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High School Phenom Zion Williamson Dunked The Living Hell Out Of This Dunk

Zion Williamson is only a high school sophomore, but he can already dunk a basketball with the force of a meteor impact. The second-ranked recruit from the class of 2018 went for 45 last night, including this big dunk (which was one of 12 on the night). ...

Lawsuit: High School Coaches, Administrators Allowed Players To Urinate On, Sexually Assault Teammates

A lawsuit filed Wednesday morning alleges that coaches and officials at Lake Zurich High School in northern Illinois allowed “acts of hazing and bullying to occur within the team locker room, including forcing teammates to strip naked and forced un-consensual sexual assault.”...

Joey Porter And Mike Tomlin Are Bad Sports Parents

Every sports league has obnoxious parents that holler at referees, coaches and players; rarely are those parents coaches of the nearby professional football team. But at Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School in Cranberry Township, Penn., the obnoxious parents were Pittsburgh Steelers head coach ...

Bol Bol, Manute Bol's 17-Year-Old Son, Is Already A Beast

The best part of the highlight reel below, with all due consideration to Bol Bol swatting the daylights out of No. 3 at 1:45, is the way Bol’s teammates grin and giggle as they run back down the court. They look tiny compared to him, and they seem to be openly marveling that their new teammate is su...

Look At All These Beautiful Clutch Basketball Shots

Time for another edition of the quiz that we played here on Deadspin last Wednesday: “who had the best buzzer-beater tonight?” In order to reflect the nature of today’s choices, however, it will now be amended to “who had the coolest shot in the closing seconds of regulation last night?” (No, that i...

Look At All These Good Buzzer-Beaters

A quiz: Who had the best buzzer-beater tonight?...

Vicious Dunk Brings Down The House, Sends Coaches Scrambling

Pity the poor defender who found himself in sophomore Chase Hunter’s path on this play. He probably thought he had a chance at drawing a charge or at least not getting completely wrecked, but, sadly, that is not how things played out....

High school sophomore Francesca Belibi recently became the first women’s basketball player in Colorado to dunk in-game, and ESPNW caught up with her about her extremely good dunk, which was the first she’s ever done in practice or anywhere. [ESPNW]...

That's One Incredible Way To Block A Kick

New USC commit Bubba Bolden made the most of his appearance in today’s high school All-American game by leaping over the long snapper, kicking the ball out of the hands of the holder, recovering it, and returning it for a touchdown. It’s enough to make thousands of southern Californians remember the...

The Only Thing Better Than A Halfcourt Shot Is One You Call

Here’s LaMelo Ball, brother of Lonzo Ball and 2019 recruit prospect in his own right, doing something dirty as hell for his Chino Hills (Calif.) HS team in a tournament over the weekend....

Wild End-Game Sequence Features Two Buzzer-Beaters That Don't Count, And One That Does

Nebraska high school basketball here, with the highlight of the weekend....

Deluded Young Baller Gets Owned, Begs For More, Is Sent To Floor

Rare is the viral Instagram whose caption is just as good as its content, but this slice of high school basketball delivers. At St. Joseph’s School in Conway, Arkansas, an overzealous defender gets what’s coming to him:...

Father Of High School Football Player Arrested For Sexual Assault: It Was Consensual, Lots Of Girls Want My Son 

The father of a California high school football player arrested on suspicion of sexual assault has tried to defend his son by saying that everything was consensual, as the girl “basically chased my son down.”...

High School Team Pulls Off Game-Winning Kick Return After Fans Had Already Rushed The Field

A Thanksgiving rivalry game between Lynn Classical and Lynn English (Mass.) ended on a game-winning lateral kick return by Lynn Classical. This happened after Lynn English fans had already rushed the field, thinking their team had won the game....

Judge Will Decide Who Won High School Football Game After Officiating Blunder [Update]

Plainfield North won the Illinois Class 7A state semifinal game last weekend by scoring a do-or-die two-point conversion in overtime to stun Fenwick High. Plainfield surrendered a touchdown on Fenwick’s opening drive, but they pushed down on the throttle and were rewarded for their bravery with a tr...

Report: Prep School Football Coach Molested Students For Decades While Administration Looked The Other Way

In a massive, devastating feature up at Esquire, Eric Lewis writes about the sexual abuse carried out by football coach Philip Foglietta at Brooklyn’s Poly Prep Country Day School spanning from the 1960s through the 1980s. The details of the coverup, which ranges from incompetence to intimidation, m...

The New Thing Teens Are Doing Is Called The "Mannequin Challenge"

Teens: They’re annoying, but we turn to them for the newest cool trend, then mangle and repurpose it until someone works it into a boring ad campaign three months after everyone’s moved on. The latest entry in cool things by teens is the “mannequin challenge.”...

High School Apologizes For "Deplorable" Trail Of Tears Football Banner, Quietly Deletes Photo Gallery

McClain High School in Greenfield, Ohio issued an apology on its website over the weekend for the appearance of a “Trail of Tears” banner before the Tigers’ football game Friday against the Hillsboro Indians—but quietly deleted Spirit Week photos depicting students dressed as slaves, Chinese labore...

High School Team Beats Opponent In Victory Formation By Successfully Swiping The Snap

Friday night’s Goddard-Artesia high school game in New Mexico ended with a winning field goal after Goddard players successfully snatched the snap away from the center as Artesia attempted to kneel in victory formation:...

Cheerleaders Display "Trail Of Tears" Banner Before Game Against Team With Indian Mascot [Update]

Tonight’s Ohio high school football game between the Greenfield-McClain Tigers and Hillsboro Indians featured this embarrassing banner presented by the Greenfield-McClain cheerleaders, promising a “Trail of Tears Part 2" for Hillsboro. If that weren’t bad enough—and trust me, it is—it was an away ga...