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High school football gets off to a wild midnight start in Florida and Texas
In Florida and Texas, they don't need to wait for late October to enjoy Midnight Madness anymore. Now true sports fans can head to a high school field on an August night and watch the start of fall...
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Camp Kilpatrick, nation’s only detention center with sanctioned high school...
A legendary high school sports program at a juvenile detention center that inspired a major 2006 movie is facing its final season of operation, after the Los Angeles County Probation Department decided...
View ArticleJack Jablonski crawls, defying predictions of complete paralysis
He's not walking yet, but paralyzed Minnesota teen Jack Jablonski is already doing far, far more than doctors thought he ever would. As reported by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press...
View ArticleIllinois teen Daniel Lule dies after collapsing during team’s first day of...
Summer heat appears to have claimed another prep football life on Wednesday, when 17-year-old Daniel Lule, a junior at Spring Valley (Ill.) Hall High School, collapsed and died following the football...
View Article38 years later, high school football coach returns his wife’s class ring,...
When Tim Brunnel was a California high schooler, he lost his girlfriend Nancy Den Dulk's class ring. The cause of the jewelry's disappearance was innocent enough; Brunnel and Den Dulk exchanged class...
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Federal court rules once and for all that cheerleading is not a real sport
Is cheerleading a sport? The question holds an eternal position in the pantheon of great sports debates, with advocates of both sides incredibly vocal about their beliefs. Now there is an official...
View ArticleOklahoma team opens football practice on field charred by wildfires
A drought throughout Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle set the stage for dramatic droughts that led to wildfires which have scorched much of the Sooner state. As it happens, those fires have coincided...
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California squad reaches Little League World Series on controversial missed...
When it comes to youth sports, the Little League World Series serves as the absolute pinnacle of pre-teen accomplishment. It pulls in the best youth baseball all-star teams from across the world. It's...
View ArticleThe new concussion preventer: Funky looking gel caps over helmets
Across the past few years, two health issues have cast a significant shadow over the prep football landscape: Heat-related deaths and escalating concussion numbers. Across the nation, a number of...
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Believe it or not, the high school football season is already underway in...
Are you ready for some football? If you're living in Alaska or Hawaii, you've already got some, and there is plenty more on the way. Ready or not, the 2012 prep football season has begun. Across the...
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Florida coach fired for sending nude photos to teen 2 months after his...
A Florida color guard coach was fired after it was revealed that he sent nude photos of himself to a male student. That act in itself is more than a fireable offense, but it was made more startling by...
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Deion Sanders names absurd new mascot for his school: “Winning”
Deion Sanders has always been among the most bragadocious members of the football family, whether as a player or media member. Still, even he might have outdone himself when deciding on the mascot of...
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NCAA investigates Reuben Foster for Auburn switch while his mom plans to get...
Reuben Foster, a senior linebacker at Auburn (Ala.) High, is one of the top two football recruits in the country. When he recently shifted his verbal commitment from Alabama to archrival Auburn, it was...
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Reuben Foster met with Alabama officials, not the NCAA, about eligibility issues
Earlier on Tuesday, Prep Rally and other sources like USA Today followed up on reports from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other sources which claimed that high school senior and uber-recruit...
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Soccer coach calls it quits after school lets field named in his honor...
Ashley Yudin was looking forward to the upcoming season. The Davis (Calif.) High boys soccer coach, who led the team to six Sac-Joaquin Section titles during his tenure, was hoping to going out on a...
View Article300-pound Texas 12-year-old ruled too big to play Pee Wee football
They say that everything is bigger in Texas. Apparently that includes youth football players. As first reported by Dallas-Fort Worth Fox affiliate KDFW, 12-year-old Mesquite resident Elijah Earnheart...
View ArticleRidiculous Football Friday promo video shows prep football fever is...
If a recently filmed promo for one Cleveland TV station's weekly Football Friday prep football review show is any indication, Northeast Ohio may be mounting a serious challenge to Texas when it comes...
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California school using 1,000 pounds of ice per week on ice baths for summer...
In case you didn't notice, it's pretty hot outside across most of America. At the same time, America's high school football programs are springing back into action with summer training practices, some...
View ArticleFormer softball coach sentenced to 17 years in jail after secretly...
A high school softball coach was sentenced to 17 years in jail after being convicted on some of the more disturbing charges imaginable: He secretly videotaped his players while they changed in the...
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Steelers LB Lamarr Woodley singlehandedly wipes out pay-to-play fees in...
Professional athletes love to say that they are doing something for the communities they came from, yet those efforts are sometimes much more talk than actual action. Steelers linebacker Lamarr Woodley...
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