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SATURDAY, Dec. 16
FBC–COACHING SEARCHES-SHALLOW POOL
The hiring season in college football has been accelerated and somewhat odd as schools high turnover rate in major college coaching rush to fill job and scramble to find quality candidates from a pool that increasingly lacks experience. The whole process has been sped up, people in the business say. Coaches are being push through the pipeline faster than ever, leaving fewer seasoned candidates. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos by noon Saturday.
SAAS-FEE, Switzerland – Scarce snow at home and melting glaciers abroad are making it increasingly difficult for athletes in the United States and around the globe to train for the Olympics. This season, several U.S. teams abandoned their home and headed to glaciers in Europe to get some much-needed autumn training on snow. What they found when they arrived was a glimpse into the future where it’s increasingly likely that not even those training sites will exist. By AP Sports Writers Eddie Pells and John Leicester. UPCOMING: 1,500 words, photos video and graphics by 3 a.m. Monday.
TUESDAY, Dec. 19
OLY–THE CLIMATE GAMES-ECONOMICS
PARK CITY, Utah – With winters growing warmer and ski seasons starting later, billions of dollars are at stake for the ski industry. Nobody feels that impact more than world champion freestyle skier Jon Lillis, who needs snow to do his day job, and to keep business brisk at the restaurant he owns in the ski resort town of Park City. By National Writer Eddie Pells. UPCOMING: 600 words Oakland Raiders Jerseys Womens , photos by 3 a.m. Tuesday.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20
FBN–GOING VEGETARIAN
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee linebacker Wesley Woodyard went vegetarian after finally getting a taste of the delicious burgers his teammates ate in the locker room. He has plenty of company on defense too with 11 Titans jumping on the plant-based diet with lunches delivered by the Cordon Bleu-trained wife of linebacker Derrick Morgan. The stereotype is NFL players chow down on platters of meat to survive and thrive, but the veggie-fueled Titans rank among the league’s best defenses. By Pro Football Writer Teresa M. Walker. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos by 3 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20.
THURSDAY, Dec. 21
SKOREA-OLYMPICS-COLD GAMES
PYEONGCHANG – The cold is back for the Winter Games. After two straight balmy Olympics where some might have wondered if it was even winter, let alone the world’s pre-eminent freeze-dependent sporting event, athletes and visitors alike will finally experience a no-joke chill in their bones during the games. How cold? So cold that locals say windows sometimes break. So cold that tears well in the eyes within seconds. So cold that men have been known to flashback to being posted for hours in frozen silence on the frontline during mandatory military service in their youths. So cold the ink in a pen grows sluggish and dies as it scribbles over a page. ”We all hope it will be better in February, but if it’s like it is now Youth Denver Broncos Jerseys , there will be big trouble. It’s just too cold for outsiders,” says Choi Jong Sik, 64, who smirks as a visiting reporter sheds layers of clothing like a snake sheds skins. By Foster Klug. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos, video by 1 a.m.
FRIDAY, Dec. 22
US HOCKEY RISING
In the first 20 years of the IIHF World Junior Championship tournament, Team USA managed two podium finishes – bronze medals in 1986 and 1992. The state of USA hockey has improved, and the results of the Junior Championship – the annual tournament for the world’s best players 20 and under – reflects the development work and higher profile of the sport in a nation where hockey is only the sixth most popular sport. The US has won gold medals three times since 2010, including last year when they beat Canada in a shootout in the riveting final game. But the Americans haven’t been able to successfully defend a title Rams Game Jerseys , nor have they been able to win a junior tournament on their own soil. That could change when the 10-nation tournament begins the day after Christmas in Buffalo, New York. By Mitch Stacy. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos by 3 a.m. Friday, Dec. 22.
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