This might be the most entertaining thing to happen to college hockey since … well, maybe ever.

The Fitzgerald triplets, once film stars, will skate for Bemidji State starting in 2014 — Victoria Grizzlies

In Canada, a group of triplets committed together to attend Bemidji State, the small state university in rural Minnesota. While a simultaneous commitment of any triplets would be a notable moment in prep sports, these aren’t any ordinary teenaged triplets. No, they’re the Fitzgerald triplets, the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen-style stars of the 1999 film "Baby Genuises,"

As posted by the Victoria Grizzlies, the Tier II British Columbia Hockey League team (and brought to Prep Rally’s attention by Deadspin), Myles, Leo and Gerry Fitzgerald committed together to play at Bemidji State. The scholarship announcement was likely the first time that the entire trio made headlines together since they were wearing diapers in a thoroughly awful B-movie starring Dom Delouise and a pre-'Sex in the City' Kim Cattrall.

The Fitzgerald triplets' original starring role — IMDB

The triplets made it perfectly clear that they were dead-set on attending school together, an opportunity which Bemidji State coach Tom Serratore was happy to provide for the trio.

"We are so excited to know we have the opportunity to advance our play at the next level for four years!” the Fitzgeralds released in a statement to the Victoria Grizzlies web site … together of course.

“To remain together is fantastic.”

The Fitzgeralds might be the most set of three brothers to play college hockey together, but they aren't the first; as Steve McAllister, the Managing Editor of Yahoo! Canada Sports pointed out, Dominic, Steve and Mark Moore all grew up playing hockey together in Thornhill, Ontario before eventually matriculating to Harvard.

While a Slapshot-style marketing campaign could have played into Serratore’s interest in the trio, there’s also plenty of proof that all three Fitzgeralds deserved a scholarship.

Shock waves were sent through the Orlando youth sports community when one of its longest serving coaches was arrested on charges of performing a lewd act in front of one of his athletes.

As reported by the Orlando Sentinel and TV network WFTV, 54-year-old Jeffrey McWhorter was arrested and charged with lewd or lascivious exhibition, performing a lewd act in the presence of a child and two counts of soliciting lewd acts on a child.

While no details have emerged about the age of McWhorter’s alleged victim, the coach was most recently volunteering for the city of Orlando’s public football and basketball leagues. The allegations against him were made in recent days -- no firm date was provided by Orlando police -- and a city spokesman confirmed that McWhorter had been suspended from his role as a city volunteer from the moment of his arrest.

"I'm embarrassed," McWhorter told the Sentinel from the back of a police cruiser en route to the Orange County Jail. "That's what's the main thing about it, because they wouldn't tell me what's going on."

While the most significant concerns about McWhorter’s situation will clearly focus on the abuse itself, others have pointed to broader concerns about the city of Orlando’s screening process for volunteers. While officials claim that it is city policy to perform background checks on all volunteers, McWhorter had two prior charges on his record that should have set off alarms: a 2000 felony conviction for purchase of a controlled drug and a violation of probation following his initial drug arrest.

It turns out Nik Stauskas is the Canadian Jimmy Chitwood.

The star of Michigan's 79-59 blowout of Florida in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, Stauskas developed his sharpshooting skills in high school, draining 3-pointer after 3-pointer in the backyard of his suburban Toronto home.

In August 2011, the summer after sitting out his prep junior season at South Kent (Conn.) School with a hip injury, the Wolverines freshman guard posted this YouTube video of himself making 128-of-142 triples, including 102 in a span of five minutes (h/t Big Lead).

The site of this incredible feat was almost a putting green or a swimming pool, but instead Stauskas convinced his father Paul to install a basketball court in the backyard of their home in Mississauga, Ontario, according to a New York Times feature on Nik, who scored 22 points on eight shots against Florida, including 6-of-6 from beyond the arc.

Paul Stauskas can be seen rebounding the ball for his son in just about every video on the StauskasBasketball YouTube channel -- including a series of drills from last Easter and an incredible string of 45-of-50 3-pointers this past Christmas break.

Perfect games are more common in high school than college or the major leagues, but they’re still notable, once-in-a-career experiences. That’s why a major controversy has erupted in Georgia, where a sophomore recorded a complete-game no-hitter that would have been a perfect game, if not for the uber-rare call of an illegal pitch.

Coahulla Creek pitcher Zack Glines, who missed a perfect game by 2 pitches Dwayne Maynard Photography

As reported by the Dalton Daily Citizen, Dalton (Ga.) Coahulla Creek pitcher Zack Glines tossed a no-hitter during the Colts’ 8-0 victory against Gordon (Ga.) Central High. In the process, Glines allowed just two batters to reach base, both on walks.

According to both Glines’ coach, Coahulla Creek's Michael Bolen, both of the walks were the direct result of illegal pitch calls, both due to Glines’ inability to keep his foot flat on the rubber of the mound.

Bolen chalked the mistake up to Glines’ relative lack of pitching time early in the season, though he also hinted that more terrific performances from Glines could be on the way.

“He wasn’t able to get on the mound much at the beginning of the season, so he had been in relief through the non-region schedule as we built his arm strength back up,” Bolen told the Daily Citizen.

“He threw 78 pitches tonight, and his location was working all night.”

Sabrina Southerland, Armory Track Girls Athlete of the Year and sister of James Southerland — Armory Track

It’s been a very good month for the Southerland family.

First, on Thursday, Sabrina Southerland, a senior at Queens (N.Y.) Benjamin Cardozo High, was named the 2013 Girls Athlete of the Year by the Armory Track & Field Center, an honor won on the back of one of the most versatile track repertoires around. Two days later, her brother James was a key factor leading Syracuse to the Final Four.

Not a bad three days, eh?

“It feels really great,” Sabrina Southerland told the New York Daily News. “I worked hard for it. I know [Cardozo coach Ray James] is happy. I just trained hard, and I guess it paid off.”

The same can be said of Southerland’s brother, the Syracuse sharpshooter who turned a standout Cardozo tenure into a launching pad for a career at Syracuse that has finally taken flight in the Big East and NCAA tournaments. Throughout that late season ride, Sabrina Southerland has been there, as she was when the Orange topped Marquette to earn a berth to the Final Four on Saturday.

Syracuse star James Southerland in the Elite 8 — AP

“I’m so proud of him,” Sabrina said in a phone interview while en route to Thursday night’s game. “It’s been great to see him grow from his freshman year to his senior year.”

Naturally, the male Southerland sibling would echo those sentiments, even if he couldn’t claim to have as much in person experience of her accomplishments as his sister has with his. The pair's success is also the dominant similarly between their athletic careers, with James Southerland a distinct distance shooting specialist for Syracuse while Sabrina Southerland is a do-everything runner for Cardozo who has shined in each event she tried.

The baseball season can often feel like it comes too soon, on the heels of winter and snow. Yet, with winter stretching ever later in recent years, and with high school baseball seasons required to start in March to finish by the end of the school year, some schools in the upper Midwest have found it neigh on impossible to find fields ready and available to host baseball and softball games.

To get time on an actual field, D.C. Everest High rented out the Metrodome — Everest Baseball

Enter the Mall of America Field, formerly the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.

Re-named for the nation’s largest monument to capitalism, the Metrodome still hosts baseball games in the Spring, except now they don’t involve the Twins, following the team’s move to nearby Target Field.

Instead, as reported by the Wausau Daily Herald, any teams can rent out the field for $750 per hour. Despite the steep rate, the demand for the facility is so fierce while snow still covers fields across the region that schools have been forced to schedule games at ridiculous times like 3 a.m.

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That was the case for Schofield (Wis.) D.C. Everest High, which “hosted” a game against Middletown (Minn.) High. While the game will officially count as a scrimmage, it was an important opportunity for both schools to get on the field and compete against another live, competitive squad on a diamond rather than inside a gym.

D.C. Everest coach Dave Langbehn, who proposed the idea to play in the Metrodome — Everest Baseball

And no, this is not an April Fool's joke. The game really took place at 3 a.m.

“It was nice to see live pitching and hit off that," Everest outfielder and pitcher Zach Finnegan told the Daily Herald. "Also, it was the first time we saw flyballs this year. It was different. It was like a game."

That’s probably because it was a real game … and the fourth since 6:35 p.m. on the field that day alone. Incredibly, it wasn’t the last, either, with back-to-back doubleheaders featuring a pair of high school teams and two small colleges, all to be wrapped up by 3 p.m., 12 hours after Everest and Middletown took the field.

The “Missy Franklin really is a good person” crusade continues apace. Now that the teen phenom is finished swimming competitively, at least on the high school level, she’s taking to the water for a meaningful awareness campaign.

As reported by Denver TV network KUSA, Franklin recently completed her SCUBA training at the Denver Aquarium. She finished the course alongside best friend Abby Cutler, and was filmed by filmmaker Kurt Miller for his project entitled “The Current”, which aims to raise awareness about how water can serve as a level playing field for people with disabilities.

According to Franklin, she was drawn to the project by her belief that everyone can feel the same under water.

"For water to be such a great way for everyone to be equal," Franklin told KUSA. "As soon as you get down there everyone is exactly the same. It doesn't matter if you have an amputated arm or a leg or you have all four limbs. We are all exactly the same."

Get Dr. James Andrews on line one.

The surgeon who's performed almost every famous ligament surgery over the past decade might have a future client in Tomohiro Anraku, a 16-year-old Japanese pitching sensation who just threw 232 pitches in a single game, according to a Baseball America report.

Japanese high school pitching phenom Tomohiro Anraku reportedly threw 232 pitches in a game -- YouTube

The Saibi (Ehime Prefecture, Japan) High sophomore right-hander reached that total over 13 innings in a 4-3 win in a national prep tournament in Japan on Tuesday, Baseball America reported. He struck out 13, allowed 10 hits and walked five in the victory.

Given the limitations on prep pitch counts Stateside and in Latin America, 232 pitches over a few hours may seem like mismanagement by Anraku's high school coach at best and perhaps even abuse, but high pitch totals aren't exactly out of the ordinary in Japan.

“Pretty impressive,” a scout told Baseball America, “but they kill those kids there.”

Just ask former Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka, who as a 17-year-old Japanase high school prospect threw 250 pitches in a single game during a tournament in which he pitched 36 innings over four days, according to Baseball America. Or ask Ryota Shimoishi, who threw 219 pitches opposite Anraku in the 4-3 loss to Saibi on Tuesday.

But Anraku is the real prize, if he doesn't require Tommy John surgery before his high school career is over. According to Baseball America, the 6-foot-1, 185-pound righty's 94 MPH fastball stayed in the high 80s over the course of his 232-pitch game, and he relied on his off-speed repertoire -- including a curveball in the mid-70s -- as the game wore on.

Japanese pitchers generally finish their prep careers and sign a deal with their home country's Nippon Professional Baseball league, but at 16 years old Anraku could sign a deal in the millions with a Major League Baseball organization right now.