Mass. team ‘cheated’ of title honored by Boston sports heroes
Sometimes it's good to finish as second best. Just like the Boston (Mass.) Cathedral High football team. Weeks after falling short in a state title game after a controversial penalty negated a...
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Ohio team loses shoes, warm ups in bus fire en route to tourney
It wasn't the kind of easy bus ride that the Cincinnati (Ohio) Aiken High boys basketball team was expecting. After leaving Ohio for a trip to Memphis to play in the Lynx Holiday Classic, the team's...
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Coach has players do all coaching, team loses by a bucket
In theory, it was a great idea. The problem came when the result didn't go the way Seattle (Wash.) Franklin High basketball coach Jason Kerr expected. As reported by the Seattle Times' Mason Kelley,...
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Sisters denied multiple sports chance claim sexual discrimination
Shelbi and Erin Barbour had aspirations of being dual-sport athletes at Opelousas (La.) High. They had every right to play two sports -- the school's rules allow all student-athletes to play a maximum...
View ArticleWashington teen doubles as wrestling star, pageant princess
At this point, it isn't completely revolutionary for a female football player to also gain honors as part of a school's homecoming court, an honor traditionally decided based almost solely on concerns...
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Statistically speaking: Prep title games outdraw college bowls
On Saturday, the college football bowl season kicked off with three offerings: the New Orleans Bowl, the New Mexico Bowl and Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Two of those three games were tight contests,...
View ArticleInterTubing: Tis’ the season for holiday highlights galore
Ho ho whoa there! It's Christmas -- and Hanukkah (or Chanukah, depending on your preference) and Kwanzaa, for that matter -- already? How could we be through half of the scholastic sporting season this...
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After leg amputation, QB’s spirit inspires even Tebow
It would have been easy for Jacob Rainey to get down on himself. After all, the senior quarterback had undergone the kind of nightmare transformation that most would dare not even let enter their...
View ArticleTop forward flattens defender with dunk, is immediately ejected
You probably don't know Justise Winslow yet. It might be worth getting to learn the name, especially if he continues to produce incredible feats of athleticism like the preposterous slam you see below....
View ArticleBasketball teams get into massive brawl after fan shoves coach
We've highlighted a couple of nasty high school brawls this year on Prep Rally, but the one that occurred between Baltimore's ConneXions School for the Arts and Washington, D.C.'s Cardozo Academy could...
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Championship football coaches continued despite drug charges
Two coaches from a California state championship football team have found themselves under fire for continuing in their jobs after engaging in activities that would never have been allowed among their...
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Teen banned from playing after coach’s samaritan act
This is supposed to be the season of forgiveness and patience. Evidently someone forgot to tell that to the Marmonte League in the California Interscholastic Federation's Southern Section. As first...
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Controversial Miss. basketball coach forced to step down again
Marlon Dorsey has been in the national headlines over the last couple of years, but the stories have been far from positive. Just last season, Dorsey was in the news for whipping his basketball players...
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Rather than cut sports, tiny Okla. town adds football program
Across the nation, school districts are cutting back on the athletic department offerings, attempting to slim budgets by limiting the amount of sports they have to subsidize. Yet, in the midst of that...
View ArticleSixth grader torching top high school talent at N.C. prep school
He is 12, stands 5-foot-4 and weighs just 120 pounds. He looks like any other kid on a middle school bus. Still, don't let the sixth grader-next-door image fool you: Damon Harge is rapidly gaining a...
View ArticleArizona teen excels at baseball, football with only one arm
Like a lot of kids, Keith Rutledge grew up dreaming of being a two-sport athlete in high school. With a little practice and hark work, the junior at Mesa Skyline (Arizona) High turned his dream into a...
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In odd twist, school decides own athlete broke transfer rules
Usually, when a player is ruled ineligible, the decision to rule he or she out is made by a governing body, and is done so after attempts by the school to make the athlete eligible, if at all possible....
View ArticleCould John Calipari be the next Dick Vitale? The ears say yes
There's little doubt that Kentucky coach John Calipari knows what he'll doing for some years to come, whether it be at Kentucky or another location. The man is a heck of a coach, and not a bad...
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Proposed sports merger of rival schools has parents seeing red
Rivalry games are part of what make sports so great, but if West Shore (Penn.) School District has its way, one of the top high school rivalries in the state could cease to exist in the future. As ABC...
View ArticleLooking back: The top-10 prep sports plays of the year
By midnight, we'll all be within the final 48 hours of 2011, which can only mean one thing: There's no time like the present to reflect on the most impressive plays of the past 12 months in all of prep...
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