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Last we checked in with the "Piggyback Bandit," a little over two years ago, he was terrorizing the state of Washington, lurking around libraries and gyms and stealing piggyback rides from unsuspecting athletes. More »
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The Springfield (Ore.) Times is where you should go for this news: More »
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This weekend, freshly minted adults will have awkward high school reunions all across America. We asked you for your reunion horror stories, and picked four of the best. This one comes from Bobby. More »
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This weekend, freshly minted adults will have awkward high school reunions all across America. We asked you for your reunion horror stories, and picked four of the best. This one comes from Matt. More »
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This weekend, freshly minted adults will have awkward high school reunions all across America. We asked you for your reunion horror stories, and picked four of the best. This one comes from Andrew. More »
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This weekend, freshly minted adults will have awkward high school reunions all across America. We asked you for your reunion horror stories, and picked four of the best. This one comes from RDM. More »
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Derek Jeter attended Kalamazoo Central High School in the early nineties, where he was a two-sport athlete, a "royal couple" in the Winterfest Court, and a computer lab tutor (we can only surmise that it was still safe for the star jock to be a computer geek because nobody really knew what computers were at the time—can you imagine what the media would have done with a Bryce Harper computer tutor?). Here's Derek in his freshman year, when glory was but a distant pinstripe on his Cosby sweater. More »
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Before you click play, know that she goes down on the final hurdle. The anticipation will be dreadful. More »
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This weekend, Keller High School defeated Arlington Martin 9-3 in the Texas State Championship. The game was a blow-out, and it didn't really get interesting until it ended in three separate fights on the ice, one of which resulted in a broken jaw and a grade three concussion. More »
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On his way to leading Springfield Hillcrest to the Missouri state championship, Trey Starks took some time to jump over a much taller opponent for a vicious dunk. It's a recurring thing for him. H/t David K. for the video. More »
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I mean, sure, he can beat the best in the NBA. But could he take on this white high school kid, who's about the same height as the Knick guard? More »
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Your high school football team gives up a field goal with six seconds left in the sectional championship game, leaving them down by two. In an unlikely sensational turn of events, the ensuing kickoff is returned 50 yards for a game-winning touchdown with no time on the clock. Just as the celebration rolls through the stands, you realize your team has stopped jumping excitedly. Why, what could have caused them to... oh, the referee blew his whistle inadvertently and ended the game before the run took place. So sorry, Vacaville (CA) Christian High School! Them's the breaks. More »
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Here are Nick Montana, Trevor Gretzky and Trey Smith, all of whom play football at Oaks Christian High in Westlake Village, near Los Angeles, and whose rather famous fathers don't have much trouble paying the school's annual $21,640 tuition, I'm guessing. If you want to witness a hilarious sight on a Friday night, check out an Oaks home game, where more people are watching the stands than what's happening on the field. It's the only high school snack bar that sells autograph pens. Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky and Will Smith are usually in attendance, with an occasional Tom Cruise thrown in for laughs (he's friends with Gretzky). This all makes Oaks Christian the LA Lakers of prep sports, only without so much Jeremy Piven. You of course know this small Christian school as having produced Jimmy Clausen — what, you don't? — and Marc Tyler, son of former LA Rams and SF 49ers running back Wendell Tyler. Montana, a junior, transferred from De La Salle in Concord, Calif., this fall and is now the starting quarterback. Sophomores Gretzky, also a QB, and Smith, a receiver, are on the junior varsity. All of this has earned the school the nickname Celebrity High, and has also helped make it the pariah of SoCal prep football. The only private school in the Tr-Valley League, Oaks Christian has won five consecutive Southern Section championships and is 8-0 this season, having outscored opponents 378-41. The Lions have won their past three league games by scores of 61-0, 56-0, and 54-0. Not exactly in the spirit of balanced team athletics, according to the league, which wants them out. The only problem is that Oaks has nowhere to go; no other nearby league will take them, due to the fact that Oaks gives partial scholarships (recruiting is such an ugly word). It's estimated that 25 percent of their players receive some sort of financial aid. If the Steinbrenners lived on the west coast, this is the school their children would attend. I checked out a game a couple of weeks ago and Oaks went up 14-0 while I was parking. Here's the exciting halftime result. Montana hit receivers at will; which may be difficult at the next level, because he's kind of small. He's listed as 6-foot-2 in the program that the aggressive child actor in the stands sold me, but that's being way generous. At any rate there is zero competition here for him; but more than he would have had at De La Salle watching from the bench. The abilities of Gretzky are unknown ... why isn't he playing hockey again? And as for you, Smith, tell your dad he owes me $10.50 for Hancock you fucker. Oaks Christian In No-Win Situation [RivalsHigh] Clausen, Oaks Christian Lighting Up Defenses [USA Today] Photo Gallery [Los Angeles Times] More »
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