High School Sports

Former section 2 standout at Guilderland high school, Andrew Platek, is making the transition from prep school at Northfield Mount Hermon to the University of North Carolina. The 6'4" Capital Region native was offered full scholarships from Miami, Stanford, Indiana, and Harvard, among others...

The Section 2 boys basketball season is now officially underway and once again the Capital Region isn't short on talented players or teams. James Allen, who has been covering Section 2 boys basketball for nearly three decades, stopped by Big Board Sports in his typical Friday slot to discuss some of the area's premier teams and players as we head into this weekends games...

Nobody in New York's Capital Region has had the close up view on the area's best young players the way that Steve Dagostino has. Dagostino, the owner of Dags Basketball training company, has made a habit of bringing the top talent in the 518 to his private facility to help the young players grow...

For the first time in Capital Region history three different Section 2 high school football teams have won state championships. Troy (class A), Glens Falls (class B), and Cambridge (class D) all won their respective title games in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse this past weekend...

Nobody in upstate New York covers Section 2 high school football as closely or for as long as 'Big game' James Allen. Throughout the fall season Allen has been coming on Big Board Sports every Friday to deliver the latest news and projections as it relates to 518 football...

The Section two high school football playoff bracket is officially set. Each Capital Region school will compete for their chance to play for both a sectional title and a state championship. This year's state championship finals will again be held at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York in late November...

James Allen stopped by Big Board Sports to add more context to the death of longtime high school football coach Joe Grasso, as well as break down the match up of CBA vs Shen.

Garrett Whitley, the No. 13 overall draft pick in the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft, made his first trip to the Capital Region as a professional this weekend, playing a three-game set against the Tri-City ValleyCats as a member of the Hudson Valley Renegades...

The Buffalo Bills lost their first preseason game to the Indianapolis Colts, 19-18, on Saturday afternoon. How did the team feel about the performance that saw them limit the Colts to just 30 yards rushing and gain more than 120 yards on the ground themselves...

Last last night, it was confirmed to me that Ian Anderson will begin the second act of his Minor League Baseball career tonight. Anderson, the third overall pick in the draft this past year, and a Shenendehowa graduate, breezed through the Gulf Coast League, tossing 18 innings while allowing zero earned runs...

After another scoreless outing on Friday, Shenendehowa graduate and No. 3 overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft, Ian Anderson, will be promoted from the Gulf Coast League to the Appalachian League's Danville Braves. In 18 innings of professional baseball thus far, Anderson has yet to allow an earned run and has exhibited great control...

Former Shaker High School student-athlete Bailey Wind is one of two survivors (Matt Hardy being the other) from the tragic and fatal Northway crash in December of 2012 that killed Shen seniors Chris Stewart and Deanna Rivers. Wind, now a senior at the University of Tennessee, is working to turn the pain of that experience into a success story by public speaking, trying to create awareness about ma