Just one year after accepting a job as a basketball coach and athletic director at Calvary Chapel, Dave Bliss resigned. The former Baylor University basketball coach with a tainted past explains why he left and accepted a job with American Preparatory Academy. (Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A Las Vegas charter school, American Preparatory Academy, is on a quest to become a part of the NIAA. They “slow-rolled” their athletics program to put all the right pieces in place and are led by a coach whose past is embroiled in controversy, Dave Bliss.
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1. Calvary Chapel Christian School has hired former disgraced Baylor coach Dave Bliss as an athletic director and boys basketball coach. Bliss was at the center of a murder scandal in 2003 when one Baylor basketball player killed another. Teachers and coaches at Calvary Chapel say they are comfortable with Bliss working there despite his past controversies.
2. A pedestrian was hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver Wednesday night, according to police. The crash happened at the intersection of Lake Mead and Martin Luther King boulevards at around 9:40 p.m. when a black Nissan sedan traveling westbound hit the pedestrian crossing northbound. The pedestrian died at the scene.
3. NASA has a new job opening: planetary protection officer. It pays up to $187,000 a year and responsibilities include safeguarding Earth from alien life. The position is independent and is a three- to five-year appointment.
