News on High School Basketball

CORRECTION

2010-03-02T02:16:37Z

<div><p> A story in SaturdayÕs Sun said the Findlay College Prep basketball program would be disbanded because of the closure of the Henderson International SchoolÕs high school program at the end of the school year. In fact, Findlay Prep remains intact and likely will find another high school to be its academic partner.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=70760222&bid=informcom" /></di...

Kan. HS basketball coach to get tickets, after all

2010-02-22T15:04:37Z

<div id="subtitle">Kan. HS coach whose blindfolded half-court shot became Internet hit gets Final Four tickets</div><div><p>A Kansas high school basketball coach whose blindfolded half-court shot became an Internet sensation will be going to the Final Four after all.</p><p>Joel Branstrom says he can't disclose where the tickets are coming from. But he said Wednesday he'...

In Wyoming, basketball drives reservation's pride

2010-02-23T23:40:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Chiefs Basketball: On Wyoming reservation, high school basketball team drives pride</div><div><p>The gym is adorned with championship banners, expectations are high, and the players gasp and burn their way through sprints during the first days of basketball practice at Wyoming Indian High School.</p><p>The afternoon is growing late and the sun casts...

Barnes College Basketball

2009-11-13T17:16:19Z

Ames High School basketball player Harrison Barnes announces his decision to attend North Carolina to play college basketball during a press conference, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, in Ames, Iowa. Barnes is considered by many scouting services to be the top recruit ...

Delle Donne Returns Basketball

2009-10-16T08:00:42Z

In this photo taken on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, University of Delaware women's basketball player Elena Delle Donne poses for a portrait in Newark, Del. More than a year ago, the former national high school player of the year abruptly left coach Geno Auriemma and a California teen collapses and dies during high school basketball game</div><div><p>An autopsy is scheduled to determine what caused a California teen to collapse and die during a high school basketball game.</p><p>The county coroner's office says 15-year-old Darius Jones of HBO, Thomas Jane stars as Ray Drecker in the HBO series "Hung." "Hung," a comedy about a Detroit high school basketball coach who turns to male prostitution to make enough money to fix hi...

Prep Basketball: Beverly Hills vs Mater Dei MAR 06

2009-09-13T05:37:04Z

March 06, 2009 - Ontario, CA..Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis #23 of Mater Dei High School in action against Beverly Hills High School, during the CIF-SS DIV IIA High School Basketball Championship at Colony High School in Ontario, California..Mater Dei defeats Akron approves 2-year contract extension for basketball coach Keith Dambrot</div><div><p>The University of Akron says it has approved a two-year contract extension for men's basketball coach Keith Dambrot.</p><p>Dambrot's contract was renewed on Wednesday through June 2016. The Board ...

MagazineÕs past cover kids found mixed success

2010-02-26T23:48:30Z

<div><p> Bryce Harper isnÕt the first high school athlete to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated — just the first since LeBron James. When crown prince James was featured in 2002, ESPN.com put together a list of the 10 prep athletes whoÕd been on the SI cover since 1966. HereÕs how theyÕve...

Week’s worth of fightin’ words

2010-03-03T06:47:42Z

<div><p> Five opinions having nothing to do with Opening Day that, like cleaning out the garage and changing the oil in my car, I just didn’t get to last week:</p><p>Expletive conceited</p><p>I have had only one experience with Dana White, the commissioner of the UFC, and...

Valley a wellspring of lady ballers

2010-03-03T22:51:48Z

<div id="subtitle">Four local phenoms playing for juggernauts of women’s hoops</div><div><p> As he watched No. 15 on the Stanford Cardinal women’s basketball team climbing the ladder to snip a little piece of souvenir twine for her scrapbook a week ago Sunday at Galen Center on t...

AP IMPACT: Some prep teams log big miles for games

2010-03-01T08:17:14Z

<div id="subtitle">AP IMPACT: Long road trips routine for high school hoops teams seeking competition, experience</div><div><p>It was almost 2 a.m. by the time the Findlay players tumbled into bed at the hotel, the end of yet another long day of carrying bags through airports, waiting in security lines and cramming their long, lanky frames into airplane seats for a cross-country flight.</...

5th NC high school athlete dies in school year

2010-03-02T00:58:36Z

<div id="subtitle">Official: basketball player is 5th high school athlete to die in North Carolina academic year</div><div><p>A freshman basketball player who died during practice at a North Carolina school has become the state's fifth high school athlete to die in the academic year, an official who tracks such information said.</p><p>Anthony Dontra Eatm...

The Quiet One

2010-03-02T17:18:41Z

<div><p>The players already playing basketball for Wake Forest didn't know what to make of Jeff Teague. <p>They had known quiet people before, but this recruit from Indianapolis was downright uncommunicative. </p> <p&am...

Coach fired, says he's not sorry for 100-point win

2010-03-02T17:26:28Z

<div id="subtitle">Coach fired after breaking with his bosses over apology for 100-0 victory</div><div><p>The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."</p><p>Texas girls basketball team that won 100-0 seeks forfeit, calling it 'victory without honor'</div><div><p>A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse. Now officials from The Covenant School say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and a...

Orange County News - January 20, 2009

2009-04-30T12:08:33Z

Beckman's Courtney McKinney, left, passes the ball in front of University's Nkem Chukwumerije in the first game of a high school girls basketball Tuesday night.///ADDITIONAL INFO: iwn.spt.unibeckgb.0122 - 01/20/09 - Photo by Rose Palmisano / The Orange County Register - Beckman High takes on University on girls basketball Tuesday night

LANCE ARAM ROTHSTEIN | Times (01/16/2009 HUDSON) Tampa Prep's Jordan Heath (31) goes up against Bishop McLaughlin's Mike Holmes (12) during the Tampa Prep at Bishop McLaughlin boys basketball game on Friday, 1/16/09

Copyright 2009 Chicago high school basketball game; possibly gang-related</div><div><p>Five people were shot as spectators left a crowded high school basketball game Friday in what police called a possibly gang-related drive-by attack that sent panicked students running into a snowy street on the city's South Side.</p><p>Five male...