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Thieves broke into 17 vehicles outside the Edward Jones Dome while Missouri high school football teams were playing for state championships.

Brooke Bruins football fans can get their tickets to the championship game early.

CALGARY a ' Regina-born Montreal Alouettes guard Scott Flory is a Grey Cup champion for the second time.

The Paulsboro High School football team was down, 14-0, with less than eight minutes to play in the first half against rival West Deptford Saturday.

Concussions in high school football can be deadly. WAVY TV's Chris Reckling has the latest on this difficult injury to diagnose.

Centennial High football coach Bryan Nixon pulled the perfect motivation card. Before the eighth-seeded Golden Hawks' Central Section Division I quarterfinal against top-seeded Buchanan, Nixon told his college-prospect quarterback that they were about to see which No.

A regulation high school football game lasts 48 minutes. But in Saturday's Class 4A Division I Region I semifinal, one can point at a span of three minutes and 47 seconds to see how Guyer beat Abilene Cooper 57-34. Guyer's win at Shotwell Stadium knocked the Cougars from the postseason for the second straight season.

A 16-year-old San Jose Academy football player was in critical condition late Thursday after suffering a head injury during an annual Thanksgiving Day football game between two rival San Jose high school teams.

Prior to Saturday's semifinal game, the boys from Pueblo had always been bigger, meaner, tougher and just flat out more nasty than the Steamboat Springs High School football team.

In one dramatic moment, San Jose High Academy football player Matt Blea proved that even recent improvements are no match for the cruel laws of physics.

Miss this week's FNF Overtime previewing the upcoming high school football championships? You can watch the entire thing right here.

Most of the Godby High football team's wins this year have been nail-biters. Friday night's 26-19 win over Baker County in the Region 1-2A semifinals was no exception.

Flowery Branch quarterback Connor Shaw rushed for four touchdowns - including one with 30 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter - and passed for another to rally the Falcons over Carver-Columbus 35-33 in a GHSA Class AAA quarterfinal on Friday at A.J. McClung Memorial Stadium.

After trailing in its last seven games, the Catholic High football team decided Friday was the night to finally break the trend.

Two days ago in my preview of this game , I called Eden Prairie and Cretin-Derham Hall two of the heavyweights in Minnesota high school football.

A Massachusetts high school football player shown on a video head-butting an opponent during a game is facing an assault and battery charge.

The high school football playoff pairings were made official, including the Xavier Falcons, who have an assistant coach who's 75 years young.

MILLVILLE -- A 21-7 lead in the fourth quarter was not enough for Vineland High School's football team, as Millville surged back to win, 23-21, at Wheaton Field.

Thanksgiving Day high school football games mean different things to different people.

November 27, 2009 8:59 a.m. Jayrone Elliott is a 6-3, 210-pound senior defensive end/linebacker for Glenville.

A high school football player is hospitalized after taking a hard hit during a Thanksgiving Day football game.

Coaches at Montague and Ovid-Elsie don't take Cody Kater and Chris Robinson for granted.

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the historic battle between the Portland High School and Deering High School football teams.

The Buriak family is presented with a football that their son, Matt, caught in last Saturday's junior varsity game between Ledyard and Fitch after the varsity squads' Thanksgiving Day football game Thursday.

If ever there were a time when a score did not tell the whole story, Cardinal Gibbons' 47-0 win over Currituck County High in the opening round of the high school football playoffs is it.

After giving residents one last chance to have their say on a proposal to pay $2.8 million for a high school football field, the City Council went for the project on a split vote.

When a tip arrived about a threat of violence at a southern Nevada high school football game, a Clark County School District police officer helped plan a response.

Celebrate the Tennessee Titans and their impressive turnaround this season by donating a coat for someone in need.

Three Brockton High School football players are off the team for this week's Thanksgiving Day game and next week's playoff game after being charged with various alcohol-related offenses.

Joshua Edison, Deonte Clifton and Demandrea Fuller are to return to court on Dec.

Three members of the Brockton High School football team have been benched for two of their team's most important games.

Bethel. Bullard-Havens. Ansonia. Darien. New Canaan. These are a handful of regional high school football teams that will be playing for one of the 18 remaining state playoff spots when Thanksgiving football gets under way tonight and continues Thurssday all across Connecticut.

Coroner Greg Sandstrom said toxicology reports showed Fein died of "acute opiate intoxication." Fein is believed to have taken morphine and Alprazolam, a Xanax-like drug used to treat anxiety.

A high school football player in western Kentucky has been charged with second-degree assault stemming from a fight that broke out during the Fulton County-Calloway County game last month.

For the last three years we've had the privilege of teaming up with the Honda dealers every Sunday night, recognizing some of the prime high school football players in the Houston community.

Kewaunee tight end Mike Lux was named to The Associated Press all-state high school football first team on Monday.

Along with the turkey and mashed potatoes, Justin Sinz finally can dish out a heaping helping of told-ya-so to his older brothers this Thanksgiving.

Burlingame High wasn't able to hold an early lead and couldn't muster enough of a late comeback in a 30-20 loss to Saratoga in the first round of the Central Coast Section Division III football playoffs Friday night.

The report made by the Georgia High School Football Daily earlier on Monday saying that Mark Wilson is no longer the head coach at Americus-Sumter is false.

Friends of a Ledyard High School football player who collapsed during a game over the weekend gathered at the school to pray for his recovery.

The McCallum Knights are still alive in the high school football playoffs.

The Placer High football team took the drama out of its playoff opener early. The most suspenseful moments came about 20 minutes after the Hillmen crushed Foothill 57-20 in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV-A bracket.

Monte Vista's Dalis Bruce, #28, grabs the face mask of Heritage's Deshaun McCoy, #20, while tackling him out of bounds in the 2nd quarter of their game on Friday, Nov.

Down 14-0 in the first quarter, the Catholic High football team scored three times in the second quarter en route to a 41-35 win against Taylor County on Friday in the Region 1-2B semifinal.

Judson This is News 4 WOAI's Friday Night Fever high school football recap. We have scores and highlights from teams across the region.

It's a role Tim McGraw signed to play for the rest of his life -- the husband of a steel-spined southern belle.

High school football teams around Mid-Michigan are gearing up for playoff games, but the players hitting the field are not the only ones at risk for injury.

Fort Thomas Highlands' Austin Collinsworth has won the Paul Hornung Award, given by the Louisville Touchdown Club to Kentucky's top high school football player.

GREEN -- There were nine lead changes, two ties, 87 points scored and more than 930 yards of total offense accumulated.

KIMBERLY - When Kimberly's high school football team won the state championship two years ago, it was an unexpected gift.

Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.

Armed with a powerful offense that could cause a calculator to overheat from adding up statistics, the Delsea Regional High School football team checked back into the South Jersey Group 2 championship.

It's not only the pros that hit the field on Thanksgiving Day. Big high school football games are on the slate all across Massachusetts.

To hear Sue Hancock tell it, for years her husband asked their son, film director John Lee Hancock Jr., when he was going to make a football movie.

Walla Walla High School Head Football Coach, Marc Yonts, is resigning after 14 years of service.

Jae Head is S. J. Tuohy, Quinton Aaron is Michael Oher and Sandra Bullock is Leigh Anne Tuohy in Alcon EntertainmentA a a s A a A"The Blind Side.A a A The inspirational biography of Baltimore Ravens' player Michael Oher makes the movie based on his life, "The Blind Side," of sporting interest to local moviegoers.

The autopsy of an East Tennessee high school football player who collapsed during a game shows that he had a heart problem that contributed to the death.

A step toward addressing the high school football playoff system was taken during the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Board of Control meeting Thursday, with the approval of a committee that will explore various options.

High School Friday is getting ready for our big Thanksgiving Day football special.

"The Blind Side" is a terrific film based on a true story and even better than I expected.

Error on line 40 position 3: Type mismatch: 'InputParentProfile' ENLARGE AUSTIN HINDER Photo courtesy Rivals.com Steamboat Springs is known as a tourist destination for skiing this time of year.

It's the weight. That's why Mark Mangino's job is jeopardy. That's why Lew Perkins held a paper-trail meeting with Kansas football players Monday night.

GETS AN EARFUL: "I don't think I've become accustomed to it," Taylor Lautner said about fans' screams.

Second round of high school football playoffs kicks off Friday night. The South Charleston Black Eagles are continuing their run toward a state championship.

How do you top one State Title? Make it two in a row, and that's what Bismarck High's football team did this weekend, and for the second straight year, they celebrated.

Crossing over from a music career to acting -- and vice-versa -- has been a hit and miss proposition for several performers over the years.

A judge has delayed the eluding police trial of the man accused of killing an Iowa high school football coach.

Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: Most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Kansas football coach Mark Mangino poked senior linebacker Arist Wright in the chest during a Friday walkthrough practice the day before the game at Colorado, sources told The Star on Tuesday evening, triggering an athletic department investigation of Mangino.

Patience is supposed to be a virtue. For Providence senior Steve Arthurs, the current king of the offense, patience as the Celtics' tight end has been as much of a necessity as blocking for his buddy Tim Hanrahan.

After a circuit court judge orders the indefinite suspension of Arkansas high school football in class 3A last week, the Arkansas Activities Association announces the 3A playoffs will begin this Friday.

The Pennsville Memorial High School football team gave Woodbury everything it could have possibly wanted in a mud-covered opening-round South Jersey Group I playoff contest Saturday afternoon.

A former Henrico County high school football coach has pleaded guilty to charges of taking indecent liberties with students.

The football is just lying there, still as a crisp November night. Chaos erupts all around it.

Back when Terra Nova High was 0-3, no one could have foreseen the Tigers getting the No.

State police are investigating a cross burning in western Pennsylvania outside a home of a white family who have taken in a black child who plays for the local high school football team.

On Friday the Travis Rebels took on the Hendrickson Hawks Friday in the high school football playoffs.

Those crisp autumn leaves and incredible fall colors that sprinkle the state are just part of what makes Ohio special this time of year.

Officials are trying to determine what caused a South Carolina stadium wall to collapse during a high school football game, sending at least 11 students to the hospital with minor injuries.

A North Carolina high school football team which needed a judge's ruling to keep its postseason berth is going to court with hopes of continuing its chase for a state title.

The Williamstown High School football team exorcised the last of its demons Saturday night.

A wall collapse during a high school football game in Union, S.C., sent 12 students to the hospital with minor injuries, officials say.

John and Joe chat Connecticut high school football with Pete Lamoureux of WCCC AM Radio.

WEST DEPTFORD -- The Buena Regional High School football team showed it could hang with West Deptford, one of the top teams in South Jersey, for the first half of Friday night's NJSIAA Group II South semifinal matchup.

The Lincoln and Godby High football teams already earned playoff berths entering Friday night's game at Gene Cox Stadium, but it was the Trojans that ended their regular season on a high note.

The Wakulla High football team came into Friday's game at FAMU High knowing it wouldn't be playing in the postseason next week, but the War Eagles still had plenty of motivation.

The playoffs are up next in high school football. There was good news at Granite Bay and Woodcreek when the Sac-Joaquin Section released its playoff brackets late Saturday afternoon.

Fargo Shanley stopped Devils Lake on a two-point conversion in overtime, clinching a 31-30 victory in the North Dakota Class 2A high school football championship game.

The extracurricular activity does not seem to feel the punch from the tough economy.

JASON CLARK / Courier & Press Paoli's Tyler Dillard can't escape a tackle by Mater Dei's Jacob Scheu , top, and Neil Hammelman during the first quarter of their Class 2A regional title game on Friday.

CINNAMINSON -- Down to just 23 players on its roster, the Bridgeton High School football team got monster efforts from two of its offensive leaders Friday night.

"Back to the future" - that's what comes to mind when Follansbee Mayor Tony Paesano thinks of the 2009 Brooke Bruins football squad.

Authorities say a wall has collapsed at a high school football playoff game in northwest South Carolina and a dozen students have been taken to the hospital.

Lake Travis cruised to a win over Crockett 58-7 on Thursday night in the opening round of the high school football playoffs.

A federal prosecutor says a Vian man has been convicted of distributing steroids to high school football players.

LA CA&#209ADA - La Ca&#241ada High School quite often has trailed early in volleyball matches this season.

A North Carolina judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday which will allow a high school football team to participate in the state playoffs.

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Authorities say several students needed oxygen for nausea and headaches after a city worker cut through a gas line near schools in Parowan.

KMBC's Karen Kornacki talks with Blue Valley Northwest High School football coach Mike Zegunis and his players.

The Thomas Jefferson High School football program has been a model of dominance.

A complaint against the Westlake High football team accusing the squad of fielding an ineligible player has been filed, according to the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association.

The TSSAA has released its finalists for the Mr. Football Awards for 2009 and the list includes three mid-state players and a Tennessee commitment.

By The Telegram After eight years as head coach of the Garden City High School football program, Mike Smith announced his resignation in a press conference Wednesday afternoon at the high school.

"A quadriplegic in New Jersey has the right to bear arms even though he can't hold a gun or pull a trigger.

A few weeks ago we were at a vigil for a 10-year-old boy who died during football practice.

The St. Mary's Springs High School football team will meet Lancaster at 5 p.m. Saturday at Middleton High School in a WIAA Division 5 Level 4 playoff football game, it was announced Sunday.

MENOMONEE FALLS Cousins Subs today announced that Oak Creek High School senior John Rozwadowski won a $500 scholarship in the Cousins Subs Oak Creek-Muskego Field Goal Contest.

"High school football in Tennessee enjoys a great tradition throughout the state and we are pleased to join the TSSAA for the third consecutive year in saluting these fine young men at the Tennessee Titans Mr.

A volunteer high school football coach has pleaded not guilty to shooting his pregnant lover during an argument in the Central Coast town of Paso Robles.

Since 1999, the only teams to play in the Class A state championship game have been Wheeling Central, Williamstown, Moorefield and Madonna.

For the first time in four years, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb made it through an entire press conference the week before a Dallas game without fielding one question about Terrell Owens.

Officials at a Texas school district say a Memorial High School football player suffered a neck injury during practice and was flown to a hospital.

Storm related information including closures, power outages and other information... BREAKING NEWS: Severe Weather - Gulf County Storm related information including closures, power outages and other information... The High School Football District 2, 1A playoff will now start at 4:00 p.m. eastern at Liberty County High School.

Grand Rapids Press prep sports editor Jane Bos joined Sports Overtime on Sunday to discuss the second week of the high school football playoffs.Also: The second video features Jane's segment discussing week one.

It was like a bad case of Deja vu for the North Putnam Cougars Friday night. For the second time in as many meetings, the Cougars took a lead into the fourth quarter against the Bulldogs and again, the Bulldogs found a way to pull out the win.

Natchez High's football team made its way into Hattiesburg High's D.I. Patrick Stadium on Friday night knowing a loss would've eliminated the Bulldogs from postseason play, while a win would have assured them of a playoff berth.

BELMONT Before Friday night's game, South Point High football coach John Devine figured the best way to negate Crest's size and speed was to dominate time of possession.

The Monroe High School football team scored 27 second-half points to come from behind and beat Brick, 40-14, Friday night.

The University of Utah Utes crushed the New Mexico Lobos yesterday at Rice Eccles Stadium, 45-14. The Utes' record is now 8-1, while New Mexico has dropped to 9-0. Freshman Ute quarterback Jordan Wynn got his first start, and the Utes' offense looked good after a somewhat shaky first quarter.

Desoto County, Mississippi Sheriff's investigators have learned the remains of a Hernando High School football player, missing since 1977, may have been found in Arkansas.

The WVSSAC AAA high school football playoff bracket was released Sunday morning, in Parkersburg.

Andy Bonheyo has spent half his life as a high school football coach. Like many of his peers, he loves the game, takes pride in teaching the importance of teamwork and insists his players display good sportsmanship.

" Football is all about real estate, and the Bishop Guertin High School football team is buying up yardage at an incredible rate.

Game Night is the place to get the latest information on high school football games, direct from the press box.

Above, with the "W" on their helmets turned upside down to make an "M" the Wilson High School football team honored Melody Ross, a classmate lost to gunfire after last week's game.

High school football highlights from Durant at Newsome.

Kyle Crane threw for five touchdowns - including the game-winner with 1:06 left in the game - to lead Cedar Bluff to a 33-26 win against Victory Christian in the opening round of the Class 1A state high school football playoffs Friday night.

Gerald Jack, former University of Alabama assistant athletic director whom former Alabama football coach Gene Stallings called his 'right-hand man,' has died in Paris, Texas.

A group of middle school students is accused of vandalizing the car of an Anne Arundel County high school football coach, and surveillance video appeared to catch them in the act.

November 06, 2009 12:21 p.m. The Solon Comets are just one Northeast Ohio team seeking a state championship as the playoffs begin tonight.

As long-time rival football teams on Thursday planned tributes to a student murdered after a match, the Long Beach Unified School district announced new security measures for football games.

FOX 5 Sports confirmed Thursday that the Stone Mountain High School football team must forfeit five of their six victories for using an ineligible player.

Palo Alto Online Sports Staff This we know for sure: The Sacred Heart Prep football team has qualified for the Central Coast Section playoffs for a second straight season.

After three weeks in custody, four Immokalee High School football players accused of having group sex with a 15-year-old girl on school grounds were released from the Collier County juvenile detention center Thursday morning.

The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association is investigating whether a Jones High School football player is eligible to play.

Two South Carolina high school football players have been charged with assaulting one of their teammates.

Melody Ross, a 16-year-old Cambodian teen, was shot and killed Friday, Oct. 30, in the 4400 block of East 10th Street in Long Beach as she left Wilson High School's homecoming football game, authorities said.

COHASSET - The high school football season is quickly winding down and teams are starting to position themselves for the playoffs.

One of the Greenville teens charged in the armed robbery that led to the death of a high school football player is due in court Thursday.

A five-way high school football playoff takes place Tuesday night at South Sound Stadium in Lacey.

While most young people were celebrating Halloween Saturday night, classmates of a 16-year-old honors student fatally shot outside a high school football game in Long Beach were in mourning.

Seneca Police have charged two high school students with assault and battery. According to the incident report, Austin Hunter and Devin Jarrel Gaines, both 17, threw the victim to the ground and punched him, kicked his head and punched him several times after football practice on Oct.

Beating a team once in a season can be tough to do. Doing it a second time, and in the playoffs, makes it an even more difficult task.

The Wharton High School football team has battled adversity all season, but when they take on Tampa Bay Tech Friday night looking for win number three.

Several parents gathered in a circle, held hands and prayed; just like at the beginning of a ball game.

The new Republican governor-elect of Virginia brings to the office firmly conservative views that took root in the suburban, middle-class Irish Catholic home of his youth.

The quarterback made the toughest, most important catch of the day. The running back threw for more yards than the quarterback.

A key lawmaker said Tuesday that recent court decisions blocking suspensions of two NFL players threaten to undermine progress made in reducing performance-enhancing drug use among athletes at all levels.

After its win Friday, Coppell celebrated its second straight playoff berth. The players had more reason to cheer when they heard where they would play their first playoff game: Cowboys Stadium.

Four Crossland High School football players were suspended last week for unsportsmanlike behavior following a game with rival Potomac.

A mother says she moved her family to Rochester, hoping for a better life. Now, all she's left with are memories and pictures of her young son.

A Cleveland man was arraigned Friday on murder charges in connection with the death of a former Glenville High School football player.

Grief counselors will be at Woodrow Wilson High School this morning to comfort classmates of a 16-year-old honors student fatally shot outside a high school football game, as the search for the shooter continues.

Travis Whitten was a marked man. With Nick Lambert, the other half of Westside's superb running back duo, out with an injury, Iaeger was free to concentrate on Whitten.

Clark vs. Taft This is News 4 WOAI's Friday Night Fever high school football recap.

All season long, 24 Hour News 8 has sent crews to high school football games across West Michigan as part of its Football Frenzy coverage.

Dakota Fanning 's latest role is as a real-life homecoming queen. The blonde "Twilight" star cheered on her high school's football team -- the Vikings -- from the sidelines with the cheer squad and was even tossed into the air during the routine, the paper reported.

Aggravated assault charges have been filed against two men who allegedly attacked a referee after a close high school football game.

You would think teams would eventually start to figure out a way to slow down Tanner Hinds .

Down but certainly not out at halftime, the La Mirada High football team needed a spark or two during Friday night's Suburban League showdown at Excelsior Memorial Stadium.

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