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State Softball Title Game Ends On Walk-Off Inside-The-Park Strikeout
This is one of the weirdest plays you're going to see for awhile....
The Fastest Boys In The U.S. Have No Track
"Yeah, can you tell me where the track is?"...
Audio: Raging H.S. Baseball Coach Berates His Team For 15 Minutes
Yesterday, we posted a brief, edited audio clip of a high school baseball coach from California absolutely losing it and cursing out his players. Now we've gotten our hands on the full, unedited audio clip. It's long, and it's incredible...
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High School Baseball Coach Loses His Shit, Curses Out Team [UPDATE]
From the Whittier Daily News comes a wonderfully profane audio clip of Kim Brooks, the baseball coach at La Mirada High in La Mirada, California, absolutely laying into his team after a recent loss. ...
$60 Million High School Football Stadium Deemed Unsafe
Two years ago, the football-mad suburb of Allen, Texas, sank $60 million into a state-of-the-art, 18,000-seat high school football stadium. Now, according to the Dallas Morning News, the stadium will be closed for the upcoming season because it has been deemed structurally unsafe. ...
High School Coach Now Regrets Letting His Pitcher Throw 194 Pitches
On Tuesday, Dylan Fosnacht of Rochester (Wash.) high went 14+ innings, striking out 17 batters and finishing the afternoon with a pitch count of 194. In a year where a disturbing numbers of MLB's best young arms are going in for ligament replacement surgery, Fosnacht's undeniable accomplishment is b...
Lil B Lines Make The Best High School Yearbook Quotes
We all know the feeling: It's the end of your high school career, the four most formative years of your young life, and you want to pick that perfect quote to embody the wisdom you've gleaned on your journey. That so many of our young people are choosing Lil B-inspired quotes bodes well for our coun...
High School Basketball Player Is Enormous And Still Growing
This is Elhadji Tacko Fall and he is enormous. To be specific, he is 7'5" and his doctor says he could grow a couple more inches. CNN did a report last week on the Liberty Christian Prep School senior, who is said to be the tallest high school player in the country. He is also two inches taller than...
California Teens Hold NFL-Style "Prom Draft" To Pick Dates
A group of boys looked up to the NFL by choosing their prom dates with a draft, but their high school didn't approve of their shallow innovation....
Why Rich Lacrosse Parents Are Making Their Kids Repeat A Grade
In the lax-crazy scholastic sports scene of the high-end Washington D.C. market, a game between Landon School and Georgetown Prep is essentially 'Skins vs. Cowboys, except with more people named Topper. They're two of the fancy-pantsiest all-boys secondary schools in the area, and their athletic riv...
Cop Trips High School Kids Rushing Field To Celebrate State Title Win
At the eight second mark of this video, you can see a dude in pink shorts and a visor in the lower right corner go sprawling to the ground. He was clearly tripped and when he turned around he saw Georgetown police officer George Bermudez staring down at him. ...
High Schooler Shot In Leg, Hits Playoff Game-Winner Days Later
Chicago high school senior Tyquone Greer wasn't sure he could even play basketball again after a bullet went completely through his leg at a neighborhood party last week. But only nine days later, Greer sank the game-winning shot for Orr Academy High School (Ill.) over North Chicago....
School Teachers Fail Our Youth, Let Them Watch Tournament In Class
While adults everywhere are doing their damndest just to get a few hours away to watch some basketball, kids today get to watch the games in class. Because their teachers let them. Odds are, somewhere in America there is a kid watching the NCAA Tournament in class with a father who just got his test...
High School Basketball Coach Quits Due To Student Racism
The Mahopac (N.Y.) High School boys basketball coach resigned yesterday, two weeks after students and players at his school were accused of using racist language towards an opposing team during a playoff game....
Four-Overtime Minnesota State Semifinal Ends On 60-Foot Buzzer-Beater
Amir Coffey's buzzer-beater from well beyond half court delivered his Hopkins High School (Minnetonka) team to the Minnesota AAAA state championship game after a semifinal that required four overtimes....
Michigan High School Regional Final Ends On Wild Buzzer-Beater
Tonight's Michigan Class D regional championship between Sacred Heart (Mt. Pleasant) and Fulton ended on a wild buzzer-beating three that gave Sacred Heart the 49-47 win. Trust us, you've never seen a buzzer-beater quite like this....
David Mamet Recalls Racism And High School Football
From the Paris Review:...
Someone Ranked The Best Minnesota High School Hockey Tourney Hair
Since Minnesota loves hockey at all levels, the high school state tournaments are televised, with each kid getting at least a few seconds of camera time for the team introductions. For the past four years, a man has ranked the best hair—flow, salad, or lettuce, if you will—from those intros. It’s a ...
Ohio High School Hockey Championship Ends In Tie After Seven OT Periods
Two teams entered. Two teams left. ...
Missing A Beat: Library Of America's Story Of The Week
The LOA's story of the week comes from the great Seymour Krim. Check it out and then g'head and pick up the fine LOA collection, The Cool School. ...