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![Me And My Boy Snuck Into The Greatest Football Game Ever Played](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/clsciirgss1um4u513h4.jpg)
Me And My Boy Snuck Into The Greatest Football Game Ever Played
Sunday night’s Gonzaga-DeMatha matchup for DC’s Catholic league title was, objectively speaking, the greatest event in the history of mankind. Sporting or otherwise. (Non-believers can watch it all here.)...
![Report: Massachusetts High School Cancels Remainder Of Football Season Due To Hazing Investigation](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/nulnhejzrq64jlftrxbq.jpg)
Report: Massachusetts High School Cancels Remainder Of Football Season Due To Hazing Investigation
Worcester (Mass.) Technical High School announced Thursday that it had canceled the last two games of its football season as the school and police conduct an investigation into alleged hazing, according to Worcester Magazine....
![Five JV Football Players Charged With Rape After Allegedly Assaulting Teammates With Broomstick](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/tr0ewlcnytl2pufozfuc.jpg)
Five JV Football Players Charged With Rape After Allegedly Assaulting Teammates With Broomstick
Montgomery County (Md.) police have charged a quintet of junior varsity football players from Damascus High School with a variety of rape offenses after they allegedly assaulted two of their teammates with a broomstick and attempted to do the same to two others on Halloween night. Damascus is a powe...
![High School Football Team Redeems Itself With A Crazy Comeback One Year After Late-Game Collapse<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
High School Football Team Redeems Itself With A Crazy Comeback One Year After Late-Game Collapse<em></em>
Last year, Minnesota high school St. Michael-Albertville made news when they gagged up a huge late lead by letting Maple Grove score 19 points in the game’s final 59 seconds. On Friday, STMA found redemption by pulling off a wild fourth-quarter comeback of their own that featured three consecutive o...
![Montana School District Denies It Knew About Athletic Trainer's Decades Of Sexual Abuse](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/whww5b13ctk4tplxbgsv.jpg)
Montana School District Denies It Knew About Athletic Trainer's Decades Of Sexual Abuse
The Miles City Unified School District in Montana has denied that it had any knowledge of sexual abuse carried out by James “Doc” Jensen, who was an athletic trainer at a Custer County high school from the early 1970s through 1998. The denial was in response to a lawsuit filed against the school dis...
![Report: Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault During Football Hazing Incident At Northern Virginia High School](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/fwdaojzzokvz17zndzwl.png)
Report: Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault During Football Hazing Incident At Northern Virginia High School
Loudoun County Public Schools and the Leesburg Police Department are investigating an allegation that football players at Tuscarora High School in Leesburg, Virginia, held down and sexually assaulted a teammate during a post-practice hazing ritual earlier this month. Per a Loudoun Times-Mirror repor...
![Texas High School Explains Why It Burned Effigy Of Black Player From Rival School](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/oidr8jdkjsqqb0ezjnbk.jpg)
Texas High School Explains Why It Burned Effigy Of Black Player From Rival School
Van High School in East Texas conducted its annual homecoming bonfire on Thursday night, at which members of the football team lit a large fire underneath an effigy wearing the jersey of a player from rival school Brownsboro’s football team. Video of the event was posted on the school’s Facebook pag...
![Report: Florida High School Football Coach Accused Of Head-Butting And Blowing Snot-Rockets On Players, Telling One To Kill Himself](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/pyopbrxw9ktzyh4v72kg.png)
Report: Florida High School Football Coach Accused Of Head-Butting And Blowing Snot-Rockets On Players, Telling One To Kill Himself
This is a crazy story, first reported by the Palatka Daily News, in Florida: Randell Gene Owens, a former assistant football coach and physical education teacher at Palatka High School in Putnam County, is accused of, shit, just a whole wild catalogue of alarming abuses directed at his players....
![High School Football Game Descends Into Chaos After Reports Of Shots Fired](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/r4epjjsf34aespsgpi2y.gif)
High School Football Game Descends Into Chaos After Reports Of Shots Fired
The Benton Panthers and the Bryant Hornets held their annual Salt Bowl football game Saturday at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas. The game, which drew more than 38,000 fans on a steamy 92-degree day, was going along swimmingly—Bryant was leading 28-14 in the third quarter—when what sou...
![High School Football Participation Drops For Second Straight Year](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/vok4kvbotnb4ywfv9sfh.jpg)
High School Football Participation Drops For Second Straight Year
The annual National Federation of State High School Associations survey of high school athletics was released Friday. The good news is overall high school sports participation increased for the 29th consecutive year, led by an increase of more than 15,000 participants in girls’ sports. The, uh, also...
![Ugly Schoolboy Football Feud Leaves Baltimore Powerhouse With Zero Opponents For 2018](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/bmzyuysa4t7xuq1nl6w7.jpg)
Ugly Schoolboy Football Feud Leaves Baltimore Powerhouse With Zero Opponents For 2018
If you can’t beat ‘em, blackball ‘em. That’s among the morals of the story of the dissolution of Baltimore’s prep football scene, which is now complete: St. Frances Academy, a historically non-athletic and financially strapped institution which is suddenly among the best football schools in the coun...
![Baltimore Prep Football Fight Gets Bigger And Uglier](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/tttfkzsdzkged5mwwhuq.png)
Baltimore Prep Football Fight Gets Bigger And Uglier
The predicted unraveling of Baltimore’s prep football scene appears to indeed be underway. Another scheduled opponent bailed on playing the city’s burgeoning national gridiron powerhouse, St. Frances Academy, as accusations of cheating, cowardice and racism were flying all over town. All because St....
![Baltimore High Schools Sick Of Getting Whupped By Football Coach Who Spends Millions On His Team](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/jevktyh3rkvatw1jxqx6.png)
Baltimore High Schools Sick Of Getting Whupped By Football Coach Who Spends Millions On His Team
Can too much charity be a bad thing? The Baltimore prep sports scene seems to be on the verge of unraveling with the emergence of a parochial powerhouse, funded by a head coach with apparently massive financial means and the desire to make schoolboy football the focus of his philanthropy....
![Alabama School Board Sued For $12 Million By Parents Of Football Team Hazing Victim<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/p8odwys8ycvxj3lfn1jq.png)
Alabama School Board Sued For $12 Million By Parents Of Football Team Hazing Victim<em></em>
Last week, a video of Rodney Kim Jr. being kicked, beaten, and jumped on in his high school football team’s locker room went viral. The beatdown was recorded at Davidson High School on April 27 following a spring practice session. The attack resulted in a broken arm for Kim Jr., who is 14 years old...
![High School Football Coach Says He Was Fired For Having Too Many Black Players On The Team](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ynnojmzbiy7d1kw7tfgr.jpg)
High School Football Coach Says He Was Fired For Having Too Many Black Players On The Team
The coach of a New Jersey football team says he is being fired for having too many black players on the team....
![<i>Varsity Blues </i>Can't Decide How It Feels About The Cult Of High School Football](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
<i>Varsity Blues </i>Can't Decide How It Feels About The Cult Of High School Football
Varsity Blues works as long as you don’t think about it too hard. Which, I readily admit, probably means it works exactly as well as intended....
![Marjory Stoneman Douglas QB Commits To D-III School After Hiding With Recruiters During Shooting](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/hqvrzv33acgqeicy5bia.jpg)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas QB Commits To D-III School After Hiding With Recruiters During Shooting
Marjory Stoneman Douglas football player Tyler Goodman was meeting with Nichols College assistant coach St. Clair Ryan and dean of admissions Paul Brower during last month’s shooting which killed 17 people at the high school. Goodman had not seriously considered attending Nichols, a D-III school in ...
![Report: Student Said Football Coach Pushed Her Out Of Line Of Fire During Florida School Shooting](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/mk83bxfkpxrafkjquwwa.jpg)
Report: Student Said Football Coach Pushed Her Out Of Line Of Fire During Florida School Shooting
According to a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., assistant football coach and security guard Aaron Feis pushed her out of the line of fire during Wednesday’s school shooting that left 17 people dead, including Feis....
![Court Docs: Bixby HS Football Players Admitted To Sexually Assaulting Teammate; Suspect's Parent Tried To Buy Video Evidence<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/v10wzvbpl55il5p3lpkj.png)
Court Docs: Bixby HS Football Players Admitted To Sexually Assaulting Teammate; Suspect's Parent Tried To Buy Video Evidence<em></em>
Five juveniles admitted to participating in the sexual assault of a 16-year-old Bixby High School football player at the former superintendent Kyle Wood’s home in Bixby, Oklahoma during a team event in September, according to public court documents filed Tuesday....
![Bixby School District Superintendent Resigns Amid High School Football Rape Case](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/icypwx4phpmv7bydq0so.jpg)
Bixby School District Superintendent Resigns Amid High School Football Rape Case
Three months after a 16-year-old boy in Oklahoma was allegedly raped with a pool cue by his Bixby High School football teammates at the superintendent’s home during a team function, the school board’s only “disciplinary action” so far has been to accept the resignation of the superintendent, Kyle Wo...