In the annals of game-winning high school buzzer beaters, few are stranger than the one turned in by Torrington (Conn.) High School's Sarah Royals, who found a way to earn her team a win despite its three-point deficit with just four seconds left before the miracle play off the inbounds, as you can see below.

To set the scene surrounding the video above, which was provided and edited by Jennifer Royals and shot by Paul Caron, Torrington trailed Northwestern Connecticut rival Waterbury (Conn.) Holy Cross High, 58-55, with just four seconds left. With Holy Cross employing a full-court press, Torrington inbounded the ball to Royals, who cut toward the baseline to create an opening in the defense. The senior pushed the ball up to midcourt, racing past defenders, before hoisting up a desperation heave that was nearly underhanded from a stride inside the halfcourt circle.

The fact that Royals even got a shot off was a minor

High schools in Tennessee and Indiana are closer to allowing players who don't even attend public high schools to participate in interscholastic sports, after both states have stepped forward with actions that would allow home-schooled students to join high school teams on equal footing with existing players.

According to the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Indiana home-schooled athletes are on the verge of gaining rights equal to their peers who attend schools they would compete for, with the Indiana House of Representatives considering House Bill 1399, which allows all students in non-accredited, non-public schools the right to compete in any and all interscholastic sports.

While there isn't a clear consensus on whether the bill will pass the state's House yet, it received a ringing endorsement from the Indiana House Education Committee, which approved it with a dominant 12-1 vote. That support came despite outspoken opposition from Bobby Cox, who serves as the commissioner of the

High school basketball is more than a pastime in the state of Indiana, it's a way of life. That's particularly the case in Terre Haute, where school basketball players are gods and Friday night games in high school gyms are the pinnacle of the entire week.

For Terre Haute (Indiana) North freshman R.J. Drake, being around a basketball team was all he could hope for because of complications from a stroke he suffered at birth. The 14-year-old has limited use of the right side of his body, which keeps him from engaging in most team sports.

Yet Drake loves basketball so much he eagerly accepted a role as the freshmen team's manager. Then, according to Terre Haute's WTHI TV, with the freshmen season winding down, his coach decided the teenager deserved a chance to live out one of his dreams.

"You can tell by [Drake's] eyes that he really looks up to these players," Terre Haute North freshman coach Mike Gant told WTHI. "He tries to be as involved as he can."

Gant decided that, since he had

The gym erupted like the team just won a championship on the final basket, but there was just one problem: the school lost. It didn't seem to matter for West Salem (Ore.) High, which fell to rival North Salem High on Friday by a 56-44 score, because it left with one of the most memorable plays of the year, and did it on the final play of its final rivalry game.

The player you see bringing justice to the North Salem rim in the clip above from the Portland Oregonian is West Salem sophomore Alex Roth, who finished with six points in the loss. Needless to say, none of those buckets were nearly as memorable as Roth's last, where he finished off a rebound with a dunk that separated the rim from the backboard ... and sent glass tumbling to the court.

The finishing basket sent the visiting West Salem fans in the stands behind the broken basket into delirium, with fans and teammates of Roth rushing onto the court. A pair of North Salem school officials then ran onto the court in an attempt to

The world of the World Wrestling Entertainment and its "professional wrestling" cohorts is vastly different than the competitively charged realm of high school grappling. Yet, the two paths crossed with terrifying results in January, when a top Minnesota high school wrestler took a page out of classic WWE scripts by wielding a chair against a fellow wrestler.

According to a report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which cited fellow Minnesota newspaper Rochester Post-Bulletin, 19-year-old Harold Delancy from Apple Valley (Minn.) High was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct last week. The misdemeanors are related to an incident dating from early January, when Delancy hit a visiting wrestler from Oregon in the head with a chair following a loss in a heavyweight bout at the University Center Rochester Regional Sports Center. The attack came as part of a violent reaction from the Apple Valley heavyweight, who also threw and kicked other chairs at surrounding mats around the gym,

After a one-week sabatical from the high school hardwood hotbeds, we've got the best buzzer beaters and dunks that you haven't seen, along with a heck of a save from a California soccer field.

• Austin Olivas, Tyrone (Okla.) vs. Balko (Okla.): Tyrone pulled out the title game of the Texhoma Basketball Tournament thanks to a long inbounds pass, two big strides and this miraculous banked three from Olivas at the buzzer.

• Presque Isle (Maine) vs. Lincoln (Maine) Mattanawcook Academy: We couldn't determine who the talented Presque Isle star who hit this shot was, but it's still one of the better girls hoops buzzer beaters we've seen this year.

• Jordan Adams, Dieruff (Pa.) vs. Whitehall (Pa.): Eventually, referees determined that this second-chance buzzer beater actually came after the final whistle, but we weren't so sure. In fact, we'd love to know what everyone else thinks. Did Adams get this shot off, even as Whitehall assumed the game was over and started heading off the court?

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Former Pro Bowl offensive lineman Chris Samuels left big shoes to fill at both Alabama (when he left for the NFL) and Washington (when he retired from the Redskins following a career-ending injury), both literally and metaphorically. Now the lineman is hoping he can fill some shoes that come with slightly smaller expectations back in his home state.

According to the Mobile Press-Register (with a tip of the cap to the Washington Post's Cindy Boren), Samuels has agreed to become the offensive coordinator for Mobile's Blount (Ala.) High football team. The longtime pro agreed to take on the role after reaching out to longtime high school and college teammate Kevin Sigler, who is the now Blount's head coach.

"He just said that if he got an opportunity, he'd love to come down [to coach]," Sigler told the News. "To have somebody that played on all three levels, it was hard for me to turn down.

"He's not doing it for the money. He basically wants to give to the kids. He really just enjoys

Jordan McCabe's rise into the realm of phenom fame has been nothing short of meteoric. In the past two months, the 12-year-old has gone from unknown Beaver Lake (Wash.) Middle School student to a much ballyhooed guest appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," a spot on "ABC News," and halftime performances at Washington and Wisconsin basketball games, not to mention the NBA's Golden State Warriors, a performance for which he warmed up with Stephen Curry.

Then, on Monday, McCabe's rise hit its zenith, with the middle schooler greeting two of his heroes at his school. No, we're not talking about former Sonics-turned-Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant or Portland Trailblazers guard Brandon Roy. We're talking about the Harlem Globetrotters.

As you can see above, Globetrotter stars Rocket Rivers and Curly Neal were just as interested in picking up tips and setting up McCabe as they were in showing off their own skills.

By the end of a psuedo-impromptu assembly in front of the