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![Stop what you’re doing and check out how this high school championship game in Alabama ended](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/foar2pmda4bcba6kyqnu.png)
Stop what you’re doing and check out how this high school championship game in Alabama ended
Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it. This is one of those times....
![Texas HS player charged with assault of referee](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ghrrvvqju2uqfme7qgf2.jpg)
Texas HS player charged with assault of referee
There is bad sportsmanship, and then there is criminal behavior. An assault charge against a high school football player for tackling a referee is now the latter....
![High School Cancels Football Season, Fires Coaching Staff After Suspended Player Suits Up With New Identity](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/pgpyksbaaeo0itmoevbn.jpg)
High School Cancels Football Season, Fires Coaching Staff After Suspended Player Suits Up With New Identity
A high school in St. Louis canceled the remainder of its undefeated football team’s season and fired the entire coaching staff after it was revealed that a suspended player suited up in a different uniform and played a game....
![What Art Briles Brought To The Town That Never Asked For Him](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/rdc4bimzr9yamnxhfjza.jpg)
What Art Briles Brought To The Town That Never Asked For Him
MOUNT VERNON, Texas – There had never been a line like this before. Not here, at least. It was ridiculous, obscene. The first people in line queued up just before 4:30 p.m. They stood there, up against the closed ticket window, huddling underneath the small awning as it poured rain, and then, when t...
![High School Football Player Forced To Tackle Teammate Running The Wrong Way On Interception](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ldjeuztfithzfgxtfcgy.png)
High School Football Player Forced To Tackle Teammate Running The Wrong Way On Interception
High school is hardly an easy time for any teenager, let alone those who try to balance a life filled with academics and athletics, so it’s important for kids around that age to have a good support system who can help save them from themselves. Kha’Ron Thrower, a high school football player in Calif...
![Art Briles Already In Trouble In First Season As Head Coach At Texas High School](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ixwwkzzpzbjydhiclhvv.jpg)
Art Briles Already In Trouble In First Season As Head Coach At Texas High School
It appears disgraced former Baylor head football coach Art Briles has brought scandal to his new team, the Mount Vernon Tigers of the Mount Vernon Independent School District, in (you guessed it) Mount Vernon, Texas. Briles and his high school program were publicly reprimanded by a unanimous six-mem...
![California HS Cancels Football Season After Four Players Cited For Sexual Battery Of Teammate](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/yhedqpizerotvfs40nij.jpg)
California HS Cancels Football Season After Four Players Cited For Sexual Battery Of Teammate
The Gilroy (Calif.) High School Mustangs have canceled the rest of the varsity football season in the wake of an accusation of locker room sexual assault. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Gilroy Police opened an investigation last week after a varsity player complained to administrators that ...
![Man, You High School Football Coaches Just Can't Stop Doing Espionage, Can You?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/y6god6m22vc6eqzpa2uz.png)
Man, You High School Football Coaches Just Can't Stop Doing Espionage, Can You?
About a week after a high school coach in Arizona got caught doing the very same thing, a former Arkansas high school football coach has reportedly resigned after he was found to be leaking information about his own school’s football team to an opponent’s coach. Someone call the CDC, it’s an epidemi...
![We Have No Idea How Many High Schools Are Failing Title IX Athletics](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/taevcmf3kxyosa57mwwm.jpg)
We Have No Idea How Many High Schools Are Failing Title IX Athletics
No one is keeping tabs on the high schools. Title IX, passed in 1972, guarantees that all institutions that receive federal funding must provide equal opportunities, facilities, and supplies to students regardless of their gender. In athletics, that means that for every position on a team available ...
![More High School Girls Are Playing Tackle Football Than Ever](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/sajlo41wjcsbtxbhyfvx.jpg)
More High School Girls Are Playing Tackle Football Than Ever
No high schools in America offer a girls tackle football team. If a girl wants to play football, she has to go out for the boys’ team. There’s no guarantee that she’ll make the team, but Title IX guarantees that every sport offered only to boys at the high school level has to allow girls a fair sho...
![15-Year-Old Missouri High Schooler Dies After Football Practice](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/qbfhwuhni8spiakphccp.png)
15-Year-Old Missouri High Schooler Dies After Football Practice
A sophomore at a high school in southwest Missouri died on Wednesday after he collapsed following an indoor football practice. In a statement made on Facebook, the Joplin School District described the incident in detail:...
![The Football Team In <i>Euphoria</i> Is Complete Trash](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/hhxxhsq4pv31a43hsaq8.png)
The Football Team In <i>Euphoria</i> Is Complete Trash
It has been two weeks since the finale of HBO’s R-rated Riverdale knock-off, Euphoria, aired to glowing reviews. Everyone wants to talk about how the show found its earnest heart, and whether Jules will come back, and how all the teens may be doomed by sexting and drugs, but no one wants to talk abo...
![Texas High School Referee Who Was Very Racist On A Phone Call Defends Himself As A "Jokester" Who Watches BET](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/kdswmkbxfzmgguqkayhs.jpg)
Texas High School Referee Who Was Very Racist On A Phone Call Defends Himself As A "Jokester" Who Watches BET
The Texas Association of Sports Officials has suspended a longtime high school football referee for the 2019 season after audio surfaced of him being racist on a phone call. We’re talking “hard-R” racist....
![Art Briles Hired To Coach Football At Texas High School](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/klhkqkwh6xudrjaeztey.jpg)
Art Briles Hired To Coach Football At Texas High School
On a Friday evening news dump just before the start of a holiday weekend, the Mt. Vernon Independent School district announced that it had hired ex-Baylor coach Art Briles to lead the Texas high school’s football team. Superintendent Jason McCullough said during a Facebook live session that the scho...
![The Time Dave McKenna Played Offensive Tackle](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
The Time Dave McKenna Played Offensive Tackle
Our beloved colleague Dave McKenna tells good stories. He’s done a lot of cool shit, met many weird people in weird ways, and had his run-ins with the law. And after selfishly squirreling all his stories away in Slack and our brains for years, we’ve realized we have a societal obligation to share....
![High School Football Coach Rush Propst Fired For Allegedly Giving Pills To Players, Among Other Things](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/m75eahabba2oo8uutqsi.jpg)
High School Football Coach Rush Propst Fired For Allegedly Giving Pills To Players, Among Other Things
Colquitt County (Georgia) High School football coach Rush Propst has been fired after 11 successful seasons, following an investigation which determined that the 61-year-old coach had given pills to students, overstepped his position in at least one school personnel matter, and attempted to use scho...
![Texas High School Football Title Game Ends With A Pretty Sweet Hail Mary](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/h8ylvyh2ic1fuvsgvjiw.jpg)
Texas High School Football Title Game Ends With A Pretty Sweet Hail Mary
This Texas high school football highlight is from Saturday, but it ages well. Galena Park North Shore defeated Duncanville, 41-36, in the Class 6A Division I final after Dematrius Davis connected with A.J. Carter on a 45-yard Hail Mary as time expired....
![Report: School Officials Determine High School Football Players Caught Running Nude With An Oreo Between Their Ass Cheeks Were Not Hazed](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/qqihxtxpoxzwdqgsezvw.jpg)
Report: School Officials Determine High School Football Players Caught Running Nude With An Oreo Between Their Ass Cheeks Were Not Hazed
School officials from Byron High School determined that the 10 football players who participated in an “Oreo Run” was not a result of team hazing, according to the Rockford Register Star. After nearly 30 interviews with coaches and players, along with some film analysis, they concluded that the play...
![Title-Winning High School Football Coach Freaks Out On Players After Ice Bath](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/mjnzuub97wckprvq87r2.gif)
Title-Winning High School Football Coach Freaks Out On Players After Ice Bath
Randy Dreiling, head football coach at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, Kansas, guided the Saints to the first state championship in program history on Saturday. After the 49-28 victory, the Saints, in return, guided their coach into (apparently) his first-ever ice bath in coaching h...
![Lawsuit Accuses Bad Football Dad Of Dressing Like Referee At Son's Playoff Game And Bragging Online About Influencing The Outcome](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/nzglu0p6ffo0twknzluy.png)
Lawsuit Accuses Bad Football Dad Of Dressing Like Referee At Son's Playoff Game And Bragging Online About Influencing The Outcome
We’ve got controversy in the Illinois High School Association Class 7A football playoffs, folks. Two controversies, in fact. One is a fairly mundane case of disorganization in high school football. The other involves costuming and bad parenting and a lawsuit, and a father boasting on social media ab...