TEXAS Coach recovers from gunshot

An angry parent gunned down the high school football coach.
CANTON, Texas (AP) -- Eight months after being gunned down inside his office by an angry parent, Canton High School football coach Gary Joe Kinne is making history in the temporary space he now occupies.
The school is building him a new office, equipped with the security and door locks that might have slowed Jeff Doyal Robertson from barging inside April 7 and firing a single shot to Kinne's abdomen, leaving him critically wounded and bringing tumult to this two-intersection East Texas town.
In the meantime, Kinne is focusing on his team's unprecedented playoff run -- including Canton's upset of defending Class 3A state champion Gilmer last week, and Friday's 42-14 win against Emory Rains.
Now 12-1, Canton has advanced to the fourth round of the state playoffs for the first time in school history. Two more wins, and Canton will play for the 3A state championship.
"I have instant name recognition," Kinne said. "It would be nice to do something on the field to back that up, otherwise I'll just be remembered as the coach who got shot. Maybe this can be a better story."
Kinne's temporary office is sparsely furnished. There's a baseball bat in one corner, a box on the floor and an 8-by-11 framed photo of his highly recruited son, quarterback G.J. Kinne, standing with Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer and a cache of trophies in a portrait aimed to prod G.J. toward the Volunteers in 2007.
Big upset
Trophies on Kinne's desk take up the most space. He cleared room for another last week after the defeat of Gilmer, among the biggest upsets in Texas' glutted high school playoffs.
Kinne's story so far has read like a made-for-TV script:
A coach takes over a historically irrelevant football team in a small town about 60 miles east of Dallas, and decides to start his hotshot son at quarterback on the varsity his freshman year. Then he's gunned down at school by another player's father known for his temper and an arm tattoo of cartoon character Yosemite Sam brandishing two guns and the words "Born to Raise Hell."
Authorities say Robertson, whose attorneys concede he was the gunman, then fled to nearby woods and slashed his wrists before being arrested.
The bullet destroyed 80 percent of Kinne's liver, but the 38-year-old coach who once starred as a linebacker at Baylor recovered in time for Canton's first practice in August.