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DIED. REGGIE WHITE, 43, retired star NFL defensive end; possibly the result of sleep apnea and a disease that affected his lungs, according to a preliminary autopsy report; in Huntersville, N.C. During 15 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers, the "Minister of Defense" pummeled rival quarterbacks with 198 career sacks (a record broken by Bruce Smith in 2003), was named to the Pro Bowl 13 straight times and helped lead the Packers to two consecutive Super Bowls...
FOOTBALL After apologizing for Janet Jackson's Super Bowl faux pas, the NFL watched Nicolette Sheridan flash Terrell Owens on Monday Night Football. Then apologized again...
...Little League, has 20,000 coaches. At most, 200, or 1%, are women. And only one high school in America--George Washington in New York City--has a female head football coach. This isn't shocking, given that few girls actually grace the gridiron. Still, the National Football League (NFL) is eager to address the shortage, starting with moms like Bolds-Jackson in New Orleans...
...this fall the NFL brought veteran high school coach Jerry Horowitz to the city to teach Football 101 to 33 females, a group that included cops, teachers and stay-at-home mothers. After 16 hours of training, the women ran 12 practices for 12- to 15-year-old boys and a few girls taking part in the league's Junior Player Development program...
...NFL plans to expand the program to women in all 31 of its cities in the next two years. Baltimore, New Orleans, New York City, Miami and Pittsburgh are set for 2005. Will the lessons take hold and actually bring a significant number of women into the ranks? Some are skeptical. "It ain't going to happen," says Carol White, the only woman ever to coach Division I college football. "They would have to change society first," says White, an assistant at Georgia Tech in the late 1980s. "It's not an antiwoman thing. Most women just...