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When it comes to his senior prom date, Leon Purvis is going for the gold -- as in two-time Olympic gold-medal winning gymnast Gabrielle Douglas. Purvis, 17, posted a You Tube video last week asking Douglas to be his date for the May 31 Glassboro ...

Kevin Durant missed his senior prom to concentrate on hoops, but the Oklahoma City Thunder star will have a front-row seat to the big dance that is the NBA Finals.

Alabama running back Trent Richardson, who is a top candidate to get selected fourth overall by the Cleveland Browns, took 17-year-old cancer survivor Courtney Alvis to the senior prom this month. How Richardson ended up there is detailed in a great ...

Trent Richardson has had a busy April prepping for Thursday's NFL draft, but not so busy that he couldn't find the time to escort a young leukemia patient to her senior prom.

In this week's Six, Marty Smith finds a man who takes his NASCAR love deeper than most. Want more? How about Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s media love and the passing of Levon Helm.

Alabama running back Trent Richardson, who could be selected fourth overall by the Cleveland Browns in 10 days, took 17-year-old cancer survivor Courtney Alvis to the senior prom over the weekend. We addressed this in the AFC North blog on Friday,...

Former Tide star running back Trent Richardson takes Alabama fan and cancer survivor Courtney Alvis to her senior prom....

Trent Richardson doesn't know if he'll be drafted fourth overall by the Cleveland Browns or later in the top 10. But the Alabama running back knows where he'll be Saturday night -- at a high school senior prom. Richardson is accompanying 17-year-o...

This story originally appeared in the March issue of ESPNHS Washington. Clint Coulter is not planning on making an appearance at this year's Union senior prom. It's not that he's struggling to find a date or worried about what dance move to bu...

If Bryce Harper was like a lot of 18-year-olds, this past March he might have been thinking about his last days of high school and his senior prom date. Instead, he was in big league camp with the Washington Nationals. His parents were in Florida to ...

Blog | January 17, 2012

When Davey Johnson was having success in the 1980s, he did so after he pushed the promotion of a couple of talented youngsters in Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry. He's in a position to push again.

Blog | Conversation | January 17, 2012

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett Dion Lewis didn't make it to his senior prom or any high school graduation parties. He was too busy working to become the next great Pittsburgh running back. "I was just focused on being here," he said. "I did...

Matthew Stafford's baptism-under-fire freshman campaign had its ups and downs, but Georgia expects the experience to pay big dividends in 2007, writes Mark Schlabach.

The Suns can't afford to have Amare Stoudemire be a lottery bust. All signs indicate he won't.

Enrolling into college has become a growing trend in college football. Missing prom and Senior Skip Day has become a regular for a lot of high schoolers these days. In the SEC, getting a high number of early enrollees is becoming more and more of ...

By Walter Villa Last Saturday's Class 4A state final was the last big event in Mackenzie Mayo's senior year. For Mayo, there will be no prom, no field trip and no lavish graduation-day ceremony. Mayo, a 5-foot-5 libero for two-time state...