North Carolina coaches prepare for opening prep practices in heat

Friday's Heads Up Football news:

• The Raleigh News & Observer reported on how the North Carolina high school coaches are preparing for heat and hydration issues entering training camp.

• how the Heads Up Football program helped make over the Rosewood Athletic Association, talking to football director Rodney Winters.

• KMTV-TV in Omaha, Neb., talked to former NFL player Danny Noonan about the Heads Up program.

• Time Warner Cable looked at how coaches are using Heads Up Football in Charlotte, N.C., to prepare kids for high school football practice.

• WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., reported on the area's youth concussion week in which the Heads Up tackling techniques are taught.

• KTVB-TV in Boise, Idaho, reported that the city's Optimist Youth Football organization is holding a football safety day to help assuage parents' fears.

• WFMY-TV in Greensboro, N.C., reported on a Heads Up clinic for parents, focusing on concussion awareness.

-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor