High School Sports

Sports Heat Stroke

Sports in extreme heat: How high school athletes can safely prepare for the start of team practices

High School Sports

Pennsylvania high school athletes may soon be allowed to explore NILs

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Gov. Wolf to Pennsylvania Republicans: 'Leave trans kids alone'

PA Trans Sports Ban

Pennsylvania House approves bill that would ban transgender athletes from playing women's sports

Pennsylvania transgender bill

For Philly's Josh Verlin, loving basketball is a way of life

Eagles creating girls flag football league in bid to get sport sanctioned by PIAA

Eagles Girls Flag Football

High School Football

St. Joseph Prep, Imhotep each fall in respective PA state title games

St. Joe's Prep loses title game

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PhillyVoice high school football Top 10: Chichester is winning for the first time in over a decade

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The pandemic was tough for high school athletes, especially the girls

High School Football

High school football's return to Philly is saving lives

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High School Basketball

Holy Ghost Prep head coach Tony Chapman reaches 900th victory

For family of basketball stars, Camden's Dajuan Wagner Jr. proving best may be yet to come

High School Sports

Limited number of spectators now permitted to attend N.J. youth, high school sporting events

High School Sports

Ice hockey spurring more COVID-19 outbreaks than other youth sports, health experts say

New Jersey Ice Hockey

New Jersey bans indoor sports until January in response to COVID-19 surge

NJ Indoor sports ban

New Jersey to curb indoor dining service as COVID-19 cases spike

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High School Sports

NJSIAA greenlights winter high school sports season across New Jersey

new jersey winter high school sports season

High School Sports

Philly Catholic League reverses course, will allow high school fall sports to resume

Philly Catholic League high school sports fall

Gov. Wolf vetoes bill giving school districts full control of sporting events

Gov. Tom wolf veto bill

Pennsylvania to allow limited number of fans at high school sporting events

Pennsylvania fall high school sports

Philly Catholic League cancels high school fall sports amid coronavirus pandemic

Philly Catholic League

High School Sports

Fall high school sports season cleared to begin on Monday in Pennsylvania amid COVID-19 pandemic

Piaa Pennsylvania fall high school sports season

Philly Public League suspends high school sports in the city until 2021

Philly School Sports

New Jersey football teams can resume playing amid COVID-19 pandemic

Youth sports New Jersey

High school, recreational sports can resume voluntary workouts in Pennsylvania with health protocols

Pennsylvania high school recreational sports

Officials: Winter sports at Upper Darby High School closed to general public following fight

Upper Darby High School sporting events closed

Father charged in fatal shooting of Overbrook 18-year-old Suhail Gillard

Suhail Gillard

10-year-old boy shot at in Camden-Pleasantville football game dies

camden pleasantville football shooting

High School Sports

Pennsylvania tied for biggest increase in high school football participation amid falling interest nationwide

high school football participation

High School Sports

Central Pennsylvania high school nails a perfect reverse Philly Special

philly special high school football pennsylvania

Two teenagers shot at Simon Gratz High School football game, according to police

simon gratz football shooting

New Jersey referee who made teen wrestler cut dreadlocks banned for two years

New Jersey dreadlocks referee

Shooting incident after Bucks County high school football game leaves one injured

Morrisville high school football shooting

N.J. referee who ordered wrestler’s to be hair cut poised to file defamation lawsuit

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High School Sports

New Jersey looks to reduce contact in high school football practices

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High School Sports

La Salle high schooler’s enormous dunk lands on SportsCenter Top 10

La Salle Dunk Boy

High School Football

PhillyVoice High School Top 10: Someone’s ‘0’ will go when Archbishop Wood and Archbishop Ryan meet

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Eagles' Zach Ertz, Rep. Bob Brady, more help Kensington High School football team surpass donation goal

Kensington football equipment stolen

High School Sports

People get pretty mad after high school marching band interrupts other marching band

High School Sports

WATCH: Pennsylvania high school wide receiver makes amazing one-handed catch

One handed catch

No, I didn't deserve a varsity letter for 'high-school newspaper editor'

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