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ESPN Midlands recruiting coordinator Damon Sayles stops by to talk about Josh Pelzel's commitment to Baylor, the strong crop of defensive backs in the state of Texas, and a small Texas high school that's providing several Big 12 recruits....

Aledo's Johnathan Gray, South Grand Prairie's Abraham Hall and Mansfield Legacy's Shelbi Vaughn are up for the 10th annual Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year Awards, which will be handed out tonight. Gray is a boys finalist after being named...

Dallas Jesuit receiver Jake Oliver and Plano Prestonwood Christian linebacker Mike Mitchell are among the players to watch at The Opening in Beaverton, Ore., this week according to ESPN Recruiting writers Tom Luginbill and Craig Haubert. Click her...

Southlake Carroll is the winner of the 2011-12 UIL Class 5A Lone Star Cup, which is based on overall school achievement in a variety of sanctioned athletic and academic championships. Carroll won five state championships, most among this year's Lo...

The Gatorade State Track & Field Athletes of the Year were announced last week, and both of the Texas winners were from the Dallas-Fort Worth area: South Grand Prairie's Abraham Hall and Mansfield Legacy's Shelbi Vaughan. As a senior, Hall won...

The National Basketball Players Association has released the roster for its annual Top 100 camp, which will be held June 14-16. Twelve of the top 25 players in the ESPN 100 earned invites, including No. 1 overall Jabari Parker. Locals earning inv...

Plano East and Forney lost in the semifinals of the UIL state softball tournament Friday. Plano East lost 6-3 to Klein Collins in a Class 5A semifinal. Deer Park beat Klein Collins 6-0 in the 5A state championship game. Forney lost 11-3 to Mont...

Arlington Martin, Rockwall-Heath and Cleburne were pushed to the limit before winning their best-of-three regional final series to clinch spots in the UIL state baseball tournament. Martin beat Southlake Carroll 5-2 in Saturday's Game 3 of the Cla...

ESPNHS senior editor Ronnie Flores covered Nike's Elite Youth Basketball League stop in Hayward, Calif., over the weekend, an event that included Plano Prestonwood Christian star Julius Randle. Randle, the nation's No. 2 recruit for the Class of 2...

UIL softball tournament regional final results: CLASS 5A REGION 1 Plano East 5, Hebron 4 CLASS 5A REGION 2 Klein Collins 8, The Woodlands 1 CLASS 5A REGION 3 Deer Park d. Pearland (1-0, 2-0) CLASS 5A REGION 4 San Antonio O'Connor 9, N...

Class 4A Forney and Class 5A Plano East are the only schools from the area to reach the UIL state softball tournament, which runs Wednesday-Saturday in Austin. Plano East defeated District 8-5A rival Hebron 5-4 in the 5A Region 1 final to earn its...

Results from the UIL baseball regional semifinals and pairings for the regional finals: CLASS 5A REGION 1 Regional semifinals Arlington Martin d. Hurst L.D. Bell (1-3, 6-1, 8-4) Southlake Carroll d. El Paso Montwood (1-2, 5-1, 5-2) Reg...

The new basketball recruiting season officially started this week when ESPN Recruiting Nation released its annual prospect rankings. Plano Prestonwood Christian forward Julius Randle becomes the area's most coveted recruited, checking in at No. 2 ...

Senior midfielder Jana Jeffrey of Ursuline Academy (Dallas) was named the 2011-12 Gatorade Texas Girls Soccer Player of the Year on Wednesday. Jeffrey scored 32 goals and had 23 assists for TAPPS power Ursuline, which won its 22nd consecutive sta...

West Mesquite defensive back Kameron Miles verbally committed to Tennessee on Monday, picking the Vols over Stanford, Penn State and Arkansas. Miles explained to ESPN Recruiting's Damon Sayles that Mark Barron's play at Alabama steered him toward ...

Region 1 and 2 quarterfinal results and semifinal pairings of the UIL state baseball playoffs: CLASS 5A REGION 1 Quarterfinal results Arlington Martin d. Lubbock Coronado, 9-3, 5-1 Hurst L.D. Bell d. Plano East, 7-3, 0-5, 2-1 El Paso Montwood ...