High School Basketball

An Oklahoma broadcaster for high school basketball was awarded $25 million in a defamation lawsuit filed against a local newspaper.

A Texas teen and his brother have been arrested and charged with beating up a high school basketball coach after the coach benched him.

A wild melee ensued at a California high school basketball game over the weekend after a referee punched a coach, sparking a riotous scene on the sidelines.

A high school basketball player from Alabama died suddenly Thursday after a medical emergency at his school, according to reports.

A Christian school officially forfeited a basketball playoff game to avoid competing against a team that allows a transgender girl to play.

A Michigan teen who collapsed on a high school basketball court has now died, according to reports.

A high school basketball player died suddenly at his home from unknown causes or perhaps from a sports injury that caused peritonitis, officials now say.

The Marble Falls school district in Texas has launched an investigation into fans making monkey noises at a black basketball player.

A scary scene unfolded Saturday night when LeBron James’s son, Bronny James, and dozens of others were sent fleeing from the court over fears that someone in the crowd had a gun.

A California mother must pay more than $9,000 in restitution and apologize to a teenage basketball player she told her daughter to hit during a youth basketball game in 2021, a judge ruled Wednesday.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Ian Jackson and Johnuel “Boogie” Fland are among the brightest stars in the firmament of high school basketball and now have business deals to prove it.

A Connecticut high school suspended its girl’s basketball coach for one game after he presided over a massive 92-4 win on Monday.

Former NBA player Corey Benjamin’s ex was charged for urging their daughter to sucker punch a teen girl during a high school basketball game

A high school basketball player in Iowa sucker-punched an opposing player in the handshake line following a game, resulting in a melee between the two teams.

Van Buren County High School in Tennessee fired Tyler Sapp, its girl’s basketball coach, saying that a woman should lead a girl’s basketball team.

A California family has filed a police report after their daughter was brutally punched in the throat during a teen’s basketball game.

ORONADO, Calif. (AP) — The governing body for high school sports in California on Wednesday stripped a Southern California high school of its basketball division championship after some of its players threw tortillas at the opposing team, which was from a largely Latino school.

CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — A San Diego-area school district voted Tuesday night to fire the head basketball coach after tortillas were hurled at a team from a mostly Latino high school.

A high school basketball announcer has been pulled from his job after calling players the n-word when some took a knee during the anthem.

An Indiana high school basketball coach was fired after being ejected from a game for throwing a chair in the direction of a referee.

LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — A winless North Carolina high school basketball coach assaulted a heckler who raised his hand to admit he had made the comment, a sheriff’s office said.

The handshake line is normally where players go to exchange congratulations and compliments following a hard fought game.

The coaches’ caper was unraveled by a store clerk who, apparently, thought it concerning that two men would show up to purchase beer in a school bus. The clerk then called Connors State, a school that does not allow alcohol on its grounds.

A basketball player from Maryland, Je’Nan Hayes of Watkins Mill High School, showed up to her school’s regional finals game wearing her hijab, the traditional Muslim headgear worn by women, and was disqualified from playing in the game.

After Appleton North won its first Wisconsin state championship in girls high school basketball this weekend, junior Sydney Levy went to give her little brother a hug to celebrate. Instead, a Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association employee ushered the boy away and

A Trump-Pence campaign sign does not symbolize racism. Yet, it sounds like a school superintendent in Missouri just said that it does.

Per a report by Columbus, MS CBS affiliate WCBI, a Mississippi high school girls basketball coach was hospitalized Thursday night after she was attacked by a parent. Hamilton (MS) High coach Sue Verner was “knocked out cold” by Heather Thompson, 36, and taken

More than 200,000 boys play high school basketball, with only 5% (just over 4,000) playing D1 in college. Even the best of those 4,000 has just a 63% chance at the NBA.

The fallout from a gigantic mismatch in a girls’ high school basketball game in Southern California has left one coach sitting on the hot seat. On January 5, the Hawks of Arroyo Valley High School’s girls’ team decimated their opponents from Bloomington High School, 161-2.