

| Sports - Prep Insider |
| • Holm swings for the fences at Spanish Fork High |
| SPANISH FORK -- For the past four years, Spanish Fork softball player Whitney Holm has contorted the faces of many coaches, players and spectators into disbelief. |
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
• Cocky and competitive: Basketball is Obama's sweaty platform ![]() |
| PITTSBURGH -- He's confident and competitive. Superstitious and silly. Admits his mistakes. Shares credit. Always in control. That's Barack Obama on the basketball court, the hardwood hideaway that helped him adjust to a white world as a racially mixed teenager -- and now stands as a sweaty platform for his Democratic presidential campaign. |
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
• Obama says he looked to basketball in his youth ![]() |
| WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama says growing up without a father led him to play basketball and the game offered him a chance to identify racially in Hawaii, a state without a large black population. |
Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| • High school sports board's policy bans discrimination against refs |
| TOPEKA, Kan. -- The organization that governs high school sports in Kansas has officially adopted a policy banning discrimination against referees. |
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 |
• NCAA, NBA take on youth basketball ![]() |
| SAN ANTONIO -- The NCAA and the NBA, organizations that once barely spoke to each other, are combining forces to try to shape what NCAA President Myles Brand called the "dysfunctional" world of youth basketball. |
Friday, March 28, 2008 |
• McNamee tells students, coaches to learn from his mistake ![]() |
| EVERETT, Mass. -- Former New York Yankees trainer Brian McNamee resurfaced to give a brief motivational speech to a small group of workout buffs on Thursday but refused to comment on the steroid scandal that landed him and his famous former client in front of Congress. |
Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
• Uncommitted Evans shows he's nation's best remaining recruit in 107-102 East victory ![]() |
| MILWAUKEE -- Tyreke Evans relishes the spotlight as the nation's top uncommitted recruit even if he hinted he's already made up his mind. |
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| • On sports medicine: Overtraining is damaging young bodies |
| ORLANDO, Fla. -- Sports injuries are rarely the result of a freak accident or random circumstance. More often than not, they come from too many candy bars, late night parties or poor conditioning. |
• Agents still wooing top high school stars ![]() |
| MILWAUKEE -- Alice Knox doesn't bother to answer the phone anymore if she sees an unfamiliar number pop up on the caller ID. It's probably just another agent calling to tout the basketball abilities of her son, Brandon Jennings, and that they'll be watching him closely once he begins playing for the University of Arizona next season. |
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
• Pa. prep star Terrelle Pryor says he'll attend Ohio State ![]() |
| JEANNETTE, Pa. -- Oregon was too far away. Penn State was too rural. Michigan was a close second. |
Monday, March 17, 2008 |
• Top QB recruit Pryor says he will decide on college within week ![]() |
| STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Terrelle Pryor carried a state basketball championship trophy as he walked out of the locker room and was mobbed by reporters. But the question hovering around Happy Valley had nothing to do with hoops. |
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
| • Michigan teams go eight overtimes before becoming co-champs |
| PLYMOUTH, Mich. -- What a way to end the season, with the longest prep hockey game in Michigan history. |
| • Sports body moves to prevent discrimination against officials |
| TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Kansas State High School Activities Association's executive committee has approved two proposals to prevent its member and approved schools from discriminating against sports officials. |
Monday, March 3, 2008 |
• School's refusal to allow female referee to work boys game sparks controversy ![]() |
| KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The uniform exceeds the individual inside. |
Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| • Friday's Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| StandardNET Live! updates of Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| • PREP PULSE BLOG: Fabulous Friday for state basketball tournaments |
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| • Boise player sues, says Hawaii scholarship offer was revoked |
| HONOLULU -- A high school football player from Boise is suing the University of Hawaii, alleging a scholarship offer was revoked after coach June Jones' resignation. |
• With not even a swagger, a Texas high school coach nears 1,000th win ![]() |
| AUSTIN, Texas -- In Texas girls basketball, two things seem inevitable: A team coached by Joe Lombard will make the state tournament and will very likely win it. |
Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
| • Thursday's Top of Utah prep sports score |
| StandardNET Live! updates of Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| • PREP PULSE BLOG: Thursday's quarterfinals at 4-A, 1-A |
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| • Wednesday's Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| StandardNET Live! updates of Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| • PREP PULSE BLOG: State 5-A basketball tournament quarterfinals |
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| • Tuesday's Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| StandardNET Live! updates of Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| • PREP PULSE BLOG: First round of state 4-A boys basketball tourney |
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Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| • Monday's Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| StandardNET Live! updates of Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| • PREP PULSE BLOG: State 5-A boys basketball tournament updates |
| See community blogs |
Saturday, February 23, 2008 |
| • Saturday's Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| StandardNET Live! updates of Top of Utah prep sports scores |
Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| • Friday's Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| StandardNET Live! updates of Top of Utah prep sports scores |
| • PREP PULSE BLOG: State 3-A tournaments |
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| • Blind high school wrestler has opened others' eyes |
| WASHINGTON -- Michael Spriggs grabbed on to a teammate's shoulder and headed for the gymnasium wall, where William Ngakoue, a 215-pound junior on Springdale, Md.'s C.H. Flowers High School wrestling team, rested after winning his first match. Leaning in closely, Spriggs peppered Ngakoue with questions about whether the advice he had given him before the match had helped. |
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