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Texas High School Basketball Programs Stripped of UIL Title, Hit With Postseason Ban
A Texas high school athletics department is mired in controversy regarding both of its basketball teams — one being stripped of its 2021-22 UIL state championship and another being banned from 2022-23 postseason play. The Duncanville boys basket...

Basketball Player Saves Referee Who Collapsed During Game
Myles Copeland is exactly the kind of teammate you want. While his semi-pro basketball teams won the game, it was Copeland that made a lifesaving play on a referee. When referee John Sculli collapsed during a game two months ago, Copeland, who works...

Texas Tech Football & Women’s Basketball Teams Sign NIL Deals
Every single player on the 2022-23 Texas Tech football team was recently signed to a Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) one-year, $25,000 contract from a local collective called the Matador Club. The deal will be for all 85 scholarship players plus 1...

Two Fights Breakout Between Refs, Fans, & Coaches during AAU Tournaments
Two AAU basketball referees were involved in physical altercations during summer tournaments in the midwest over the last weekend. In Oklahoma, a referee knocked out a male spectator after issuing a technical foul to a coach for stepping out onto ...

5 Steps to Continuing Relationships with Student-Athletes After Graduation
During the recruiting process, many coaches sell prospective student-athletes on how they strive to have lifelong relationships with their former players. But how many actually practice what they preach? For most young people, the years spent ...

Jump Stops, Pivots, and V-Cuts
Having coached basketball at every level since 1970, including 21 years in the NBA, I always started with stops, starts, pivots, and v-cuts with every team I worked with. In presenting at coaches and player clinics since retiring from the NBA, I...

Toledo Basketball Player Saves Ref’s Life During Game
An off-duty Ohio firefighter's instincts kicked in to save a life while playing in a men's league basketball game over the weekend. Myles Copeland is a firefighter for the Toledo (OH) Fire and Rescue Department and found himself in New York playin...

SCHSL Approves Boys Volleyball, Football Running Clock, & Basketball Shot Clock
The South Carolina High School League (SCHSL) made major changes to the landscape of the state's high school athletics programs during its executive committee meeting this week. Of the changes made by the SCHSL, the most notable were the unanimous...

Oregon High School Placed on Probation After Racial Taunts at Basketball Game
An Oregon high school was placed on probation by the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) following a January basketball game where the opposing team was met with racial taunts from the crowd. Molalla High School's probationary period start...

Parents, Players Attack Youth Basketball Referee in Georgia
Georgia police are conducting an investigation after a youth basketball referee was attacked by a group of young basketball players over the weekend. The alleged Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball game took place inside a church athletic faci...