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Ironically, Cowboys could keep Jerry Jones from a record
Jerry Jones likes to set records. That's neither a newsflash nor a particularly unique development, particularly after Cowboys Stadium's Super Bowl debacle last February that unfolded in part because...
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Male cheerleader gets team disqualified … because he’s a boy
A male cheerleader in Michigan accidentally disqualified his squad from a recent cheerleading competition for the most basic of all reasons: He's a boy. Brandon Urbas is like many other American teens:...
View ArticleRare double-slam brings down rim in Georgia game
The season is only weeks old, and we have our first truly incredible slam of the season. When Decatur (Ga.) Columbia High forwards Jhaustin Thomas and Chris Horton both went up for a put-back dunk,...
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Freshman explodes for 55 points in just sixth varsity game
In California, a new star has emerged on the basketball court. In only his sixth varsity high school basketball game, Marcus LoVett Jr. scored an astounding 55 points (or 57 points, depending on which...
View ArticleStudents keep Tebowing, even after suspensions
On Sunday, Tim Tebow lost just his second game as the starting quarterback of the Denver Broncos. Days before, as first reported here at Prep Rally, a group of Long Island teens lost their own battle...
View ArticleVince Young meeting helped RB go from cancer to state finals
There was a time when Archie Taylor Jr. doubted whether he would ever play football again. At age 12, Taylor Jr. was diagnosed with lymphoma in his neck, a debilitating cancer diagnosis that left him...
View ArticleInstant Replay: Trophies and top teams officially crowned
It's over. Officially. After a frantic final weekend of playoff football action, the entire slate of high school state championships has been handed out. In the end, a team from Kentucky which finished...
View ArticleIncredible Mass. private school catch may be season’s best
Sometimes the best plays in the course of a football season get swept under the rug, lost amidst coaches' demands for game tape only to be resurrected after the season is complete. Often those plays...
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Florida RB’s post-title head gear just a bit over the top
State championship celebrations are usually times for restrained, honorable celebrations. Sometimes players are overcome with tears at the thought of a long season of accomplishments coming to an end....
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Texas incidents may prove it’s time for prep instant replay
The rampant spread of televised high school football has had enormous consequences. For regional television networks, it's meant the generation of loads of content that never existed before. For prep...
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Indiana bill would bring back Hooisers-style state tourney
Indiana high school basketball currently has a four-classification state tournament system in place, but if political officials have their way, that could all be coming to an end in the coming months....
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Holiday spirit fails to halt high school hazing in N.C.
It may be the holiday season, but that doesn't mean high school athletes have stopped acting up. Rather, it just makes the latest case of disturbing prep sports hazing a little harder to stomach....
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Terrifying N.Y. hoops attack leaves student in critical condition
In one of the more disturbing incidents of in-school violence in recent years, a 15-year-old Brooklyn student was repeatedly stabbed in the head with a pair of scissors by a classmate after an argument...
View ArticleIncredible City of Palms pass transcends any traditional description
There are great passes, and then there are the legendary dimes. The pass offered up by Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei High senior point guard Katin Reinhardt, below, falls squarely in the latter...
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Minnesota school charges students just to try out for teams
Across the past year, school districts nationwide have either instituted or explored charging participation fees for student athletes as a way to raise more funds for struggling public school budgets....
View ArticleGeorgia school overcomes hunger to claim state title
Usually, when an analyst says that a team was hungry for a state title, they mean that in a figurative sense. In the case of the Burke County (Ga.) High football team, that phrase meant something quite...
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Mike Brown’s household member eligible in time for holidays
Just in time for the holidays, the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section showed a rare flash of good cheer, officially clearing Nirra Fields to compete for national power Santa Ana...
View ArticleForward blows nation’s top recruit a kiss after dunking on him
It's not every day that the nation's best high school hoops prospect gets embarrassed on a dunk in a nationally hyped game. When that actually happened on Wednesday, the player who threw down the slam...
View ArticleHeroic football player stops potentially lethal teacher attack
By all accounts, the attack looked like it would be lethal. In the moments after the school bell rang, a 40-year-old teacher brutally attacked a fellow teacher. With screwdriver blows from English...
View ArticleHazing incident leads to disbanding of entire team
A hazing incident in North Carolina has led to the drastic decision to cancel a team's entire season. As reported by MyFox8.com and the Greensboro News & Record, High Point (N.C.) T.W. Andrews High...
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