Kenny Jacoby

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kenny Jacoby

Three Dallas Stars employees used their positions with the National Hockey League team and atop prominent youth hockey nonprofit organizations to profit at thousands of families’ expense, a USA TODAY investigation found. The employees – Damon Boettcher, Lucas Reid and Brad Buckland – organized dozens of Stars-run youth hockey tournaments that required out-of-town participants to book rooms for a minimum number of nights at select hotels.

2 months ago | usatoday.com | Chris Quintana |Kenny Jacoby

National Signing Day has come and gone, which means thousands of young men are still searching for a college football team to call home. Many will try to walk onto teams or accept that their football careers are over. Others will be lured into post-grad football, where players pay thousands of dollars to pursue their college football dreams.

Dec 12, 2024 | usatoday.com | Kenny Jacoby |Chris Quintana

Leo Etienne swivels back and forth in his chair behind a faux wooden desk in a cramped office. An unopened pack of toilet paper rolls rests on a side table next to a printer. Etienne prefers to be interviewed here instead of in his main office, which he says is too messy. Inside the concrete office building-slash-warehouse with no exterior signs, off a road with no sidewalks in a Central Florida city of 20,000, a group of about two dozen young men lift weights while blasting hip-hop music.

Dec 12, 2024 | usatoday.com | Chris Quintana |Kenny Jacoby

Hezekiah West thought he had a fresh chance to score a place on a college football team – his dream since childhood. The once-promising running back from Wayne County, Mississippi, spent part of his high school senior year sidelined with a torn thigh muscle. College coaches had stopped calling. Signing day came and went without any offers. That’s when West turned to Mississippi Prep, a postgraduate football team unaffiliated with any school.

Oct 4, 2024 | usatoday.com | Kenny Jacoby

One year ago, Michigan State University fired head football coach Mel Tucker amid allegations that he sexually harassed a rape survivor he had hired to teach his players about sexual assault prevention. On Friday, that woman filed a lawsuit against him for defamation.