Tag Archives: high school sports
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Check Out This Bone-Crushing Hit from a High School Rugby Game in New Zealand (Video + GIF)
While our professional basketball players here in North America are busy flopping around like idiots trying to draw fouls, down in New Zealand, high school rugby players are demonstrating how to play sports like badasses. The clip we have for you here comes from a recent high school rugby game in Wanganui, New Zealand, between [...]
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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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David Fangupo is the Fastest 350-Pound Running Back of All Time (Video)
Kealakehe High School football player David Fangupo is 6’2″, 350 pounds, and on National Signing Day last week the kid accepted a scholarship offer from Hawaii after weighing full scholarship offers from BYU and Georgia Tech. So he’s a lineman, right? Right. He is a lineman. But he’s also a running back. And no, I’m [...]
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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 Hockey Player Scores Amazing Lacrosse-Style Goal (Video)
In lacrosse, a lacrosse goal is just a goal. But in hockey, a lacrosse goal is something very special. I know that sounded like gibberish, but bear with me. You see, a so-called “lacrosse goal” in hockey is when a player picks up the puck with his stick and throws it in the net like [...]
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One-Handed Football Player Shaquem Griffin Makes a Brilliant One-Handed Interception (Video)
For most football players, making a diving one-handed catch would be very difficult. After all, it is difficult. But high school senior Shaquem Griffin has an advantage over most football players when it comes to making one-handed grabs. You see, Shaquem only has one hand, so he’s had lots of practice. And man, is he [...]
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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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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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Unbelievable: Volleyball Hits Player in the Face, Then Ricochets and Trips Kid Walking to the Bathroom (Video)
If you watch a lot of sports, you’ve probably seen an athlete get hit in the face with a ball, and you’ve probably seen a fan get hit in the face with a ball. However, I’m willing to bet that you’ve never seen an athlete get hit in the face with a ball, which then [...]
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Great Story: High School Football Team Picks Up Teammate Mourning The Loss Of His Father (Video)
You’re going to want to get a couple of tissues and keep them handy while you read this story. It’s good enough to bring a tear to the eye of even the most cynical sports fan. What’s it about? Oh, just a high school football team doing whatever it takes to raise the spirits of [...]
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You’ve Gotta See This Awesome TD By USC Football Recruit Steven Mitchell (Video)
In Mission Hills, California, there’s a prep football player by the name of Steven Mitchell, and, um, he’s pretty good. This year the All-American is a senior at Alemany High School, but next year he’ll be a freshman at USC. So what makes him so good? Well, he’s not particularly tall or anything. The guy [...]
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High School Kid Kicks An Insane 67-Yard Field Goal (Video)
The NFL record for longest field goal is 63 yards, and it is held by four men: Tom Dempsey (1970), Jason Elam (1998), Sebastian Janikowski (2011), and David Akers (2012). A few weeks ago, St. Louis Rams rookie kicker Greg Zuerlein became just the 12th NFL kicker to kick a 60-yard field goal. And in [...]
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Texas High School Cheerleader Sets World Record For Consecutive Backward Handsprings (Video)
One year ago, a high school cheerleader named Miranda Ferguson wowed the crowd at a high school football game in Dallas, Texas, by performing 20 backward handsprings in a row during halftime. The impressive feat inspired one of her friends to do a little research, and that friend discovered that the official Guinness World Record [...]
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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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One-Legged Soccer Player Scores Amazing Scissor Kick Goal (Video)
I’ve seen a lot of really great soccer goals in my day. In fact, I’ve seen some pretty great goals already this season. But I don’t ever recall seeing a goal quite like the one you’re about to see. It was scored by a kid named Nico Calabria. He’s a high school junior who plays [...]
