Football Coach Charged In Player's Death

Published January 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM EST

Pleasure Ridge Park High School football player Max Gilpin died after an August football practice in a Louisville, Ky. suburb. His coach, Jason Stinson, has been charged with reckless homicide in Gilpin's heat-exhaustion-related death.

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Antoinette "Toni" Konz, education reporter for The Louisville Courier-Journal

H.G. Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August; contributing editor for Vanity Fair

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