High School Basketball

Despite His East Dallas Address, Hoops Star Admon Gilder Will Play at Madison This Season

Dallas ISD has, for the moment at least, put last spring's athletic-recruiting scandal behind it. The 15 coaches and administrators Superintendent Mike Miles fired over the summer have exhausted their appeals. Madison High School's 2012-13 and 2013-14 basketball titles have been vacated. There's a n ... More >>

Fired DISD Employee Tried to Clean Up the Corrupt Athletics Department and Was Ignored

Well before Wilmer-Hutchins High School basketball standout Troy Causey was beaten to death by a friend and on-court rival after being improperly recruited from Richardson ISD, it was clear to anyone paying attention that Dallas ISD's athletic department was rotten. Superintendent Mike Miles' subseq ... More >>

In Honor of Prime Prep: 10 of Texas' Biggest High School Sports Scandals

Saying Texas takes high school sports seriously is like saying it can get a bit warm here in the summer. Contests between kids make adults do crazy things, like, say, letting a certain former football player open up a state-funded charter school. Or worse. Check out some of the low-lights of Texas h ... More >>

The Story of the Murdered Wilmer-Hutchins Hoops Star Is Getting Stranger by the Newscast

At first glance, the March 23 murder of Wilmer-Hutchins High School basketball standout Troy Causey Jr. was the result of the cruel stupidity of undersupervised teenagers. According to police, Causey and a crosstown rival, Madison High's Johnathan Turner, started started arguing over a video game. ... More >>

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Frisco's Only Black Coach Says He Was Fired For Complaining of Racial Hostility

Frisco High School's only black coach says he was fired earlier this year for complaining of racial discrimination. Former Frisco world history teacher and basketball coach Alvin Jackson claims in a May 22 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court that school and district administrators began retaliatin ... More >>

Lewisville Basketball Coach Calls Cops to His Apartment, Winds Up Accused of Trafficking

A Fighting Farmers basketball coach is accused to farming for talent in Mexico, and then fighting the talent.​Today's lesson, boys and girls, courtesy of WFAA's Craig Civale and the Lewisville police: When you appear to be running a racket that involves importing a high school basketball playe ... More >>

DISD Trustee Ranger Wants Hinojosa Out Now

Photo by Todd Overman/Courtesy Dallas Independent School DistrictDistrict 6 trustee Carla Ranger and the state-champion Kimball High School basketball team back in March​Left a few messages for Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger yesterday, but never heard back. No matter ... More >>

RIP: David Milson

​Despite another brave battle, cancer won again yesterday. Back in July I told you about friend and fantastic basketball coach David Milson, one of the happiest people I ever did meet. Lung cancer finally got the best of him, as the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach has pass ... More >>

David Milson: Bad News For a Great Coach

I had a couple people recently make fun of the fact that I wear a Livestrong bracelet. "Those are out of style," the jab went. To some it's a fad I guess. But to me it's a reminder of a couple people who are - fashion trends be damned - still battling cancer. Unfortunately, I've got anoth ... More >>

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Super Bowl XLV to Bring Quite the Collection of Gridiron Greats to Woodrow Next Week

​Tony Fay started working for the Dallas Mavericks in 1987 as the media relations intern; by the time he left in '99, he was director of communications -- which was no easy feat back then, given that was six months before Mark Cuban bought the then-struggling franchise just off a lockout season. T ... More >>

Girls 61, Boys 44

One player wore low-top running shoes and - duh - sprained his ankle. A guy in only a diaper was escorted out by security. And, in the end, the teen-aged girls reduced the middle-aged men to a hapless puddle of fart-and-fall-down. In other words, The Ticket's game against a group of Lake H ... More >>

Video of the Week: SOC's Fame Over Shame

I'm only half-kidding when I ask this: Was it worth it for South Oak Cliff High School to change the grades of three players - including McDonald's All-American Darrell Arthur - and win back-to-back state basketball championships in 2005-06, only to have the titles later forfeited? At the time ... More >>

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