When the secret service says that you can't threaten the president, it means business. If there was ever any question of just how serious it is about that charge, consider the case of assistant high school wrestling coach Jacob Volkmann.

Volkmann, who happens to be better known for his exploits as a UFC fighter, was put on extended paid administrative leave from his position at White Bear Lake (Minn.) High for statements he made on camera after a UFC event. While it's unknown how long that paid leave will last, it's entirely possible -- perhaps even probable -- that it will extend for the remainder of White Bear Lake's wrestling season. You can see the statements for which Volkmann has been investigated in full below.

When asked who Volkmann wanted to fight in his next bout, he flippantly replied, "Actually, Obama. He's not too bright.... like the make a home affordable plan and his health care plan, someone needs to knock some sense into that idiot." Volkmann faced an inquiry from

Ike Nwamu wasn't on the cheat sheet of biggest names at the annual Hoophall Classic in Springfield, Mass., over the weekend, but he might have stolen the massive high school basketball event's biggest headlines with one of the more impressive slam dunk contest performances we've ever seen.

As you can see above, Nwamu essentially out Vince Carter-ed Vince Carter, duplicating classic dunks from Carter's memorable slam dunk contest win in 2000, when he was still a member of the Toronto Raptors. While Nwamu, a Cleveland State recruit, may be an unlikely candidate to assume Carter's professional throne, he made a case for himself as one of the best prep dunkers around with the first two dunks in the clip above, in which he went between his legs and shoved his arm through the rim, a clear Carter reference.

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While Carter wasn't in attendance, another former NBA Slam Dunk champ was, with former Celtic Dee Brown sitting courtside, helping

The All Japan High School Soccer Tournament -- Zenkoku Koto Gakko Sakka Senshuken Taikai, for those of you keeping score at home -- is a pretty big deal. The event gets national attention, and is considered the rough equivalent of NCAA March Madness in the U.S. (Yes, the Koshien high school baseball tournament is also the rough equivalent of March Madness in the U.S., so the country essentially has two high school sports tournaments that capture the entire focus of the nation). If there was any question about the event's bona fides, the raucous bands and fans in the background of the video below should assuage those doubts.

The tournament starts with 48 teams in early December and eventually weeds its way through nationally televised rounds down to the January finals, which are held in Tokyo. With that in mind, the following nationally televised blooper was a pretty big deal, as it occurred in the national semifinals.

The poor Japanese fellow who produced the rather embarrassing own

Gilbert Christian (Ariz.) High School is a small school, but it has a sizable state-wide pedigree, thanks in part to athletic success within Arizona's smallest high school sports classification. A big part of those accomplishments in recent years have come from the school's boys basketball team, which captured the Class 1A state title with a perfect 32-0 record and was favored to repeat the feat this year.

All that success has come under coach Steve Currier, which makes the decision to line him up in a meeting which was determined to fire him on Tuesday all the more confusing, and nearly surreal.

Now Currier is telling anyone who will listen that he was given the boot because a notable donor whose son is on the team doesn't like his system of play. According to the East Valley Tribune and Arizona Republic, Currier was brought in for an impromptu meeting with Gilbert Christian superintendent Jim Desmarchais, three school board members and the donor in question on Tuesday night. While

There are weeks when there are so many impressive dunks out there, it's hard to reject the impulses to morph into an online, location-agnostic dunk contest, Transformers style. We're not about to do that (though we have thought about it), but we are going to highlight some of the very best from the past week, along with a basketball game that was awfully eventful at the end of quarters and one of the most efficient soccer goals you'll ever see.

• Jalen Robinson, Northland (Ohio) vs. Linden (Ohio) McKinley: Overshadowed by teammate and now-Ohio State star Jared Sullinger for the past couple of years, Jalen Robinson has emerged as one of the nation's most intriguing junior prospects, in part because of his incredible athleticism, which he shows off on this rebound dunk where he was left unmarked to come down the lane.

• Dominique Williams, Haines City (Fla.): We're not sure precisely in which Haines City game this thunder slam came, but it certainly lived up to Williams All-State

The winter weather had dramatic consequences for high school sports schedules across the country this week, but none of the adjustments forced by ice and snow were as dire as the ones affecting wrestlers in the state of Georgia who lost the scheduled Team Duals state championships, which were to be held on Saturday but were already postponed because of anticipated travel problems.

The issue isn't the current postponement as much as it is the date on which the Duals championship will now be held. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, rather than moving the event for a week or even two weeks, the event was shifted six weeks, to Feb. 25-26.

While that might have been the first weekend that was completely free for all the teams involved -- it had to be free, because the sport was scheduled to finish up the previous weekend -- it will create an additional month to six weeks of trauma for many of the wrestlers involved. More than athletes in any other prep sport, wrestlers often

On Jan. 7, the Middleton (Wisc.) High hockey team routed local rival Madison Memorial (Wisc.) High 9-1. While that final score might be notable on its own, a goal from the one-sided matchup has earned headlines across hockey cyberspace, and for good reason, as you can see below, thanks to video from Patty Loew and the Middleton High School hockey program.

As first highlighted by both local outlets and Yahoo!'s own inimitable Puck Daddy, the prep "Michigan goal" put up by Middleton's Todd Koritzinsky is practically a shoo-in for high school goal of the year. What may be more impressive is that the likely future NHL draftee -- who has also earned headlines with previous statement goals -- might have put together an even better Michigan goal than the original, scored by Michigan's Mike Legg back in the 1996 NCAA Regional Finals.

Not only does Koritzinsky score an almost identical flip-wraparound goal (though his comes from the right

Over the holidays, Prep Rally mentioned that the Texas Class 5A state championship game between Pearland and Euless Trinity at Cowboys Stadium actually outdrew the first three bowl games of the holiday season.

As it turns out, that memorable Texas title tilt performed just as well against much of the college bowl slate. By the time all the paid attendance at Monday night's title tilt between Auburn and Oregon was tabulated, the Pearland-Trinity matchup's 43,321 fans beat out 16 of college football's 35 bowl games.

While none of the strongest traditional bowl games were among those 16, three notable college games beaten were the Independence Bowl and the debutant Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium and TicketCity Bowl, held at the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day. Despite the TicketCity Bowl including a Texas team (Texas Tech) at a historic stadium, it still fell short of the state 5A game's numbers.

Perhaps equally amazing, there's no reason to believe that the Texas high school attendance