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Ashton Alvey, a senior at Bonneville High School paticipates in a basketball game. Alvey also plays football and is an honor roll student.

Athletes often held to a higher standard

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 11:24am

For many students, sports are an important part of the high school experience. Sporting events have become a favorite pastime in Utah, but for some, negative stereotypes have risen up against athletes.

These stereotypes include such ideas as athletes are not as smart as the rest of the student body, they are poor role models, and they are favored by coaches and teachers.

To get a better understanding of the stereotypes associated with athletes, we talked with some Top of Utah athletes and coaches.

Dumb jock?

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Mark Moulton helps student Hunter Simmons read at Horace Mann Elementary School in Ogden recently. Moulton, the father of a child at the school, is one of several fathers who volunteer at the school as part of the Watch D.O.G.S. program. School officials like the program because it gives children a positive male role model, and it is improving students' behavior and grades. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

Men real cool D.O.G.S. at Ogden school

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 12, 2012 - 9:39pm

OGDEN — Walking the beat in the halls of Horace Mann Elementary School is a new breed of Watch D.O.G.S., keeping the peace.

That breed would be human. About 40 men have joined the school’s new program as D.O.G.S., which stands for Dads of Great Students.

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In this photo released by the PBA LLC and taken Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, bowler Pete Weber celebrates after defeating Mike Fagan in the finals to win the U.S. Open bowling championship at Brunswick Zone-Carolier in North Brunswick, N.J. Weber threw a strike on his final ball to win 215-214, for a record fifth U.S. Open title. He surpassed the record of his father, Dick Weber and his father’s close friend Don Carter, who both won four times. (AP Photo/PBA LLC)

Column: 'Kids will see worse on TV than what I do'

Jim Litke The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 3:35pm

Fred Flintstone bowled. So did Ralph Kramden and The Dude from "The Big Lebowski." Over the 5,200 years-and-counting the game's been around, almost everyone has.

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