Words. Aron Phillips

While everyone had football on the brain for yesterday’s Super Bowl Sunday, the day also featured one of NYC’s most touted high school hoops rivalries between Christ the King (Queens, N.Y.) and Rice (Harlem, N.Y.). In front of a packed house on the Middle Village campus, I made the trek from the 4 to the J to the M for what could have been the greatest high school basketball spectacle ever. MORE >

Words. Austin Rivers

Although just a junior, Winter Park (Fla.) point guard Austin Rivers is the 5th-rated prospect in the HSH Top 50. He’s been verbally committed to Florida for over a year, but this fall, Rivers decided to open things up and let Duke recruit him as well, making his one of the most captivating recruiting stories in the country.

The younger son of Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers and younger brother of Indiana University PG Jeremiah Rivers, Austin has agreed to give HSH exclusive access by chronicling his thoughts in this regular diary where he’ll keep everyone updated on everything from his personal life to his high school season to his thoughts on Duke and Florida. MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

Jason Jordan has fielded all of your e-mails and tackles each of these questions and more in this installment of “Mail Day with JJ.” MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

Atlantic Shores Christian School (Va.) star Andre Dawkins is a rare commodity.

He can do a 360-dunk with the same minimal effort he uses to drain a 3-pointer from a foot behind the NBA line. He’s the leading scorer on one of the most storied AAU programs on the circuit – Boo Williams Summer League – and he’s the No. 4 rated shooting guard in the class of 2010.

Still, as skilled as Dawkins, a 6-5 guard, is on the court it’s his ability to persuade that may trump everything else… MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

When Norfolk Christian School (Va.) forward James McAdoo led the United States to a 101-87 win over host country Argentina in the gold-medal game of the FIBA Americas U-16 Championships, he got a glimpse of what he’d be in for once he chooses one of the big time schools that are courting him.

The arena, which seated 3,000, was standing room only, and the vicious crowd did everything it could to make it uncomfortable for Team USA. MORE >

Words. Devin Davis

Lance Stephenson could have made Florida a National Championship contender. He could have helped Billy Donovan compete in the ultra-tough SEC. But it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. Lance is believed to be at the front of a pending NCAA investigation, which sources say that is the reason Florida has decided to pull out of the race. “There’s a zero percent chance we take him,” a UF source told Gary Parish of CBS Sports. MORE >