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Utah teacher (and coach) accused of object rape of 17-year-old student
Courtney Jarrell was placed in two positions of strong authority at Jordan (Utah) Riverton High: teaching math and leading the sophomore team in the girls basketball program. In a disturbing turn, it...
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The baseball field in the nation’s most densely populated town is 4 stories...
Usually, when an outfielder runs through or over the fence in pursuit of a potential home run, they are greeted with gusto when they return to the dugout. If an outfielder attempted to do that on the...
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California baseball team manager hits two home runs in first ever game action
Sometimes when a team needs a lift, it turns to its bench. In the case of the Mira Costa (Cal.) High baseball team, it just had to look farther down the bench than most … like to the guy filling the...
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Illinois facing complete elimination of all sports because of state gridlock...
Imagine a major high school without any athletic program. Pretty soon you won’t have to imagine, it will be the actual case at one school outside St. Louis. As reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, the...
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A Minnesotan’s idea of hazing leads to a guilty plea for sexual assault
One man's hazing is another man's sexual assault. Former Browerville (Minn.) High football and basketball standout Seth Kellen discovered that the hard way. The 19-year-old pled guilty to fourth-degree...
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Identical Gale twins’ only pole vault rivals in Florida are each other
Emily Gale is one of the nation’s top pole vaulters. The senior at Miami (Fl.) Calvary Christian School is the reigning Florida Class 1A state champion in the event. Throughout her senior year, she has...
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Andrew Benintendi sets Ohio career runs record, nears career hits mark
It’s one record down, one to go for Ohio slugger Andrew Benintendi. Benintendi, a five-tool player for Madeira (Oh.) High, set a new Ohio state record for career runs when he scored three times...
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Small California school’s student-athletes sell worms to pay for senior events
Prep Rally isn't entirely sure why we love this story so much, but it's great. Maybe because it's small town high school culture at its best. Sell worms, rent a beach house. Smart. Simple. Special. In...
View ArticleFlorida girls basketball coach charged with soliciting sex from student
A high school girls basketball coach in Florida was fired after being charged with soliciting sexual favors from a student at the school at which he worked. As reported by Orlando Fox affiliate WFTV...
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Donovan McNabb’s nephew is a top draft prospect … for the NHL, not NFL
When he was tearing apart defenses for the Philadelphia Eagles, it was easy to daydream about how his athleticism might carry over, either to his future progeny or other members of the extended McNabb...
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Now starring as prep football’s pre-eminent coach in Hollywood: Jesus Christ...
Bob Ladouceur is a high school coaching legend. A 34-year veteran of the sidelines at Concord (Cal.) De La Salle High, the recently-retired Ladouceur is among the nation’s winningest and most revered...
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Virginia baseball team honors disabled student manager with a special varsity...
Student managers hold a special place in the heart of American prep sports. They are the dedicated athletes who don’t compete, those who are relegated to handing out towels and dealing with Gatorade...
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California man arrested for firing gun at father leaving a t-ball game
It’s just the latest case of youth sports parents gone bad, but it’s a particularly disturbing one: A man is accused of shooting at the father of a California Little League t-ball division player as...
View ArticleTexas base runner scores on most creative botched suicide squeeze of all time
Usually, a squeeze play only gets attention when it works. This one didn’t, but the runner still scored anyway. All the credit for that goes to the runner, who pulled off one of the more ingenious...
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Two entire teams ejected, one parent charged with assault after enormous prep...
A nasty brawl between two New Jersey rivals has left both teams’ seasons and a parent in police custody after both teams had their entire rosters ejected. The unseemly incident erupted in Little...
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New Jersey prep wrestling legend arrested on felony drug charges
Andrew Campolattano lost just once in his entire New Jersey prep wrestling career. Over the weekend, he equaled that total off the mat, getting arrested on felony drug charges. Campolattano and 15...
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Mary Cain sets another ridiculous record at Drake Relays
Mary Cain just keeps running along. Indoor, outdoor, it doesn’t matter, if you put the teen on a track, she’s ready to set a record. The latest national mark in Cain’s evolving storied career came at...
View ArticleA blind pole vaulter qualified for the Arizona state track and field...
One would think just surviving life would be difficult enough when one is blind. It is, yet that hasn’t stopped Arizona teen Aria Ottmueller from challenging herself to do things that most...
View ArticleGeorgia hoops coach fired for allowing students to film Harlem Shake video in...
Lithonia (Ga.) High is looking for a new boys basketball coach. The search became necessary after the school’s previous coach, Barry Browner, was fired on Friday for one of the strangest reasons...
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Racial brouhaha erupts in Chicago after South Side baseball game is allegedly...
A major race row has emerged in Chicago, where a high school baseball game between two public schools scheduled for an evening start time was postponed because one school’s parents were allegedly...
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