Recruits scramble for spots
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CORAL GABLES Â· The Miami Hurricanes have serious holes to fill on the roster, a limited number of scholarships and a number of talented players who want to come on board.
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A district confronts the shortage by recruiting teens to train.
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It was a simple warm-up drill during yesterday's practice, players lifting their feet as they quickly raced over bags placed on the ground.
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As students head back to school, there's an extra push to bring those who never graduated back into the classroom.
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THE Australian Rugby Union has been swamped with inquiries from high-profile players here and overseas interested in joining the new Super 14 franchise in 2006.
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The New York Police Department, reeling from a staffing crisis, is trying to lure recruits with an offer to pay off some of the college loans of anyone who joins the force and stays for five years.
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Many don&#39;t realize they are eligible; others feel application forms are too complicated to fill out. By Justin Pope / Associated Press.
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On a recruiting visit to a school in this Chicago suburb, Marine Staff Sgt. Jody Van Doorenmaalen asked a sophomore what popped into his parents' heads when they thought about him joining the Marines.
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George Karl is trying to entice NenÃÂ© to attend an upcoming practice, hoping the comraderie of his teammates will prove thereapuetic.
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At the annual N.F.L. Scouting Combine, about 320 college players will attempt to impress scouts, coaches and general managers from every N.F.L. team by scoring well on a battery of physical tests.
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Party officials in Ohio plan to place thousands of recruits at polling places on Nov. 2 to challenge voters' qualifications.
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Tennessee traveled far and wide to assemble one of the nation's best recruiting classes. The Volunteers signed 27 players Wednesday, the first day of the national signing period, and went into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida and Washington D.C. for topflight prospects.
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The difficult game with prep-school roots is gaining a small bounce outside the East Coast.
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A number of athletes from the western 'burbs are making their marks as freshmen at Wheaton College, a Division 3 program in Norton.
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It gets crazier and more emotional every year, but what in sports doesn't? The build up to the NCAA men's basketball tournament is starting to get like recruiting. Bracketology -- I hope whoever coined that word is getting some money out of it -- is an end in itself, building up to last night's "Selection Show." People put out 65-team ...
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Pizza parties, treasure hunts and programming contests are meant to create excitement around a company and impress potential recruits as young as college freshmen.
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Many of college basketball's traditional powers feature lineups full of freshman who may have otherwise jumped from high school to the NBA.