These kids throw down the best (or worst) dunks you’ll see all day
All Prep Rally could think of when it saw the YouTube title "James vs. James dunk contest" was a take off of the Chris Paul/Cliff Paul State Farm insurance ad, where LeBron is competing against himself...
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When Philly-area pitcher leaves mound, he swaps places with best friend...
In high school baseball games, it’s traditional for pitchers to take the field when they leave the mound. Usually they head for corner spots on the infield or an outfield role. Not at Burlington...
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Columbine lacrosse team visits Newtown to offer empathetic support
Call it invigorated empathy or love with lacrosse. Whichever, two schools in Colorado and Connecticut find themselves inextricably bonded by the most horrific of ordeals: A tragic school mass shooting....
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Zayd Issah, Penn State football recruit, arrested for using counterfeit bills...
One of the key in-state recruits from Penn State’s incoming class finds himself in serious hot water for what can only be considered a truly, truly dumb decision: He tried to pay with fake money at...
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Jahlil Okafor is the top junior basketball prospect in the nation, so why...
Jahlil Okafor is the nation’s top junior basketball prospect, a Chicago phenom waiting to ascend the national hype throne once Jabari Parker departs for college once and for all. Yet, for all Okafor’s...
View ArticleAlabama prep basketball stars film service message calling for peace in...
Things are not going well in Birmingham, Alabama. On March 18, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead at Railroad Park in the city’s downtown section. The teen, Jarmaine Walton, had been shot in the head in...
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16-year-old Japanese prep sensation throws 232 pitches in a single game
Get Dr. James Andrews on line one. The surgeon who's performed almost every famous ligament surgery over the past decade might have a future client in Tomohiro Anraku, a 16-year-old Japanese pitching...
View ArticleMissy Franklin earns scuba license for charitable film, calls water the great...
The “Missy Franklin really is a good person” crusade continues apace. Now that the teen phenom is finished swimming competitively, at least on the high school level, she’s taking to the water for a...
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Metrodome hosts 3 a.m. game for prep teams desperate for a field
The baseball season can often feel like it comes too soon, on the heels of winter and snow. Yet, with winter stretching ever later in recent years, and with high school baseball seasons required to...
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Southerland family celebrates Girls Athlete of the Year honor, Final Four...
It’s been a very good month for the Southerland family. First, on Thursday, Sabrina Southerland, a senior at Queens (N.Y.) Benjamin Cardozo High, was named the 2013 Girls Athlete of the Year by the...
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Georgia sophomore loses perfect game to rare illegal pitch calls
Perfect games are more common in high school than college or the major leagues, but they’re still notable, once-in-a-career experiences. That’s why a major controversy has erupted in Georgia, where a...
View ArticleIn high school, Michigan sharpshooter Nik Stauskas made 102 3-pointers in...
It turns out Nik Stauskas is the Canadian Jimmy Chitwood. The star of Michigan's 79-59 blowout of Florida in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, Stauskas developed his sharpshooting skills in high...
View ArticleLongtime youth football coach charged with performing lewd act in front of...
Shock waves were sent through the Orlando youth sports community when one of its longest serving coaches was arrested on charges of performing a lewd act in front of one of his athletes. As reported by...
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Triplet stars from ‘Baby Genuises’ are headed to play college hockey together
This might be the most entertaining thing to happen to college hockey since … well, maybe ever. In Canada, a group of triplets committed together to attend Bemidji State, the small state university in...
View ArticleStunning two-touch, 30-yard volley off a ricochet might be the soccer goal of...
It's still early, but this may very well be the prep soccer goal of the season. The video you see above comes from a Georgia boys soccer match between Clarke Central (Ga.) High and Flowery Branch...
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Florida softball pitcher makes a run at Japanese stats, tosses 217 pitches in...
In the final days of March, a Japanese pitcher received international attention -- from here at Prep Rally and elsewhere -- for a remarkable yet likely dangerous performance during the winter Koshien...
View ArticleAndrew Wiggins throws down ridiculous ‘Reverse 360 Eastbay’ during McDonald...
Ladies and Gentlemen, Andrew Wiggins is ridiculous. The top prospect in the Class of 2013, Wiggins, a senior from Canada, may have successfully thrown down one of the best dunk contest slams of all...
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Homeschooled in Tennessee? Now you can be a high school athlete, too.
As reported by the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, the House of Representatives of the state of Tennessee approved a new measure that will require all public schools to allow home schooled athletes to...
View ArticleBrooklyn senior becomes lefty volleyball standout after cancer claimed his...
As a prep volleyball junior last season, Eddie Nogay emerged as one of the premier right-handed middle hitters in New York City's Public Schools Athletic League. This season, the 17-year-old Fort...
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Iowa teen’s lawsuit against football coach alleges team bullying caused brain...
In November, Prep Rally brought you the story of Bedford (Ia.) High freshman Kacey Strough, who had to undergo dramatic surgery to try and save him from a blod clot near his brain stem. At the time,...
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