Noozhawk

Pickleball Coach Visits SLO Prison to Teach Inmates the Game — and Build Camaraderie

Pickleball coach Roger BelAir visits the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo on Nov. 12 to teach the game to inmates. Hollywood filmmaker Daniel Ostroff was producing the documentary “Pickleball in Prison,” and a crew filmed how the sport can ...
Black Enterprise

College Track Coach Sentenced To Prison For ‘Sextortion’ Of Players And Women Online

The 31-year-old has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his years-long "sextortion" of female athletes under his mentorship and women online. Steve Waithe, a former track coach for Northeastern University in Boston, has been sentenced to ...
CBS News

Former Colorado coach imprisoned for sexually assaulting teen athletes: "Every parent's worst nightmare"

A former Colorado man was recently sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting several members of the elite, Olympic-caliber swim team he coached 27 years ago in Boulder. A Boulder County jury recently convicted Jon Beber on three felony counts of sexually ...
SanLuisObispo

Pickleball coach visits SLO prison to teach inmates the game — building bonds and camaraderie

The fastest growing sport in the United States has reached San Luis Obispo’s only prison. On a mid-November morning inside the California Men’s Colony gymnasium, two courts were packed with 25 inmates holding paddles and awaiting instruction on how to ...