Category Archives: High School Sports
Are We Just Too Crazy About Sports?
I remember the excitement of Friday night, high school football games. There was the afternoon pep rally, making plans with friends, watching kids that I started kindergarten with represent our school on the field and the victory dance after the game. One thing I don’t remember is a member of our coaching staff traveling, to the other side of the world, to recruit players.
Big Business
I’m not naive. I know that sports are big business and big money. There are big player contracts in professional sports and huge television contracts in college sports. I know that in any money driven endeavor there will be unscrupulous people and scandals…just look to USC and Reggie Bush as examples.
High School Football Players Suffer Consequences for Locker Room Antics
In Minnesota at Elk River High School there are a few football players suffering the consequences of their actions. Four Players will be kicked off the varsity team, two players will miss four games, and two players will miss one game.
Hazing Incidents
The players were involved in what is being called hazing incidents. I understand that things can be viewed in different ways and that sometimes things aren’t what they seem. I even get that stuff that seems like something small might be construed as big things to the people directly involved.
You Kick Like A Girl Isn’t An Insult In Romeo, Michigan
I think that this story has “Movie” written all over it…soccer playing girl joins the football team and helps them win their first game of the season. “Hello, Disney…I’ve got a story for you!”
Girls Can Play, Too
According to the Detroit Free Press, Ashley Flinn joined the football team for their second game of the season after the Bulldogs learned that their starting kicker, Evan Simpson, had a scheduling conflict with the soccer team. Flinn is a member of the girls soccer and volley ball teams, but since girls soccer is played in the spring she was able to help the team out.
Potential new high-five record set by high school students
In Chicago some students have something to high-five about. The students at Hoffman Estates High School recently became part of an attempt to break a world record. The superintendent of development for the school’s recreation association dressed as the school mascot and stood at the entrance to the football field. As students came in they slapped him high-fives.
Yes – High Fives
Rules Are Rules, But Would You Have Told The Truth?
Even the most honest amongst us has probably told a little, white lie at some time in their life…”oh, no officer I didn’t know the speed limit was just 30 mph?” Telling the truth isn’t always the easiest thing to do even if we know it’s the right thing to do.
How many of us would have stepped up and told the truth if it would have cost us a junior PGA golf tournament? How many of us would have justified not fessing up to a rules violation?
NCAA Makes Changes to Division I Eligibility
The NCAA has changed a few things when it comes to regulating what high school credits 
are acceptable for college. This can be a big game changer for some high school athletes, particularly those who attend high schools that do not produce a lot of Division I athletes.
The NCAA has taken a closer look at some of the nontraditional methods students are now receiving high school credit. While these nontraditional methods may be deemed OK for admittance to the college or university they do not guarantee NCAA eligibility. For now this scrutiny only extends to Division I athletics, but it is most likely going to affect Division II student athletes soon.
Football practice after school, and oh yeah Favre is going to be there!
Listen up everyone, we have a new guy in the huddle.
Imagine – you show up for an early morning football practice in the middle of a hot summer. You look around and see your teammates, your coach, and Brett Favre. Yep – Brett Favre at your high school football practice! Evidently for one Hattiesburg, Mississippi high school this is a reality these past two summers.
