News Stories

Click on the link below to view the FrontDoors Magazine article from December 2019, Volume 17, Issue 12, on page 37.  The article was written in the "Second Act" feature and titled, "Ensuring the Beat Goes On!"

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Click on the link below to view the News story aired Cronkite News PBS on Tuesday, December 3, 2019, regarding the work of Sharon Bates and the Anthony Bates Foundation screening programs. 

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Click the links below to view the video stories of our Cardiac Screening Evening hosted at Arcadia High School in honor of Shania Singer, age 15, that died Oct. 31, 2015 from SCA.  TV3 and CBS5 aired our story.  Friday, January 29, 2016.

Click the link below to read the story and watch the video of Sharon Bates and Jessica Hermann, ABF representativesat the Phoenix Suns game, Friday, January 8, 2016, winning the 2016 Phoenix Suns Charity Challenge of 2016.
ABF WINS the 2016 Phoenix Suns Charity Challenge

Click the link below to read the feature article regarding Sharon Bates & the Anthony Bates Foundation in the Arizona Health and Living magazine.  Feb. 2015
Arizona Health and Living Magazine Feb 2015
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Click to listen to the "PSA Show with guest Sharon Bates." - hostesss Athena Sanchez on Riveria Broadcasting Stations.
Power 95.1 - 10/26/14

Click to view the "Pay it Forward" News stor of Sharon Bates. -"Arizona mom saving lives in son's honor"
CBS5 - 10/2/14
Pay It Forward


Click the link to read about two Moms (Sharon Bates & Shellie Wenhold) banning together regarding Cardiac Screening in Youth & AEDs in Schools - "Foundation focuses heart screenings on Peoria Unified schools"
"YourWestValley.com" - 3/29/14
Foundation focuses on Screenings


Click the link to see our News story promoting ABF work in Phoenix in The Mercury “K-State family means a lot to former Wildcat mom” by Kelly McHugh - 1/6/2013
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"Call for better screenings for young athletes"
Click the above link to see our News story promoting the April 9th at
Westgate City Center Event - 4/6/11
Local Phoenix 3TV News Extra



“Free Heart Testing Available in Anthem”
Click on the article link to read more, story by Mark Buckhout – 4/3/2013


Click the link to read our story in K-Stater Magazine - 3/5/11
Sharon in the K-Stater Magazine 032011 


"Death of a football player spurs mom to save other student-athletes"
MANHATTAN - Defensive tackle Anthony Bates had completed his workout at K-State's football weight room and was driving on Denison Avenue heading home for lunch.  He never made it due to a genetic sudden cardiac arrest in 2000.
 
Two years after her son's death, Sharon Bates, Phoenix, Ariz., founded The Anthony Bates Foundation to helpeducate parents and schools and to screen student-athletes and youths for early signs of heart problems. She recalled a conversation with head football coach Bill Snyder... 

GLENDALE - A 16-year-old athlete at a Michigan high school has died after suffering a cardiac arrest from an enlarged heart. It's a sad story -- one that a valley family lived through 10 years ago. Sharon Bates lost her son, a star athlete, almost the same way. 20-year-old Anthony Bates played football and went into cardiac arrest one day. He collapsed and died.

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Our Westgate City Center PSA for the April 9, 2011...
Our Friends, Tom Leander (voice of the Phoenix Suns), Alexis Santos, Coordinator through Mended Little Hearts of Phoenix & Jack Miller Productions), Lynn our producer, and Sharon Bates director, created the Anthony Bates Foundation Public Service Announcement (PSA).  "When a young life is lost..."  This PSA will air throughout Phoenix media stations for the next month.  Published Spring, 2011 


Via Christi Health Employee Quarterly newletter article
Friends at Mercy Regional report in the Health Journal - "Mercy supports community screening of student athletes..."  This article outlines the support over 10 years of Mercy Regional with the Anthony Bates Foundation to screen young athletes in Manhattan, KS. Published Fall, 2010

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Western Athletes Receive Life Saving Donation
(Courtesy Missouri Western State University) On Sunday, September 26th the MWSU Athletic Department, Heartland Foundation, St. Joe Sports and the Anthony Bates Foundation are partnering to bring the 1st Annual Anthony Bates Foundation Cardiac Screening to the campus of Missouri Western State University. The screening is available to all Missouri Western Student-Athletes, middle school and high school athletes in the surrounding areas.


Is It Safe for Students to Play Sports Without Heart Exams?
September 18, 2010 (USA Today/WLTX) - Most teenagers think they're invincible, and that goes double for talented teenage athletes. They're young, immortal, at the top of their game, the envy of their friends, but Sharon Bates, a parent who founded the Anthony Bates Foundation after her athlete son, Anthony, died unexpectedly in 2000 and was found to have had an enlarged heart, disagrees with the arguments against mass screenings...


Foundation offers free head screening
Click on either of the above links to view the media story from
the local Surprise paper (yourwestvalley.com) for Willow
Canyon High School FREE Cardiac Screening event ...
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Media story from the local Tucson news channel 13 for the Salpointe Catholic High School 
FREE Cardiac Screening event
TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - A free heart screening was held Saturday at Salpointe Catholic High School Organizers hope it helps save local lives.The Anthony Bates Foundation and the Carondelet Health.

Network teamed to offer free screenings to children from 12 years old, all the way up to 22.
News Channel 13 Cardiac Screening Event


AZ Kids N Sports Article
Click on the following link to download the PDF of the published article in AZ Kids N Sports regarding the efforts of accomplishments of ABF
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Sports Illustrated Article 
Click the following link to view an article published in Sports Illutstrated with a bit about our accomplishments of ABF ...
Read the Sports Illustrated article


Article Written by Sharon Bates
Click the following link to view an article written by Sharon Bates of continued accomplishments of ABF and PHW
EP Lab Digest - March 2008 

Insight by Bill Snyder of ABF and Story...
"Bill Snyder - They said it couldn't be done - An inside Look at the Man, the Coach and the Greatest Turnaround in College Football History" written by Mark Jansesen with Bill Snyder, 2006
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Wall Street Journal Article 
Kevin Helliker and Kathryn Kranhold report in the Health Journal - "Case Grows for Screening Young Athletes For Dangerous Heart Conditions..." This article is the beginning of a series of articles that will help uncover the misconceptions held by our medical and general society of apathy towards heart screening our athletes. There are large numbers (5,000 to 7,000 according to the CDC) of young people that die every year to "Sudden Cardiac Death." Published Tuesday, June 21, 2005. Click picture to view Wall Street Journal newspaper article

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Arizona Republic Article 
Paula Boivin reports from Phoenix, AZ to all Arizona communities, for the Arizona Republic Newspaper. Kansas State University Football gets ready for another Fiesta Bowl game without Anthony Bates, #91.
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