Austin Rivers, son of Celtics coach Doc Rivers, is quite the basketball standout of the Orlando area. So it should please many Gator fans in and around central Florida that the Winter Park product has announced his intentions to play for Billy Donovan’s squad.

But Austin will have to wait a few years before packing his […]

Bessemer Academy has been a recent powerhouse in Alabama high school football. The Rebels have claimed four of the past six state championships, won 51 of their last 52 games, and are currently on a 26-game winning streak. So why was head coach Mark Freeman let go last month?

The BIRMINGHAM NEWS reports on the controversial […]

Two-time Arizona state high school golf champion Cheyenne Woods, the niece of Tiger Woods, has decided to attend Wake Forest University. Her bloodlines are apparent physically and on the course where Cheyenne has won the American Junior Golf Association Nike Golf Junior, the Big I Junior Classic and two U.S. Kids Golf World Championships.

Cheyenne’s interest […]

The University Interscholastic League in Texas is the owner of the largest steroid testing program in the nation. The tests aren’t for professional athletes or cattle instead high school students are randomly sampled for ‘roids.

The steroid testing program was approved by the Texas Legislature which allotted $6 million over two years to the UIL. The […]

We’ve always been told that organized sports provides structure for youth and gives them the ability to become more self-assertive and responsible. However, we can’t imagine the football coach at Syracuse High School in Syracuse, UT, ever suspected his football players would be responsible for this.

(Endless Summer robbery turns into cruel summer for high school […]

All teachers know that time and task management are the most difficult subjects to convey to high schoolers. Keeping track of every deadline and deliverable can stagger the best students and crush a disorganized one.
We can only imagine that was the object lesson an Alabama middle school teacher meant to teach when she worked […]

Steve Halpin, who coached Mesquite (TX) High School’s football team to the 2001 Class 5A title, resigned as the president of the Texas High School Coaches Association Thursday and will resign as head coach today after pawning school equipment to pay for his gambling problem.

The computers and cameras would disappear for a few days and […]

I realize these “alleged lesbian high school coach of the year gets with underage student love affair” stories are getting old, so bear with us.

Former Texas high school coach Dayna Crenshaw, 33, has been charged with a second-class felony count of Mark Chmura.

We don’t know if there’s enough to hang one’s hat on in this CHARLESTON POST AND COURIER story about Hollywood sniffing around the story of Louis Mulkey, the Charleston firefighter that lost his life in the furniture store fire that took eight of his fellow firefighters as well in 2007. We just wanted an […]

WALKOFF WALK tosses along this intriguing story about an umpire who took a pitch to the grill during a high school baseball game.

What’s unusual is that the ump may have been plunked on purpose.
(Video of the high school hit after the jump.)