Category: High School

Newtown wins state championship on anniversary of Sandy Hook shooting

The Newtown High School football team won a state title on Saturday in unbelievable fashion.

Seven years to the day since the tragic Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the Newtown High School Nighthawks won a football state championship in unbelievable fashion, scoring a 36-yard touchdown on the last play of the game to walk off as winners.

With the game against Darien tied 7-7 late in the fourth quarter, Newtown forced a turnover on downs and had just 56 seconds left to try and score. The Nighthawks advanced from their own 33-yard line into Darien territory. Newtown snapped the ball with three seconds left in the fourth quarter, and after time expired, quarterback Jack Street launched a perfect pass to the corner of the endzone, and receiver Riley Ward made the catch to win the title.

 

The championship is Newtown’s first since 1992.

 

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Bronny James and Zaire Wade blew out their opponents in their first high school game together

What a team!

A quick reminder that Sierra Canyon’s boys hoops team has Zaire Wade (Dwyane’s son), Bronny James (the offspring of LeBron) and future Kentucky star BJ Boston on its roster. That’s a whole lot of talent on one team.

So it’s not that surprising that the squad defeated Montgomery High 91-44, a game that was shown on ESPN3 on Thursday.

Wade’s dad was in attendance, with the crowd in attendance going nuts when he came to sit at courtside to watch the game. I’m not sure if he was around to see Wade catch an alley-oop pass and slam it home:

James’s first shot as a high school player was a three from near the corner:

Yup. This is going to be fun to watch:

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Introducing The Sneak, a new true crime podcast from For The Win and USA TODAY Sports

Everything you need to know to subscribe to FTW’s first serialized true crime podcast.

The Sneak is a new, serialized true crime podcast, out today on Wondery+, from For The Win and USA TODAY Sports.

Season one is about the story of an armored car robbery which took place in a suburb of Seattle in 2008, the once great athlete who committed that crime, and how the crime forever changed the small town where it occurred.

The podcast is available today. Right now. Here are the details:

Listen to The Sneak

You can listen to the first episode of The Sneak, totally free, on Apple Podcasts right now.

If you subscribe to Wondery+ at Wondery.com/PLUS, you will get access to each new episode of The Sneak, ad free, every week. It’s $4.99 a month and you can cancel at any time.

By subscribing, you’ll also get access to Wondery’s other great podcasts ad-free, including Dr. Death, Confronting O.J. Simpson, Over My Dead Body, and more.

The Story (some spoilers)

There are a few spoilers below, so if you want to come in fresh, skip down to the next section. 

ONE MORE WARNING. OK.

The first season of The Sneak tells the story of Anthony Curcio, aka D.B. Tuber, a college football star who committed an outlandish armored car heist in 2008. Curcio used a disguise, Craigslist-hired decoys, and made a wild escape in an inner tube down a river.

It’s a perfect crime story, but as we discovered in our reporting: It was too perfect. The story that went viral worldwide, well, it was missing things. Like how it actually all went down. And who else was involved.

Watch the trailer

Visit the show’s website

Get access to special features and learn more about the team that made The Sneak over at thesneakpodcast.com.