Word: bartosh
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...This deal was sold out before the season started," Gil Bartosh, athletic director for the Midland Independent School District, was explaining the day before the game. Outside, fat drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear...
...Bartosh returned to the subject of the intensity of feeling for high school football. He said there were not "a whole lot of distractions in West Texas, like mountains or lakes or anything, and most communities are centered around their schools." When the tickets for this game went on sale, the school's booster club gobbled them up before any could be offered to the general public, which got cross. The Midland Memorial Stadium seats 10,750. Odessa has a new stadium that seats 19,500, but district rules say the game has to alternate sites each year. "When...
Such loyalty is highly lucrative. Bartosh reports that regular-season gate receipts plus the revenue from the state playoffs netted the school about $320,000. It costs $92,000 to run the entire football program, seventh through twelfth grade. The extra money pays for the school's other sports, known to some in these parts as "the lesser sports...
...Bartosh's problem is remarkably common but woefully underdiscussed. According to the American Urological Association, about 1 in 5 U.S. women over age 50 suffers from stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the tendency to leak urine when the bladder is stressed by running, jumping, sneezing, coughing or other activities. Urge incontinence, the sudden unbearable need to urinate, is far less common...
...often choose surgery. Approximately 135,000 SUI surgeries are performed a year in the U.S., with a success rate of 75% to 95%. The two most common are the Burch procedure, which uses permanent stitches to support the bladder neck, and the sling procedure, which tightens the sphincter knot. Bartosh and Lynch say they are happy with their sling surgeries and report no leakage, though each had some initial complications afterward. "I feel so much better about myself," says Bartosh, gripping her coffee cup in the parking lot. "I've taken ownership of my body again...