It's hard to say that no one saw a 6-foot-11 girls basketball player coming, but that seems to be the case in Southern New Jersey, where the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Marvadene Anderson is using a considerable size advantage to dominate the girls hoops scene near Philadelphia.

"They were like 'wow,' because they had never seen a girl my height," Anderson told the Inquirer of her opponents following an 18-point outing last week. "They were all like, 'Oh my God,' but I was used to it, anyway. Even now, people I am acquainted with, they still stare like they've never seen somebody my height before."

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The stares are well earned, if only because most people haven't seen a girl Anderson's size before. The 17-year-old Jamaica native moved to the U.S. last year to try and get enough attention to earn a college scholarship. As one might expect, that attention has come almost as quickly as the stares when Anderson's Rutgers

Gus Frerotte wrapped up an NFL career marked equally by occasional starts and occasional injuries in 2008. The quarterback never fully established himself as a bona fide signal caller, in part because of the video punchline that now punctuates any mention of his career.

That YouTube punchline is the one you see above, where Frerotte celebrated a touchdown with a headbutt to an NFL stadium wall, a moment of madness that gave the quarterback a concussion, neck injury and -- eventually -- a pink-slip from the Washington Redskins. This after Frerotte was given the starting quarterback job ahead of first-round pick Heath Shuler because then-coach Norv Turner said Shuler -- who is now a U.S. Congressman -- wasn't smart enough to run an NFL offense. That move has to be a statement about congressional competence or Norv Turner competence. You decide which.

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According to the St. Louis Dispatch, a St. Louis-area high school has now decided

In July, Sean Obi was sequestered in a north Nigerian school, trying to focus on academics and funnel his raw athleticism into more refined basketball talent. Less than six months later, he finds himself trudging through snow in Fairfield County, Connecticut, heading to and from games where he's increasingly targeted by Division I basketball scouts, who look on in amazement as he overwhelms nearly every opponent who has the misfortune of ending up in his path.

According to the Connecticut Post, the road that landed Obi -- who wears No. 34 in the video above -- at Greens Farms (Conn.) Academy, in Westport, is a unique one. The 6-foot-9 sophomore power forward was noticed in Nigeria by a Nigerian businessman in Texas, who had become friends with an oil trader in Greenwich who previously had befriended the Texas businessman on prior trips to Africa.

That oil trader, Steve Eggers, happened to be the father of Greens Farms player Hunter Eggers, giving him connections with the school's

Sometimes you have to give genius its due. Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated, today we doff our cap to thee.

That requisite outdated honorific is due Staples because of his recent article digging up the best-named football recruits in the Class of 2011. While we all know about superstar defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, few among us were hot on the recruiting trail of God's Power Offor or Wonderful Terrific Monds II. You read that right, Wonderful Terrific Monds II is named for his father, Wonderful Terrific Monds, who happened to be a minor league baseball player. Really.

Those last two were the gems of Staples' latest compilation of stars whose birth certificates might be more framable than their forthcoming high school diplomas. God's Power Offor might just be the best-named top recruit since now-LSU up-and-comer Barkevious Mingo, and Wonderful Terrific Monds might have a future in marketing the novelty item of his choice, once he's done with his future in college football, likely

Move over "Natinals," there's a new bizarre misspelling on D.C. area jerseys, and the erroneous duds aren't even getting changed ... at least for now.

According to the Washington Post, Theodore Roosevelt (D.C.) High has played the 2010-11 season with jerseys that misspell the common nickname used for the school's mascot. Roosevelt's teams are known as the Rough Riders, and when Roosevelt athletic director Daryl Tilghman placed the uniform order for the school's basketball team, he requested jerseys that said "Riders" on the front, just as the school has used in prior seasons.

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The difference is that this year, the vendor for those uniforms sent back jerseys that say "Ryders" on the front. While that uniform maker has defended the uniforms to Tilghman by claiming Ryders is "the cool way to spell it," that excuse would hardly seem to wash with the nation's 26th president.

"We're a school, not a rec [league]," Tilghman told the Post when

What's better than one impressive dunk from a top recruit? Two impressive dunks from top recruits, on opposing teams, on back-to-back possessions!

Luckily for all of us, that's precisely what we got last week in New York, where Sir'Dominic Pointer, one of the top recruits in the Class of 2011 who stars for Quality Education (N.Y.) Academy, threw down a pretty unbelievable reverse tip dunk in the middle of a gaggle of teammates around the rim, only to be arguably one-upped by Class of 2012 national star Andre Drummond, who dunked directly over a Quality Education foe on the resulting break.

It's hard to tell which of the two dunks above is more impressive. The level of difficulty on Pointer's tip drill dunk is nearly off the charts. After all, it's almost impossible to exert any body control when a player is elevating backwards, let alone have enough body control to dunk a basketball which is physically behind a player's head.

Yet, if Drummond's dunk was less impressive, it was only

It was the kind of error in calculations for which a student might get partial credit in calculus, but which would wreck the Hubble telescope. For a period of roughly an hour on Saturday, it cost Bishop Feehan (Mass.) High girls track team a repeat title in the Massachusetts Indoor Track Division 3 State Relays.

Then, when Bishop Feehan coach Paul Powell and others started to look into how they lost the title they were sure they'd retain, they noticed something odd: Race officials had been dishing out points to all top-eight finishers in each event. According to the Boston Globe, Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association regulations call for only the top six finishers to receive points, which meant that all the total scores for the entire meet were erroneous.

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The officials sat down and muddled through a little more than an hour of hand calculations, eventually learning that the team which had been crowned as

Tony Mitchell never expected to be a poster case for the dangers of attending an unaccredited high school. He never expected to set the standard for uber-talented players who fail to put on an NCAA jersey. Yet, thanks to the murky backwaters surrounding one of his former schools -- Miami's Center of Life Academy -- Mitchell, unanimously considered one of the most talented prospects among the Class of 2010, is likely to spend an entire season on the sidelines unable to suit up for a threatening Missouri squad, the school he signed with as a senior at Pinkston (Texas) High.

The latest developments in Mitchell's topsy-turvy road to either an NCAA hardcourt or possible irrelevance come via Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports college basketball analyst Seth Davis, who brazenly declared, "I don't think Tony Mitchell is ever going to play college basketball," during a telecast on Sunday. Last week, the NCAA's Eligibility Committee was expected to announce that Mitchell had failed to meet the