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Relaxed relationship rules are encouraging NCAA programs to steal the best...
There are a number of new recruiting rules that should have a profound effect on how colleges are able to connect with athletes in the future. While most press attention has focused on the ability of...
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High school baseball game ‘a travesty’ after 65-0 score in 3 innings
Words like “travesty” don’t usually apply to a high school baseball game. They do when the final score of that game is 65-0. As first noted by the Newark Advocate, a newspaper in Ohio, and followed...
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Football star takes special needs student to senior prom and couple named...
Cecil Bratton will spend the 2013 football season lining up along the defensive line for Missouri State. For now, he’s still the big man on campus at St. Joseph (Mo.) Central High, and he’s making sure...
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High school football coach’s son injured in Boston Marathon blasts, but...
Alan Hern is a strong man, and a football coach of principle. Now his entire universe is being challenged due to an event that has forever changed one of America’s proudest cities. When two explosions...
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Legendary NJ football coach and AD dies after working out at local gym
A longtime New Jersey football coach and athletic director tragically passed away while doing precisely what he preached to his athletes: Working out and staying in shape. As reported by the Asbury...
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13-year-old, 7th grade girls basketball player makes college commitment already
Katlyn Gilbert is a wildly talented girls basketball player. That much is not in question. What is surprising is what she's been up to lately. Unlike her seventh grade classmates, Gilbert has been...
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Maryland prep baseball player throws no-hitter with full use of only one arm
When Greg Hauck joined Cal Ripken's youth baseball league in the Baltimore area 12 years ago, the Orioles legend noticed the then 6-year-old's immobile right arm and encouraged him to look up Jim...
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California senior hits 4 home runs in game that he hits his career first
It’s fair to say that Richard Samudio is not a power hitter. The San Pedro (Ca.) High senior first baseman entered the recent San Fernando Baseball Tournament with a grand total of zero career home...
View ArticleMatt Hasselbeck donates $8,000 to Indiana high school thanks to a deep 3 from...
Matt Hasselbeck will get to wear his traditional number 8 when he joins the Colts, yet he is not the true winner of the debate for number 8 in Indianapolis. Rather, that honor would belong to Norwell...
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California baseball team has had to deal with 11 rattlesnakes on field since...
Forget tough pitching matchups, the Valencia (Ca.) West Ranch High baseball team has much more harrowing concerns. Rattlesnakes, for instance. Yes, rattlesnakes. The West Ranch field is apparently...
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High school golfers know USGA rules better than Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods may not have realized his drop on the 15th hole would cost him a couple strokes and a better shot at a 15th major championship at this past weekend's Masters, but plenty of high school...
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California slugger sets state record with 3 home runs in a single inning
Ted Williams is one of the best hitters of all time, at any level. Is it possible that one California teen may be even better? By at least one statistical measure, Woodside (Cal.) High junior Brad...
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Erin Dimeglio, Florida’s female varsity quarterback darling, wins national...
Throughout the fall season, Erin Dimeglio captured the nation’s attention as she boldly went where no girl had gone before, lining up at quarterback for a Florida varsity high school football team. In...
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Mississippi star Silento Sayles stole national record 103 bases in a single...
Over the course of a full season in any sport, Prep Rally tends to note some fairly remarkable statistics. Few, if any, can match what hit the radar in Mississippi. That's where Silento Sayles, a...
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USC offers Snoop Lion’s son a scholarship, setting off a cross-town battle...
The battle is on for Cordell Broadus, the son of Snoop Lion, nee Snoop Dogg. After a strong sophomore season in which he earned attention from the likes of Florida State and bona fide scholarship...
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Texas girls soccer goalie misses out on senior state finals run to practice...
The conflict between club and country has long been a major flashpoint in European professional story. Now, it appears that it may be matched here in the U.S., where at least one school that was a...
View ArticleSeventh Woods, a 14-year-old freshman, has a hoops highlight reel you won’t...
Seventh Woods is 14 years old. His name is awesome, and so are his basketball skills. If there's a better prep freshman in the nation, Prep Rally would like to see him. At 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, Woods...
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Steubenville renews controversial football coach’s contract for two years
In a move that absolutely defies belief, the Steubenville (Ohio) School Board decided to buck public pressure and agree to a new two-year contract with longtime football coach Reno Saccoccia with...
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Washington softball senior has thrown six straight no-hitters and holds state...
Few athletes in history have been on the kind of roll that Ashley Thompson finds herself in the midst of. A senior at Connell (Wash.) High, Thompson has thrown six consecutive no-hitters – and seven...
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D.C. area ballplayers get walk-up music, make freshman enter to Taylor Swift...
Why did walk-up music become a thing in high school baseball? Because it's great. Most songs selected by Nokesville (Va.) Patriot High ballplayers when they step into the batter's box are what you...
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