Coach reprimanded for licking students' wounds

A high school football coach in Portland has been reprimanded for licking the bleeding wounds of student athletes.

The Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission placed Scott Reed, 34, on two years' probation and ordered the coach, also a science teacher, to attend a class on the risks of blood-borne pathogens.

Last year, Reed gave students at Central Linn High School near Eugene, Oregon, a pep talk about a coach who had licked and healed players' wounds so that they could rejoin the game.

After the talk, he bent down and licked a cut on a track athlete's knee.