Let’s Waffle opens in Cape Coral Let’s Waffle is one of two businesses the Feix family launched locally, with the FMS Florida Boat Tours and Limousine Service owned and operated by Feix’s husband, Alexander.
Planned Punta Gorda hotel, pub, brewery faces construction delay Kevin Doyle, owner of Celtic Ray Public House Irish pub in downtown Punta Gorda, and his partner, S4 Global Investments, were found in violation of the city’s exposed soils code.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral Man arrested and charged with over 90 counts of fraud The Cape Coral Police Department arrested a man for allegedly stealing items from a business and then pawning them.
Man accused of pulling gun on someone ordering at Collier County Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru A man has been arrested after allegedly pulling a gun on someone ordering at a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru in Collier County.
League Club of Naples awards record $683K in grants to Collier, Lee nonprofits At a mid-April breakfast event, the 35 area nonprofit agencies—chosen from a record number of applicants—were awarded grants from the women’s volunteer organization in areas ranging from arts education, to fighting hunger and homelessness, to providing bikes and wheelchairs to children in need
Tim Aten Knows: Chick-fil-A drive-thru proposal faces criticism in Naples Chick-fil-A is proposing a drive-thru restaurant at the site of the former Red Lobster restaurant on U.S. 41 in Naples, but the project is facing early criticism.
Man convicted for murder of 17-year-old girl will be in court for resentencing A convicted man will be in court for resentencing for a murder that he committed as a teenager almost 20 years ago.
NAPLES Friday’s Furry Friends: Holly, Slim For this week’s Friday’s Furry Friends, WINK visits the Collier County Domestic Animal Services to showcase two adorable animals ready to be adopted.
FORT MYERS Caught on Camera: Dust Devil spotted spiraling in Fort Myers A dust devil was spotted and recorded by a WINK News viewer on Hanson Street in Fort Myers.
Warm, dry and breezy afternoon after a comfortable morning The Weather Authority is tracking a comfortable Friday morning start with dry and breezy afternoon conditions expected.
NAPLES Event held in Naples for National Crime Victims Week The City of Naples and Project HELP held an event in Baker Park for National Crime Victims Week.
NAPLES 25-acre brush fire off I-75 in Collier County lowers air quality The Greater Naples Fire Rescue responded to a 25-acre brush fire at Mile Marker 96 on I-75 in the Picayune Strand State Forest.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral softball coach arrested for alleged inappropriate conduct with student released on bond A former Cape Coral volunteer softball coach arrested for alleged sexual contact with a student was released from jail on bond.
FORT MYERS A prom like no other at Golisano Children’s Hospital Logan Stryker may be a little young for high school prom, but he’s the prom king of Golisano Children’s Hospital.
FORT MYERS Group protests death of Christopher Jordan Their messages were aimed at the Fort Myers police department, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and State Attorney Amira Fox.
Let’s Waffle opens in Cape Coral Let’s Waffle is one of two businesses the Feix family launched locally, with the FMS Florida Boat Tours and Limousine Service owned and operated by Feix’s husband, Alexander.
Planned Punta Gorda hotel, pub, brewery faces construction delay Kevin Doyle, owner of Celtic Ray Public House Irish pub in downtown Punta Gorda, and his partner, S4 Global Investments, were found in violation of the city’s exposed soils code.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral Man arrested and charged with over 90 counts of fraud The Cape Coral Police Department arrested a man for allegedly stealing items from a business and then pawning them.
Man accused of pulling gun on someone ordering at Collier County Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru A man has been arrested after allegedly pulling a gun on someone ordering at a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru in Collier County.
League Club of Naples awards record $683K in grants to Collier, Lee nonprofits At a mid-April breakfast event, the 35 area nonprofit agencies—chosen from a record number of applicants—were awarded grants from the women’s volunteer organization in areas ranging from arts education, to fighting hunger and homelessness, to providing bikes and wheelchairs to children in need
Tim Aten Knows: Chick-fil-A drive-thru proposal faces criticism in Naples Chick-fil-A is proposing a drive-thru restaurant at the site of the former Red Lobster restaurant on U.S. 41 in Naples, but the project is facing early criticism.
Man convicted for murder of 17-year-old girl will be in court for resentencing A convicted man will be in court for resentencing for a murder that he committed as a teenager almost 20 years ago.
NAPLES Friday’s Furry Friends: Holly, Slim For this week’s Friday’s Furry Friends, WINK visits the Collier County Domestic Animal Services to showcase two adorable animals ready to be adopted.
FORT MYERS Caught on Camera: Dust Devil spotted spiraling in Fort Myers A dust devil was spotted and recorded by a WINK News viewer on Hanson Street in Fort Myers.
Warm, dry and breezy afternoon after a comfortable morning The Weather Authority is tracking a comfortable Friday morning start with dry and breezy afternoon conditions expected.
NAPLES Event held in Naples for National Crime Victims Week The City of Naples and Project HELP held an event in Baker Park for National Crime Victims Week.
NAPLES 25-acre brush fire off I-75 in Collier County lowers air quality The Greater Naples Fire Rescue responded to a 25-acre brush fire at Mile Marker 96 on I-75 in the Picayune Strand State Forest.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral softball coach arrested for alleged inappropriate conduct with student released on bond A former Cape Coral volunteer softball coach arrested for alleged sexual contact with a student was released from jail on bond.
FORT MYERS A prom like no other at Golisano Children’s Hospital Logan Stryker may be a little young for high school prom, but he’s the prom king of Golisano Children’s Hospital.
FORT MYERS Group protests death of Christopher Jordan Their messages were aimed at the Fort Myers police department, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and State Attorney Amira Fox.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Racial and gender hiring practices in college sports have improved slightly from a year ago but still lag behind those in professional sports, according to a diversity report released Thursday. The annual report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) reveals that in 2015, hiring for women made a slight improvement, while hiring for minorities took a marginal step backward from 2014. The combined overall grade for college sports in 2015 was a B with 81.2 points, up slightly from 81.1 points in 2014. The score for racial hiring in 2015 was a B with 83.6 points, a slight drop from 83.8 points a year earlier. Gender hiring, however, made a small jump from 73.8 points in 2014 to 78.8 in 2015 for a C-plus. Richard Lapchick, the primary author of the report and director of University of Central Florida-based TIDES, is encouraged that the numbers have improved but said much more needs to be done. He advocates for a rule that would mandate NCAA member institutions to interview a diverse pool of candidates for senior-level positions including coaches. The NFL has a similar rule known as Rooney Rule. Lapchick would like the college rule to be named for Hall of Fame football coach Eddie Robison, who won 408 games at historically black Grambling over a 57-year career. College sports had the lowest grade for racial hiring practices among all sports groups or organizations reviewed by TIDES, while only the NFL had worse numbers when it came to gender hiring practices of the professional and college sports leagues the organization tracks. It also produces report cards on the NBA, WNBA and Major League Baseball, among others. More minorities got Division I football and men’s and women’s basketball jobs in 2015, according to the report. But more than 60 percent of all women’s teams are still coached by men at the highest level in college sports. “To me, college sports has been the most disappointing of all of the report cards that we do, since I’ve been involved with higher education for 45 years,” Lapchick said. “When you look at the percentage of women who are head coaches of women’s teams and assistant coaches on women’s teams 44 years after Title IX and we are still less than 40 percent of head coaches of women’s teams being women and less than 50 percent of the assistant coaches. That’s a problem when 90 percent of the head coaches in both men’s and women’s sports across all three divisions are white.” While the number of minorities coaching football improved in 2015, the percentage is nowhere close to the racial breakdown on the field. African-Americans make up 53.4 percent of the players in the Football Bowl Subdivision level, while whites make up 41.4 percent, Latinos 2.2 percent and Asian/Pacific Island players 2.4 percent. The head coaches are still overwhelmingly white at the highest level of college football at nearly 88 percent. Only 16 of the coaches who began the 2015 season at the 128 FBS institutions were minorities, a slight improvement over the 14 who began the 2014 season. In Division I men’s basketball, 55.6 percent of the players during the 2014-15 season were African-American, while whites made up 27 percent. But only 22.3 percent of the Division I men’s basketball coaches were African-American in 2014-2015, while the all-time high was just 25.2 percent in 2005-06. Part of the problem could be linked to who is doing the hiring. Whites made up 87.5 percent of the athletic directors during 2014-15 year, and nearly 90 percent of the FBS presidents in 2015 were white. Of the 10 FBS commissioners, all were white and only one is not male. Judy MacLeod of Conference USA was named the first female commissioner in the FBS in October. “There have been improvements in terms of women’s basketball for African-Americans, there was a slight improvement in FBS football with head coaches of color, but still 88 percent of the football coaches are still white, 77 percent of the men’s basketball coaches and 85 percent of the women’s basketball coaches are still white,” Lapchick said. “Then of course, there are the athletic directors, the decision makers – that portrait makes everything else make sense when you look at all three divisions.” Women held just 38.9 percent of the head coaching jobs for women’s sports at the Division I level in 2014-15, a 0.7 percent increase from 2013-14. Women made up 35.4 percent of the coaches at the Division II level and 43.8 percent at Division III. But even then, white women were the overwhelming majority of coaches for those opportunities. White women made up nearly 86 percent of the coaches at the Division I level, 88.4 percent at Division II and 91.3 at Division III. The report card includes data on head coaches, assistant coaches, athletic directors, conference commissioners and university presidents, as well as for the NCAA. It covers the 2014-15 season along with the start of the 2015 football season, while excluding data from historically black colleges and universities. ___ Online: http://tidesport.org/