high school sports

Editor's Note - Round Two voting has now closed, click here to vote on Round Three! What a week! Ocean County Mascot Madness brought out some Ocean County school spirit like I've never seen before. And it made things very interesting!

Editor's Note - Round One voting has now closed, click here to vote on Round Three! We set a challenge out there, and boy has Ocean County responded! After a full week of voting, we've received over 12,000 votes for Ocean County Mascot Madness. We still have a few days left to vote on round one, but here's what things are looking like as I write this:

Editor's Note - Round One voting has now closed, click here to vote on Round Three! We are now three days into voting for Ocean County Mascot Madness, and the local outpouring of school spirit has been astounding! So here's what the voting is looking like so far:

Editor's Note - Round One voting is now closed. Click here to vote on Round Two. With a dozen and a half schools spread throughout the county, folks around here are fiercely loyal to their schools. So we want to settle the question once and for all - who has the best high school mascot in Ocean County?

The idea has been knocked down before, more than once, but New Jersey lawmakers are at it again - attempting to make all high school athletes eligible for random steroid testing.

In a first-of-its-kind initiative from the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, a special team is going school to school in the Garden State to make sure their athletic programs are keeping up with the state regulations and protocols in place.

A deaf student-athlete at Hackensack High School, held back a couple of years in grammar school due to his impairment, is currently banned from playing sports during his senior year, but he may fight the system.

Nobody likes it when the team that you're playing against is scoring against you. But, most of us have a sense of good sportsmanship. You don't have to like the fact that you're getting beaten, but you have to respect the game and the players. This softball catcher from Texas apparently didn't get that memo.

Steroid testing among student-athletes has been allowed for years in New Jersey, but legislation advancing in Trenton would make the process perfectly legal for years to come.

Implemented in June, this is the first academic year since a trash talking ban was put into effect on high school athletes in New Jersey.