Texas school recalls all yearbooks after cheerleader is bullied in caption...
A school district in Texas took the rather drastic step of re-possessing the entire stock of the annual school yearbook because of a maliciously adapted caption underneath the school’s cheerleading...
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Georgia baseball team fires back-to-back state finalist coach for financial...
Team management has never been a problem for Chris Wilkins, who led the Greenbrier (Evans, Ga.) High baseball team to back-to-back state championship series the past two seasons, but apparently money...
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New Hampshire senior wins state title when foe walks off court and forfeits...
It may be the strangest way yet to win a state title. After taking the first set in the best-of-three New Hampshire girls tennis singles final, Bow (N.H.) High senior Sunday Swett was told that she had...
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Inspiring one-armed volleyball player passes away, but not until after one...
A wildly inspiring New York boys volleyball player passed away after a long fight with lung cancer on Tuesday, bringing an end to the touching saga of one teen’s determination to continue playing the...
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Public shame to kidnapping: How Devonta Pollard’s mother helped transform a...
The seeds of the kidnapping were sewn long before the 6-year-old disappeared from her Mississippi school.Devonta Pollard was already a household name in basketball recruiting circles heading into the...
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Wrestling coach cited for disorderly conduct for telling athletes to punch...
Flatulence is a fact of life. The human body is simply not efficient enough to completely eliminate it. There’s even a fantastic children’s book called “The Gas We Pass.” Evidently former Dallastown...
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Minnesota cheerleader arrested for prostituting 16-year-old teammate
Minnesota authorities charged an 18-year-old Minnetonka (Minn.) Hopkins High senior cheerleader with felony sex trafficking and promoting prostitution of a 16-year-old teammate this past March,...
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Lawsuit attempting to eliminate Native American mascots from Michigan falls...
There have been plenty of steps forward for those crusading to rid mascots that are insensitive to Native Americans in recent years. Now comes a collective step back. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of...
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No. 7 MLB draft pick Trey Ball unilaterally passed on big aluminum numbers to...
When his teammates connect for big hits, the ping is almost defeaning. When New Castle (Ind.) High star Trey Ball drives a ball deep, the resulting sound is more of a dull crack or even a thud. At...
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Record-setting Oregon high jumper is also a top fashion model — and the next...
Following in the footsteps of international sensation Leryn Franco and former teen pole vaulting sensation Allison Stokke, an Oregon prep high jumper is reaching new heights in both the high jump and...
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Kohl Stewart is so much more than the first prep player taken in the Major...
Kohl Stewart is awesome for many reasons, and the fact he was the first prep player taken in Thursday's Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft is just one of them. The Twins selected Stewart...
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Illinois athlete charged with disorderly conduct for exposing himself in...
Oh, those pesky prep pranksters. Sometimes they’re pulling stunts out of Animal House, sometimes they’re lazily pulling the old “snap my shorts!” trick, slipping their genitals out for all to see in...
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Freshman softball player saves state title win twice with wild over-the-fence...
What’s better than one over-the-fence, home run-stealing catch in a playoff game? How about two over-the-fence, home run-robbing catches by the same player? That’s precisely what happened in Minnesota,...
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Senior citizen sues private school after she was hit by soccer ball while...
A senior citizen near a prestigious high school in Nashville has filed one of the more extraordinary lawsuits of recent times, claiming that she was knocked unconscious by a soccer ball that errantly...
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Trayvon Bromell becomes first prep runner to eclipse 10 seconds in the...
Albeit with a heavy tailwind at his back, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Gibbs High senior Trayvon Bromell became the first prep runner to eclipse 10 seconds in the 100-meter dash. The Baylor-bound sprinter won...
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All those famous Texas prep baseball sons? They were drafted for sheer publicity
On the final day of the MLB First-Year Player Draft, the sons of three of the most famous former Houston Astros were all picked. The trio’s selection was met with applause and excitement, of the...
View ArticleImpromptu U-16 national team dunk contest is one of the best you’ll ever see
What happens when a group of the world’s most athletic 16-year-old basketball players have time to kill after a practice? Evidently they launch into a spontaneous dunk contest that could rival the best...
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The key to limiting sports head trauma may be here, and it’s not a new helmet
Generally, when concern about teen sports head trauma is discussed, critics focus on both the need for more proactive medical attention and improved sporting goods. Generally, the enumerated sporting...
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Nation’s best fencing teen must decide between Olympic glory and a...
On the one hand, there's the Olympics. On the other, Harvard. Each has its own merits for Oregon's Sage Palmedo, the nation's top fencing teen. It's a decision other 17-year-olds wouldn't mind facing,...
View ArticleCoach who hit youth football player on sidelines has charges against him...
In October, a Utah man received nation-wide attention after he took out a youth football player who encroached upon his sideline with a raised forearm. Readers here on Prep Rally and elsewhere were...
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