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Ohio football player playing with special purpose after father's death

One football player in northeast Ohio is playing with a heavy heart and a new purpose this fall after a tragedy befell his family just last month. In early August, Mayfield (Ohio) rising senior Tyrone...

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Officials: Dylan Thomas died of brain injury, though cause of injury is...

The Georgia high school football player who died Sunday, two days after an in-game injury in Pike County’s game against Peach County, passed away as a result of a brain injury, per officials who spoke...

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Stoneman Douglas football team retires Feis' number, honors victims

Stoneman Douglas football team honors February shooting victims, retires Aaron Feis' number https://t.co/VmgJZHeSCD pic.twitter.com/J4Si8Cu4iS — South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) October 19,...

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Alabama HS football team involved in deadly bus crash

A bus carrying a junior varsity football team as well as seventh- and eighth-grade teams in Alabama was involved in a deadly crash on Tuesday night. Authorities told KTRK-TV and other outlets that the...

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Calif. football standout Dawson Fay plays for friends who died

One football standout near Sacramento, Calif., is playing this year with a heavy heart after surviving a horrific car wreck in March. As the Sacramento Bee’s Joe Davidson describes, Nevada Union High...

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Montana HS football team rallies together after death of teammate

The Joliet (Mont.) High School football team steeled itself all preseason to overcome adversity. Now it’s dealing with more than it imagined, in a single powerful dose. On Thursday morning, Joliet...

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Penn. HS football player killed in crash after football banquet

A high school football player at Delaware Valley High School (Delaware Township, Penn.) was killed in a tragic vehicle accident after attending the school’s football banquet Sunday night, leaving his...

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Okla. football standout killed in triple shooting; his mother in custody

Only one day after senior running back Kayson Toliver was slain, Beggs rallies to defeat Sperry for the district title in an emotional victory. #OKPreps pic.twitter.com/pATopgxKBT — Cayden McFarland...

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Thousand Oaks shooter's HS track coach claims he assaulted her

When the latest tragic American mass shooting unfolded early Thursday in Thousand Oaks, Calif., an entire community reacted with horror and revulsion. For one woman, there was also a strong tinge of...

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Police: Georgia man set up fake GoFundMe to profit off player's death

Georgia man sets up fake GoFundMe page to profit off high school player’s death, cops say https://t.co/OLaoU332xn — AJC (@ajc) November 9, 2018 A Georgia man is accused of creating a fraudulent...

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Driver killed in crash with bus carrying Wis. girls basketball team

Driver dies after crossing center line and colliding with school bus carrying girls basketball team from western Wis. https://t.co/DMdz1yj9b1 pic.twitter.com/elS5UhDeoA — KARE 11 (@kare11) November...

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Report: 'Charges likely' in single-car crash that killed Georgia HS track...

The day after a crash in that killed a 17-year-old Georgia high school student and injured three others, authorities identified the teenagers involved and said charges may be filed against the driver....

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San Diego prep football player among three killed in execution-style Tijuana...

Two San Diego teenagers who took a Black Friday trip to Mexico were shot and killed execution-style in a triple homicide Sunday morning at a Tijuana apartment complex. As the San Diego Union-Tribune...

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One child dead, 45 injured in youth football bus crash in Arkansas

Tragedy struck an Arkansas highway Monday when a youth football team from Memphis was involved in a bus crash as it traveled back home from a tournament in Texas. As reported by our partners with the...

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Bus carrying Ill. girls basketball team crashes returning from game; two...

A bus carrying a junior varsity girls basketball team in Illinois crashed with a semitrailer truck Wednesday night as the bus was returning from a basketball game. The accident, which took place near...

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S.C. community reeling after prep football player killed in car crash

A South Carolina community is mourning the death of a high school football player who was killed in a car crash. Joshua Daniel Burgess, a 17-year-old senior at Wade Hampton High School (Greenville,...

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Okla. middle school mourns softball player killed when team bus collides with...

An Oklahoma school district is mourning the loss of a softball player who was killed when the team’s bus collided with a drunk driver after a game. As reported by Oklahoma City ABC affiliate KOCO,...

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16-year-old Florida high school wrestler hit, killed while on morning run

A high school wrestler in Florida was struck and killed by a driver while out for a morning run, leaving a community behind to grieve his loss and remember his spirit. As reported by Jacksonville news...

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Louisiana high school football player collapses, dies after practice

A Louisiana high school football player collapsed and died after his team’s practice. As reported by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Louisiana NBC affiliate WDSU, Amite (La.) High School 15-year-old...

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Toledo high school senior football player shot dead

A Toledo (Ohio) Scott High School rising senior football player was shot and killed Sunday in broad daylight, raising concerns about public safety in the city and what caused such a promising life to...

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