All Prep Rally could think of when it saw the YouTube title "James vs. James dunk contest" was a take off of the Chris Paul/Cliff Paul State Farm insurance ad, where LeBron is competing against himself in a dunk contest (incidentally, why hasn't Nike or Gatorade or someone come up with this idea yet? Simple and Jordanesque enough, isn't it? Someone get on it ...).

Instead, this is an actual dunk contest between two teens named James Cullity and James Fox. Forget LeBron, this is much, much better.

As fellow Prep Rally blogger Cameron Smith noted, "To be honest, it was the kid's shirt that said 'referee' while he's giving his Melville-length intro on the dunk contest that sold it." Well, that and the mustache. Almost as luscious as Dirk Nowitzki's beard ... only better.

All three rounds of this dunk-fest are so amazing that each deserves a play-by-play.

In Round 1, you've gotta like James "Foxy" Fox's three attempts to start the video. James Cullity's random missed dunk between Foxy's second and third attempts really makes it, though. Apparently, the two Jameses haven't mastered the art of video editing. Cullity's Hulk hands on his second off-the-backboard attempt is pretty priceless, too.

In Round 2, Cullity's alley-oop tosses to the groin area sure seem like he's trying to rig the contest in his favor, but Foxy throws down the ridiculous reverse dunk like it ain't no thing. Fort Minor's "Remember the Name" soundtrack couldn't be more fitting:

Never askin' for someone's help to get some respect.
He's only focused on what he wrote. His will is beyond reach,
And now when it all unfolds, the skill of an artist.

Then again, Cullity's reaction to his Round 2 dunk is pure art, too. Take that, Kobe Face.

In Round 3, Foxy just throws down the hammer with an off-the-backboard slam deserving of slow motion. Cullity had no chance after that one. No chance. Even if he unleashed another amazing "Did that go in?" face after his own third-round dunk.

As good as the two Jameses were at the art of basketball, both are lucky they didn't include the self-described "Asian kid trying to dunk" from the video below to their contest, because his shot puts both of them to shame. And you've gotta love what I can only assume is his little sister's reaction: "Your [expletive] got hurt?"

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In high school baseball games, it’s traditional for pitchers to take the field when they leave the mound. Usually they head for corner spots on the infield or an outfield role.

Not at Burlington Township (N.J.) High. For the Falcons, the arrangement is much more unique. When traditional starter Ryan Bell leaves the mound, he walks toward home plate and takes over catching duties. That works well because his replacement, fellow senior David Viselli, is nearly always headed to the mound to take over pitch duties from Bell.

As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bell and Viselli may be the only players in the country who double as both their team’s top pitchers and top catchers. Both are seniors, and both are co-captains of the Burlington Township squad.

Fittingly, the duo are best friends, too.

"It's almost like we're the same person," Bell told the Inquirer. "When he's pitching and I'm catching, he never shakes me off. When I'm pitching and he's catching, I never shake him off.

"We're both into the game on every pitch."

As it turns out, both Bell and Viselli are phenomenally talented, too. As juniors, the pair combined for 10 of Burlington Township’s 16 wins. Both players have had an active role in the other’s success, developing a near telekinetic sense of what the other wants to do on a given pitch.

"We'll be in the dugout as coaches saying, 'Let's call a pitchout,' " Burlington Townshp coach Jason Stec told the Inquirer. "They will already have called it on the field. They are both just really smart baseball players."

If there is an edge to be had among the two pitchers, it might be Viselli’s at the plate, where the teen batted .358 with 25 RBI as a junior, though Bell technically had more extra base hits.

Regardless of stats, what both players want is what’s best for the team: getting a win via any means possible, helping each other along the way.

"We know each other so well," Viselli told the Inquirer. "Bells and I are best friends on the field and off the field. We're both captains. We have the same mind-set."

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Call it invigorated empathy or love with lacrosse. Whichever, two schools in Colorado and Connecticut find themselves inextricably bonded by the most horrific of ordeals: A tragic school mass shooting.

Now, months removed from the Sandy Hook tragedy in Newtown, Conn., the boys lacrosse team from Columbine (Co.) High will visit its counterpart at Newtown (Ct.) High to share their support as the sleepy Connecticut community continues to heal following Adam Lanza’s rampage in December. The story of Columbine’s side trip to Newtown was reported by the Journal-News, which touched on the relationship that the school’s coach has with nearby Westchester County in New York.

Naturally, if any community in America can understand the shock, grief and transformative trauma that Newtown is living through, it’s Columbine. In 1999, two teenagers walked into the Columbine High cafeteria and opened fire, killing 12 students.

Though those dark days in Colorado occurred more than a decade ago, Columbine boys lacrosse coach Matt Plitnick said that the actions of suicide shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold is still a prevalent part of the town’s fabric.

“It’s still a part of this community,” Plitnick, a native of Scarsdale New York, told the Journal News. “It’s part of our fabric. It’s something that is brought up constantly, something we don’t forget.”

Knowing that Newtown wouldn’t be able to forget was what inspired Columbine to reach out on its own. The school’s lacrosse team was already scheduled for a spring break trip to play against traditional New York powers Yorktown (N.Y.) High and Cross River (N.Y.) John Jay High.

After the horrific yet familiar (for them) scenes of December 15, the Columbine program decided to schedule a separate visit to Columbine, at which point the team would meet with parents of the victims, among others.

The effort was a touching one on the part of the Columbine squad, which already had a busy schedule during its limited time in the New York area. Still, for those who lived through the aftermath of one horrific school shooting, there is an understanding that some things are bigger than lacrosse.

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One of the key in-state recruits from Penn State’s incoming class finds himself in serious hot water for what can only be considered a truly, truly dumb decision: He tried to pay with fake money at fast food restaurants.

As reported by the Harrisburg Patriot News and a variety of other sources, for the sake of saving a few bucks Harrisburg (Pa.) Central Dauphin High senior Zayd Issah now faces felony charges of forgery and conspiracy to forgery, as well as other misdemeanor charges related to using fake money at mutliple fast food restaurants.

Issah was caught by employees at a McDonald’s, who recognized that the money Issah gave them to pay for food bought by the Central Dauphin star and two of his friends. The McDonald’s employees wrote down the license plate on Issah’s car and reported it to police, who tracked down the football star and arrested him.

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While the teen is innocent until proven guilty, like all who are charged, a series of Facebook messages between Issah and a friend that were obtained during a police investigation allegedly indicate that the Penn State recruit was fully aware the bills he was using were forged versions of the authentic article.

There has been no word out of State College about how the trial facing Issah will affect his status with the Nittany Lions, though from a logistical standpoint it appears likely that he could still be a part of the 2013 team.

The Dauphin County District Attorney’s office told the Patriot News that Issah would likely avoid jail time and could even be eligible for a program called the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Program, which would allow the athlete to serve out his sentence via probation and community service alone.

While Issah’s future may now be uncertain, the present value of his attempted fraud is distinctly negative: His family had to post $1,000 bail to have him released from jail … for his attempts to use counterfeit $20 bills twice.

That’s a -$960 balance against Issah at the moment. He can only hope that he’ll get a chance to redeem himself at Penn State.

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Jahlil Okafor is the nation’s top junior basketball prospect, a Chicago phenom waiting to ascend the national hype throne once Jabari Parker departs for college once and for all.

Yet, for all Okafor’s talent and the attention he gets on the court, none of the coaches who recruit him pronounce his name correctly. Not Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. Not Kentucky coach John Calipari or Marquette coach Buzz Williams or North Carolina coach Roy Williams.

“I mean, most people pronounce my name wrong in general,” Okafor told USA Today. “But it’s even funnier when a coach that wants me to come to play for him in college says it wrong.”

For the record, Jahlil told USA Today that he pronounces his first name Jah-LEEL, not Juh-LEEL, as most coaches try to sound it out. The teenager has consistently taken the high road when it comes to his name, noting that he hardly feels justified in trying to stop living legends of college basketball and ask them to pronounce his name with a slightly different sound.

“It’s funny because I’ll be talking to a legend like [Michigan State Coach Tom] Izzo or somebody and they might say it wrong and, I mean, what am I gonna say? They’re legends,” Okafor told USA Today. “It doesn’t bother me at all. I’m used to it. I’ve got family who says it wrong. I will say that I do notice when coaches get it right. Which almost never happens.”

Well, almost never. According to Okafor, one Big Ten coach has it down.

“Coach (John) Groce from Illinois says it right,” Okafor said. “I don’t think anyone else does. Not 100 percent sure. But hey, it’s cool. It’s not like I look at them different or I’m gonna cut them off my list for it. I just like when people say it right.”

Will that help Illinois land their state’s own superstar? It might, but they’re certainly not the only school chasing him. Almost every major program in the nation is after Okafor’s signature, so a little bit of pronunciation work might just give the likes of Calipari or Kansas coach Bill Self an edge.

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Things are not going well in Birmingham, Alabama. On March 18, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead at Railroad Park in the city’s downtown section. The teen, Jarmaine Walton, had been shot in the head in an apparent teenage gun battle that raised alarms about gang activity and youth violence in the Southern city. The death was just one of 13 violent deaths that took place in Birmingham over the course of a single week.

Among many things, Alabama is high school sports obsessed. So, facing a need to get through to the teens who were allegedly involved in the fracas, Birmingham officials turned to precisely the people most likely to get through to those pulling the trigger: High school basketball stars.

As reported by MaxPreps, among other sources, Birmingham enlisted the help of three stars from the state champion Birmingham (Al.) Wenonah High basketball team. All State selections Justin Coleman, De’Runya Wilson and Isaiah Maston were all among the Wenonah players to film community service messages, calling for an immediate end to the escalating violence that appeared to threaten safety throughout the city.

It’s obviously far too early to judge the success of the Wenonah High stars’ message. Still, the effort is a notable one because of the focus it puts on the teenagers themselves. While it is widely acknowledged that prep athletes are silent role models for some of their peers, this video actively positions four different teenagers as thought leaders who could bring about a better chance for peace.

Naturally, no one is calling All-State basketball selections from Alabama the next Hillary Clinton. Nor are they expecting similar results. Yet the fact that some officials though there was a chance that prep athletes could be successful where adults had consistently failed in recent times is a watershed moment for athlete visibility and the creeping recognition that prep athletes are role models, whether they want to be or not.

Luckily, these athletes appear to be truly committed to ensuring that their surroundings remain safe, and they’re willing to step up to make that happen.

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Get Dr. James Andrews on line one.

The surgeon who's performed almost every famous ligament surgery over the past decade might have a future client in Tomohiro Anraku, a 16-year-old Japanese pitching sensation who just threw 232 pitches in a single game, according to a Baseball America report.

The Saibi (Ehime Prefecture, Japan) High sophomore right-hander reached that total over 13 innings in a 4-3 win in a national prep tournament in Japan on Tuesday, Baseball America reported. He struck out 13, allowed 10 hits and walked five in the victory.

Given the limitations on prep pitch counts Stateside and in Latin America, 232 pitches over a few hours may seem like mismanagement by Anraku's high school coach at best and perhaps even abuse, but high pitch totals aren't exactly out of the ordinary in Japan.

“Pretty impressive,” a scout told Baseball America, “but they kill those kids there.”

Just ask former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka, who as a 17-year-old Japanase high school prospect threw 250 pitches in a single game during a tournament in which he pitched 36 innings over four days, according to Baseball America. Or ask Ryota Shimoishi, who threw 219 pitches opposite Anraku in the 4-3 loss to Saibi on Tuesday.

But Anraku is the real prize, if he doesn't require Tommy John surgery before his high school career is over. According to Baseball America, the 6-foot-1, 185-pound righty's 94 MPH fastball stayed in the high 80s over the course of his 232-pitch game, and he relied on his off-speed repertoire -- including a curveball in the mid-70s -- as the game wore on.

Japanese pitchers generally finish their prep careers and sign a deal with their home country's Nippon Professional Baseball league, but at 16 years old Anraku could sign a deal in the millions with a Major League Baseball organization right now.

If MLB clubs had their way, they'd rather get their hands on Anraku now before he throws another few thousand pitches and might need to consult with Dr. Andrews.

After all, Andrews had this to say last spring after a pair of Louisiana prep hurlers combined for almost 350 pitches: “It’s ludicrous and it’s not safe judgment. That is just way too many pitches. That shouldn’t happen anywhere in any league.”

Anraku and Shimoishi combined for more than 450 pitches, and the proof is on YouTube.

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The “Missy Franklin really is a good person” crusade continues apace. Now that the teen phenom is finished swimming competitively, at least on the high school level, she’s taking to the water for a meaningful awareness campaign.

As reported by Denver TV network KUSA, Franklin recently completed her SCUBA training at the Denver Aquarium. She finished the course alongside best friend Abby Cutler, and was filmed by filmmaker Kurt Miller for his project entitled “The Current”, which aims to raise awareness about how water can serve as a level playing field for people with disabilities.

According to Franklin, she was drawn to the project by her belief that everyone can feel the same under water.

"For water to be such a great way for everyone to be equal," Franklin told KUSA. "As soon as you get down there everyone is exactly the same. It doesn't matter if you have an amputated arm or a leg or you have all four limbs. We are all exactly the same."

While USA Today was quick to note the irony in Franklin claiming that water makes everyone equal (she is a heck of a lot faster than the rest of us, of course), Franklin still said that adjusting to Scuba was a daunting task.

Not that she would be scared away from anything in the water, of course. Given that the charitable foundation was all for a noble aquatic cause, we might see more of Missy underwater in a film nearby soon, even if she’s more likely to surface without a tank on her back the next time she’s on national TV.

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The baseball season can often feel like it comes too soon, on the heels of winter and snow. Yet, with winter stretching ever later in recent years, and with high school baseball seasons required to start in March to finish by the end of the school year, some schools in the upper Midwest have found it neigh on impossible to find fields ready and available to host baseball and softball games.

Enter the Mall of America Field, formerly the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.

Re-named for the nation’s largest monument to capitalism, the Metrodome still hosts baseball games in the Spring, except now they don’t involve the Twins, following the team’s move to nearby Target Field.

Instead, as reported by the Wausau Daily Herald, any teams can rent out the field for $750 per hour. Despite the steep rate, the demand for the facility is so fierce while snow still covers fields across the region that schools have been forced to schedule games at ridiculous times like 3 a.m.

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That was the case for Schofield (Wis.) D.C. Everest High, which “hosted” a game against Middletown (Minn.) High. While the game will officially count as a scrimmage, it was an important opportunity for both schools to get on the field and compete against another live, competitive squad on a diamond rather than inside a gym.

And no, this is not an April Fool's joke. The game really took place at 3 a.m.

“It was nice to see live pitching and hit off that," Everest outfielder and pitcher Zach Finnegan told the Daily Herald. "Also, it was the first time we saw flyballs this year. It was different. It was like a game."

That’s probably because it was a real game … and the fourth since 6:35 p.m. on the field that day alone. Incredibly, it wasn’t the last, either, with back-to-back doubleheaders featuring a pair of high school teams and two small colleges, all to be wrapped up by 3 p.m., 12 hours after Everest and Middletown took the field.

While the early start required plenty of changes to the team’s routine, it also gave a group of high schoolers the chance to compete on a legendary field and sit in the same dugouts once used by scores of MLB All-Stars. That experience in itself was lauded as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by Everest’s stars.

"We dropped our bags and started taking pictures," senior Vince Collelo said. "Even when we got to the parking lot, we were taking pictures. Our coaches were like, 'You need to get on the field and take pictures.'"

In time, the 1 a.m. wake-up call will probably fade into a distant memory for the Everest and Middletown players. Playing on Mall of America Field, cavernous and empty though it may have been, likely will not.

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It’s been a very good month for the Southerland family.

First, on Thursday, Sabrina Southerland, a senior at Queens (N.Y.) Benjamin Cardozo High, was named the 2013 Girls Athlete of the Year by the Armory Track & Field Center, an honor won on the back of one of the most versatile track repertoires around. Two days later, her brother James was a key factor leading Syracuse to the Final Four.

Not a bad three days, eh?

“It feels really great,” Sabrina Southerland told the New York Daily News. “I worked hard for it. I know [Cardozo coach Ray James] is happy. I just trained hard, and I guess it paid off.”

The same can be said of Southerland’s brother, the Syracuse sharpshooter who turned a standout Cardozo tenure into a launching pad for a career at Syracuse that has finally taken flight in the Big East and NCAA tournaments. Throughout that late season ride, Sabrina Southerland has been there, as she was when the Orange topped Marquette to earn a berth to the Final Four on Saturday.

“I’m so proud of him,” Sabrina said in a phone interview while en route to Thursday night’s game. “It’s been great to see him grow from his freshman year to his senior year.”

Naturally, the male Southerland sibling would echo those sentiments, even if he couldn’t claim to have as much in person experience of her accomplishments as his sister has with his. The pair's success is also the dominant similarly between their athletic careers, with James Southerland a distinct distance shooting specialist for Syracuse while Sabrina Southerland is a do-everything runner for Cardozo who has shined in each event she tried.

Most notably, Sabrina Southerland clocked the best indoor 800-meter time in the nation in 2013, finishing the distance in just 2:03.59 at the New Balance Nationals meet at The Armory Track Center in Manhattan.

Like her brother, Sabrina Southerland will use her talent on the track to pay for a collegiate education. And while she hasn’t let on where she’s headed yet, James claimed that she would decide between Georgetown, Villanova and South Carolina, all of which would be lucky to receive her.

“I haven’t had a better athlete than Sabrina Southerland,” James told the Daily News. “She’s a pleasure to coach.”

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Perfect games are more common in high school than college or the major leagues, but they’re still notable, once-in-a-career experiences. That’s why a major controversy has erupted in Georgia, where a sophomore recorded a complete-game no-hitter that would have been a perfect game, if not for the uber-rare call of an illegal pitch.

As reported by the Dalton Daily Citizen, Dalton (Ga.) Coahulla Creek pitcher Zack Glines tossed a no-hitter during the Colts’ 8-0 victory against Gordon (Ga.) Central High. In the process, Glines allowed just two batters to reach base, both on walks.

According to both Glines’ coach, Coahulla Creek's Michael Bolen, both of the walks were the direct result of illegal pitch calls, both due to Glines’ inability to keep his foot flat on the rubber of the mound.

Bolen chalked the mistake up to Glines’ relative lack of pitching time early in the season, though he also hinted that more terrific performances from Glines could be on the way.

“He wasn’t able to get on the mound much at the beginning of the season, so he had been in relief through the non-region schedule as we built his arm strength back up,” Bolen told the Daily Citizen.

“He threw 78 pitches tonight, and his location was working all night.”

A seven-inning virtual perfect game on 78 pitches? Maybe we all will hear more from Glines in the not too distant future.

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It turns out Nik Stauskas is the Canadian Jimmy Chitwood.

The star of Michigan's 79-59 blowout of Florida in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, Stauskas developed his sharpshooting skills in high school, draining 3-pointer after 3-pointer in the backyard of his suburban Toronto home.

In August 2011, the summer after sitting out his prep junior season at South Kent (Conn.) School with a hip injury, the Wolverines freshman guard posted this YouTube video of himself making 128-of-142 triples, including 102 in a span of five minutes (h/t Big Lead).

The site of this incredible feat was almost a putting green or a swimming pool, but instead Stauskas convinced his father Paul to install a basketball court in the backyard of their home in Mississauga, Ontario, according to a New York Times feature on Nik, who scored 22 points on eight shots against Florida, including 6-of-6 from beyond the arc.

Paul Stauskas can be seen rebounding the ball for his son in just about every video on the StauskasBasketball YouTube channel -- including a series of drills from last Easter and an incredible string of 45-of-50 3-pointers this past Christmas break.

Around this time last year, Nik Stauskas was putting the finishing touches on a New England Preparatory School Athletic Council championship season as a senior at St. Mark's (Southborough, Mass.) School. Averaging 20 points, six rebounds and five assists for the Lions (28-2), he amassed 19 points, eight boards, four assists and three blocks in a 59-53 NEPSAC title victory against Nerlens Noel's Tilton (N.H.) School squad.

Before transferring to both South Kent and St. Mark's as an upperclassman, Stauskas played his first two prep seasons at Loyola Catholic (Toronto, Canada) Secondary School, where he averaged 32 points, 14 rebounds and 7.5 assists as a high school sophomore.

So, take this as a lesson for all you dads out there. Next time you want to put a swimming pool in your backyard, think about a basketball hoop instead. Your teenager might end up shooting 45 percent from 3-point range as a college freshman someday.

Now, if only Jimmy Chitwood had a YouTube channel.

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Shock waves were sent through the Orlando youth sports community when one of its longest serving coaches was arrested on charges of performing a lewd act in front of one of his athletes.

As reported by the Orlando Sentinel and TV network WFTV, 54-year-old Jeffrey McWhorter was arrested and charged with lewd or lascivious exhibition, performing a lewd act in the presence of a child and two counts of soliciting lewd acts on a child.

While no details have emerged about the age of McWhorter’s alleged victim, the coach was most recently volunteering for the city of Orlando’s public football and basketball leagues. The allegations against him were made in recent days -- no firm date was provided by Orlando police -- and a city spokesman confirmed that McWhorter had been suspended from his role as a city volunteer from the moment of his arrest.

"I'm embarrassed," McWhorter told the Sentinel from the back of a police cruiser en route to the Orange County Jail. "That's what's the main thing about it, because they wouldn't tell me what's going on."

While the most significant concerns about McWhorter’s situation will clearly focus on the abuse itself, others have pointed to broader concerns about the city of Orlando’s screening process for volunteers. While officials claim that it is city policy to perform background checks on all volunteers, McWhorter had two prior charges on his record that should have set off alarms: a 2000 felony conviction for purchase of a controlled drug and a violation of probation following his initial drug arrest.

McWhorter spent a total of 258 days in Orange County jail for those transgressions, yet was still deemed safe to volunteer with Orlando children, a lapse which was all but confirmed when a city spokeswoman told the Sentinel that the city did not have any specific records on Fagan at the time of his arrest.

Clearly, that’s a concern that many will want rectified in the days ahead. In the meantime, police have asked for anyone else with potential complaints related to McWhorter to contact them.

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This might be the most entertaining thing to happen to college hockey since … well, maybe ever.

In Canada, a group of triplets committed together to attend Bemidji State, the small state university in rural Minnesota. While a simultaneous commitment of any triplets would be a notable moment in prep sports, these aren’t any ordinary teenaged triplets. No, they’re the Fitzgerald triplets, the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen-style stars of the 1999 film "Baby Genuises,"

As posted by the Victoria Grizzlies, the Tier II British Columbia Hockey League team (and brought to Prep Rally’s attention by Deadspin), Myles, Leo and Gerry Fitzgerald committed together to play at Bemidji State. The scholarship announcement was likely the first time that the entire trio made headlines together since they were wearing diapers in a thoroughly awful B-movie starring Dom Delouise and a pre-'Sex in the City' Kim Cattrall.

The triplets made it perfectly clear that they were dead-set on attending school together, an opportunity which Bemidji State coach Tom Serratore was happy to provide for the trio.

"We are so excited to know we have the opportunity to advance our play at the next level for four years!” the Fitzgeralds released in a statement to the Victoria Grizzlies web site … together of course.

“To remain together is fantastic.”

The Fitzgeralds might be the most set of three brothers to play college hockey together, but they aren't the first; as Steve McAllister, the Managing Editor of Yahoo! Canada Sports pointed out, Dominic, Steve and Mark Moore all grew up playing hockey together in Thornhill, Ontario before eventually matriculating to Harvard.

While a Slapshot-style marketing campaign could have played into Serratore’s interest in the trio, there’s also plenty of proof that all three Fitzgeralds deserved a scholarship.

Still a year away from arriving in Bemidji, the brothers were already the top three scorers for the Grizzlies in the 2011-12 season.

Now they’ll try to replicate that success in Minnesota, with or without madcap hijinks from the likes of Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd follow.

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It's still early, but this may very well be the prep soccer goal of the season.

The video you see above comes from a Georgia boys soccer match between Clarke Central (Ga.) High and Flowery Branch (Ga.) High. In the midst of a thorough drubbing, Clarke Central sent in a long ball over the top to a striker, who fired off a quick shot.

That attempt was miraculously -- and perhaps fortuitously -- saved by the Clarke Central goalie. The problem was that the effort ricocheted back off his face and right to the waiting feet of Clarke Central midfielder Tristan Trevino.

That's when Trevino pulled off one of the more magical volleys you'll see, controlling the ball with a right-footed touch to himself and then launching a remarkably accurate 30-yard drive at the cage ... which got there just in time for the scrambling goalkeeper to reach the goalmouth and accidentally tip it in.

Game, set and match, and possibly goal of the season.

Naturally, for all competitive purposes the game was essentially over long before Trevino's long distance effort found its way in. After all, Clarke Central already led 6-0. Still, Trevino's effort put a very fine gloss on a heck of an early season victory, one which the Clarke Central players and fans will probably remember for some time thanks to the midfielder's long ranger.

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In the final days of March, a Japanese pitcher received international attention -- from here at Prep Rally and elsewhere -- for a remarkable yet likely dangerous performance during the winter Koshien Tournament.

Well, now Japanese phenom Tomohiro Anraku has company from the softball diamond, with a Florida teen tossing an astounding 217 pitches while going the distance in a 16-inning, 1-0 victory.

As reported by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, among other sources, Bradenton (Fl.) Braden River High softball ace Courtney Mirabella pitched all 16 innings of a marathon, 1-0 victory against Sarasota (Fl.) George Jenkins High.

Mirabella scattered 12 hits over the course of her 16 innings, working out of jams more than once. Still, she more than overcame those hits and walks with 20 strikeouts and uncanny control; she walked just one batter and threw 165 of her 217 offerings for strikes.

Braden River eventually emerged victorious on a line drive RBI from Hannah Loyer in the bottom of the 16^th inning.

Incredibly, this was the second-straight game in which Mirabella had performed a remarkable feat on the mound. As noted by USA Today, the pitcher struck out 20 of 21 batters in a 9-0 perfect game victory against Bradenton (Fl.) Palmetto High earlier in the week.

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Put the two games together, and the senior North Carolina State signee struck out 4o batters in 23 innings ... with just one walk.

While Mirabella’s full game stats are nigh on unbelievable, they also raise significant questions about her use. While softball pitchers are less likely to fray shoulders and other arm ligaments, 16 innings and 217 pitches is a preposterously long outing for anyone.

No, Florida softball isn’t Japanese baseball, where teens routinely throw their hardest until they have to raise a white flag, but Mirabella was clearly still working for every ounce of velocity and strength she could muster throughout Braden River’s win.

There have been no public comments about the victory from Braden River coach Erin Spivey, though there are likely plenty of people who would like to know whose decision it was to let Mirabella keep plowing through innings, whether the pitcher wanted to or not.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Andrew Wiggins is ridiculous.

The top prospect in the Class of 2013, Wiggins, a senior from Canada, may have successfully thrown down one of the best dunk contest slams of all time on his biggest stage to date, completing a "Reverse 360 Eastbay" during the McDonald's All-American Game Slam Dunk Contest.

For those of you who may not keep up with the constantly evolving dunk jargon (here's a fun game: try to figure out if slam dunks or snowboard tricks bring in more new terms each year), an Eastbay dunk is a slam where the athlete takes the ball between his (or hypothetically, her) legs while elevating toward the rim.

The "reverse, 360" part is pretty self explanatory, but all the more remarkable when you watch it happening.

Still, what's most impressive about Wiggins' slam above is just how easy he made it look. The re-classified senior, who still has yet to commit to a college program, elevated as if he was just trotting down the street, threw down the best dunk of the year and then strutted his stuff as he walked away, leaving the rest of the All-American crop going completely crazy.

Incredibly, that slam alone wasn't good enough to earn Wiggins the slam dunk contest title, which instead went to fellow senior Chris Walker, a Florida recruit who had ample acrobatic moves to justify winning a national dunk contest ... yet failed to throw down a "Reverse 360 Eastbay".

At this point, perhaps the "Reverse 360 Eastbay" should be considered at the same level as Shaun White's signature Double McTwist 1260; if Wiggins can do it and the other kids can't, he wins. Period.

Then again, maybe Prep Rally is a bit too myopic on that point. What's more important -- and clear -- is that the 2013 McDonald's dunk contest was one for the ages, complete with one heck of a signature dunk for everyone to remember.

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As reported by the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, the House of Representatives of the state of Tennessee approved a new measure that will require all public schools to allow home schooled athletes to participate in their varsity sports programs.

The ruling, passed as SB240, mandates a decision that had previously been left up to each school independently.

Commonly referred to as “Tebow Acts” or “Tebow Rules”, the move to incorporate home schooled athletes into the public school athletic programs has spread apace over the past two-to-four years, a period during which Tebow emerged as one of America’s most popular and marketable athletes.

Still, while the move to legislate home-schooled participation has been largely lauded as a shift toward egalitarianism, some lawmakers and officials within the Tennessee Secondary School Activities Association have questioned the law because of the effect it may have on local school board authority.

That's not to mention concerns that those who opt out of public education may find a way to take advantage of the system’s most costly fringe benefits.

Still, those concerns couldn’t slow the momentum of SB240, with Knoxville State Representative Roger Kane and others pointing to the tax revenue contributed by the parents of homeschooled children as powerful proof that they were due as many opportunities as those who attend the school itself.

“[Parents of homeschooled students] do pay taxes to the state and they do take a burden off the local school system,” Kane told the Commercial Appeal.

“This is just making it an even playing ground for everyone who is involved in sports.”

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As a prep volleyball junior last season, Eddie Nogay emerged as one of the premier right-handed middle hitters in New York City's Public Schools Athletic League.

This season, the 17-year-old Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn, N.Y.) High senior is hoping to become one of the best left-handed hitters in the league -- out of necessity.

After doctors discovered a rare cancerous tumor known as a sarcoma around his right elbow, Nogay had his right arm amputated up to the shoulder this past fall. His brave battle back to the volleyball court was detailed in a fantastic New York Post feature.

“I don’t want to say it has all just rolled off him, because he did understand it was serious,” Fort Hamilton boys volleyball coach Kim Tolve told the Post. “But he has been able to rebound. … Even the doctors and the nurses said they’d never seen a 17-year-old deal with this type of heartache and strife without flinching.

“It’s a testament to the kind of kid he is. He’s a fighter.’’

And fight he did. When a lump on his arm that had been previously diagnosed as benign began to hurt during his junior year, when he recorded 120 kills for the Tigers (5-7), Nogay battled through the pain, according to the feature.

The 5-foot-11 Uzbekistan native addressed the elbow following the season. After a few misdiagnoses, a biopsy eventually revealed the cancer. He went under the knife at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center around Halloween, and 10 days later he was logging statistics for the city champion girls volleyball squad, the Post said.

“He’s the strongest guy I’ve ever met,” Nogay's teammate and best friend Dennis Dikarev told the paper. “I’m kind of inspired by him. … He’s still the same kid. I know if it was me I wouldn’t be that strong about it. But he embraces it.’’

In January, Nogay's lung collapsed, requiring two surgeries, and he's been undergoing regular treatment for his ailments ever since, according to the Post. Despite the setback, he took the court this spring and has led his team to a 3-0 record in the early going -- thanks to the support of his mother Natalya Kan, his brother Victor and his coach.

"Throughout the whole situation, my coach has been there," Eddie told the Post. "When my arm was amputated, I'm pretty sure people didn't think I was going to play. But I told coach, 'I'm going to make it happen. I'm not going to sit around and let the disease kill me. I’m going to make a difference.'"

Mission accomplished.

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In November, Prep Rally brought you the story of Bedford (Ia.) High freshman Kacey Strough, who had to undergo dramatic surgery to try and save him from a blod clot near his brain stem. At the time, Strough’s family claimed that his injuries were the result of in-team bullying by members of the Bedford football program, a charge that the school has denied.

Now the Strough family is taking that case to court. According to the Associated Press, Strough filed suit in federal court against his former football coach, a handful of Bedford High administrators and the Bedford school district, claiming that their negligence to the teen’s complaints about bullying led to his serious brain injuries that have left him permanently disabled.

"He is, we believe, clearly going to suffer the long-term effects of what is a serious traumatic brain injury from this," Strough’s lawyer, Thomas Slater told the AP.

If the details in Strough’s case are to be believed, the teen may have a pretty strong legal argument. The football player reportedly went to administrators multiple times to complain about bullying, only to be told, “that they would look into the allegation or directed [him] to tell another teacher or coach or that they didn't want to be bothered and walk away."

That negligence was made worse by the actions of Strough’s coach, Robert McCoy, who ignored Strough’s complaints related to two teammates throwing footballs directly at his head from as close as 6 feet away. The football headshots came while Strough was waiting to enter the field and had his back turned to the teammates.

While McCoy told the teen that he would look into the pelting, he also insisted that the two teammates who hit Strough didn’t mean any harm. Regardless of intent, Strough was checked into the hospital just eight days later with the first stages of serious brain conditions that eventually led to the significantly diminished life he is left to lead today.

Whether a judge and jury agree with the causality that the Strough family is alleging remains to be seen. Regardless of that outcome, the general relaxed reaction of the Iowa school’s senior officials should serve as an important and powerful lesson for all schools to take teen bullying much more seriously.

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