Chief financial officer outed as maligner of Loftin - A&M athletics

On October, a poster dubbed UtayAg on the popular Texas A & M athletics fan website TexAgs opined, "I have to admit that the foolishness on this board always brings me rear to the tip that I know I am not the dumbest out here.

His man posters ask for to differ Jeff Toole, A&M athletics chief financial officer and senior associate athletic director, admitted Tuesday that he has disparage A&M president R. Bowen Loftin on TexAgs - dubbing Loftin a "putz" and a "desperately under qualified puppet" - under the alias of UtayAg.

"I was posting what I thought was an unspecified opinion," Toole said Tuesday. Toole was outed on the website by a poster dubbed "iPanic" who searched UtayAg's posting history and found one from May 5, 2010; in which UtayAg identify himself as the Aggies' CFO for athletics."That slip my mind," Toole said when asked why he thought he was posting secretly when he had already identified himself under the handle.

Toole, who was graduated from A&M athletics in 1980, makes $200,000 yearly, according to the Texas Tribune. He has held the position for about 2.6 years and was brought onboard to help A&M athletics through a financial and also that includes repaying the university a $16 million loan.

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Changes are introduced for Tiger Athletics:

• National search happening for new head Tiger football coach
• Athletic Director R.C. Johnson announced retirement within a year
• Enough Resources to bring in a qualified coach

A National look for is underway for a new football head coach in University of Memphis. Last Sunday Mr. Larry Porter was fired. Under his coaching for the past two years that the tiger athletics only won three games. On Monday the University of Memphis announced instead of Larry Porter we have to hire a new coach for the team.

On the same day, the University of Memphis for 16 years the athletic director of R.C. Johnson told that he would retire by June 2012.

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Athletic programs rule today

Graham Spanier, William C. Powers and James R. Ramse for the record they are not household names. When it comes to their salary it's though they are working in dissimilar worlds not on the same campus.

Totally there are 90 football and basketball coaches making more than one dollar million a year, including Brown, who split ends out the football list at around five million dollars at Texas, and Pitino and who brings in more than seven million dollars at Louisville. In the meantime, there are only 10 presidents at the nation's 185
largest public universities taking home more than 725,000 dollars annually.

But it happens all from corner to corner America when multimillion-dollar athletic programs become the face of a university.

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Athletic Student checked for heart risks:

Aurora Central Catholic High School parent Laurel Beatty is conscious of the potential threat of cardiovascular disease in student athletes.

"You want your children to have the self-determination to contribute in sports, but in the rear of your mind is the thought something could happen," Beatty said.

Young person athlete deaths in latest years have given parents reason to think twice about their active health for their child and given school sports programs motivation to provide heart screenings for undetected heart conditions.

On Saturday, a steady flow of parents and student athletes on behalf of a cross-section of boys and girls sports around the area came to Aurora Central for heart screenings by the nonprofit Athletic Heart Metabolic & Cardiac Research Institute.

ACC’s athletic department supports the screenings as a preventive measure.

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Oakland Athletic League Championship

For the final face-off of the Oakland League Championship Game pit the top two teams of the league in opposition to each other. Both teams meet earlier this year in a 29-13 victory by McClymonds. The warrior defense restricted the high scoring Titans to 13 points. The final be supposed to be an interesting matchup as both teams are coming off winning streaks.

The Titans in the last three games have scored their opponent 107 – 43and its averaged 35 points per game. Those haven’t scored less than 20 points in the entire season, with the exception of their 29-13 loss to the Warriors.

The McCylmonds Warriors have been on a six game winning streak and the warrior’s defense has only given up 8.5 points per game and this has given up 14 points per game this season. They are 0-2 when giving up more than 20 points.

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2012 Hall of Fame class Announced by Southern Illinois University Department of Athletics

On Tuesday the Southern Illinois University Department of Athletics announced that its 2012 Saluki Hall of Fame Class.

The well-known six-person class which will be officially inducted in a formal procedure on Friday

On 2012 is headlined by first-ballot inductee:

• Joel Sambursky (Football
• Sandy Blaha (Women's Golf)
• John Garrett (Men's Basketball)
• Nate Hawthorne (Men's Basketball)
• Gary Hunter (Track & Field)
• Kristie Kemner (Volleyball)

Salukis from 2002 to 2005 and holds school records:

• For career passing yards (7,894)
• Pass completions (559)
• Passattempts (933)
• Ttouchdown passes (65)
• Rushing yards by a quarterback (1,100)
• Career starts by a quarterback (49)
• Victories by a starting quarterback (33)

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University of Maryland cut the Athletic Programs Cut in Maryland

From the month of June eight of University of Maryland’s twenty seven sports teams will no longer exist.

Dr. Wallace Loh the president of Maryland said that it was one of the most painful and heart wrench decision taken by him. 

Today is a day of unhappiness because we have to say goodbye to members of the athletic family in Maryland," says Dr. Wallace Loh.

• All three men’s track teams
• Men’s swimming and diving
• Men’s tennis
• Women’s water polo
• Women’s acrobatics and tumbling

So Students think about the sports team loss?

"I thought it was ridiculous the University of Maryland and an ACC school. How could we not have a tennis team? That seem ridiculous to me," says student Stephen Dessel and by these 166 athletes and 12 coaches are affected. 

The Maryland sports programs will end in June 2012.

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Athletic Bilbao defeated Seville in Spain at 2-1

In the Spanish league Athletic Sevilla was defeated by 2-1 on Sunday to make bigger its unbeaten run to eight games and then for the first time this season Bilbao move into the European positions.

In the last round when the match lacked the exciting atmosphere of Bilbao's 2-2 draw with Barcelona. Marcelo Bielsa's team reaffirms its alteration into one of the league's most volatile sides by taking the game to its hosts from the start.

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On Friday David Joyner was declared as athletic director

On Friday David Joyner was introduced as Penn State's acting athletic director He was previously worked with the U.S. Olympic Committee. He said that there is no planning to cancel the rest of the Nittany Lions' football season or to remove Joe Paterno's statue from outside Beaver Stadium.

He promises change for athletics program in confusion after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was exciting with sexually abusing eight boys over 15-year span.

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Singapore Athletes Exceed their Target Medals -26th South-East Asian Games

At the 26th South-east Asian (SEA) Games Singapore’s athletics team exceeded the target six-medal s set by the president of the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA). In South-east Asian Games the athletics team won seven medals — 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze.

26th SEA Games Singapore Male Athletics team

Name	Event	Type	Age	Pos	PB	Result	Remarks
Chong Ming Xun	Pole Vault	Final	23	Bronze	4.70m	4.70m	Equal PB
Calvin Kang	200m	Heats	21	7th	21.68s	22.28s	SB
	200m	Final		8th	21.68s	21.95s	SB
	4x100m (1)	Final		Silver
Kenneth Khoo	400m	Heats	29	7th	47.77s	49.79s
	400m	Final		8th	47.77s	49.74s
	4x400m (3)	Final		4th
Lee Cheng Wei	200m	Heats	24	5th	21.57s	22.21s
	200m	Final		5th	21.57s	21.60s
	4x100m (3)	Final		Silver
Muhd Amirudin	4x100m (2)	Final	24	Silver
Muhd Elfi	100m	Heats	24	9th	10.56s	11.22s
Muhd Zaki	400m Hurdles	Heats	19	7th	53.59s	53.51s	Junior Rec
	400m Hurdles	Final		8th	53.51s	54.51s
	4x400m (1)	Final		4th
Ng Chin Hui	400m	Heats	17	6th	47.97s	49.77s
	400m	Final		4th	47.97s	48.37s
	4x400m (2)	Final		4th
Lance Tan	4x400m (4)	Final	24	4th
Stefan Tseng	Triple Jump	Final	21	5th	16.04m	15.72m
James Wong	Discus	Final	42	Gold	59.87m	51.32m
Timothee Yap	400m Hurdles	Heats	17	11th	54.08s	55.51s
Gary Yeo	100m	Heats	25	2nd	10.62s	10.64s
	100m	Final		Silver	10.62s	10.46s	+2.1 m/s
	4x100m (4)	Final		Silver
Team	4x100m Relay	Final		Silver	39.82s	39.91s
	4x400m Relay	Final		4th	3:10.55s	3:18.50s

26th SEA Games Singapore Athletics team:

Name	Event	Type	Age	Pos	PB	Result	Remarks
Dipna Lim Prasad	100m Hurdles	Heats	20	9th	14.23s	14.44s
	4x400m (4)	Final		5th
Wendy Enn	400m	Heats	17	9th	58.69s	59.42s
	4x400m (2)	Final		5th
Nikita Sharda	4x400m (1)	Final	21	5th
Charlene Oh	400m	Heats	16	10th	60.19s	63.74s
Qi Hui	Marathon	Final	31		2:50	DNF
Renuka Satianathan	10000m	Final	23	5th	37:15.87s	38:50.61s
T Piriyah	400m Hurdles	Final	19	8th	61.69s	63.49s	SB
	4x400m (3)	Final		5th
Valerie Pereira	200m	Heats	21	11th	24.69s	33.09s
Wan Lay Chi	Shot Put	Final	23	Silver	14.28m	14.59s	PB
	Discus	Final		4th	48.47m	46.79m
Rachel Yang	Pole Vault	Final	29		3.82m	NH
Zhang Guirong	Shot Put	Final	33	Gold	18.57m	16.96m	SB
	Discus	Final		Bronze	49.91m	48.22m	SB
Team	4x400m Relay	Final		5th	3:43.85s	3:54.57s

Singapore Athletics team Historical medal list at SEA Games Year

	Track	Field	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Combined events	Total
1991	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
1993	8	3	8	3	1	1	12
1995	2	4	2	3	1	0	6
1997	3	2	3	0	2	0	5
1999	0	2	0	1	1	0	2
2001	1	3	1	2	1	0	4
2003	2	7	1	4	4	0	9
2005	1	7	4	1	3	0	8
2007	0	2	1	0	1	0	2
2009	1	2	0	1	2	0	3
2011	2	5	2	3	2	0	7

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