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Now an All-Star, Ashcraft was outplaying NFL stars in high school

Pirates starter Braxton Ashcraft is often in the spotlight, standing on the top of the pitcher’s mound in Major League ballparks. Though he’s used to it after starring under the Friday Night Lights in ...

Opinion: You should go to your high school reunion

As modern society fragments into monocultural interest groups, attending a reunion of any kind is a radical act of broader ...

These high school athletes defined the state of Wyoming — who's the greatest?

From Ken Sailors to Sydney Thorvaldson, USA TODAY Sports is searching for the best Wyoming high school athletes of all time. Vote for the GOAT today.

High school basketball’s transfer era is here. Bay Area coaches are divided about it.

Scroll through Northern California sports social media long enough this summer and you’d be forgiven for thinking you were watching college basketball’s transfer portal in real time.  Except those ...

Contributor: California schools are on the frontlines of fighting homelessness. Now they have funding.

Last school year, California districts identified 298,254 students experiencing homelessness. The real number is almost ...

Before Mike Gansey became a Sixers executive, he was a hard-nosed high school player that earned LeBron James’ respect

Steve Gansey was playing with his son a few weeks ago, as ESPN hummed in the background, when he heard something unusual. It was Kendrick Perkins, talking to his NBA Today co-hosts, about a photo that ...

Rintaro Sasaki, the Japanese high school phenom, reaches career crossroad at MLB Draft

Sasaki's path to the MLB Draft was unusual, as he went from Japan to Stanford with the goal of reaching MLB quicker. Will his ...

‘We should never allow this to become normal’: School leaders tell of armed guards and threats

Jewish children in Australia are growing up believing a strong security presence is normal, community leaders have told the ...

Gen X kids were handed 8 adult responsibilities before high school that most of Gen Z can barely handle

Kids who grew up in the '80s and early '90s were handed a startling number of the second kind, often before they'd finished ...

Expelled from Neptune HS, Harvard-trained doctor now NYC health chief

Dr. Alister Martin faced unusual obstacles on his path to becoming New York City health commissioner, like getting expelled ...