"I don't care how we finish in league, just as long as we get a chance to be in the playoffs". The school's last postseason appearance came in 2010, the season after Newport Harbor let go of Chalmers as its coach.
For their acceptance Monday, the guys did the kind of patter that comes from two people knowing and working with one another for a long time, not the jury-rigged, paired-presenter banter that comes from the met-10-minutes-ago NFL-playoff-refereeing school of teaming up that characterizes most award-show twosomes.
12: Notre Dame 3-0; Best chance to make playoff among schools in the "The Group of (Suspended) Five".
The Fennville team was scheduled to compete in the district playoffs Monday, but school officials had not decided Friday whether to play the game.
After his daughters were knocked out of the Texas high school playoffs in 1953, Rains took them to watch the state championships in Austin.
The N.F.L. usually avoids scheduling a Steelers game on the weekend of the high school playoffs, but this season, the Steelers got stuck.
Bill Walton, the Hall of Fame center and NBC basketball analyst, watched the Collins brothers play against his sons several times in California state high school playoffs.
The Georgia Dome was initially booked Dec. 8 for the semifinals of the state high school playoffs, but was freed up because the high schools also postponed their games last weekend and pushed back their postseason plans by a week.
EASTERN COLLEGE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE--Announced the Fairfield men's hockey team has been declared ineligible for the ECAC playoffs because the school awarded scholarships based on athletic ability.
Rodriguez, the spark plug of Virginia Commonwealth's unlikely Final Four run, knocked Tonelli's team out of the Florida state high school playoffs in consecutive seasons, the same way he helped eliminate Kansas, Florida State, Purdue, Georgetown and Southern California from the N.C.A.A. tournament the past two weeks.
