High School Sports

My perspective may be tainted from working in mid-major Division I college athletics for a long time. I do believe in free enterprise. However isn't high school, even more than college is about educating our youth enabling them to be better adults? Should we have a 14 year old thinking about making a profit on his or her basketball skills or using those abilities to help make their team better? I'm not sure there is a right or wrong answer with this one. I just know it begs a question.

Girls across New York State will now have the opportunity to play football for their school. A pilot program has been created to add another spring sport for girls in our public high schools. They are going to offer a girls' flag football season starting in 2022 selecting a few "Sections" throughout New York state. Section II is included. It will be supported by the region's NFL teams.

There will be high school football games played in the Capital Region of New York today, strange as that seems at the tail end of March, instead of October. We’ve gotten used to some of the abnormalities, such as no fans in the stands and student-athletes competing with masks. Another missing element will be college coaches.

Even though Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Department of Health opened the door for high-risk high school sports to begin on February 1st, it looks like that will not be the case. Albany County Executive Dan McCoy said "you're not going to get the green light February 1" in his Wednesday morning press briefing.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has given clearance for High Risk High School sports to begin as early as February 1st. High School players and coaches of Basketball, wrestling, hockey, volleyball, football and lacrosse may finally get to compete here in New York. As long as local health departments approve Cuomo and the New York State Department of Health will allow practice to begin as early as February 1st.

Some of Section 2's best can compete next month

Find out details about the local high school teams here

Guilderland will face Shen for the Super Bowl this weekend and head coach Dan Penna

Stillwater is undefeated this season and is the #1 seed in the Class C Sectionals.

On a night where the capital region was watching Duke dismantle Louisville 82-56 for their 4th straight victory, but there was another reason for capital region

It's another Tuesday so that  means another edition of "Section 2sday". This week CBS 6 and CW 15's Brittany Devane joined us to discuss the latest local sports news in the capital region. We first discussed some of the great stories involving professional baseball players from Section 2...

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...