Tag Archives: high school basketball
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New Rochelle Wins Crazy High School Basketball Game with Unbelievable 55-foot Buzzer-Beater (Video)
On Sunday, the New Rochelle High School boys basketball team played Mount Vernon for the New York State Section 1 Class AA championship. The Mount Vernon Knights, a perennial powerhouse in the state, were the #3 seed and thus the favorites over the #6 seed New Rochelle Hugeunots. However, it was the Hugeunots that emerged [...]
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High School Girls Basketball Player Drains Full-Court Bounce-Shot Buzzer-Beater (Video)
Everybody loves a good buzzer-beater. And over the years, we’ve seen just about every kind of buzzer-beater imaginable—the buzzer-beating layup, the buzzer-beating fade-away, the buzzer-beating backwards over-the-head two-hander, and of course the buzzer-beating half-court shot. Well, today we have a new kind of buzzer-beater that we never even knew was a possibility: the full-court bounce-shot [...]
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High School Girls Basketball Player Delivers the Most Vicious Elbow to the Face You’ll Ever See (Video)
You may not be particularly interested in girls high school basketball most of the time. And that’s fair, because it’s usually pretty boring. And I mean no disrespect here. No one would want to watch me play basketball either. But the clip we have for you today is certainly not boring. It’s believed (though not [...]
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Zach Hodskins May Be the Best One-Armed Basketball Player in the World (Video)
I don’t know how many one-armed basketball players are out there in the world, so I can’t say for sure who is the best. However, I’d be willing to bet that Zach Hodskins would make the short list. Though Hodskins enjoys telling people he meets for the first time that he lost his left forearm [...]
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This Is Why High Schools Shouldn’t Hold Slam Dunk Contests (Video)
Slam dunk contests are pretty cool, right? Guys doing spins, windmills, through-the-legs, double-pumps, tomahawks, and all that good stuff—I mean, what’s not to like? But here’s the thing: yes, slam dunk contests are awesome, but when they do it on TV they make it look a lot easier than it really is. Dunking itself is [...]
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20 Ridiculous High School Team Names
Did you ever notice how the further down you go on the sports pyramid, the weirder the mascots get? For example, there aren’t really any professional sports teams with bizarre names. Sure, some are unusual (Indiana Pacers), anachronistic (Cincinnati Reds), offensive (Washington Redskins) or just plain dumb (Minnesota Wild), but none of them are bizarre. [...]
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Wizards Guard John Wall Schools A Hotshot High School Prospect In One-On-One (Video)
When you’re a big-time college basketball recruit, it’s easy for your ego to get a little inflated. After all, you’re always talking to people who tell you how great you are—coaches, recruiters, fellow students, your mom, you name it. So what’s the best way to knock a big-name recruit down a peg? Have him go [...]
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Is This The Craziest Basket Ever Made? (Video)
When we posted Lamar Odom’s crazy baseline circus shot from Tuesday night’s romp over the Utah Jazz, we thought it was one of the most unlikely baskets we would see all month. Well as it turns out, it isn’t even one of the most unlikely baskets we will see all week thanks to this oddity [...]
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The Double Alley-Oop Has Arrived (Video)
Ever since the arrival of the alley-oop, basketball players everywhere have continued to leave crowds in awe with their own renditions of this remarkably dazzling play. Whether it is a back-board shattering alley-oop, the self-alley-oop, or an alley-oop over a 7’6″ monster, it is a play that never ceases to amaze us. Heck, even hockey [...]
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High School Baller Uses Opponent’s Head To Make A Basket
Sure Dwight Howard and LeBron James were making some rather incredible shots during their battle over a Big Mac and fries, but let’s see them try this… From behind the net, throw the ball off the backboard, of your opponent’s head, and into the basket, hitting nothing but net! Oh, and all while you are [...]
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Special Needs Student Has Special Night For HS Basketball Team
I think we are all getting sick of hearing stories about heads being cracked open. It’s about time we had a feel-good story around here, and not the kind of feel-good story where some slightly underdog team full of millionaire professional athletes wins a big game. This is a real deal one. David “Chubbs” Stillman [...]
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Basketball Star Jeremy Tyler Drops Out Of High School To Play In Eurpoe
Total Pro Sports – You’ve heard of High School basketball players getting drafted after their senior year to play in the NBA, but have you ever heard of a High Schooler dropping out of his senior year to play ball in Europe???
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Enough is Enough: Basketball Team Wins 100-0
Total Pro Sports – So when is a lead safe enough in basketball for a coach to tell his players to ease off the gas pedal, 25…50…how about 100. This is not a misprint, a woman’s high school basketball team in Texas routed their opposition 100-0. The coach of the team refused to apologize for [...]
