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Mystery High School Football Field Pooper Turns Out To Be A School Superintendent
One New Jersey township was having a bit a poop problem recently. Someone was repeatedly taking a dump at the football field and track complex at Holmdel High School. The police said it was happening “on a daily basis.”...
High School Football Coach Says He Was Fired For Having Too Many Black Players On The Team
The coach of a New Jersey football team says he is being fired for having too many black players on the team....
<i>Varsity Blues </i>Can't Decide How It Feels About The Cult Of High School Football
Varsity Blues works as long as you don’t think about it too hard. Which, I readily admit, probably means it works exactly as well as intended....
High School Baseball Coach Swears He Was Powerless To Prevent His Team From Winning 82-0
This Massachusetts high school baseball game happened last week, but the central story—trying really hard to let someone else have what should be best for them, only to watch them fuck it all up—is timeless. Old Rochester defeated Notre Dame Cristo Rey by a score of a 82-0 (eighty-two! a baseball ga...
Pennsylvania School District Arms Teachers With Dinky Baseball Bats
In the case of a shooting, one school district in Pennsylvania will be prepared with these tiny bats that would definitely break if you hit someone with them once....
Shaq: Put Cops Around And Inside Everything<em></em>
Someone asked Shaq, an occasional cop, what to do about school shootings. His take? Just build the school out of cops. Sure! ...
The New Teen Thing Will Give You More Anxiety Than Any Game Tonight
I’m a newly minted old person in a high-density city, so I don’t get in cars much anymore. But one of the quaint pleasantries of cruising around town was holding your hand out the window and letting the air guide it up and down like a chill, cool wave....
Minnesota High School Hockey Hair Remains Undefeated<em></em>
At this point, Minnesota’s best high school hockey teams are actively trying to get recognized on the All-Hockey Hair Team, and yet the quality of salad still hasn’t decreased. The 2018 class is absolutely brilliant. What you see above, if your eyes haven’t been blinded by its glory, came in at No. ...
Iowa Correctional Officer Recruits Inmates As Outside-The-Box Solution To Youth Sports Ref Shortage
So, there’s a nationwide shortage of youth sports referees, related to crappy pay and ridiculous workloads and abusive parents. Here’s a novel idea for how to combat this problem, by way of sunny Iowa: train prison inmates in the subtle arts of basketball refereeing....
Kansas High School Basketball Game Features Breathtakingly Dirty, Dangerous Foul
Here is an absolutely awful, perhaps criminal play from a high school basketball game in Kansas Friday:...
Dwyane Wade Comforts Marjory Stoneman Douglas Students After Harrowing Visit By Betsy DeVos
Today was Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s first full day of classes since the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 people dead and many others wounded. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stopped by to meet with students, as did Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade. One of these visitors was more popular tha...
Marjory Stoneman Douglas QB Commits To D-III School After Hiding With Recruiters During Shooting
Marjory Stoneman Douglas football player Tyler Goodman was meeting with Nichols College assistant coach St. Clair Ryan and dean of admissions Paul Brower during last month’s shooting which killed 17 people at the high school. Goodman had not seriously considered attending Nichols, a D-III school in ...
Is The Freshman Dominating Maryland High School Basketball Actually 20 Years Old?
The Cinderella-est story of the schoolboy hoops season in the Washington, D.C., area came to an end over the weekend. It turns out the year’s most fantastical feel-good tale really was a fantasy after all....
High School Title Game Ends With Insane Game-Winning Hail Mary Buzzer-Beater
The scene of this incredible buzzer beater is the gym at Pace University, where Ardsley High School found itself down two, 51-49, with just seconds left in the New York Section 1 Class A title game, and opponent Tappan Zee High School inbounding:...
This High School Basketball Player Is A Flopping Artist
Here we have Demetrius Craft of Laurel High (Md.) catching what appears to be a sudden gust of wind, being tackled by a monster from the spirit realm, or pulling off the greatest flop of the year....
Chipper Jones Says There's No Reason For Civilians To Have AR-15s
Chipper Jones loves guns. Loves ‘em. He says he’s got five, including a shotgun and a rifle. (Though he says he prefers hunting with a bow because “it’s safer and more sporty.”) But even Jones says regular American civilians have no business being able to own assault weapons, like the AR-15 used to ...
Roberto Luongo On Parkland Shooting: "Enough Is Enough. We Have To Take Action."
The Florida Panthers are playing their first home game since the mass shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The Panthers are the only major league team in Broward County, and just a short drive down the Sawgrass Expressway separates them from Parkland. B...
Steve Kerr Says Teens Demanding Gun Control Are "Heroic"
Reporters have quickly learned that it’s worth asking Warriors head coach Steve Kerr about politics, because he’s usually got something to say, and when he does it’s almost always worth hearing. Last week Kerr was blunt in blaming the government for inactivity on gun control that inevitably leads to...
Anthony Rizzo At Vigil For Parkland Mass Shooting: "Something Has To Change"
The day after a former student with an AR-15 killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo returned to his alma mater and gave an emotional speech at a candlelight vigil....
Report: Student Said Football Coach Pushed Her Out Of Line Of Fire During Florida School Shooting
According to a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., assistant football coach and security guard Aaron Feis pushed her out of the line of fire during Wednesday’s school shooting that left 17 people dead, including Feis....