On Saturday night, 40,000 fans are expected at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. There might even be more than that. Yet those fans won't be going there for a Cowboys game or a college football matchup. They won't even be going there for a U2 concert or another rock megatour. Instead, upwards of 40,000 fans are likely for a second-round high school playoff game between Trinity Euless (Texas) High and Allen (Texas) High. Even more amazingly, that crowd might just be a warm-up for the state championships to be held at the same venue next month.

"Texas, Texas A&M and SMU all have home games on Saturday that will probably divert some potential fans," Matt Wixon of the Dallas Morning News told Prep Rally. "But next month all the state finals will be held at the same site for the first time and I'm confident that it will draw 50,000-plus to the 5A finals at Cowboys Stadium and break the state record for attendance."

The state record to which Wixon referred was set in 1977, when a Class 4A state

Arguably the biggest game of the year in the Philadelphia area was scheduled to be played Friday night. With the Class AA city title game between Bok Tech (Pa.) High and West Catholic (Pa.) High scheduled for Friday night at the city's South Philly Super Site field, the athletic directors of the two schools met with Philadelphia School Board members on Wednesday, expecting to be told to prepare for a good game. Instead, the ADs were told to inform their players the game was moved to Saturday morning, after a citizen's group successfully lobbied the city council to convince the school board to switching the time of the game to Saturday morning to avoid possible nightime vandalism.

As a result, according to the Philadelphia Daily News, the much ballyhooed matchup will be played on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. instead of the traditional Friday night game that players, coaches and fans expected.

"It's a travesty," West Catholic head coach and athletic director Brian Fluck told the Daily

Earlier this year, Heritage Christian (Ind.) High hosted Cardinal Ritter (Ind.) School in a huge Class 2A matchup. The game didn't live up to expectations, largely because Heritage's offense couldn't keep up with high-powered Cardinal Ritter, but for at least one play, the Heritage offense stole the show.

The star of the clip you see above is Heritage sophomore receiver Anthony Warrum, arguably the Eagles' most explosive player. He showed that electricity on this 50-yard, cross-field run after catching a simple screen pass, but he eventually ran out of time and was cut off by Cardinal Ritter defenders who had a better angle on the play.

That's when Warrum pulled off one of the best quick-thinking plays of the year, lateralling the ball back to teammate Brendan Burke as Warrum was in midair being pushed out of bounds. Burke traveled the final 3 yards to the end zone as a repayment for running down the field in an attempt to help block for Warrum.

The touchdown probably meant a lot more

Steven Contreras walked back onto a football field eight months to the day after he underwent one of the most painful procedures possible: A lower leg amputation. The amazing thing is that he wasn't there to watch the game, he was there to play in it.

That's right, Contreras -- who lost his lower left leg to a bone tumor -- is back in action for his eight-man high school football team at Rolling Hills (Calif.) Prep School, just outside of Los Angeles. According to the new Olympic sports blog 3WireSports.com and AIPS Media, the lineman first learned of his ailment after his ankle began hurting during a game last year, and his parents took him to an urgent care center. That center then referred him to an orthopedic specialist, who told the teenager that he had a form of Ewing's sarcoma in his ankle.

A sophomore at the time of diagnosis, Contreras started chemotherapy on Dec. 5 and continued for exactly three months. With little signs of his cancer going into remission, doctors

If October was a big month for pink, November has been a lot rougher on the color in high school sports. First, a placekicker got the boot from his team because he insisted on wearing pink cleats, and now a school in suburban Boston has banned all pink clothing from a traditional pre-Thanksgiving game prep rally.

As reported by MyFoxBoston.com, Whitman Hanson Regional High School Principal Jeffrey Szymaniak upended the school's tradition of having all freshmen wear pink by banning the color on the day of a pep rally in an effort to minimize teasing. The annual pre-Thanksgiving Whitman Hanson pep rally traditionally has seniors wear black, juniors red, sophomores white and freshmen pink, all in an effort to increase class seniority.

Szymaniak, who is in his first year at Whitman Hanson, said the decision to outlaw the pink class code was just one of a handful of measures taken to accommodate anti-bullying legislation passed in Massachusetts after the suicide of Phoebe Prince last

Bedford-Temperance (Mich.) High was in the midst of a magical season, and the Kicking Mules were just moments away from a Division II state semifinal berth when Grosse Pointe South (Mich.) High hit a last-second field goal to lead the Blue Devils to a 44-42 win.

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Still, as reported in both MLive.com and the Toledo Blade, you could excuse Bedford's home fans in the stands from being confused with the final outcome, since many of them couldn't even see the game happening on the field right in front of them, thanks to the incredibly dense fog you can see in the video below, though you often can't see much else ... including the game-winning field goal.

Video courtesy of Buckeye CableSystem Sports Network/BCSN

"I couldn't see the long passes, but I could see the short passes," Grosse Pointe South quarterback Ben Fry told MLive.com.

If Fry could see the short passes, that was more than the fans, who were stuck peering into a soupy

Coldwater (Ohio) High senior Ethan Bettinger always dreamed of being his team's starting quarterback. Throughout the past offseason he was slated to get that chance, until an untimely ankle injury just before the season relegated him to yet another season as the team's backup. Then, last weekend Bettinger finally got to shine under center, entering in the crucible of pressure of a final-minute drive with his team needing a touchdown to stay alive. Amazingly, he pulled it off, then led Coldwater to an improbable Division V-Region 20 semifinal playoff victory against Badin (Ohio) High in overtime.

"It was all on the line, and there were so many things running through my head," Bettinger told the Dayton Daily News. "The clock was running down, everybody was screaming, it was crazy. But I got my chance tonight, and we won. It feels amazing."

After a season of waiting, Bettinger entered with about 15 seconds in the game, with Coldwater trailing 7-0 and facing a fourth-and-15 at Badin's

When classmates run into Mountain Crest (Utah) High's Jordan Haun in the hallway, they're not exactly bowled over. After all, at just 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds on a very good day, Haun isn't the most intimidating high school senior around. He is an extremely effective high school football player, however, despite playing one of the least likely positions for a man his size: defensive tackle.

As chronicled in the Deseret News, Haun is the smallest on a peculiarly undersized defensive line for Mountain Crest, which will play for the Utah Class 4A state title on Friday. The tackle is joined by one the nation's most undersized nose tackles -- 5-foot-10, 180-pound Nate Rigby -- with the two players' combined weights coming close to what would be a normal weight for a starting tackle in the NCAA or NFL. Still, the senior pair's speed, strength and agility give opposing offensive lines fits, making Mountain Crest's defensive front a surprising team strength.

Not surprisingly, Haun has a