In a move that absolutely defies belief, the Steubenville (Ohio) School Board decided to buck public pressure and agree to a new two-year contract with longtime football coach Reno Saccoccia with regard to his teaching position. That might not seem too out of the ordinary, except for the conditions surrounding Saccoccia. He was the town's football coach during a time when two of his players were convicted of rape in a trial that received widespread attention.

Steubenville football coach Reno Saccocia, who was given a 2-year extension but could face charges — Change.org

The disturbing case that embroiled the Steubenville football program captivated the nation's attention at multiple points in recent months, never more prevalently than on March 17, when teenagers Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond were convicted of raping an intoxicated 16-year-old classmate.

Saccoccia was not implicated in the case and it remains unclear if he'll be mentioned by an upcoming grand jury that is investigating the possibility of wrongdoing by others in the town.

But many have blamed Saccoccia for ruling over a football-mad culture that held its players to a different standard. Consider this text from Mays when asked about his coach's reaction to the rape charges.

"[Saccocia did] Nothing really. Going to stay in for awhile. LOL. And next time (someone is) into something, suspended for three games.

"But I feel he took care of it for us. Like, he was joking about it, so I'm not worried."

And yet another text bombshell from Mays: "I got Reno. He took care of it and (expletive) ain't going to happen, even if they did take it to court."

To say that the Steubenville school board's decision is profoundly tone deaf is a remarkable understatement. More than 134,000 activists from across the nation and world have signed an online petition at change.org calling for Saccoccia to be fired. Considering the fact that the entire population of Steubenville is just more than 18,000, that's a startling amount of public outrage aimed at a public employee from a small town.

Seventh Woods is 14 years old. His name is awesome, and so are his basketball skills.

If there's a better prep freshman in the nation, Prep Rally would like to see him. At 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, Woods has to be the best pound-for-pound boys basketball player in the Class of 2016. Need convincing? You won't after watching his uber-athletic mixtape (h/t Deadspin).

Woods averaged 19.3 points, 4.3 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 2.7 steals per game this past season, leading Columbia (S.C.) Hammond School to a 22-5 record and the South Carolina Independent Schools Association Class AAA state championship game.

He scored a season-high 47 points on 17-of-21 shooting in an 87-66 victory against Cross (S.C.) High two days after Christmas, and it's pretty easy to see why he shot better than 50 percent from the field for the season. The kid can jump over just about anybody.

Based on the internet views it has already received -- more than 3 million views in just four days -- it's clear that others are taking notice of Woods' ability as well. Some have even called him "the next LeBron", though such a pronouncement is clearly hyperbolic and flat out preposterous for a 14-year-old.

[NBA postgame fashion showdown: Westbrook vs. LeBron]

Based on his highlight video, the kid can do just about anything. Here are five things he can do that fly off the screen right away.

5) Reverse tomahawk dunk like Dominique Wilkins (0:02). Hello, Seventh Woods.

4) Throw down missed free throw put-back dunks like Michael Jordan (0:35). The kid got to the rim before his teammates and opponents even flinched. Even they watched in awe.

3) Drain over-the-backboard shots like Larry Bird (0:57). We highly recommend not attempting to play Seventh Woods in a game of horse. Unless you bet against yourself.

The conflict between club and country has long been a major flashpoint in European professional story. Now, it appears that it may be matched here in the U.S., where at least one school that was a legitimate contender for a state title had its progression held up by their star goalie’s sudden departure for the U.S. Women’s U-20 national team training sessions.

San Antonio Johnson keeper Morgan Stearns — Johnson Jaguars Sports

As noted by the Dallas Morning News, the San Antonio (Tex.) Johnson High girls soccer team reached the University Interscholastic League (UIL) Class 5A largely on the back of top goaltender Morgan Stearns. There’s good reason for that; Stearns happens to be one of the best girls goaltenders in the entire nation, even if she is still a high school senior.

That has earned Stearns a series of call ups to different levels of the national squad, with the most recent – a trip to train with the U-20 national team – coming at a particularly unfortunate time: According to the Dallas Morning News, the training camp, where Stearns is competing against two other goalies, is all but certain to keep Stearns from playing any part in the state championships.

Johnson reached the Class 5A semifinals, thanks in part to the playoff stability provided by Stearns in the cage.

So far, the national team has gotten the lion’s share of Stearns’ time when the two teams are in conflict, though the teen is insistent that she is committed to both her school and country, even if she has thus far prioritized her nation.

The battle is on for Cordell Broadus, the son of Snoop Lion, nee Snoop Dogg. After a strong sophomore season in which he earned attention from the likes of Florida State and bona fide scholarship offers from Cal, Oregon State and UCLA, Broadus now has a USC scholarship offer in his back pocket as well.

Cordell Broadus, the son of Snoop Lion, received a scholarship offer from USC as a sophomore — Rivals.com

According to Rivals.com, the USC offer came out of the blue for the 6-foot-3 wide receiver, who still plans to play through his final two scholastic seasons before committing to any football program.

"They stopped by the school," the younger Broadus told Rivals.com. "Coach Cregg was video recording practice and he brought it back to USC to show coach [Lane] Kiffin and coach Kiffin said he liked what he saw.

"They invited me to their junior day and they seemed kind of interested. I was surprised they gave me an offer though because they don't usually offer sophomores. I was in shock."

Broadus has yet to notify Snoop Lion of his scholarship offer, though he gave a strong indication that his father would be plenty excited by the Trojans offer. After all, the elder Broadus is a longstanding Trojans fan.

Over the course of a full season in any sport, Prep Rally tends to note some fairly remarkable statistics. Few, if any, can match what hit the radar in Mississippi. That's where Silento Sayles, a senior shortstop for Port Gibson (Ms.) High, stole 103 bases in a single season.

Unsurprisingly, the 103 stolen bases mark an all-time national record, according to National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) records. According to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, the previous NFHS mark was 96 steals as set by Vincente Rosario of New York (N.Y.) George Washington High in 1996. Sayles' 103 steals were also an incredible 26 more than the previous Mississippi mark, which was shared by two teammates at Natchez Trace (Ms.) Academy in 1991.

The senior has signed to play baseball for Chipola College, though it's likely that those plans would take a backseat if he were selected in the MLB Draft.

“I really didn’t set any goals,” Sayles told the Clarion-Ledger. “I just wanted to go out there and get as many as I could get.”

Silento Sayles, center bottom, stole 103 bases during his senior season — Fort Bend Texans

What he got were more steals than anyone in history, and he did so by running every single time he got on the base paths. According to the Clarion-Ledger, Sayles averaged 3.5 steals per game, but had a single-game high of 12. He stole seven bases during his team's 10-0 victory against Jefferson County (Ms.) High to cap off his record single season performance.

While the successful numbers behind Sayles record are enough to make one's head spin, his unsuccessful number is just as remarkable. En route to 103 stolen bases, Sayles was thrown out exactly one time, while trying to steal third base late in a game that Port Gibson trailed.

Sayles told the newspaper that he shouldn't have even attempted the steal, but felt obligated to try and make something happen for his teammates.

Throughout the fall season, Erin Dimeglio captured the nation’s attention as she boldly went where no girl had gone before, lining up at quarterback for a Florida varsity high school football team. In the process of her final high school season Dimeglio completed a pass, was named homecoming queen and, more significantly, earned the respect of all her teammates and foes.

Erin DiMeglio after her historic football debut — ABC News screen shot

Now, the soon-to-graduate South Plantation (Fla.) High senior is earning financial benefits where plaudits had come before. As reported by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Dimeglio was awarded a $20,000 scholarship presented by Foot Locker’s Scholar Athlete Program and the social change website DoSomething.org. DiMeglio was one of 20 national recepients of the award, chosen from among nearly 26,000 applicants.

"I was speechless. I had no idea what was going on," DiMeglio told the Sun Sentinel. "I didn't read the paper at first. I just wanted to know why all these people were staring at me. It's exciting to win this, to know that someone picked you out of all those people. It's really going to help out my parents."

DiMeglio will use the scholarship at the University of Central Florida, where she hopes to walk on the girls basketball team. The three-sport standout -- she also stars as the quarterback of the flag football team -- was recruited by a handful of smaller girls basketball programs, yet decided that she would rather take her chances at walking on with the Knights.

Given the obstacles and preconceptions she’s already overcome, it’s hard to find any fault in her self confidence.

Her football teammates have little doubt that Dimeglio will achieve what she puts her mind to, at Central Florida and elsewhere thereafter.

Brad Degnan set a California record with three home runs in a single inning — Family photo

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters of all time, at any level. Is it possible that one California teen may be even better? By at least one statistical measure, Woodside (Cal.) High junior Brad Degnan has the legendary number 9 topped; only Degnan hit three home runs in a single inning.

Of course, Degnan is the only player in history to hit three homers in a single inning. The shots all came in the first inning of a 24-6 victory against Westmoor-Daly City (Cal.) High, and all were impressive blasts. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Degnan’s first homer was a line drive shot down the right field line, his second a 375-foot bomb to right field and his final a homer that just escaped the bounds of the center field fence.

"I've never seen anything like it," Woodside coach Tim Faulkner told the Mercury News. "All three of Degnan's homers were legit.

"Brad Degnan is the best hitter I've coached in my nine years at Woodside."

As previously mentioned, according to the Cal-Hi State Sports Record Book, Degnan is the first player to hit three home runs in a single inning. The aforementioned Williams hit two in an inning for San Diego (Cal.) Hoover High in a victory against South Pasadena (Cal.) High back in 1936, before he went on to a Hall of Fame career in Boston.

Degnan also tied the existing state mark for most RBI in an inning, totaling eight via his three home runs.

Tiger Woods may not have realized his drop on the 15th hole would cost him a couple strokes and a better shot at a 15th major championship at this past weekend's Masters, but plenty of high school golfers from New York City did.

Tiger Woods takes an illegal drop on the 15th hole at the Masters -- Getty Images

Catholic High School Athletic Association golf coaches ingrain United States Golf Association rules in their players from an early age, so when Woods illegally dropped his ball 2 yards from where he should've, their charges took note.

“If we didn’t know the rules, we shouldn’t be out here in the first place, to be honest,” St. Francis (Fresh Meadows, N.Y.) Prep junior Jacob Virginia told the New York Daily News in a feature story on the issue. “Tiger, he just messed up the rule.”

Added Terriers senior teammate Brian McGowan: “In that situation, you have to play the ball from where it was. You can’t go as far as he did away from the spot.”

Woods wasn't the only supposed golf expert who failed to grasp the complicated ruling. Masters officials also missed the original error, and it wasn't until a viewer called in the violation to Augusta National Golf Club that the Rules Committee revisited the issue.

Maybe one of Archbishop Molloy (New York, N.Y.) High boys golf coach and CHSAA golf chairman Bill Niklaus' players made that phone call.

“The kids said, ‘We spotted it, but why didn’t the marshals?’” Niklaus told the Daily News. “In their minds, they were thrown off by, ‘Is it favoritism?’”

Even a middle school kid should've known what Woods didn't, Niklaus said.