Humboldt (Tn.) High needed a big play. Holding a narrow lead but watching it dwindle, the Tennessee squad realized that its postseason title dreams would be on the rocks unless it could find a spark.

That’s when Humboldt star De’Sonta Bradford took over. With the Humboldt offense stagnating all around him, Bradford took a pass from the top of the key and exploded toward the rack, topping a Wartburg (Tn.) High defender en route to the basket and flushing home one of the post dunks of the season.

The slam pushed Humboldt’s edge to 48-40 with just more than 5:00 remaining and provided a late-game push for Humboldt en route to a 64-58 victory in the Tennessee Class A semifinals.

“That was big for momentum,” Bradford told the Jackson Sun. “The fourth quarter was my quarter, and I had to do something.”

It’s fair to say that Bradford did something that few on hand will forget any time soon. As it is, this isn’t the first time that a Bradford poster jam has made major news for Humboldt, though it is the posterizing episode that came with the most significance.

If there was any question about just how big Bradford’s dunk was, one need just note the team’s wild celebrations after it wrapped up the Class A title with a victory against Lake County (Tn.) High. Without Bradford’s explosive rim rattling feat, the Vikings might never have even been playing for the crown.

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Drake is one of the world's best selling musicians. He has appeared on tracks by virtually every major star in the rap or R&B world. He sells out concerts in major arenas. He's God's gift to rap in Canada, and draws paparazzi around the world. He also performs at high school basketball games.

If the last part of that statement sounds out of place, that's because it is. Yet it's also the truth after it was announced that Drake would perform at the Jordan Brand Classic, a high school all-star game which will be held at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn on April 13.

Drake's performance was announced by Nike and will immediately follow the national game at the Jordan Classic doubleheader; the event features both a "regional game" and a "national game," with the national contest featuring top prospects like Jabari Parker, Andrew Wiggins, Julius Randle and the Harrison twins of Fort Bend, Texas.

While there have been famous musical acts to perform at the Jordan Classic in the past -- Akon and Common come to mind -- it's arguable that none have had as high a profile as Drake. It's not as if the rapper is going to be in the area by chance, either; he kicks off his "Club Paradise" Tour two weeks later ... in California.

So why is Drake playing a high school event? Probably because it's A) organized by Nike featuring the name and brandables of His Airness and B) it features a whos who of likely future NBA stars. Both Parker and Wiggins would be NBA Draft lottery selections if they were available this year, and they almost certainly will be in 2014, unless they decide to stick around college longer.

That means that Drake can make a celebrity connection with the next generation of superstars before they're true, national superstars.

At the same time, the rapper's performance also provides a watershed to just how culturally relevant high school basketball has begun. For years the McDonald's All-American Game, and now the Jordan Brand Classic, have been televised on ESPN. Now that exposure -- and the hype around their rise through the ranks -- has made these teens only slightly smaller celebrities than their collegiate counterparts, the very people they'll become in a matter of months.

Will Drake start a cavalcade of musical superstars to small town prep games? Probably not (if Ke$ha starts frequenting suburban L.A. hoops games, Prep Rally will happily author a mea culpa). Still, his appearance in Brooklyn is a powerful reminder of just how prominent top high school athletes are in society today, especially compared with those in generations past.

After all, Buddy Holley never performed after a prep football game.

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A disturbing incident has rocked a leafy New York City suburb after a longtime youth girls basketball coach was arrested and charged with sexually abusing one of his former players when she was still a 10-year-old girl in 2010.

As reported by The Journal News, Cortland Manor, N.Y. resident Richard Dinizio, a 58-year-old youth basketball coach who traditionally focuses on the 12 and 13-year-old leagues, was arrested and charged with sexual assault in connection with allegations first launched by one of his former players.

According to the arrest affidavit, Dinizio is accused of sexually abusing a young female basketball player when she was 10 and a member of the Westchester Basketball Association youth girls basketball program.

If convicted, Dinizio could face as many as 25 years in prison. Given the traces that authorities used to verify the relationship, including pornographic images of the victim on Dinizio’s computer and mobile devices, the now-former coach may not be interacting with children for much longer.

Equally concerning, of course, is the specter that Dinizio’s crimes could reach farther than one victim. The coach has been an active part of the WBA for roughly 20 years, with authorities speculating that such a lengthy timeframe could be an indication that other victims are out there, still in hiding.

Whether they come forward or are identified or not, what Dinizio already stands accused of is both horrifying and revolting, and more than enough for the WBA to search for ways to ensure it never happens again, by anyone under any circumstances.

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Matt Poursoltani is one of the top physical football prospects in the class of 2013. Though he isn’t ranked among the nation’s best on national lists, he still merits quite a bit of consideration, for one very notable reason: He lifts more weight in the bench press than almost anyone in NFL history.

On Saturday, Poursoltani, a senior at Pilot Point (Tx.) High, bench-pressed 700 pounds. The weight was a new Texas state record, not to mention a personal record, topping 670 pounds, as he lifted 700 pounds. Yes, 700 pounds. To put that in perspective, the top NFL bench press mark is reportedly 705 pounds, as lifted by former Dallas Cowboys offensive guard Larry Allen.

While even coming near Allen would be a notable accomplishment of its own, doing so at Poursoltani’s size is even more remarkable. Allen tips the scales at 325 pounds, while Poursoltani weighs 270 pounds.

As noted by the Dallas Morning News, Poursoltani has improved his bench press max by more than 100 pounds in the span of a single year. At the 2012 state meet, Poursoltani’s best lift was 570 pounds. Now he tops out at 700.

Before anyone even consider whether Poursoltani has benefitted from performance enhancing substances, the powerlifting lineman wants to make sure that everyone knows he is committed to competing clean.

“If you need something to help you work out, you need to get out of the sport,” Poursoltani told the Morning News. “If you can’t drive yourself that hard to come in here and work out, then it’s probably just not for you.”

Given his early success, it’s hard to know just how far Poursoltani can go in the sport. The teen is already known as ‘The Freak Show’ for his ability to lift far above his body weight. The current all-time record for maximum bench press is 1075 pounds, as set by Ryan Kennelly in 2008. That’s 375 pounds more than Poursoltani’s current best, but given his best years ahead of him, he could very well make a run at it.

After improving his lift weight by 130 pounds in a single year, it would be unwise to bet against him, that’s for sure.

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A girls basketball rivalry in Missouri was the impetus for a disgusting prank when members of the Cassville (Mo.) High squad reportedly urinated in a cup and poured their liquid waste into a cooler of drinking water used by the rival Monett (Mo.) High team.

As reported by the Monett Times and Missouri TV network KY3, four members of the Cassville girls basketball team urinated in a cup before their team’s game against Monett. One of those four cups was then emptied into the Monett team’s drinking water container, which the squad used throughout its game, which was played on February 4.

Cassville officials reportedly learned of the incident on Tuesday, at which point they contacted Monett officials, who in turn mailed out a letter to parents of the Monett team, apologizing for the incident and noting that Cassville was in the process of deciding whether or not additional punishment for the players in question is still needed. The Cassville Superintendent, Jill LeCompte, noted that the four teens involved have all been disciplined in an unnamed form for their actions.

In the meantime, the girl whose urine was used in the prank is being put through a series of tests to determine if the contamination from her waste has put any of the Monett students at risk of illness.

While the Monett parents are understandably disappointed, disgusted and concerned about the welfare of their children, Monett administrators specifically asked that no retaliation be taken by members of the community.

"We are asking you, as parents, to help us work with our girls and their friends to handle this situation with professionalism and restraint. We understand that all of us in Monett are angered and frustrated by this occurrence and the amount of time before the incident came to light. We encourage you to support our stance that retaliation in any way stoops to the level of the offense committed against us and is counter productive. Our goal is to work through any lingering issues and put this incident behind us quickly.”

Added Monet Superintendent Brad Hanson, when interviewed by the Monett Times: "What's done is done. Our concern at this point is more health related than anything else. …

"We all need to remember that people make mistakes whether we're adults or 14- to 18-year-old kids. We need to sit back, no matter how upset, appalled or angry we are. I'm asking for our students, coaches and community to take the high road on this and show we are the classy people we are."

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There’s a new all-time record holding squad in girls lacrosse, and their streak of consecutive victories is going to awfully hard to catch.

As noted by the Baltimore Sun and a variety of other outlets, the Owings Mills (Md.) McDonogh School girls lacrosse team won its 74^th consecutive game on Saturday, knocking off Newtown Square (Pa.) Episcopal School, 17-3, to surpass the previous mark of 73 consecutive victories held by Carle Place (N.Y.) High in the mid 1980s. The Eagles haven’t lost a single game since the 2009 season.

What’s more impressive than the sheer heft of McDonogh’s streak is the quality of opponent the team has knocked off on its journey through the record books. In 2013 alone, the team has already knocked off two other members of the preseason Nike/US Lacrosse girls top-25 … and those games weren’t even particularly close. McDonogh (yes, it’s ranked No. 1) knocked off preseason No. 11 Vero Beach (Fl.) High by a score of 12-6 and No. 19 Milton (Ga.) Academy 11-8.

The road ahead won’t get any easier, either. According to the Baltimore Sun, the team began the season with six teams in the preseason top-25 on their 19-game regular season schedule. More than half of the top-15 ranked teams in the Baltimore Sun’s regional top-15 also feature against McDonogh.

So, how can a team possibly face such tough opposition and continue to cruise to victories? The answer, according to McDonogh senior attacker Sammi Burgess, it’s all about focusing on one game, practice and even play at a time.

"[McDonogh head coach Chris Robinson] has always made it very clear that it's not really about the streak or anything like that," Burgess told the Sun. "It's about game-by-game situations. He wants the pressure to be off of us. Obviously, we would love to continue the streak, but it's really about focusing on the opponents that we play and playing good lacrosse rather than on keeping the dynasty going."

That focus is enhanced by a sense of complete buy-in among Robinson’s squads. According to the Sun, one key hallmark of McDonogh teams has been a deep bench, with as many 18 or 19 players receiving regular playing time every season. That’s a stark contrast with many prep lacrosse teams which lean heavily on nine starters (not counting a goalie) and rotate in as few as four or five other players.

Even more impressive is the percentage of those players who are truly “home grown.” While the school might add one or two significant players many years, an overwhelming majority of the squad’s best players have all come up through the McDonough school system, some from kindergarten.

That self-made squad dynamic makes the girls lacrosse team an incredible source of pride for the Maryland private school, even if the players who are earning the plaudits are usually too focused on the next game ahead to take stock in what they’ve achieved.

"Just because we win a lot doesn't mean we take this lightly," junior attacker Megan Whittle said. "I think playing in the league that we do prepares us for our out-of conference games and we have the mentality of one game at a time and improving after every game. There's really no chance for us to get cocky because we've got to wake up the next morning and play another really hard team."

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Monte Morris had a heck of a weekend. He entered the state finals shortly after being told that he was selected as the Hal Shram Michigan Mr. Basketball. He was one win away from a second consecutive Michigan High School Activities Association Class C state title.

He had the flu.

Naturally, that last aspect of Morris’ weekend made the earlier parts less enjoyable. Usually, it would rule a player out of a game. Yet Morris didn’t give up, instead channeling his inner Michael Jordan to lead Flint (Mi.) Beecher High to a state crown in a narrow, 40-39 victory against Laingsburg (Mi.) High, as covered by MLive.com and the Detroit Free Press, among other outlets.

Fittingly, Morris was the man who made the difference for Beecher. The senior Iowa State signee scored a game-high 16 points and sealed the victory with a blocked shot in the closing seconds that would have won the title for Laingsburg (you can see plenty of great images from the game right here).

According to the Detroit Free Press, Morris then retreated to the bathroom, where he vomited four times while reeling with exhaustion from the game.

"I told myself it was a mind-set, I just had to finish it," Morris told the Free-Press. "I would regret it the rest of my life if I didn't finish the game. I just wanted to go out without any doubts. … The pain was bad, and I was woozy."

Regardless of how he felt, Morris made sure that he was walking home with another title. This time, he clinched his crown with a block that was inspired by the last time Beecher didn’t win the title, when Morris was a sophomore.

"That was the same exact rim we were on and the same exact end of the floor my sophomore year when I didn't make the block," he said. "I watched the play, and the guy laid it up and we lost. I felt like I need to make a play. I told myself if I was ever in that situation again, I was going to make a play on the ball."

He made the play, and then he made a beeline out of the gym, as soon as he could. Morris had completed his date with destiny, now it was time for a date with a toilet bowl and a nice warm bed, for approximately 12 hours. The sleep of a champion.

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An unruly brawl at a Canadian youth hockey game on Saturday got so out of hand that police in Ontario are now investigating the incident to determine if charges should be brought against one or more of the parents involved.

Beware before you press play below: Some explicit language is involved, right from the get-go.

As reported by the Canadian Press, among other sources (Online Sports Guys among them), a Bantam Pee Wee C youth hockey game between a team from Tweed and a Six Nations squad was the surprising site of a major brawl in the stands between parents of the two teams. The fight was captured on camera and uploaded to YouTube on Sunday.

This isn't the first time that parents have gotten overly aggressive at a youth hockey game -- as was proven all too well in February -- but it might be the most dramatic and physical case.

After a parent of a Six Nations player told a group of Tweed parents to "Come over here and get it, you [expletive]," a group of Tweed parents did just that. The result was a major melee between both sides, with multiple adults throwing punches, wrestling and eventually requiring a number of other bystanders to pull them apart.

The fight occurred at the finals of a Bantam Hockey league, with the game played in Tweed, a town roughly at the midpoint between Toronto and Ottawa. The nature of the game, with a title on the line, apparently led to some pregame activities, with parents from the Six Nations squad telling the Bellevue Intelligencer that their counterparts from homestanding Tweed were drinking in the parking lot before the game and spent much of the contest aggressively heckling Six Nations players.

Regardless of what motivated the fight, the result was an ugly scene for Canadian hockey, and youth sports in general.

"The sad thing is if this deters even one kid from signing up to play minor hockey that's a big loss," Ken McKichan, president of the Tweed Minor Hockey Association, told the Intelligencer. "Where's the sense in this? People are passionate about their kids playing hockey and tempers can get out of control, but it's an embarrassment.”

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Jeremiah Headley picked a heck of a time for the first of what will likely be a career full of posterizing dunks.

As first discovered by the L.A. Times, the Redondo Beach (Ca.) Redondo Union High sophomore wing threw down one of the fiercest slams you'll ever see over an awaiting opponent to put the finishing touches on his school's first ever California state boys basketball championship.

Forget FGCU and Dunk City. This is Redondo Beach, kids.

With 39.3 seconds remaining, Headley climbed over the poor College Park player trying to draw a charge, giving the Sea Hawks an eight-point lead on their way to a 54-47 win.

"That play is a play for the ages," Redondo coach Reggie Morris Jr. told the L.A. Times.

The slam by the 6-foot-6, 175-pound junior varsity transfer from Lawndale (Ca.) Leuzinger High made SportsCenter's top 10 list. More importantly, his dunk helped deliver California's Division II crown to a program that finished just 10-17 last season.

Headley totaled 19 points and 13 boards in the game for the Sea Hawks (28-8) -- more than three times his season averages entering the state tournament. He's already being considered a rising recruit in the Class of 2015. Clearly, part of the reason for that sudden arrival on the national recruiting scene is his fierce athleticism.

If nothing else, that slam is a pretty good way to announce his arrival to the nation.

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It’s a natural tendency to comb the NCAA Tournament for the next wave of NBA stars. It’s just as similar to look for tomorrow’s college stars in the high school ranks. What is truly rare, however, is to see a player who could already compete two levels up starring on a junior circuit.

DeAndre Ayton is definitely that, despite being months away from his first high school class. At 14, the Class of 2017 star could become even more impressive once he gets a bit more seasoning.

At the moment, Ayton is more than impressive enough on pure talent alone to merit serious consideration to his ability to make an impact on the NCAA level. Would the current San Diego (Ca.) Balboa Prep player be a star? Maybe not, but the 6-foot-10, 200-pounder is so athletic and agile, with a decent mid range shot, that he would certainly find his way on to the court.

Then again, you can judge for yourself. The video you see above was captured over the course of one single weekend tournament, with plenty of those plays coming a mere 45 minutes after he ambled off a plane in Salt Lake City.

What’s most impressive about the Bahamian native (he is of Nigerian descent, but was born in the Bahamas) is his willingness to run the floor, play tough defense and bang on the boards.

That being said, it’s hard not to be captivated by Ayton’s explosive dunks. At 14, the middle schooler is already throwing down jams in traffic, powering home putback dunks and elevating on the break to flush home with authority.

Add to that Ayton’s remarkable shooting touch -- how many 6-foot-10 players do you see stroking threes in the NBA, let alone prep ball? -- and his comfort handling the ball on the break and it’s clear to see why he will almost surely enter high school as the top overall prospect in the Class of 2017.

For now, Ayton will focus on continued progress on the court (and his progress has been massive; this was Ayton during his seventh grade season) and in the classroom, with the goal of a bright prep future before anyone can think or talk about the pros.

Given all the natural talents he has, it’s hard not to envision Ayton stepping into a collegiate future tomorrow, let alone in four years.

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This is why you have to hit your free throws late in games.

As reported by the Contra Costa Times, Associated Press and a handful of other outlets, San Diego (Ca.) Horizon Christian escaped with the California Interscholastic Federation Division V state title after drilling a game-winning three pointer at the buzzer to edge favored Alameda (Ca.) St. Joseph Notre Dame School, 47-46.

While the official record will always acknowledge Horizon guard Ethan Underwood as the hero, it’s likely to overlook the role played by St. Joseph Notre Dame’s Marcus Harris, who missed two free throws with four seconds remaining that could have iced the victory for the Pilots.

As rough as those misses may have been, Harris wasn’t the only Pilots player on the hook, either. Another St. Joseph Notre Dame starter, center Temidayo Yussuf, also missed two free throws with 11 seconds left. If any of those free throws had fallen through the title game would have gone to overtime. If the Pilots had split the group of four, they would have won.

Instead, they were the victim of yet another unlikely buzzer beater in the throws of high school March Madness.

"These guys are never out of a game,” Horizon coach Tyrone Hopkins told the Times. “They always believe.

“[And Underwood has] ice water in his veins.”

Here's another view of Underwood's state title-winner.

In the end that ice water, along with some ill timed free throw jitters, doomed St. Joseph Notre Dame, though it didn’t dampen its coach’s spirits.

"[The St. Joseph Notre Dame players have done] everything that I've asked them to do, and then a 30-foot throw wins the game,” Pilots coach Don Lippi told the Times. “But that's why they call it March Madness."

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February 9 was supposed to be the happiest day of Leo Klink's life. Instead, he'll remember his Hawaii soccer state championship for the saddest of all reasons.

Unbeknownst to him, Klink's mother Hiroyo left the state title game in an ambulance before she got the chance to see her son score the game-winning penalty kick in Kalani (Honolulu, Hawaii) High's 3-2 victory against cross-island rival Punahou.

After watching their son score a game-tying goal in the first half, Paul Klink noticed his wife acting strangely at halftime and called 911, as detailed in a heartbreaking CNN feature that updates Klink's story. Hiroyo had suffered a stroke. An ambulance arrived moments later, causing a 15-minute delay that Leo believed was the result of an injured Punahou player.

As previously noted in this terrific Yahoo! Sports feature by Eric Adelson, Kalani coaches kept the news from their star player at Hiroyo's request, according to the report. Leo, the state's returning Gatorade Boys Soccer Player of the Year, scored the game-tying goal in the second half and the game-winning penalty kick in the shootout. Afterwards, Kalani coach Michael Ching broke the news to Leo.

"When coach told me about my mom then I just broke down with tears of sadness," Leo, 17, told CNN. "I was happy and then I just got really, really depressed."

He left before receiving his medal and arrived at the hospital in time to tell his mother two things before she died: His team won the state championship, and he loved her.

"I wanted her last thought of me to be that I loved her, and that I would be a good boy," he added, "and that I know she's going to look over me and that we're going to meet again someday."

Leo's father has a heart ailment that prevents him from working, the report said, so friends have established a fund to help Leo realize his mother's dream of having her son receive a college education. You can contribute to the Leo Klink Fund here.

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A former girls soccer coach at a Catholic high school in Massachusetts was arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of children in connection with disturbing allegations that he asked a 14-year-old in a chatroom to “put on a show” for him.

As reported by Springfield TV network WWLP, 36-year-old Michael DuPont was arrested in connection with a complaint filed in Vermont, where a teen was reportedly solicited to perform for him over a webcam. Vermont state police were contact on December 26 about an incident dating to October, when DuPont allegedly asked an unnamed girl how old she was. After she told the coach that she was just 14-years-old, DuPont then asked her to “put on a show” for him.

DuPont had left his role as head girls soccer coach for Holyoke (Ma.) Catholic High before the criminal complaint was made, but his connection with the school has still raised concerns about his conduct while he was still employed by the Springfield Diocese.

While the Diocese itself has been quick to note that it has no evidence or other indication that DuPont had done anything illegal while he was at the school, it was engaging in a full investigation and interviewing the coach’s former players to ensure that he never reached out to them in a similar fashion.

“We were, of course, shocked by this news,” the Sprinfield Diocese wrote in a statement. “During his tenure as a soccer coach no allegations or related complaints were ever brought to our attention. Investigators have not found any evidence at this stage that involves Holyoke Catholic students.”

At the moment, DuPont faces charges of sexual exploitation of children, a charge which carries with it a mandatory minimum sentence of five years, with an upper bound of 30 years in prison. Whether he faces anywhere near that drastic term may determine in large part on what more the Springfield Diocese discovers about his time while employed there.

“The Bishop has pledged full cooperation with law enforcement officials in regards to their ongoing investigation,” the Diocese said in a statement. “He also asks the prayers of the entire community for those whose lives are tragically victimized by these actions."

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Florida Gulf Coast University’s rise to the Sweet 16 has brought plenty of attention to the tiny Ft. Myers School and its previously (very) under-the-radar basketball program. While the Eagles have rightfully been lauded for emphasizing all that’s fun in basketball. They’ve done so with an incredibly athletic roster that oozes confidence and charisma, all while defiantly overhauling the old stereotype that white men can’t jump.

Evidently coach Andy Enfield has more of the same on the way, as well.

The video you see above, which was brought to Prep Rally’s attention by USA Today, showcases highlights from Florida Gulf Coast recruit Jordan Neff. The senior played his high school basketball basketball at Kennesaw (Ga.) North Cobb High, and he can really, really dunk. In fact, few players could better embody the Eagles’ entire Dunk City ethos.

Just check out how high Neff gets on slams on the break and teutonic dunks in the paint. And that says nothing for his penchant for completely taking out defenders with poster jams.

Neff picked Florida Gulf Coast ahead of a scholarship offer from North Florida, while Georgia and West Virginia also showed interest in the 6-foot-6 power forward who looks and plays like a chip off the Chase Fieler block.

According to Atlanta TV network 11Alive, Neff was drawn to Florida Gulf Coast by Enfield’s open, fast breaking offense, which should allow him to make the most of his athleticism. As an honorable mention all-state selection in Georgia, Neff expects to make a difference for the Eagles, who should be able to plug him into their exciting scheme from Day 1.

"The day he got the job, he emailed me and offered me a scholarship,” Neff said of Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield. “I wasn't too interested at first it was so far away and I never heard of it before.

"Today, when I walked around with the hoodie on, everybody knows what those letters stand for.”

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Clint Frazier is a senior baseball slugger who has signed to play at Georgia. After the past week, any odds of that actually happening may be diminishing rapidly.

As noted by USA Today, Frazier began the season on the kind of tear that can move a prospect rapidly up the draft boards. Already considered the No. 2 overall prospect in the Class of 2013, Frazier opened his senior campaign with six home runs in his first seven games. One of them, as captured above, was a true bomb, flying over the center field fence, over the adjacent road and eventually landing halfway up the tree line across the street, according to one videographer.

Those homers are consistent with Frazier's career at Loganville. Despite being just 12 games into his senior campaign, Frazier has already nearly doubled the school's prior career home run record, a mark which just happens to have been set by MLB outfielder Brandon Moss.

Frazier has helped keep his Loganville (Ga.) High squad hot ever since that early homer binge, leading the Red Devils to an 11-1 record.

Normally, all of these indications would be great news for Georgia fans. Instead, in the strange world of baseball recruiting, this surge probably all but guarantees that the power hitting outfielder won’t ever put on a Georgia uniform.

The teen, who has already outdueled fellow top prep prospect Austin Meadows, is widely recognized as one of the top two overall prep baseball players.

That status -- not to mention Frazier’s 6-foot-1, 190-pound power-packed frame -- all but guarantee that Frazier will be a first round pick. Depending on who is making the selection, Frazier could very well end up in the top-10 picks.

All of which just means that you could be seeing the swing you see above in an MLB park much sooner rather than later. Hear that, Georgia prep baseball fans? Enjoy Frazier while you can.

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Oh, you nasty boys
Nasty, nasty boys, don't ever change
Oh, you nasty boys

Maybe Calabasas (Calif.) High athletic director Larry Edwards heard a Janet Jackson song on his way home. Or maybe he didn't like the fact his head coach got booted from his eighth loss in 10 games to start the season. Either way, the school canned Rob Dibble.

Known best as one of the Nasty Boys out of the bullpen for the two-time World Series Cincinnati Reds in the 1990s, Dibble accepted the head coaching position at Calabasas this past June. After a 2-8 start this spring, he's finished, according to the L.A. Times.

"They said I wasn't a good fit," Dibble told Times reporter Eric Sondheimer in a text message on Tuesday night. "I just got a job calling Angels games for Compass Media. In giving some early notice I couldn't continue as head coach after the season, I was asked to step down immediately. I'm shocked, very sad and will miss the kids because the only reason I took the job was to help them play at the next level."

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Dibble reportedly earned an ejection in the sixth inning of an 8-1 loss to Agoura (Agoura Hills, Calif.) High earlier on Tuesday. The Coyotes have lost four straight since March 13.

This isn't Dibble's first rodeo. After earning a reputation for his temper in Cincinnati -- including a brawl with then Reds manager Lou Piniella -- ESPN let him go as an analyst and radio personality in 2004.

The Washington Nationals allegedly fired him with more than a year left on his TV broadcasting deal after he criticized Stephen Strasburg for missing a 2010 start with an injury that later required Tommy John surgery.

Dibble still hosts FOX Sports Radio's FOX Sports Tonight show with Amy Van Dyken every weeknight. That and the potential Angels gig he told the L.A. Times about. So, even if Calabasas owned a 5.30 ERA with him as coach, Dibble can still talk a good game.

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Tony Boselli is probably best known as the first draft pick in Jacksonville Jaguars history. Now the former All-Pro lineman is trying to turn the page on his own legacy by giving back as a prep football coach.

As reported by the website FootballScoop.com, a site that focuses on coaching openings across all levels of football, Boselli will serve as an assistant coach at Jacksonville (Fl.) Providence High for the 2013 season. The massive former tackle was apparently inspired to return to football by his son, Andrew, who will be a sophomore on the Providence squad in the fall.

The full extent of Boselli’s role is apparently yet to be determined, but it is known that he will play an active role in coaching the team’s offensive line. Considering the fact that Boselli was among the best offensive linemen in the league when healthy throughout his seven-year tenure with the Jaguars.

As it turns out, Boselli isn't the only former Jaguar heading to Providence, either, with fellow former Jaguar, Jeff Kopp, also joining the Jacksonville private school's football program as a linebacker coach.

So far Andrew Boselli appears to have avoided his father injury issues. Currently a freshman, Boselli has spent both of the last two seasons as a member of the Providence varsity squad, taking a nod from his father’s past while taking his position on the line.

Now, he’ll get some tactical help from Dad, as will the younger Boselli’s teammates, who would be wise to be all ears when the 6-foot-6 Jaguars stalwart speaks up.

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A popular Massachusetts football player has been charged with assault in connection with an incident in which he struck a fellow athlete with a belt in the locker room.

As reported by the Mansfield News, Mansfield (Ma.) High junior Alex Ruddy was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon following an investigation that found the football star had struck a fellow student with a belt during school hours.

According to the News, the attack came at the end of a gym class in the boys locker room, where Ruddy attacked the other student after a verbal spat between the two.

Rather, the entire scary incident was apparently stopped by the dramatic intervention of other teens in the locker room, as Mansfield Police Chief Arthur O’Neil told the Boston Herald.

BLOCK: “There were other young men in the room that stopped it,” said O’Neill, who called their bravery “terrific.” …

“There was some back and forth between the two of them and the older boy hit the younger boy’s ankles and lower legs with a belt,” O’Neill said. “It’s a shame — just a moment of terrible bad judgment. He just didn’t use his head.”

Regardless, the alleged attack was enough to justify Ruddy’s arraignment at Attelboro District Court. The teen was released shortly after he was charged and will face trial on the charges in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, the entire sordid affair has cast a pall over Ruddy’s previous bright future with the Mansfield football program, following a season in which the squad reached the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Division . The rising senior was selected to be a captain of the 2013 team and was expected to lead out the Hornets throughout the fall season.

Now, the more essential question is whether he’ll even be allowed to pad up with his teammates himself.

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In the latest episode of an over-active school board making an overtly PC move, a New Hampshire school district has banned the game of dodgeball for fears that it reinforces and leads to bullying.

As reported by the Eagle Tribune and other outlets, the Windham (N.H.) School Board voted 4-1 to outlaw dodgeball and “nine other human target activities” because it was concerned that the traditional game was reinforcing the exact behaviors that the school district was aiming to eliminate in its students.

“We spend a lot of time making sure our kids are violence free,” Windham superintendent Dr. Henry LaBranche told the Eagle Tribune. “Here we have games where we use children as targets. That seems to be counter to what we are trying to accomplish with our anti-bullying campaign.”

Though dodgeball can occasionally lead to some students being targeted for their lack of agility or other physical limitations, it seems harsh to claim that the pseudo sport is a petri dish for bullying. Rather, it is a continued embodiment of the dog-eat-dog ethos that was once embodied in all school sports.

[Also: Prep football player charged with assault for alleged locker-room beating]

Apparently, Windham is making its stand against dodgeball on its own. The Eagle Tribune reported that neighboring districts plan to continue offering it, having overseen a general decline in interest in dodgeball, but no increased violence or antisocial behavior as a result of the game.

Meanwhile a pair of local schools in the area noted that dodgeball remains their most popular intramural sports, with the pair competing in a charity tournament against one another each year.

In fact, perhaps those schools -- Pinkerton (N.H.) Academy and Londonderry (N.H.) High -- could invite affected Windham students in on the fun in the future. That way at least the Windham students who want to keep taking part in dodgeball can while Windham officials continue to occupy the higher moral ground, lonely or not.

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When super-recruit Andrew Wiggins reclassified to the Class of 2013 he was instantly ranked as the top prospect among all seniors. At the time, many wondered why Wiggins, long a top prospect in his own right, was considered a more promising recruit than Jabari Parker, a teen who has been lauded as the most promising teen since LeBron for years.

Well, now we know. In fact, we can see why within seconds in the video above.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Andrew Wiggins is absolutely ridiculous. The Canadian, who competed for Huntington (W.V.) Prep for his final scholastic season, has been so dominant on the high school circuit that he routinely made it appear as if he was competing against elementary schoolers. And it wasn’t for opposing defenders not trying. Rather, they just might as well have called it a day and waited to be dunked on.

This really, honestly may be the most impressive highlight reel we’ve seen at the high school level. Keep in mind, Prep Rally receives dozens upon dozens of highlight reels. Tons of them. Many of them are quite impressive, but few make it feel as if the player highlighted is actually an imposter playing down a level … or two. We're not the only ones who took a shining to Wiggins' latest foray into the highlight universe, either.

It’s worth noting at this point that even though this highlight reel focuses almost solely on dunks and dramatic drives into the lane, Wiggins can actually shoot the mid-range and deep jump shot, as you can see in the video below. It’s one of the things that has long made him stand out over other prospects (Parker not necessarily included).

Naturally, Prep Rally isn’t the only outlet that has caught on to the dominance exhibited in Wiggins’ latest reel. Still, it’s worth wondering what happened to past phenoms who were this dominant. LeBron James turned out ok. John Wall was pretty impossible to defend on video, and while he hasn’t been a superstar in D.C. yet, it seems fair to say that he’s still turned out alright.

So, given those predictors, Wiggins could look to land somewhere between John Wall and King James when he eventually gets to the NBA (yes, he’ll get there), assuming he continues to develop his game. That’s not too shabby folks, even for a kid who has spent the past few months completely toying with the opposition.

Of course, before then Wiggins will spend at least one year at a college to be determined. You know what that means? There's still technically a chance he ends up at Florida Gulf Coast. Come on Florida Gulf Coast! What could be more entertaining?

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