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High School Students Chant "We Want Slurpees" At Indian Basketball Player
A group of students chanted "We want Slurpees" while a player of Indian descent shot free throws at a high school basketball game last Friday....
High School Basketball Player Makes A Wild, Unintentional Bounce Shot
Logan Jurgensmeier of Hinton (Iowa) was only trying to keep the ball in play against Sioux City West (Iowa), but his bad bounce pass turned into an accidental two points when it kissed off of the rim and spun in. Jurgensmeier looks as baffled as the rest of us....
Potential Game-Winning Shot Sits On The Rim...<em>Forever</em>
This is Grandview (Wash.) trying to break a tie in the closing seconds of Saturday's game. Bryce Carpenter goes for the layup in transition, and hits only stasis....
Prep Star Who Survived Two Plane Crashes Returns To Court In Style
Austin Hatch, a 6-foot-6 senior forward who plays for Loyola High School in Los Angeles, Calif., hasn't played basketball since surviving a 2011 plane crash that left him in a medically induced coma. Last night, he returned to the court for the first time in over three years, and he brought the god...
Girls' Basketball Game Turns Ugly With Some Help From Skylar Diggins
Things got chippy last night at a high school basketball game where Skylar Diggins, the former Notre Dame star now playing for the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, was in attendance to have her jersey retired. One player punched another in the face and got ejected, all while Diggins sniped at her former team's o...
High School Basketball Player Scores While Playing Defense
Although Eisenhower (Ill.) was on defense during Friday's game, one of its players still managed to get two points after he deflected an inbounds by a Tinley Park (Ill.) player up and into Tinley Park's own net....
High School Basketball Player Drills Incredible Behind-The-Back Shot
This is Marvey'o Otey of William Byrd High School. Marvey'o Otey doesn't give a single shit about how bad your outlet pass to him is, because he's going to get buckets no matter what....
Coaches: High School And Its 20-Year-Old Star "Stole" D.C. Hoops Title
Long after the credits should have rolled in the soap opera that was Junior Etou's high school basketball career, we have a plot twist....
H.S. Basketball Coach Resigns Amid Claims He Bit His Own Player's Face
Doyle Wolverton—the second-winningest coach in girls high school basketball—resigned as head coach of Leake Academy after allegedly biting his own player's face during a game Tuesday. Leake County, Miss. (not FL, amazingly) sheriff Greg Waggoner informed the Clarion-Ledger of the resignation, though...
The Coach Who Exploded
Jonathan Mahler's latest for the Times Magazine is about basketball coach Mike Rice:...
This High Schooler Sank 135 Three-Pointers In Five Minutes
Josh Ruggles attends Wheaton Academy in West Chicago, Ill. In five minutes, he made 135 three-pointers on 147 attempts. If all goes well, maybe Ruggles can be 2016's Jimmer Fredette....
High Schooler Throws Down Dunk Of The Year
Contest over. Let's all go home....
High School Basketball Coach Tells Team He's Gay
Worth your time: MSG Varsity has a thorough report on 35-year-old Anthony Nicodemo's decision to out himself as a gay man. Nicodemo is the basketball coach at Saunders, a high school in Yonkers, N.Y. He was inspired to come out after having met Jason Collins at a recent LGBT sports summit in Oregon....
The "Wilt Chamberlain Of The Deaf" Lost His Home In A Tornado
Only three basketball players in U.S. history have scored more points in a high school career than Bennie Fuller did. From 1968-71, Fuller amassed an astounding 4,896 points for the Arkansas School for the Deaf and in the process became something of a legend in the state's basketball circles, as Rex...
I'm Tryin' to Get Money Like Felipe Lopez
So rapped the Beatnuts back in 1994. That's when Lopez was a big deal in New York. And that's around the time Susan Orlean wrote about Lopez for the New Yorker (actually, her profile appeared in the spring of '93):...
14-Year-Old Seventh Woods's Mixtape Is Insane
This has been going around, but we're just getting to it now—sue us. His name is Seventh Woods and he is a freshman in high school who is better at basketball than you....
The Story Of "Wrong Way" Willie And The Buzzer-Beater That Lost A Game
It was March 3, 1978, the sectional semifinals of the Indiana high school basketball tournament, in the teeth of what they call Hoosier Hysteria. George Washington was playing Northwest, a team it had already beaten twice that season. Washington was up, 61-60, and had the ball. A second remained. Da...
Another Buzzer-Beater For Another High School State Championship
Here we have Mercy star senior Maria Weselyj hitting a three point shot as time expires to give her team a 54-53 win in the Connecticut Class LL state final. Had Weselyj not made the shot, Mercy would have lost four consecutive Class LL finals, making her Mercy's very own Jim Kelly. ...
Michigan High School Wins Playoff Game After Holding The Ball For Seven Straight Minutes
This, dear basketball lovers, is why the NBA has had a shot clock for 59 years. During a Michigan Class C tournament game last night, Muskegon Heights pooped all over the spirit of the game by holding the ball for almost an entire quarter. The crowd booed, the other team was confused, and it didn't ...
Watch Another High School Buzzer-Beater Bring Down Rupp Arena In The Kentucky State Finals
This year's high school basketball playoffs have provided some really wonderful (and sometimes maddening) finishes. Here's Kentucky's offering....