New York High School Basketball News

The academic leaders for the class of 2013 at Norwood-Norfolk Central School are Jessica Fulk, valedictorian, and Carlea Weaver, salutatorian.

A long time before he became part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's class of 2013, Bernard King was a New York legend.

IRVINGTON, N.Y. Irvington will honor the Irvington High School's girls' basketball team next Sunday with a village picnic.

There's so much going on right now that it's impossible to hit even all of the high points but let's give it a whirl.

Elijah Burns is one of the top boys' basketball players in Section 2. The 6'6 forward was a star at LaSalle Institute.

Ailayia Demand of the Watervliet High School basketball team, Monday March 25, 2013, at the Times Union in Colonie, N.Y. Demand is one of our basketball all stars for 2013.

Central New York is a hotbed for lacrosse talent. The area produces quality players year in and year out.

I hear the phrase bandied about all the time. Surely every team has a standard for what makes a player a true so-and-so, but I honestly believe that the standard of true Knickdom is unique among NBA teams.

The Staten Island Diamonds 3rd-grade girls' team won the New York Metro Division II Championship after notching two victories on Sunday.

The impasse on East Shore Road between the Water Authority of Great Neck North and the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District regarding the distance needed between a major water main and the new pipe being installed by the sewer district is not settled yet.

Anderson helped turn around a rocky season for the Kings, a pre-season favorite for a Section V championship that got off to a 5-7 start.

The third-ranked RIT men's lacrosse team will take aim at the Liberty League title this weekend.

The 14-year-old earned a starting spot on the Tigers' basketball team and averaged 12.4 points per game for the 18-7 squad.

Jenn Deuel of Whitesboro drives past Maddy Frank of Jamesville-DeWitt during their Class A title game on March 2. Deuel led area girls in scoring last winter, scoring 22.3 points per game for the Warriors .

Canton Central's program was cut last year as was Massena's. Canton will have no team for the second year in a row, while at Massena, it has taken private fundraisers to keep the program intact.

Count Syracuse as an interested observer in the Isaiah Whitehead sweepstakes. Whitehead , the 6-foot-4 combo guard out of Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, has been on the Orange radar for awhile now.

Opening face-off between the Albany River Rats and the Adirondack Phantoms Saturday night, October 17, 2009, at the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls, N.Y. The Glens Falls Civic Center in downtown Glens Falls, NY Tuesday April 23, 2013.

It may have been the PSAL Girls' City Individuals, but more than half of the gold medals went to Staten Island wrestlers in the inaugural wrestling event held Saturday at Wingate Educational Campus in Brooklyn.

The 40th Anniverary Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame induction dinner begins 6 p.m. tonight at the Pearl River Elks in Nanuet.

Bishop Ludden's Ben Hackett is pressured by Jordan Henderson of New Hartford during their Class A sectional championship game at the Carrier Dome.