A California cheerleading coach has been suspended for allegedly forcing two of her charges to fight over a boy, according to a KTLA report out of Los Angeles.

The Palisades Charter (Los Angeles, Calif.) High cheerleading coach isn't mentioned by name, but a junior on the team accused her mentor of turning on music and moving a desk to set the stage for a brawl that resulted in at least one black eye, the report said.

"I felt embarrassed and humiliated and ashamed," said Cimone Holloway, the Palisades Charter junior who explained her side of the incident to KTLA. "I’ve never been in a fight in my life. I didn’t want to fight."

Holloway told KTLA that she alerted her coach to a teammate's bullying over what we can only assume was a mutual infatuation, so the coach encouraged them to fight it out before a practice in January -- twice.

"Another cheerleader broke up the fight," Holloway added. "I thought that it was over and the coach said, ‘Do you guys want to go another round? In that fight, I tripped over my foot and was on the floor and she was on top of me and again punching me. And sometime during that fight, she kicked me in the forehead.”

To make matters worse, Holloway claimed, the coach kept her from cheering in the next game, encouraged her to lie about the incident to her mother Tonya Humes and made the remaining cheerleading teammates "pinky-swear" not to tell the secret. Apparently, the first rule of cheerleading fight club is you don't talk about cheerleading fight club.

When Humes contacted the coach via text message, she was told that Cimone "came down from a stunt and caught an elbow," KTLA reported. However, the family claims video of the footage exists, so they have reportedly hired lawyers to get to the bottom of an incident that was apparently not severe enough for the police to log in a report.

The dean alerted Humes via email that the coach has been suspended and administrators have intervened, although Holloway has since transferred schools, the report said.

In terms of cheerleading coach scandals, if true this may be the most egregious. Another Californian was reportedly fired for posing in Playboy in 2009 and a Houston cheer leader was removed for dubbing her team a bunch of "highfalutin heifers" last winter.

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Earlier in February the world was introduced to Titus the Trick Shot Toddler. At the time, 2-year-old Titus was trucking his mini-hoop and soft mini basketballs all over the place, connecting on unlikely buckets from all across his parents' property.

Now he's taking his show on the road ... and embarrassing at least one major late night talk show host in the process.

As seen on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Titus routed Kimmel in a Pop-A-Shot style shootout on the set of the late night show on Thursday night. Given 60 seconds a piece, Kimmel connected on six free throws. Shooting from an equivalent distance in relation to a miniature hoop, Titus hit 10. It wasn't even close. And he absorbed an atrociously unsportsmanlike block from Kimmel in the process (all in good fun, of course).

The "Kimmel-Titus Challenge" was born out of Titus' struggles to hit shots on other talk shows following his big viral breakthrough (it's ok, little dude, everyone gets stage fright once in awhile). Clearly he felt more at home with the forgiving rims on Kimmel's set.

Naturally, everyone expected Titus to win. You don't bring a 2-year-old on to late night broadcast TV unless you have a pretty good idea that he will be emerge as the adorable, talented pony in whatever dog and pony show he's participating in.

Still, Titus' accuracy continues to amaze. For a 2-year-old to prove that accurate at anything, let alone a ball sport, is remarkable.

Now, about fixing those mechanics and getting a little more follow-through ...

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The student body of a high school in North Dakota is under fire after a photo emerged depicting three students wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods at a boys hockey game.

As first reported by the Grand Forks Herald, and followed upon by the Associated Press, three students at North Forks (N.D.) Red River High were captured on film wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods during a state semifinal boys hockey game against Fargo (N.D.) Davies High. The KKK hoods were apparently a misguided attempt to highlight the Red River fans’ whiteout at the University of North Dakota’s Ralph Englestad Arena.

Yet the actions were particularly caustic given the namesake of Davies High: Ronald Davies, a former U.S. judge based in Fargo who forced the governor of Arkansas to back down from his attempt to interfere with the famous integration of Little Rock schools.

Red River defeated Davies by a score of 2-0.

According to the Herald, Red River principal Kris Arason has already identified the teens who donned the hoods, reaching out to their parents and telling the press that “appropriate action is being taken.”

“We, as a school, are extremely disappointed with the behavior of these three students,” Arason said in a statement. “This behavior is not a representation of our school or student body.”

The photo in question first arose on social media thanks to University of North Dakota student Shane Schuster, who was attending the state semifinal game. Schuster snapped a photo of the teens and posted it on Twitter with the message, “I guess the red river highschoolers are racist?”

While no one has defended the unnamed teenagers who put on the inappropriate costumes, some Red River students did point out that the three students in question were all freshmen and allegedly removed the hoods within a minute as soon as other Red River students surrounding them castigated the freshmen for wearing them.

Naturally, that hardly makes the hoods’ emergence justifiable in any way. It hardly makes it less awful, on any level. In truth the only hope that can be taken from the incident is that the teens might learn something from their transgressions, which surely affected some in attendance and the thousands more who have read about it since much more than they intended.

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Andy Pettitte has won five World Series rings. He’s a three-time All-Star and has even won the American League Championship Series MVP. With 245 career victories, there are very few things that Andy Pettitte hasn’t accomplished. Yet Pettitte’s resume does have one glaring hole: He has never thrown a no-hitter.

After Friday, Pettitte still hasn’t thrown a no-hitter … but now someone in his house has.

As reported by Hall of Very Good, Josh Pettitte, Andy’s son, threw a no-hitter on Friday while pitching for his hometown Deer Park (Tx.) High. He struck out 10 and walked just one batter in a 9-0 rout of Boerne (Tx.) Champion High, traditionally a Texas state power.

The victory sparked an instant surge of Twitter recognition for the younger Pettitte, a senior starting pitcher who has signed a letter of intent to play at Baylor University in 2014.

Not long after Josh Pettitte sent out a modest tweet calling Friday’s contest, “What a fun game to be a part of,” the senior was inundated with congratulatory Tweets from his father’s Yankees teammates.

In total, the younger Pettitte received tweets from CC Sabathia, Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain, not to mention a brief shoutout during a Yankees YES Spring Training broadcast.

Of course, considering the fact that the senior had just accomplished something his father never had, it’s understandable that Josh Pettitte should receive so much attention from the Yankees celebrity peanut gallery.

If he keeps pitching the way he has, he might even get a professional alternative to Baylor before he matriculates to Baylor.

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Remarkable statistics are nothing new to girls basketball. Still, what one North Carolina forward recently achieved may take personal dominance to a new level: She has singlehandedly nearly outscored her team’s opponents over the course of a month.

As first noted by Prep Rally’s own Ben Rohrbach, Charlotte (N.C.) Providence Day School superstar Jatarie White scored 236 points in games between January 4 and February 8. Providence Day’s foes scored 267 points against Providence Day in total across that same span.

It’s no surprise that Providence Day was 12-0 in that stretch.

White, a 6-foot-3 forward, has been just as impressive throughout her senior campaign, averaging a double-double of 19 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists per game, leading Providence to a 24-4 overall record. She scored her 1,000 career point back in December, an impressive feat considering the fact that she had more than a year-and-a-half of high school basketball left at the time.

Perhaps more importantly, White is a focal point of the team’s defense, which holds opponents below 29 points per game, on average.

White is still a junior, so she has yet to proclaim which college campus she will grace with her basketball presence. In the meantime she continues to remain a presence for the US national teams after starring for the 2011 USA U16 squad that rolled to a FIBA Americas title.

Clearly, White is pegged for more greatness in the future. Whether she will ever be able to roll at the clip she enjoyed from early January to February remains to be seen, but one would be foolish to doubt anything she tries to do given her prep success.

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It's never a good look for any fan to be thrown of a high school wrestling tournament, worse when you're the mayor of the host town and even more embarrassing when said town shares the same name as the believed birthplace of Jesus Christ.

None of that stopped Bethlehem, Pa., Mayor John Callahan from vociferously questioning a wrestling referee's stalling call in front of roughly 1,000 fans gathered for the Class AAA district championships at Liberty High, according to The Express-Times in Lehigh Valley.

The second-term Bethlehem mayor, who ran a failed congressional campaign in 2010 and currently seeks a soon-to-be vacant Northampton County Executive seat, proceeded to call the referee in question out for having "rabbit ears" as he exited the gymnasium wiggling his fingers on either side of his head, according to the report.

He then took to Twitter in attempt to explain his side of the story.

Certainly did not mean to offend tonightPretty sad when a wrestling fan can't express displeasure about a call. Talk about rabbit ears

— John B. Callahan (@John_Callahan) February 24, 2013

But the director of officials for the tournament isn't buying Callahan's version. Gene Waas told the paper he supported referee Dennis Buchman's decision to eject Callahan.

"Remember to Dennis, this is just a fan or a parent acting inappropriately, not the mayor of Bethlehem," said Waas. "Every (official) has a different tolerance for what they'll take, and it's up to the official. When (Callahan) was yelling and screaming, Dennis had a right to do it. He was ejecting a fan who was acting inappropriately, not ejecting the mayor."

You might think these are the actions of an overzealous father, but Callahan's son had already wrestled to a fourth-place finish in the 195-pound weight division for Freedom (Bethlehem, Pa.) High. The ejection occurred during the 220-pound title match between Freedom senior Evan Kauffman and Liberty junior Jake Gunning. To make matters worse for Callahan, his rooting interest eventually came out on top anyway, 5-4.

"One good thing about John Callahan," Waas told The Express-Times. "Everybody likes basketball, everybody likes football, but only wrestling people like wrestling. I am glad to see the mayor of Bethlehem likes wrestling. But he acted inappropriately as a fan."

I'm sure you're shocked -- shocked! -- an elected official may have acted inappropriately. And you may also be surprised that this isn't the first time a parent has been escorted out of a sporting event for blaming officials when things don't go so well for his child's team.

Less than two weeks ago, a similar incident occurred involving Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard, who was ejected from a game involving his son at Gilbert (Iowa) High. Only Pollard apologized and didn't publicly call out the ref for having rabbit ears.

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Forget inflatable tunnels, a Florida boys basketball program took the ceremonial start of games up a notch by incorporating fire into its pre-tip off routine.

As reported by MaxPreps, the video you see above comes from a Miami (Fl.) Monsignor Pace High, where a student elevated for a rather typical trampoline dunk then added a unique element by incorporating a blowtorch.

Keep in mind: This is a regular season game at a high school in Florida, not a college or NBA contest. That’s really something.

Luckily, the student/stunt man in the dunk completed the trick safely, out-jumping the fire but not the gymnastics crash pad under the rim.

Sadly, the pregame routine didn’t seem to light enough of a fire under the Pace players --or frighten opponents enough -- to inspire a winning season. Pace finished the year with a record of 9-20, the Spartans missing out on the playoffs.

That’s a shame. It would have been fascinating to see what the Spartans would have attempted to get the fans excited for a playoff game if they bring out the trampolines and fire implements for the regular season.

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How do you celebrate your 18^th birthday if you’re the nation’s top basketball recruit? If you’re Huntington (W.Va.) Prep superstar Andrew Wiggins you throw down the most incredible dunk of your young career, then stare down the defender you just eviscerated to maximize the Michael Jordan-like intimidation effect.

As filmed by Home Team Hoops, Wiggins threw down the preposterous poster slam you see above against Gainesville (Fla.) The Rock School. According to MaxPreps, the unfortunate Rock defender was Freddy Bitondo, a senior who just happened to be the guy standing in the lane when Wiggins decided he was going to score on a particular drive to the rim.

As it turns out, Bitondo and The Rock got the last laugh, landing one of the upsets of the season by edging past Huntington Prep, 54-44.

Still, Wiggins landed the dunk of the game, and possibly even the season, by exploding to the rim for one of the biggest crushers one will ever see at the prep level.

Everyone wants to know where Wiggins will take those explosive moves at the next level. Perhaps for the time being they should just sit back and enjoy the fireworks.

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His name is Mason Kunkel, and he is quickly becoming an overnight internet sensation. After all, it took only hours after his video emerged online for it to land him a spot on SportsCenter's Top 10 plays. While Kunkel’s popularity may be borne out of a rather random deep buzzer beater, it could easily be for representing everything that is great about youth sports.

Sure, Kunkel hit the miraculous mid-courter you see above. Sure, the shot’s trajectory and the magnitude of it being a game-winner is notable, even at the third grade level. Still, what is truly notable about the Dubuque, Iowa player's bucket is the sheer joy that it brought to he and his teammates, just moments after they appeared to be in agony.

As you can see in the video, as first popularized by Bob's Blitz, Kunkel -- wearing number 12 -- was on the verge of despair when his youth basketball squad was tied up by a pair of free throws with just seconds remaining. He threw his arms up in abject frustration and appeared to curse the Gods who delivered him into such a frustrating situation.

Yet there were seconds remaining in the game. Just enough, in fact, for Kunkel to catch an inbounds pass and deliver from very, very deep, his sheer arm strength a minor miracle in itself.

Forget the fact that Kunkel almost surely would have been called for a travel at any higher level (there were some serious shuffles before that shot), the elementary schooler still made the shot, against all odds and expectations.

The make set off the kind of delirium you don’t see in professional sports, even when players win the Super Bowl. Forget a sporting event; one would have thought that Kunkel and his teammates had delivered world peace.

Of course, all they’d won was a youth basketball game between third graders. Yet, for them, the win was one of the greatest moments of their young lives, all while their counterparts in black shirts trudged off the court despondent, all in an adorable way.

That purity, that sheer joy, is representative of all that is truly wonderful with youth sports. The honest commitment to a game and inability to disaggregate a simple game from the totality of one’s life. The desperation with which a player wants to win. The unexpected joy of a deep shot that falls through.

It’s wonderful to watch, and even more wonderful to be a part of. And it’s why youth sports are important, and should remain so throughout all our lives.

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Jahlil Okafor is one of the nation’s top recruits, so he’s familiar with playing in new gyms as schools and tournaments try to attract his Chicago (Il.) Whitney Young squad to showcase his talents. Still, even Okafor never imagined that he’d compete where he did on Saturday night: His church.

You have to read that prior sentence literally for it to resonate to its most accurate effect. Okafor, one of the top overall recruits in the Class of 2014, played a varsity high school basketball game in his church, not a gym attached to or affiliated with his church. Literally, on his church’s floor.

As it turns out, the strange setting did nothing to limit Young’s explosiveness. The 6-foot-11 post presence scored 21 points and added 7 rebounds in a 61-46 win against Lisle (Il.) Benet Academy. In the process, he had to work through some initial discombobulation with trying to line up jumpers near where he usually walks in to pray.

The game was held in a custom-made basketball stadium called the House of Hope Arena, which was staged at a suburban megachurch where Okafor and his family attend. The arena sat 10,000 fans, though the attendance for the city-suburbs face off was far short of capacity.

"This is actually the church I attend, so I was kind of hoping I had a good game here," Okafor told the Chicago Tribune. "It looks totally different. It was really weird when I walked in the gym and saw all that open space. It was unique."

Open space or not, Okafor was dominant again, earning the highest praise from the star of the team he deposed.

"Obviously Okafor is a monster,” Benet senior Pat McInerney told the Tribune. “At some point you just can't stop him."

Maybe Benet was just trying to wrong house of worship. After all, synagogues and mosques may still be available for future contests.

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Tragedy struck the swimming team at Harvard Westlake (Calif.) High, one of Los Angeles’ most famous schools, when a junior swimmer collapsed during a workout in the school’s pool and died of a condition which was later determined to be a heart arrhythmia.

As reported by Los Angeles CBS affiliate KTLA and the Los Angeles Times, among other Southern California outlets, 16-year-old Justin Carr died after he collapsed while swimming a workout in the school pool. After he passed out Carr was immediately pulled from the pool and paramedics were called to the scene. Unfortunately, by the time they arrived he was already unresponsive, and the teen was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

The teen was diagnosed with cardio myopathy, an arrhythmia that stops the heart and can lead to death if not regulated by a pacemaker. His cardiac condition had not been previously diagnosed.

“The entire Harvard-Westlake community is mourning the loss of Justin Carr, a beloved friend and student. Our hearts are broken,” Harvard Westlake officials said in an official school statement. “Justin had an enormous impact on students and teachers, and he will be missed profoundly.”

As noted by KTLA, the junior’s influence at the school went far beyond his role on the swim team. The teen was also a member of the Harvard Westlake chamber singers, was a frequent lead in the school’s plays and led Harvard Westlake’s Black Leadership Awareness and Culture Club (BLACC), an influential on-campus organization aimed at improving racial understanding via outreach and campus events.

According to KTLA, it was in his capacity with BLACC that Carr helped recruit Samuel L. Jackson to speak at the school.

Now, just weeks later, Carr is gone and his peers left beyond are struggling to grasp precisely why he was taken so soon.

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Cook County isn't a culinary school, even if that's where Marquise Pryor learned to whip up a nice vegetable medley. No, Cook County is a jail -- America's largest, in fact -- that once held infamous Chicago criminals like Al Capone and John Wayne Gacy.

For the past four months, Cook County's boot camp housed the prep basketball standout, and for good reason. Nothing like what Capone or Gacy did, of course, but the Orr (Chicago, Ill.) Academy senior did plead guilty to a couple gun charges back in September.

On Friday, Pryor was released, filled with a renewed appreciation for both life and basketball. And on Wednesday, he will suit up in a Spartans uniform for the first time since earning Honorable Mention All-State honors as a junior last season.

If you ask me, this should be the playbook for troubled young athletes -- not discarding them from their respective teams to take up some far more dangerous hobby on city streets or expelling them from what might be their best shot at a proper education.

Rehabilitation can work, especially among 17-year-olds, and Pryor appears to be proof.

"I sense a change," Pryor's mother, Lealer Harris, told the Chicago Tribune in a fantastic feature about her son. "We talked about the mistakes. We talked about the past."

In boot camp, Pryor didn't touch a basketball and read the bible daily. With four months to stew over his past mistakes, he learned discipline and developed a focus he hopes will help him become the first member of his family to earn a college degree and achieve his dream of playing in the NBA, even if that means a prep school or junior college next year.

"Basketball can really take you somewhere," he told the Tribune.

Coming off his junior season, the 6-foot-7 forward was a three-star recruit with Division I offers that included Colorado State, Murray State and Oakland. Now, 20 pounds lighter, he has a chance to showcase that talent once again when Orr visits Glenbard South (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) High in the first round of the Class 3A state tournament on Wednesday.

On Monday, Pryor attended his first practice of the season, attempting to both regain his basketball form and convey the life lessons he learned in boot camp to his teammates, some of whom were waiting at Cook County Jail to embrace Pryor upon his release.

"I'm just so grateful to be here," Pryor told the Tribune. "It felt great to be back on the court. I appreciate that I have another chance to play basketball."

Even while he's playing, Pryor will wear an ankle bracelet for the next three weeks, and he hopes that lasts seven games. Orr (23-3) has a real shot at a state title, considering three weeks ago without Pryor's services the Spartans beat nationally ranked Chicago rival Whitney Young, featuring the country's top Class of 2014 recruit, Jahlil Okafor.

Talk about second chances. Starting Wednesday night in the Glenbard South gym, Pryor has the opportunity to live up to the slogan that adorned the black t-shirts his family and friends donned during a welcome home dinner on Saturday night: "Promising Change."

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While the Harlem Shake continues to take the internet by storm, it also continues to be the scourge of prep hockey programs’ postseason dreams. Less than a week after a slightly uncouth Harlem Shake video cost a suburban New York City program its spot in the playoffs due to a forced forfeiture, a Minnesota team suspended six of its key contributors on the eve of a state playoff matchup because of another Harlem Shake video.

The suburban Twin Cities squad lost the subsequent game, leading to a major inquisition by parents of players on the team, eventually leading to the school’s athletic director being placed on leave.

The entire sordid tale unfolded at Mound (Mn.) Westonka High, where six members of the boys hockey team produced a wild Harlem Shake video, which was subsequently uploaded on YouTube. Yet it wasn’t the boys’ participation in the video that earned the suspension. Rather, it was their recruitment of other teens to take place in the video, and filming it in the school’s lunchroom.

If that seems relatively straightforward, that’s because it is. Teens get their friends to make cameos in their videos all the time. Even more confusing is the fact that the teens were making the video after studying the Harlem Shake phenomenon in their film production class at Mound Westonka.

Mound Westonka principal Keith Randklev told USA Today that the teens were suspended because school policies were violated when the video was staged indoors, noting that the video, “got out of hand.” Some of the students were even issued $75 tickets by police for “riot-like behavior.”

Still, the decision to suspend six students that cost both they and their teammates a legitimate chance at a playoff run seemed extreme, as one of the students involved was quick to tell USA Today.

"[Another student] fell into me and I kind of pushed him back into his own place and then we both received tickets for disorderly conduct,” Mound Westonka senior Kyle Leumann told USA Today. “We were not given hardly any chance to give our side of the story."

That apparent lack of due process sparked fury from parents of the teens, who are now calling for the outright dismissal of the Mound Westonka administrators who were responsible for the suspensions … and in turn, a significant part of the subsequent 4-2 loss to underdog Blake (Mn.) High in the state playoffs.

One of those administrators, Mound Westonka athletic director Dion Koltes, was placed on leave after a contentious school board meeting, appeasing angst-filled parental calls but not entirely silencing them, as one parent made clear to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

“This is too little, too late,” said Michelle Brandstetter, whose 17-year-old son, Jack, was among the hockey players who missed the game that Mound Westonka lost to an underdog Blake squad. “They rushed to judgment. …

“The punishment doesn’t fit the crime. They rushed to judgment. There were no illegal actions that took place.”

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When is it right and wrong to laugh at one’s own offspring? It’s a debate that should be sparked by the video you see below, which is perhaps the most hilariously executed ski jump of all-time … so long as you aren’t the skier in question’s parents.

The remarkable over-the-tips flop was first brought to Prep Rally’s attention by The Big Lead, which had similar trouble coming to grips with both the video's clear hilarity --seriously, this would have been a shoo-in winner in the Bob Sagat America’s Funniest Home Videos era -- and the awkwardness of the filming father’s response.

Yes, one has to assume that it was the skier’s father who filmed the flop, but that seems a truly safe assumption given the fact that the young skier is identified as an 11-year-old on YouTube. The note that the flipped skier “walked it off!” is also comforting, though not entirely guilt absolving for the father. Or so it would seem.

Rather, the real question is why the father posted the video on YouTube in the first place. Is the clip hilarious? Absolutely. Is it embarrassing for the videographer’s son? Almost certainly.

Then again, perhaps this is all part of a larger campaign by the amateur film maker to help his son develop a sense of humor. If that’s it, by the time everyone has seen this he is almost sure to be comfortable laughing at himself. After all, one can only remain self conscious for so long.

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In July, Prep Rally brought you the disturbing story of Martin Tremblay, a youth hockey coach in British Columbia who was caught on video tripping a 13-year-old opposing player in a postgame handshake line. Making matters worse, the victim of the incident suffered injuries from his fall after he fractured his wrists while using them to break his fall.

At the time, Tremblay was arrested and issued charges for his actions. Now, some seven months later he has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for actions that have apparently also ruined his life.

As reported by the CBC and Associated Press, Tremblay was sentenced to 15 days in jail to be served out on intermittent weekends and 12 months of probation in relation to two counts of assault stemming from the incident. The judge’s ruling apparently surprised both Tremblay and his lawyer after the former coach pleaded guilty to the charges in November. At the time it was believed that guilty plea would likely keep the coach from serving time in prison.

As it turns out, the 15 day sentence was an even harsher penalty than the 30 days of house arrest which had been proposed by the Crown (that’s the state in Canada). In declaring his sentencing verdict, judge Patrick Chen said that Tremblay had abused the trust of the public in his position as coach and said the tripping action was akin to, “a cowardly sucker punch.”

Meanwhile, Tremblay’s lawyer, Robert Bellows, said that his client had suffered significant damage to both his life and livelihood since the incident. At the time the coach was apparently not taking his anti-depressant medication. Since then, he’s had much more to be upset about, with his construction business losing jobs because of his notoriety and his marriage apparently breaking down as a result as well.

“He’s rebuilding his life after this incident,” Bellows told the assembled press after Tremblay was sentenced. “It’s horrible. He put in years and years coaching hockey, he put in years and years as a scout master. And that all over … because of one incident when he was off his antidepressants for three weeks.”

Of course, when Tremblay tripped the teen, it essentially ended his summer hockey season because of the injuries it inflicted. That had already cost Tremblay his position as a youth hockey coach. Now it appears to have cost him much more.

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One Kentucky high school basketball team either has some of the dumbest student fans or the most racist. Or both.

After tagging Cordia (Hazard, Ky.) High players Emmanuel Owootoah and Marlon King -- both Canadian transfers of Caribbean descent -- in Facebook and Twitter posts featuring a burning flag and a noose hanging over the oh-so-creative phrase "[Expletive] Canada," Knott County Central (Hindman, Ky.) High students began chanting "USA!" prior to a district championship game between the two schools on Friday, according to reports published on Kentucky.com and ZagsBlog.com (h/t Big Lead).

"They should have better class than that, man," Owootoah told Kentucky.com after dropping 24 points in a 66-60 loss to their rivals 20 miles down the road. "But at the same time, I thought it was funny. I don't let stuff like that get to my head."

The Knott County Central principal told LEX 18 News the chants are "open to interpretation," since his school's mascot is the Patriots. Good one. The principal knows only of one student who was involved and says the taunting goes both ways between the schools. OK, then. Nothing to see here, I guess.

But what about the fact that Eduardo and Jessica Flores, who serve as guardians to both Owootoah and King, have bullet holes in their back door, a smashed mailbox and report "repeated" attacks on the children, according to the ZagsBlog.com report?

Might want to address those issues instead of trying to bury them under a rug by claiming the least egregious of all the acts -- the "USA!" chants -- are "open to interpretation." Especially since the teams may meet again with a regional title on the line this week.

Not a good look, especially since the University of Kentucky has scouted Owootoah. He might think twice about the Wildcats, even if the acts of a select number of folks from Hindman don't reflect the opinions of most other Kentuckians.

Likewise, as the Big Lead notes, No. 1 national recruit in the Class of 2013 Andrew Wiggins is expected to choose between Kentucky and his father's alma mater, Florida State. Wiggins is both black and Canadian.

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Franko House hit an incredible shot on Senior Night, letting fly from behind the free throw line at the other end of the court. The basket was both remarkable – he threw the ball like a football and somehow got the shot off in 0.5 seconds – and important, as it stretched a 6-point lead to 9 points, leading Elkhart (Ind.) Concord Community High to a 52-38 Senior Night victory against Elkhart (Ind.) Westview High.

You can see the shot above, as the Ball State commit let’s fly with … wait a minute, what is up with House’s hair?

As highlighted by The Big Lead, that really is Franko House’s hair. Clearly, it’s the most unique ‘do in recent prep history. While Nerlens Noel’s flattop was an authentic throwback to the Kid 'N Play days, House’s hair is in a class all its own.

What could one even call House’s haircut? The mountain? His hair has three separate levels, like the Rockies or the Sierra Nevadas. Between the two lowest levels of House’s three-story hair condo he has a clean line shaved in, as if the barber were creating a hiking path between peaks.

A quick comb (no puns intended) through House’s Twitter feed makes it clear that he hasn’t always sported The Mountain, usually showcasing a ‘do that is closer to a traditional flat top.

Yet, when it counted, with a shot that drew attention from around Indiana, House had a hairdo that just didn’t quit, much like his last ditch attempt that capped a wild third quarter on a successful Senior Night.

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This is how you make big news in South Dakota.

With a District 2AA tournament boys basketball game between Sioux Falls (S.D.) Lincoln High and Yankton (S.D.) High coming down to a last shot, Yankton had a chance to get off the last attempt following a second made free throw that notted the score, 50-50. Yankton inbounded the ball with just fewer than 20 seconds remaining, pushing the ball up across the midcourt time line and setting up the team’s motion offense.

Yet there were no decent looks, leaving the Bucks to rotate the ball around the perimeter, eventually leaving it up to point guard Ryan Olson to try and penetrate to create a shot for himself. Instead, Olson walked right into the most costly turnover of Yankton’s season.

The Lincoln player who walked right into the miraculous steal and midcourt buzzer beater you see above is Lincoln Nermin Krdzalic, who knocked the ball loose with fewer than 5 seconds remaining, scooped up the ball in a mad scramble and then launched a desperate shot at the hoop that sailed through for one of the most remarkable game-winning buzzer beaters of the season.

Final score: Lincoln 53, Yankton 50.

As one might expect, the Pats and their fans exploded in delirium, lifting Krdzalic up for a wild a celebratory totem pole moment while Yankton’s players stood by absolutely stunned. After the game, even the Yankton coach admitted he never imagined his team could have lost in regulation, given the circumstances when they last inbounded the ball.

“Ryan did exactly what we wanted him to do,” Yankton coach Chris Haynes told the Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan. “He waited long enough where, if they were going to beat us, it would be on a half-court shot.

“Unfortunately, they did.”

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Two youth football programs in the heart of dangerous East Los Angeles face the discouraging possibility of being barred from competition for something that is entirely out of the control of the athletes themselves. Rather, the leagues are being forced to stop because of a gang-related stabbing death between alums of two youth programs that followed a postgame pizza meal for one team of 9-11 year-old players.

As first reported by the Los Angeles Times, the East L.A. Bobcats and East L.A. Bulldogs have both been kicked off their traditional city-owned facilities following an October 6 incident where a 23-year-old who was at a pizza parlor with the Bobcats allegedly killed a 25-year-old whose family members were part of the Bulldogs program. While alcohol was cited as a contributing factor, the police who investigated the incident determined that gang and football affiliations were also at least as culpable for the deadly skirmish.

"Gang affiliations were mentioned, football affiliations were mentioned, and a fight broke out," L.A. county sheriff’s homicide bureau Lt. Holly Francisco told the Times.

Incredibly, the deadly fight wasn't even the only violent youth football postgame incident to occur at a pizza parlor in California in the fall; a Modesto, Calif. pizzeria was also robbed at gunpoint by a youth football coach while his team was there for a postgame banquet.

Within 10 days of the deadly fight in Los Angeles, county officially rescinded the Bobcats’ permit to practice at Salazar Park, a city park where the program had held practices for multiple decades. The Bulldogs were also banned from practicing at Los Angeles (Ca.) Garfield High, where they had been holding training sessions for multiple years. At the same time, the L.A. Unified School District banned both programs from playing games on any city owned stadiums.

Those conditions should have effectively ended the programs’ 2012 seasons. It did end the Bulldogs’ campaign, but the Bobcats creatively engineered a schedule where they visited every other team on their season slate, keeping alive competition for the players. According to the Times, the hope was that the program would receive some leniency heading into the 2013 campaign once the past violent acts had washed over.

That now appears unlikely, with the city yet to budge and grant either program an exemption allowing them to return to publicly-owned facilities. With the spring sign-up season just days away, both programs now find themselves in peril of folding altogether.

That’s a shame for youngsters in one of the nation’s roughest areas, many of whom have used football as an escape from the very same gang lifestyle which now has apparently cost them the chance to play football themselves.

"I wanted to finish my last year here instead of going anywhere else, because this is like home, this is like family," 12-year-old Miguel Aguero, a longtime member of the Bobcats program, told the Times. "If I can't play here with this team, it's going to feel weird."

While the city claims that it has tried to be as understanding as it can to the hurt feelings and disappointment of young athletes, they maintain that keeping public parks safe is a more important consideration, regardless of what that does to the young football and cheerleading patrons of both leagues.

"Right now we're dealing with a very real threat of retaliation," L.A. County Supervisor Gloria Molina told a group of Bobcats supporters last week, according to the Times. "We want to make sure that all the patrons and all the people who enjoy the park are going to have an opportunity to enjoy it free of violence.

"We didn't bring about this kind of safety because I just wished it to be. Here we have an active threat, and that's how the sheriffs are handling it."

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After spending four months in a Cook County Jail boot camp for a pair of gun charges, Marquise Pryor thought he paid his debt to society and could return for the first game of his high school basketball team's postseason run.

But the Illinois High School Association had different ideas.

The IHSA waited until moments before Pryor's first game back to alert Orr (Chicago, Ill.) High coaches that the state's prep governing body was reviewing the 6-foot-7, 210-pound senior power forward's eligibility, so he could not suit up for Wednesday's Glenbard South (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) High in the Class 3A regional semifinals.

"Last minute, we were in the locker room and coach brought me the bad news," Pryor told the Chicago Tribune. "It was hard for me to accept, but I had to suck it up and support my team. "

As he did on Wednesday night, Pryor has said nothing but the right things since his release from the boot camp on Friday. Like this to the Chicago Sun-Times:

"I learned a valuable lesson," he said. "I am thankful to be given this chance to play again, and I take this opportunity very serious. Any way I can help the team, I will, and I appreciate all the support from my coaches, teammates, teachers and the entire school."

Since Pryor's guilty plea in September, the Chicago papers have detailed his rehabilitation in Cook County, his plans to return to the basketball court for Orr and his release from boot camp over the weekend. All the while, Pryor completed course work to stay on track for graduation this spring, according to the Tribune report.

Yet, the IHSA couldn't make a ruling on whether Pryor completed 25 credit hours this past semester until Thursday at the earliest? The association's assistant executive director Matt Troha claimed to be unaware of the situation until earlier this week, when the Tribune inquired about his eligibility. Apparently the IHSA doesn't read the papers or pay attention when high-profile high school players are arrested on gun charges. That's a bit hard to believe, to put it mildly.

"From my understanding they never told any of us about this," Pryor's mother Lealer Harris explained to the paper. "He had passing grades at boot camp and we presented those grades to Orr. I'm kind of upset. He's just a kid. He is sad and hurt by this. Everyone knows he was coming back to high school and they knew he was coming back to play. Somebody's not taking care of their business."

"He messed up, and he paid society back for what he did," added Marquise's father Derrick Pryor. "They're going to keep him down in the dirt?"

Meanwhile, Orr defeated Glenbard South, 57-42, amid "We want Pryor!" chants from the crowd, according to the Sun-Times. As a result, Pryor could participate when his team -- one of the favorites to win the Class 3A state title -- plays in the regional finals on Friday. As long as the IHSA makes a ruling on his academic standing before then, of course.

"He should be back Friday," Orr coach Louis Adams told the Tribune. "I haven't really talked to the IHSA. He has all his credits. I don't know what the problem was. I spoke with Kurt [Gibson of the IHSA on Wednesday]. He will get back to me [Thursday]."

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