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39 minutes ago
- Sport
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From High School Sidelines to Boulder's War Room
From High School Sidelines to Boulder's War Room originally appeared on Athlon Sports. June 20, 2012. For most, just another date. For Corey Phillips, it marked a moment of surrender, and divine direction. Advertisement 'I was a high school football coach and residential school teacher,' Phillips posted recently on X. 'My prayer was to get to the collegiate level as a coach. God saw it to be another route.' It wasn't coaching. But it was the start of something bigger. Today, Phillips sits in the middle of Colorado football's transformation, serving as the Director of Player Personnel under Deion Sanders. But his journey, rooted in faith, grind, and a tweet of gratitude, started far from the lights of Folsom Field. From Nashville Classrooms to Commodore Credentials Before he was scouting four-star recruits and managing elite-level rosters, Phillips spent nearly a decade molding young men at the high school level in Tennessee. As defensive coordinator at Brentwood High and previously at Father Ryan High School, he developed 14 All-Region selections and helped shape future stars. Advertisement But the collegiate door wouldn't open, until 2016. That's when Vanderbilt head coach Derek Mason offered Phillips his shot. '@CoachDerekMason thank you for my opportunity in 2016,' Phillips wrote, almost nine years to the day after it happened. 'Believe in His promise, and stay the course.' At Vanderbilt, he started humbly as an assistant recruiting coordinator, but it was enough. He was in the door. The journey had begun. SEC Pedigree and Next-Level Vision From Vanderbilt, Phillips continued climbing. His eye for talent and authenticity earned him the Director of Scouting role at NC State. There, he helped build competitive rosters in a brutally tough ACC landscape. Advertisement In 2022, LSU came calling. As Associate Director of Player Personnel, Phillips was instrumental in assembling a top-10 national recruiting class, ranked No. 6 by On3 Consensus. For a guy once diagramming coverages on a high school whiteboard, the ascension was surreal. But earned. Now in Boulder: Rebuilding the Buffaloes In December of 2022, Coach Prime tapped Phillips to help reshape Colorado's recruiting blueprint. His job? Simple, but seismic: find players who can run, hit, and believe. At Colorado, Phillips doesn't just watch film. He listens to stories. He knows what overlooked kids can become. After all, he was one of them. Advertisement His path is not traditional. It's transformational. Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver Omarion MillerChet Strange-USA TODAY Sports Building for More. Corey Phillips isn't the loudest voice in the room. But he might be the most important one. As Colorado pushes into a new era under Deion Sanders, Phillips' blend of football knowledge, recruiting skill, and spiritual resilience could be the X-factor. From praying for a chance in 2012, to changing the game in 2025, his journey is proof: believe in the process, and the promise will follow. Related: Colorado's Jordan Seaton Turning Heads with Stunning Transformation This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 21, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Business
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Female College Athletes File Title IX Appeal Over NCAA $2.8B Settlement
Female College Athletes File Title IX Appeal Over NCAA $2.8B Settlement originally appeared on Athlon Sports. A group of female college athletes has filed a Title IX-based appeal against the recently approved House v. NCAA settlement, which officially ends the NCAA's amateurism model and allows revenue-sharing for Division I athletes. Advertisement The appeal claims the $2.8 billion settlement, allocating $2.4 billion to male athletes and only $102 million to female athletes, violates gender equity laws under Title IX. 'The House Settlement allocates $2.4 billion to men and only $102 million to women,' objecting attorney Leigh Ernst Friestedt told CBS Sports. 'This significant dispartity constitutes a violation of Title IX.' Filed in the Ninth Circuit, the appeal was led by athletes from Vanderbilt, College of Charleston, and Virginia. While the appeal won't stop future revenue-sharing, which is set to begin July 1, 2025. The appeal could delay the back payments to athletes covering the years 2016–2024. These payments, totaling nearly $2.8 billion, were agreed upon to avoid $20 billion in damages. The NCAA is responsible for $277 million annually over 10 years, funded partly by reduced distributions to schools. The settlement introduces stricter regulation of NIL deals through Deloitte's 'NIL Go' clearinghouse. Any unapproved deals over $600 may lead to athlete ineligibility or school penalties. Advertisement Deloitte claims it would have rejected 70% of past NIL collective deals. Additionally, revenue-sharing will favor football (75%) and men's basketball (15%), with only 5% each for women's basketball and all other sports. Related: Ohio State QB Commit Uses NIL to Give Back to Kids Related: The 5 Best Ways Student-Athletes Can Navigate the New College Landscape This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 14, 2025, where it first appeared.
CNA
20 hours ago
- Health
- CNA
What makes chicken breast so healthy? The surprising benefits you may not know
All cuts of chicken are great for you, but on a number of metrics, the humble breast takes top prize. Along with containing nutrients that are involved in repairing the body's tissues, building immunity and boosting energy, chicken breast is lower in saturated fat than thighs, legs and wings, making it a smart choice for people concerned about their heart health. Here are a few ways that chicken breast benefits your body. IT'S ONE OF THE BEST FOOD SOURCES OF PROTEIN On a per-calorie basis, there aren't many whole foods richer in protein than chicken breast. 'You'd have to eat protein powder to get more protein,' said Dave Bridges, a biochemist and associate professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Michigan. There are no carbohydrates and little fat in chicken breast, especially if you remove the skin, said Heidi Silver, the director of the Diet, Body Composition and Metabolism Core at Vanderbilt University. One 3.5-ounce serving of boneless, skinless chicken breast contains about 160 calories and 32 grams of protein. That's almost half the recommended daily amount for the average 185-pound (84kg) adult. (Some research suggests that people who do regular strength or endurance training may benefit from consuming more protein per day.) In comparison, a similar serving of farmed Atlantic salmon contains about 206 calories and 22 grams of protein. In addition to building muscle, protein is essential for repairing cells, making antibodies that fight disease and producing the enzymes that keep systems running. 'The entire body is built from protein,' Dr Silver said. IT'S BETTER FOR YOUR HEART Chicken breast is very low in saturated fat – the kind associated with high cholesterol and other risk factors for heart disease, Dr Bridges said. One 3.5-ounce serving has just one gram. Chicken also contains a modest dose of oleic and linoleic acids, two kinds of fat that have been shown to support heart health, he added. Simply adding more chicken to your diet won't necessarily reduce your risk of heart disease, Dr Bridges said, but substituting chicken for red and processed meats (like bacon or hot dogs) might. IT'S FULL OF B VITAMINS Chicken breast contains more than half the recommended daily amount of Vitamin B3, also known as niacin, and more than 70 per cent of the recommended amount of Vitamin B6. 'These nutrients do a whole bunch of different things,' Dr Silver said. For one, they are essential for brain health. Without them, we wouldn't be able to make dopamine, serotonin or melatonin – the chemicals that regulate our mood, sleep, attention and more. 'We need them for memory, for learning, for processing words and information,' she said. B vitamins are also essential for DNA production, and they help to transform food into energy, said Lee Murphy, a nutrition instructor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO EAT IT? If it's an option, Dr Bridges recommended buying organic. To receive organic certification, the Department of Agriculture requires poultry farms to give chickens access to the outdoors and room to move around, and to provide organic feed. There is some evidence that these types of chickens contain slightly more beneficial fats and fewer saturated ones, Dr Bridges said. The breast isn't the only part of the chicken worth eating, Dr Silver added. Dark meat cuts, like the thighs and drumsticks, are fattier, but they also tend to have higher levels of some vitamins and minerals, like Vitamin B12, iron and zinc. baking, grilling, poaching or air frying.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
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Coastal Carolina is in CWS finals, and retired coach Gary Gilmore is happy to watch from afar
FILE - Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore celebrates their 4-3 victory over Arizona to win the championship after Game 3 of the NCAA College World Series baseball finals in Omaha, Neb., June 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File) FILE - Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore participates in an interview during an NCAA regional baseball game against Vanderbilt on May 31, 2024, in Clemson, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File) FILE - Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore participates in an interview during an NCAA regional baseball game against Vanderbilt on May 31, 2024, in Clemson, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File) FILE - Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore celebrates their 4-3 victory over Arizona to win the championship after Game 3 of the NCAA College World Series baseball finals in Omaha, Neb., June 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File) FILE - Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore participates in an interview during an NCAA regional baseball game against Vanderbilt on May 31, 2024, in Clemson, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File) OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Considering the run Coastal Carolina's baseball team is on — 26 straight wins on the way to the College World Series finals — it would be understandable if Gary Gilmore had second thoughts about retiring after last season. Not a one, he said by phone Thursday as he pulled out of the driveway of his home in North Litchfield Beach, South Carolina, to head to his grandson's travel team tournament. Advertisement The 67-year-old Gilmore attended no Coastal Carolina games this season until the Chanticleers' first two in the CWS last weekend. He sat in the stands at Charles Schwab Field, uncomfortable as it was for the man who spent 29 years at the helm, led the 2016 Chanticleers to the national championship and is regarded as the godfather of program. Gilmore said he and his family would be back for the best-of-three finals against LSU starting Saturday night. 'Is there a piece of my DNA in this thing? Absolutely. There's no doubt about it,' Gilmore said, 'and I hope it will be for all time.' But the 2025 Chanticleers are first-year coach Kevin Schnall's team, and Gilmore said he wanted to make a clean break and not give the impression he was looking over Schnall's shoulder. Schnall was Gilmore's assistant for more than two decades. Advertisement The grind of building Coastal Carolina into a perennial NCAA Tournament team and CWS contender caused Gilmore to sacrifice time with his wife and two children to chase championships, as coaches are wont to do. When he was hired as head coach in 1996, his office was in a trailer with no plumbing behind a weed-filled outfield. Twenty years later, the Chanticleers were national champions. Gilmore could have said his work was done at that point, but he wasn't ready quite yet. In January 2020, he got a devastating reality check when he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. It had spread to his liver, but it was a type that tends to be more manageable than the more common variety that invariably carries a grim prognosis. He went through chemotherapy and traveled regularly first to Houston, and now Denver, for treatments. In 2023, he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and had surgery to remove the gland. Advertisement Gilmore tolerated his treatments for both cancers better than expected. He missed only three games and rarely a practice. All he went through, though, made him realize the pull to dedicate more of himself to his family was getting stronger. He wanted to reconnect with his wife and children and build strong bonds with his four grandchildren. 'I feel awesome,' he said. 'I have what I have. I've got the best doctor in the world. His goal is to manage all this stuff. At some point I'm going to have a life-changing surgery where they can get everything in my liver completely stabilized, and they have confidence that's going to last me a long time. I'll hopefully rid myself of some of this.' Doctors initially told him the worst-case scenario was that he would live two more years; the 'dream' was to make it 10. Now the outlook is better. Advertisement 'How things have gone, God willing, they can keep me with a good quality of life and hopefully something else will get me before that,' he said. Gilmore acknowledges the game isn't the same now with name, image and likeness opportunities and, soon, direct payments to athletes becoming larger factors in putting together and keeping together a team. 'The NIL, the analytics, the portal,' he said. "I honestly think this is a younger guy's game, to be honest with you. Guys like me, we coached the game with our eyes. We didn't coach with analytics and this and that. We recruited with our eyes. We didn't recruit over the internet to a large degree. We went out and saw guys play, evaluated people. 'That's not the reason I got out of it, ultimately. I've got two stage-4 cancers is my body. I feel healthy as I can, and I'm lucky and blessed I have the health I do. All that played out in my mind. You're 67 years old, you got four grandkids. What are the choices you want to make here?' Advertisement Right now, his choice is to be with his family while he enjoys watching the team he helped build chase a second national championship and see all that is possible for the 10,000-student school in the Myrtle Beach area that had no national athletic identity before 2016. 'Just because of the size of school, people want to label you Cinderella,' Gilmore said. 'We were a Cinderella in '16, absolutely, no doubt about it. We left Omaha still explaining what our mascot was, and Kevin's still doing it today.' Indeed, Schnall gave a stern pronunciation lesson to the media after his team beat Oregon State on Sunday, opening his news conference: 'Everybody say it with me: SHON-tuh-cleers! SHON-tuh-cleers! Not SHAN-tuh-cleers! SHON-tuh-cleers!' However you say it, the Chanticleers are well-suited to the cavernous CWS ballpark. They don't hit many home runs, but they get on base, get timely hits, have strong pitching and play outstanding defense. They're also hot. 'I've never seen anything like this,' Gilmore said. 'Crazy.' ___ AP college sports:
Deccan Herald
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Deccan Herald
Sony Pictures Classics acquires James Vanderbilt's Nazi thriller 'Nuremberg'
Written and directed by Vanderbilt and produced by Walden Media, Bluestone Entertainment and Mythology Entertainment, the film is a thrilling drama set in post-war Germany based on the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai.
