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Holiday football tradition leads to playoff dispute in Pa.
Usually, the holiday season brings disparate communities together and helps reinforce a sentiment of cooperation and unity. Evidently two high schools in the Philadelphia area missed that memo, with...
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Statistically speaking: Texas RB 3rd to top 10,000 career yards
Usually, reaching a threshold of 1,000 yards in any stretch of time -- be it a season, two campaigns or even an entire career -- is an impressive accomplishment. That may help put what Aledo (Texas)...
View ArticleInstant Replay: The playoff push yields shaken rankings
Another week in, and another crop of surprising results and major showdowns where only one ranked team could possibly survive. As the days grow shorter, so does the list of national title contenders,...
View ArticleFootball team makes playoffs, wins with only 15 players
It's extremely unlikely that Compton (Calif.) Centennial High will win a California Interscholastic Federation City Section football title. That still doesn't mean that it won't have achieved more than...
View ArticleN.C. receiver’s amazing catch is Megatron-esque
It may not have been a Megatron (Calvin Johnson)-caliber, all-time grab, but it was awfully close. In Matthews (N.C.) Butler High's season-ending 40-26 loss to Greensboro (N.C.) Page High, Butler wide...
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Coach’s wife charged with illegally changing player grades
The wife of a Chicagoland football coach has been accused of illegally using a school administration password and changing the grades of more than 40 of her husband's players. As reported by the...
View ArticleMichigan coach fired after repeated use of racial slur
A high school football coach and athletic director in Michigan has been fired after allegations emerged that he has used a racial epithet multiple times in recent seasons to describe his team's...
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Jeter gets another honor: A high school stadium
He's won Gold Gloves, World Series MVPs and more baseball accolades than just about anyone else in the game. Now, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is getting a different kind of honor: His alma mater is...
View ArticleNasty soccer brawl leads to premature ending in state semis
It was supposed to be a moment to remember for the Ludlow (Mass.) High soccer team. With just under two minutes to go in the Division I state semifinal match against Worcester North (Mass.) High,...
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Trailblazing female coach leads team into city title Turkey Bowl
The doubts could have doubled as a riddle. When Natalie Randolph first took the head football coaching job at Washington (D.C.) Coolidge High, those in the community who doubted whether she could...
View ArticlePoor punch, worse dive mar California football finale
Two players produced a nasty finish to the season finale for two California teams, and neither player involved came out looking very good. With Palo Alto (Calif.) Gunn High rolling toward a 54-23 rout...
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Coaches for top Texas teams in nasty feud after playoff game
Two highly ranked football teams in Texas saw their much ballyhooed Saturday night faceoff spill over into nastiness, with coaches from one team celebrating wildly at the final whistle, drawing the ire...
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Top TE forms special bond with teen with Down Syndrome
It's not completely unique for a program to honor a fellow student with a developmental disability by making him an honorary member of the team, or even an honorary captain. However, a team doing that...
View ArticleFlorida runners donate medals, trophy to disqualified foes
In one of the more generous incidents in recent prep sports memory, a Florida girls cross country team voluntarily gave up their runners-up medals and trophy to a school which they felt deserved them...
View ArticleWhen gobblers attack, part 2: The teenage chase down
Across the country on Thursday, Americans will sit down to dinner with their families and slice into a nice, freshly roasted (or fried, or broiled, or smoked, or however else you'd like to cook your...
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Turkey Day football changes in New Jersey and California
There was a time when Turkey Day football was the biggest scholastic sporting event of the year, and it wasn't even long ago. States across the country celebrated the truly American holiday in a truly...
View ArticleEntire team forced to suspend season due to ineligible player
The high school basketball season has only been going on for a month (at most), and already one team has been forced to put a halt to its season. The girls basketball team at Hattiesburg (Miss.) High...
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Texas guard clears defender completely on major slam
Sure, football may still be stealing most of the national prep sport attention, but that doesn't mean there aren't impressive hoops plays starting to slip back on to the radar, with holiday hoops...
View ArticleSchool changes homecoming rules so female kicker can win
When Henry County (Ga.) Community Christian School was naming its homecoming court, Katie Davidson knew she wouldn't be a part of it. After all, the sophomore place kicker wouldn't even be eligible;...
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Michigan teens move in with inspiring coach, earn scholarships
Two years ago, Victor Davidson and Antoine Hawkins were on the verge of a collapse. Davidson and his mother were struggling to survive, with money problems forcing the pair to move apartments nearly...
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