Words. Patrick Cassidy
I can’t believe how easily this play worked.
To start an Iowa high school all-star game, one of the teams ran a football play off the opening tip to get themselves an alley-oop. And it worked.
From the Des Moines Register: MORE >
Words. dimemag
The Michigan revival is about to take a very big step. Most of the attention for the Wolverines’ incoming freshman class has focused on the beast that is Mitch McGary – which is completely understandable.
But McGary is just one piece of the talent influx in Ann Arbor. His future sidekick Glenn Robinson Jr. can bring it as well, as evidence by his weekend performance at the ESPNHS All-American Championship all-star game in New Orleans. MORE >
Words. Austin Burton
There isn’t much that happens in the NBA that doesn’t trickle down to high school basketball – from choreographed player-intro dap and nerd-chic fashion to on-court moves and post-game quotes.
So I was a bit surprised when, during last night’s McDonald’s All-American Game, a smiling Alex Poythress (Northeast H.S., Tenn.) fouled out near the end of the West’s 106-102 win over the East and the announcers didn’t jump on his back for acting so laid-back when his team was losing and he was leaving. MORE >
Words. High School Hoop
Well, this is a new one. Check out this video of the nation’s No. 1 women’s high school basketball prospect Breanna Stewart throwing it down in the Powerade Jam Fest during the McDonald’s High School All America festivities from over the weekend: MORE >
Words. High School Hoop
Check out these exclusive not-for-public-consumption Nike LeBron 9 PEs for L.A.’s Fairfax High School, compliments of king James and the Swoosh. MORE >
Words. Austin Burton
So often do we fast-forward our child prodigies to the big leagues – and that covers the map from piano to pageants, not just sports – that it’s easy to forget they aren’t always looking so far into the future.
Trayvon Reed reminded me of this. The sophomore center at Shiloh High School (Snellville, Ga.) stands 7-feet tall and weighs 200 pounds – one serious weight-training regimen away from a pro-ready body – with a defense-first mentality that coaches on all levels love. His star potential pops off the printed page as explosively as it leaps off the YouTube screen. MORE >
