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Cavan Biggio's swing isn't pretty. His stance is awkward, his body wiggling back and forth as his hands waggle the bat violently above his head. His father, Craig, a 20-year major leaguer, hardly moved at all once he stepped into the batter's box. Ca...

Top OG Dawson overcomes tragedy to succeed

By Cosy Burnett Cosy Burnett is a junior outside and opposite hitter at La Costa Canyon (Carlsbad, Calif.) who also plays for Coast Volleyball Club in San Diego, Calif. Her high school team competed in the state finals for Division II last season ...

By Walter Villa Every year on Father's Day, McKenzie Kessel and her brother Cody paint their dad's car. "We'll write: 'No. 1 Dad' or 'Best Dad in the World' with an arrow pointing to the driver's seat," McKenzie said. "Or we'll say: 'Honk if ...

Until recently, the experts who project where baseball prospects will be drafted and how they'll be used saw Jesuit (Tampa, Fla.) senior right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. as a future relief pitcher. The idea made his father and his coach incredulo...

Dad remembers. "She looked at me in the eighth grade and said she wanted to play soccer in college." Mark Allen is the father of seven children. The oldest, Keighton, is a three-time all-state goalkeeper and the 2010 Catch It Kansas Soccer Play...

Lee Kiefer, a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar (Lexington, Ky.), has earned a spot on the U.S. fencing team for the 2012 London Olympics.

Vito Montelli has tutored fathers and sons as the only boys' basketball coach in the 50-year history of St. Joseph High School in Trumbull, Conn. "But no grandfathers, yet," Montelli joked. Montelli, who led the Cadets to a 25-1 record and a r...

Solon (Ohio) senior left-handed pitcher Matt Smoral developed a stress fracture in the fourth metatarsal on his right foot and will be out for the season, his father, Steve, told ESPNHS. Rated the nation's No. 2 lefty and No. 6 overall prospect in...

It's not a subject Joey Rodriguez enjoys talking about with anyone, much less a stranger. He's different now than he was three years ago, when his father, Joel Rodriguez, was alive. Rodriguez feels he's had to "man up," to not succumb to emotion, ...

Chase Burnett, a 16-year-old sophomore and junior varsity soccer player at McIntosh (Peachtree City, Ga.), died late Friday after smoking synthetic marijuana known as "Spice," according to a story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. His father, ...

When Cam Burrows began playing football in the second grade, his father started asking him where he wanted to go college. Burrows' answer then was Ohio State, and it was the same every other time his father inquired. And on Jan. 15, when Burrow...

By Walter Villa When Dakota Hampton and her father, Pro Football Hall of Famer Dan Hampton, get together they don't usually play sports. They make music. "I play piano, and my dad plays the saxophone, guitar and the drums," said Dakota. "We pla...

There may not be a long list of basketball stars from India, but neither Sophia Bhasin nor Shilpa Tummala let that stop them.

Great State Debate: With recruiting pressure intense, Alabama has thrived with homegrown QBs.

When she was 14, Taylor Townsend's life wasn't really all that different from that of any other high school freshman. With a mix of anxiety and excitement, she was just settling in at Charles Drew (Riverdale, Ga.), where her father, Gary, is the prin...