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100-2 middle school hoops blowout may have repercussions
There are routs, there are blowouts, and then there are epic one-sided losses that would make the likes of Woody Hayes blush. The 100-2 victory by Pikeville (Ky.) Independent Middle School against...
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Clerical error proves painful for Massachusetts football team
A small Massachusetts high school football team underwent as wild an emotional rollercoaster as imaginable in the span of 48 hours, winning a classic Thanksgiving weekend tussle to earn a berth in the...
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NCAA forces tourney to move at 10:05 p.m. Thanksgiving Eve
On Wednesday night, less than 36 hours before a prestigious invitational high school basketball tournament was set to tip off at the University of Kentucky's Rupp Arena, the NCAA refused to allow the...
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Texas high school game ends in brawl, police pepper spray
A high school football playoff game in South Texas devolved into a nasty brawl that forced police to pepper spray both teams, with Ozen (Texas) High and La Marque (Texas) High players and coaches...
View ArticleInstant Replay: Major shocks and state titles abound
The later rounds of the state playoffs are always the site of the most tense, heated and hyped high school football of the season. Just how full a cornucopia of prep football did the Thanksgiving...
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To compete in swim meets, Mass. boys join girls teams
We've all heard the stories of girls trying to compete on the same field as their male counterparts. But what about stories where the roles are reversed? Based on the number of sports options offered...
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Hoops star ruled ineligible because she lives with Lakers coach
Earlier in November, Prep Rally brought you the touching story of Lakers coach Mike Brown and the latest addition to his family, high school senior girls basketball player Nirra Fields. The UCLA...
View ArticleAn impressive alley oop and slam just before first tip off
You know the basketball season is kicking into first gear when the impressive slams start coming thick and fast. That's the case again this week, with the latest addition a particularly impressive fast...
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Stoudemire’s Hebrew school? Distilling a New York rumor
The New York Daily News gossip pages are a great place for any number of things. In particular, Frank Digiacomo's "Gatecrasher" feature is a great place to find out who Bryant Gumbel is having...
View ArticleWisconsin teen a star, valedictorian after adoption by coach
Keana Berkhalter is like a lot of other teenagers. The Milwaukee (Wis.) Washington High senior is an academic standout and star girls basketball player who dreams of a collegiate future. Yet Berkhalter...
View ArticleTeam wins tear-jerking coin toss after teammate’s tragic death
It's not often that the loudest cheer of a heated high school playoff game comes during the coin toss, but that's precisely what happened on Friday night during an Ohio Div. II football state...
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Statistically speaking: A 1,644-yard title game? It happened in Ill.
A national record for 11-man football may very well have fallen on Saturday in one of the more unlikely places: A state title game, where the two teams competing were incredibly evenly matched, and...
View ArticleOklahoma RB refuses to go down en route to huge playoff TD
The truth is, Josh Way had to business reaching a first down, let alone a touchdown. Of course, that didn't mean he wasn't going to get there. Instead, the senior Wayne (Okla.) running back turned in...
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N.J. school on verge of title had never won a playoff game
It's not particularly unusual for a high school football team to get hot and roll through the playoffs until it reaches the state finals. What is particularly rare is when the team that does so hasn't...
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Tiny player delivers a Super Bowl-clinching play in Mass.
Carlos "Shorty" Bermudez may have been the smallest player on the field -- he almost always is -- but on Tuesday he also came through with the biggest play in his team's season … and maybe even in...
View ArticleSchool blamed for poor decision to kick media off sidelines
Earlier in November, Prep Rally wrote about the bizarre Georgia high school football playoff game where officials called a whopping 22 penalties in the course of a game and compounded that hyperactive...
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Hoops hazing back in crosshairs after disgusting Mass. incident
A disgusting act of hazing within a prominent high school basketball team in Massachusetts has refocused national attention on the role coaches should play in policing their teams' behavior, even when...
View ArticleWR’s game-winning TD includes hurdle, serious elusiveness
By all accounts, the game was an ugly one from start to finish. If anything, that may have made Tampa (Fla.) Gaither High wide receiver Carlo Perello's catch all the more remarkable. With his team...
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Texas coach commits suicide amidst sexual assault allegations
A football and track and field coach in Texas brought his life to a tragic and troubling end on Wednesday less than a day after he was placed on administrative leave for allegedly sexually assaulting a...
View ArticleStatistically speaking: Texas RB surprises critics, breaks record
Aledo (Texas) High running back Johnathan Gray has been rewriting the Texas high school football record books for the last couple of years. Earlier this season, Gray set the career scoring record,...
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