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Indiana Hazing Scandal Proves High School Kids Are Still Obnoxious
Carmel High School's basketball Senior Day was ruined—ruined!—by shameless tabloid reporters snooping around in the stands for salacious gossip. Oh, and the fact that three of the four seniors were kicked off the team for alleged forceable sodomy....
Bad Beats: A Bad Beat Of My Own, Courtesy Of Brooklyn Decker
Your weekly gambling column, featuring smart plays, oddball propositions, all your tales of woe — plus, betting advice from a 13-year-old boy! Send your stories to [email protected]. Subject: Bad beats....
Right On Schedule, Here's The "Kid Teased For His Loyalty" Article
I feel like we get this story four times a year (once for each sport), but let's be dutiful bloggers and tell you about the Colts fan who got sent home from school during a Saints rally. Sigh....
Bad Beats: It's Only Teenage Wasteland
Your weekly gambling column, featuring smart plays, oddball propositions, all your tales of woe — plus, betting advice from a 13-year-old boy! Send your stories to [email protected]. Subject: Bad beats....
'Remember The Titans' School Forgets How To Count
The Virginia school that inspired the movie has forfeited all their wins because their two star players happened to already complete their four years of high school. Nothing a rousing Denzel speech can't fix. [Connection Newspapers]...
Coach Who (Accidentally) Nailed Girl In Face With Volleyball Forced To Apologize Again
This is Southern Regional High School girl's volleyball coach Eric Maxwell, whom you probably remember from this memorable episode, which occurred earlier this month. He apologized immediately after it happened. Unfortunately, he gained aa new audience yesterday....
Bad Beats: Kiss The Girls
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High School Rink Pretty Much Cursed
In a game dedicated to a player who broke two vertebrae after going head-first into the glass last weekend...his teammate knocks himself unconscious going head-first into the boards. [Boston Globe]...
Sex Offender Comes Full Circle With Softball Coach
A softball coach is out of a job because her sex offender husband has been volunteer coaching the team. His criminal record: molesting the coach, when she was a high school student 25 years his junior....
It Appears Everyone Can Now Make Half-Court Shots At Olathe Northwest's Gym
Okay — this is officially insane. FOX4 went back to do a follow-up story about Joel Branstrom's blind-folded half-court shot. Reporter Rob Low, just shooting a teaser for the spot, tried one of his own (backwards)...and also made it....
When Prank Wars Go Wrong (Update)
Most of you remember College Humor's hilarious half-court shot prank at a Maryland game a couple years ago. FOX4KC reports one area high school attempted a recreation, but was ill-prepared for the one-in-a-million chance the prankee would actually make it....
Bad Beats: Why Your Betting System Sucks
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Sportsmanship Fail: Up Big, Team Fouls To Reach 100
Houston's Yates High School 100-point streak was in jeopardy. So, comfortably ahead with three minutes left, they began fouling their humiliated opponents to get the ball back. This would be what James Naismith referred to as "a dick move."...
If This Man Texts You, Do Not Answer
A high school baseball coach is on trial for inappropriate conduct with his players, but this one's different than the usual coach-student sex scandals....
Your Ill-Advised Foul Of The Week
High school team hits gamewinning three at the buzzer. Team charges opposing bench to gloat. Ref awards technical foul, opposing team hits free throw to send game to overtime. Opposing team wins. That'll mean a few laps. [Romeo Observer]...
Bad Beats: And A Child Shall Lead You
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Pennsylvania High School Fans Are Passionate, Racist
Two stories from Keystone State preps: a wrestling crowd who taunted a black opponent by wearing black bodypaint, and a school that had spectators banned from their home and away games....
You Don't Need Gonads To Be A Goon
And here's another heartwarming girls-in-sports story. Pennsylvania high school hockey gives us the rare mixed-gender brawl, spurred by two boys dropping the gloves against one feisty little lady. (Or in the unfortunate parlance of the YouTube poster, "tagteaming" her.)...
Pregnant Athlete Doesn't Want To Be Babied By School
A Texas high schooler is filing a Title IX complaint against her school district after her volleyball coach benched her in her first trimester. This sounds like a no-win situation for everyone involved....
Friday Night Blight: Why High School Football Is Ground Zero Of The Concussion Crisis
Every year, there are tens of thousands of concussions on high school football fields and no standardized guidelines for dealing with them. That's the real scandal of the head-injury epidemic, writes Will Carroll, and kids have died for our neglect....