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Article: Football Coach's Practice at issue in trial involving player's death.(Sports)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. | David Jason Stinson put winning ahead of safety, a prosecutor said as the trial opened for the former Kentucky coach charged in a player's death following football practice. B ut Stinson's defense said the practice wasn't unusually hard.
Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Leland Hulbert said in opening statements Thursday that Stinson ran a brutal practice the day 15-year-old Max Gilpin collapsed, denying players water and using tactics that led to the sophomore lineman's death three days later.
"Coach Stinson knew the risks that day," Hulbert said. "He put competitiveness and winning ... ahead of safety."
Gilpin died Aug. 23, ...