There are losing streaks, and then there are epic slumps. For four years, the Cross Keys (Ga.) High girls basketball program was in one of the latter, failing to win a single game across an entire tenure of a high school class.

That all came to a crashing end last month, when the Lady Lions finally snapped a 96-game losing skid with a 31-28 victory over Yeshiva School of Atlanta. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the win was the program's first under second-year coach Bobetta Bailey and the first since a 48-30 win over Carver (Ga.) High in late January of 2006.

The win was most special for Taylor Luxford and Tosin Adebayo, a pair of seniors who had yet to win a single game in their high school careers. The duo combined for 12 of their team's 31 points in the rare victory, with the Indians led by sophomore Asha Buchanan's 10 points, according to PrepCountry.com.

What does three consecutive 0-for-the-season campaigns entail? In the case of Cross Keys, this was what it

Quarterback Brendan Nosovitch didn't just have a good game in Allentown Central Catholic (Pa.) High's 49-27 demolition of Archbishop Wood (Pa.) High in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class AAA semifinals on Friday. He had a career game, one that was so impressive that it might be better than just about anyone's career game, too.

According to the Philadelphia Daily News and the Allentown Morning Call, Nosovitch finished with an astounding 602 yards of total offense (or 601, depending on which account you believe) in ACC's victory, passing for 419 yards and four touchdowns and running for two himself, while gaining 183 yards on 21 carries.

In fact, the stirring statistics accounted for a rare feat: The quarterback actually out-gained his own team. While Nosovitch accounted for 602 yards, the Vikings as a whole were credited with only 599 yards, meaning that the team actually lost yards when Nosovitch wasn't involved.

"I'd definitely say it was the game of my life,"

Jessica Korda is only 17, but she had a heck of a weekend. Not only did the teenager lead at the LPGA's Q-school professional qualifying tournament, she finished in the impressive runners-up position, qualifying for the full LPGA professional tour in the process.

"It was a tough, tough day because it was really windy, and I lost my balance about 20 times," Korda told the Associated Press. "But this is a dream come true."

"I knew I always wanted to turn pro, but I never thought I'd do it this year. I've had a really good year and I'm so glad I get to finish it out here, turning pro at LPGA Q-school."

A Floridian teen of Czech descent -- her father is legendary Czech tennis star Petr Korda, who actually caddied for her over the summer at the U.S. Women's Amateur -- Korda could be the latest great youth sensation to hit women's professional golf, following on the heels of current women's golf stars Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel.

Like some of the young phenoms who preceded her, Korda

There have been plenty of amazing, acrobatic touchdowns across the nation this year. Yet a playoff game in California still might have turned in a 2010 first: A complete somersault en route to a game-winning end-zone celebration.

As reported in the Orange County Register, the player who pulled off the feat you see above is Garden Grove (Calif.) High running back Josh Webb, who took his airborne leap a bit farther than usual in the final two minutes of the Argos' CIF-SS Southern Section Final victory over Beckman (Calif.) High. Just before Webb hit the goal line, he went up to get above the last line of Beckman's defense. Webb made it, but not before being forced to take his acrobatic aerial act to a new level, completing a full somersault before landing on his back, pulling Garden Grove to within a point of the Patriots, at 30-29.

[Related: Player penalized for preening TD celebration]

"My coach is like, 'We're giving you the ball, get over the top,'" Webb told the Register. "I wasn't

We have no intention of becoming a blog focused solely on the mind-bending playoff site decisions made by University Interscholastic League procedures and officials in Texas, but the organization is sure making a push to prove one could do that if they really wanted to. The latest involves what could prove to be the holiday traffic jam to end all traffic jams in south Dallas.

According to the Dallas Morning News, the Class 3A Division II state semifinal football game will take place at exactly the same time on Friday night as the showpiece game of a prominent prep basketball tournament hosted by Heat power forward Chris Bosh, with the aforementioned hoops showdown featuring two state-ranked teams and one of the nation's most highly regarded prospects, the dunk phenom and Oklahoma State commit you see at right, LeBryan Nash.

Those two games alone aren't enough to make already nasty Dallas gridlock any worse. What will do it is that the two events are taking place at facilities on

It's not just the snow that's blanketing the Midwest and East coast that prove winter is finally here, the preponderance of dunk videos and hoops highlights on the internets are a pretty good sign, too. Here's some of the best of this week's hidden gems, with a few more amazing football plays still in the mix. After all, we've still got at least another week or two in some states to come.

• Tyler Trosin, Folsom (Calif.) vs. Grant (Calif.): Folsom's upset of the highly-touted Grant Pacers last week was considered to be of the seismic variety, not only because they won, but because they routed the highly-favored Pacers. It's easy to see how they pulled it off when receivers like Trosin were holding on to touchdown grabs like this.

• Redd Hartman, West Jefferson (La.): We've said in the past that we don't like to use straight highlight films as part in InterTubing, but two of Hartman's first three toucdown grabs in this compilation are pretty spectacular. The third, in particular, is

Euless Trinity (Texas) High's memorable victory over Coppell (Texas) High last weekend is already being called one of the great high school football games in state history for its final-play, game-winning touchdown and all the hype that preceded it. However, the dramatic conclusion overshadowed a number of other tense subplots that happened earlier in the game.

One of those was a severe injury to Trinity starting safety Sione "John" Paipa. The junior broke his leg on a play in the second half, and was carted off the field and taken immediately to a hospital.

Yet, according to the Dallas Morning News, once Paipa arrived, he refused to go directly into surgery, as one of the team doctors (who happened to be an orthopedic surgeon) had arranged for. Instead, the junior asked doctors if they could delay the procedure until the end of the game, so he could watch the tight playoff contest's conclusion on TV.

That's right, a player stricken with a broken leg delayed surgery because he was more

When Bill Tighe retired as head coach of Lexington (Mass.) High after his team's Thanksgiving Day victory last month, the 86-year-old was celebrated as the nation's oldest prep head coach in any sport. While Tighe did much to earn all the accolades that followed his highly successful and very lengthy career, his departure created a void: Who, now, can officially be called the oldest high school coach in the country?

Well, if that search is extended to include assistant coaches, there's a man who is still coaching who was already older than Tighe: Marlow (Okla.) High assistant football and track coach Bill Carter, who still spends every single day on a high school sideline at the ripe old age of 88.

That's right folks, there's an 88-year-old man patrolling the high school sidelines and barking instructions at teenagers in Oklahoma, hoping to help improve the team and keep himself young in the process. Somewhat ironically, the small senior citizen specializes in teaching defensive-line