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Author: Wes Blankenship
High school baseball player honors late mother with game-winning grand slam
Watch this high school baseball player hit a championship-winning grand slam weeks after his mother passed away from breast cancer.
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Coffeetown graduation goes up in smoke after stunt driver disaster
Coffeetown High School had all the makings of a graduation to remember. Now it’s one no one will ever forget after a stunt gone wrong.
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David Pollack ran ‘six-flat’ 40 time before high school transformation
David Pollack wasn’t always a beast of a College Football Hall-of-famer. He needed some help as a slow and frustrated high school freshman.
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High school player dunks, shatters backboard: ‘Felt like it exploded’
Ever wonder what it’s like to dunk a basketball? Ever also wonder what it’s like to dunk a basketball so hard that you shatter the glass backboard? Zundra Jackson told us all about it.
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High school football punters: wear neck rolls like Marvin Jones did
High school football punters, you have a tremendous opportunity this fall. And it starts with a blessed piece of equipment: the neck roll.
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Coffeetown QB Reptile Henderson spills his heart for Mother’s Day
Coffeetown QB Reptile Henderson lives with his sister Brenda to stay in the school district. Today, he pays respects to his mama and mamas everywhere for Mother’s Day.
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True High School Sports Stories: ‘Crank That Diesel’
Most high school sports teams lack any real measurable home-field advantage. You can’t say that about this Louisiana team that ran on diesel.
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Coffeetown lacrosse’s grim future: ‘Need more miracles, less rats’
Coffeetown is in the process of starting a varsity lacrosse team. Between the lack of equipment and surplus of rats, it ain’t lookin’ good.
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Kirby Smart on his high school sports experience: ‘we stuck together’
Kirby Smart still values his high school sports career. It seems like a novel concept now, but players actually stuck together back then. Not many transfers coming or going, unless someone’s parents’ got divorced or moved in from Tallahassee or Albany. Nope, just the teammates you grew up with on rec football fields or in…
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Coffeetown archives: Chuggs bros run wild in loss to Dirtville
Throwback Thursdays give us the opportunity to look back on some classic Coffeetown Football games. This story originally appeared in the Saturday, October 19th edition of the Copperhead Courier. Relive the impressive showing from Donnie and Ronnie Chuggs in a loss to Dirtville:
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