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A Kansas coroner confirmed Thursday that the brain injury that killed Spring Hill High School football player Nathan Stiles on Oct. 29 came from a part of the 17-year-old's brain that had bled earlier this year.

They held hands, lit candles, cried and prayed. Hours after a shooting left Aplington-Parkersburg High School football coach Ed Thomas dead, people here struggled to understand what happened, and why, writes ESPN.com's Wayne Drehs.

After a lifetime of being sidelined by a rare liver disease, Darin "Doogie" Weiks got the chance of a lifetime: to suit up for one game and play for the Athens (Wis.) High School football team.

Maybe you've seen the video. (If you haven't, brace yourself.) Wayne Drehs chronicles the story of Claire Markwardt, who broke a leg in her state high school cross country meet but crawled across the finish line anyway.

Smith Center High scored 72 points in the first quarter against Plainville in the Kansas high school football playoffs Tuesday night. Did the Redmen run it up? Wayne Drehs' answer might surprise you.