California HS basketball standout breaks the rim on windmill dunk
Jordan Bell was a household name in high school basketball circles before this week, but if you weren't familiar with the Long Beach Poly (Calif.) power forward's game ... well let's just say this...
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Texas QB leads team to state title by playing with broken leg
Much is made about toughness in the face of injury and a player’s ability to play through pain. It’s one thing to expect professionals to come through regardless of pain, but it’s another thing...
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North Carolina team donates more than 500 toys for annual holiday charity drive
It’s always heartwarming to see a team rally around a charitable cause to celebrate the holidays together. One program in North Carolina has made a tradition of just such activity, with the Smithfield...
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Michigan prep sports teams adopt families for the holiday season
Tis the season for charitable work, even among high school athletes. More specifically, a whole crop of high school teams in Michigan have stepped forward to provide gifts and services for their less...
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Innovative Montana prep basketball fans travel to away game on snowmobiles
Here’s a riddle: You’re in Wyoming, and face a rather roundabout trip to your team’s away basketball game, which will cause you to detour more than an hour out of the way through Bozeman. Yet you don’t...
View ArticleFlorida slam dunk contest features both a dunk over 6-foot-7 and 6-foot-11...
Of all the impressive dunk contests each year, few produce a more impressive and complete collection of dunks than the City of Palms Classic, a Florida invitational that typically hosts many of the...
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Computer hacking vigilantes target Ohio prep football program for alleged...
For months, a small, sleepy Ohio town with a major football program has been wrapped in a major controversy surrounding the actions of a group of the town’s prized football players. Precisely how many...
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Police in riot gear needed to break up parental brawl at California youth...
A disturbing incident unfolded in Southern California when a youth football game devolved into a massive brawl involving the parents of both teams, eventually requiring police officers in riot gear to...
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Oklahoma homeschooled sophomore scores 64 points in key hoops victory
In the past, Allonzo Trier has earned headlines mostly for his age; he first burst on to the scene as a 13-year-old middle schooler. Now he’s earning plenty of attention for his own high school feats...
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California baseball power being investigated by LAPD for excessive toilet...
One of the top academic schools in the Los Angeles area faces a unique controversy surrounding its standout baseball team: The players keep toilet papering each others' houses, to a point where local...
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Florida youth soccer coach ejected for giving team instructions in Spanish
A youth soccer league in Florida finds itself in hot water after the coach for one of the league’s teams was ejected from a recent game for a rather inappropriate reason: He was shouting instructions...
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N.J. hockey goalie records astounding 74 saves in 11-2 loss
When a prep hockey team loses by the score of 11-2, its traditional for every player on the losing roster to come in for plenty of criticism. That wasn’t the case for Rockaway (N.J.) Morris Hills, who...
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Ten-year-old Luis 'Moose' Lowery is a big budding football star in the...
Meet Luis "Moose" Lowery, your typical football-loving 10-year-old. He enjoys watching "The Blind Side," cheering on Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher and playing football on the weekends...
View ArticleControversial forced botched snap leads to state title victory
State titles often come down to a single play, and the importance of those plays are only emphasized when they come on special teams. Yet in one Texas state title game, the victorious squad may have...
View ArticleWild Utah buzzer beater leads to even wilder court rushing celebration
‘Tis the season for buzzer beaters, even those of the intensely unlikely variety. Case in point: The game-winner you see below, from a pitched Utah faceoff between Kaysville (Utah) Davis High and East...
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Minnesota prep hoops star Anders Broman breaks state career scoring record...
Anders Broman is a stand-alone talent. No one is disputing that. After all, there aren't many players who can score 71 points in a high school game, let alone in one of his team's losses. What people...
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Prep cross country star uses holiday break to travel from Death Valley to...
No matter what you did over the holiday break, there is almost no chance that your accomplishments can compete with what a young cross country runner from Missoula, Montana did. In the span of 48...
View ArticleMontana school hits three separate buzzer beaters in wild overtime win
What's better than one dramatic buzzer beater? Three crazy buzzer beaters, all by the same team, in a wild overtime victory. That's precisely what played out in Montana earlier in December, with the...
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Former high school hoops coach arrested for running Madoff-like Ponzi scheme
It turns out Ponzi schemes aren’t just for the big league boys anymore; they’re being perpetrated by high school coaches, too. As reported by the Naples Daily News and a variety of other Florida news...
View ArticleTake a look back at the best dunks and top plays from 2012
We're less than 24 hours away from saying so long to 2012 and welcoming 2013 with open arms. But before we start fresh on Tuesday, it only seems right that we take a look back at some of the best...
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