between... more »