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NewsOK.com Player of the Year candidate Kentrell Brothers, Guthrie... December 31, 2010 | Comment on this article

By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Kentrell Brothers, Guthrie Class: Senior Team record: 11-2 (5A semifinals) Stats: 63 catches for 1,304 yards and 18 touchdowns. 18 carries for 171 yards, TD. One touchdown pass. 100 tackles and 19 sacks. The case: Watch him just one time and try to tell me Brothers is... Read More

Bishop McGuinness girls earn Chesapeake title...

December 31, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Chesapeake Challenge At Heritage Hall Friday Boys Sunrise Academy 64, Cascia Hall 41 (championship) OKC Storm 56, Holland Hall 46 (third place) Heritage Hall 46, Weatherford 24 (consolation championship) Kingfisher 43, OKC Knights 40 (seventh place) Girls... Read More

Chesapeake Challenge: Day 2 results... December 30, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Chesapeake Challenge At Heritage Hall Friday Boys Championship: Cascia Hall vs. Sunrise Academy, 4 p.m. Third place: OKC Storm vs. Holland Hall, 12:40 Fifth place: Heritage Hall vs. Weatherford, 4 p.m. Seventh place: Kingfisher vs. OKC Knights, 12:40 Girls... Read More

Ardmore Holiday Classic, final day December 30, 2010 Another busy day here at the Ardmore Holiday Classic. I’ll keep you updated to the end, with a couple of exciting championship games on tap. Here are today’s scores and schedule, with game-by-game updates below: Thursday’s Results Girls Ardmore 58, Lawton 45, seventh place Northwest Classen 64,... Read More

NewsOK.com Player of the Year candidate Aliston Cobb, Douglass

December 30, 2010 If clutch performances in the playoffs are your thing, maybe Aliston Cobb deserves your vote for NewsOK.com Player of the Year. Aliston Cobb, Douglass Class: Senior Team record: 12-2 (Class 4A state champs) Stats: Rushed for 2,448 yards and 32 touchdowns on just 216 carries, an average of 11.3 yards per touch.... Read More

West Metro hoops and hardware December 30, 2010 A busy day for West Metro hoops, and at the end of the night, at least one squad will be holding a championship trophy. The Yukon boys and girls are both in the finals at the Ardmore Holiday Classic, where I have been camped out the last three days. The Millerettes face Fort Smith-Northside in what should be... Read More

Chesapeake Challenge: Day 1 results... December 29, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Chesapeake Challenge At Heritage Hall Thursday Boys Holland Hall vs. Sunrise Academy, 12:40 OKC Knights vs. Weatherford, 12:40 OKC Storm vs. Cascia Hall, 4 p.m. Heritage Hall vs. Kingfisher, 4 p.m. Girls OKC Knights vs. Weatherford, 11 a.m. Cascia Hall vs. OKC... Read More

Ardmore Holiday Festival blog, Day 2 December 29, 2010 UPDATE: Yukon takes it, 58-48 over PC West in the final semi of the night. The Millers will face Del City for the tournament title Thursday at 7 p.m., following the Millerettes’ in the girls title game against Fort Smith-Northside. For the Millers, this will be their first time playing for a tournament... Read More

Clark, Douglass staying warm on the beach December 29, 2010 Myrtle Beach is Stephen Clark’s kind of place. The Douglass sophomore has made 15 3-pointers through two games at the Beach Ball Classic at Myrtle Beach, S.C., carrying the Trojans to a pair of victories in the national tournament. Douglass routed a local SC team, Socastee, 90-46 in the opener on... Read More

NewsOK.com Player of the Year candidate Brandon Swindall, Millwood

December 29, 2010 Brandon Swindall, Millwood Class: Senior Team record: 13-1 (lost in 2A semifinals) Stats: Where to start… How about 1,312 receiving yards and 17 TDs on just 52 catches, an average of 26.2 yards per catch. Or 17 interceptions as a cornerback, returning eight for touchdowns to set a national record, according to... Read More

Chesapeake Challenge at Heritage Hall schedule... December 28, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com I’m going for the food … and I guess I’ll stay for the basketball. I’ll be floating around Heritage Hall the next three days for the Chesapeake Challenge. Here’s the schedule. The Chargers have two gyms so games will be going on at the same time. Chesapeake... Read More

Ardmore Holiday Classic live blog, Day 1 December 28, 2010 A busy day on tap from the Ardmore Holiday Classic, and I’ll try to keep it as updated as possible here, with the schedule, results and other random thoughts throughout the day. First, today’s games: Tuesday’s games Girls Southeast 34, Lawton 28 Yukon 45, Northwest Classen 36 Fort Smith (Ark.) Northside... Read More

NewsOK.com Player of the Year candidate David Glidden, Mustang

December 28, 2010 David Glidden, Mustang Class: Senior Team record: 7-4 Stats: 1,244 receiving yards and 17 touchdowns on 65 catches, 13 rushes for 107 yards and 1-of-1 passing for 35 yards and a score. Six interceptions, returning four of them for TDs, and four kickoff return TDs. Finished with 46 tackles and averaged 35 yards... Read More

OSD coach Tommy Varner the face of the program... December 28, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com My mini-vacation is almost up, but I wanted to mention a couple of things on Sunday’s story on the Oklahoma School for the Deaf football team. Really enjoyed working on this story. As the interviews progressed, there were more and more layers to everything, and you see... Read More

NewsOK.com Player of the Year candidate Sterling Shepard, Heritage Hall...

December 27, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Sterling Shepard, Heritage Hall Class: Junior Team record: 15-0 (3A state champions) Stats: 56 catches for 1,015 yards and 18 touchdowns. 50 carries for 575 yards and 10 touchdowns. Three touchdown passes. Six interception/kick returns for scores. 103 tackles and eight... Read More

NewsOK.com Player of the Year update... December 26, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Still a week left to vote for the first ever NewsOK.com Player of the Year. David Glidden of Mustang has a commanding lead over Kentrell Brothers of Guthrie as we come down the stretch. Starting Monday, Scott Wright and myself will write about one candidate per day and... Read More

All-Best of the Rest football team... December 25, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and yours from the Varsity staff. I’ma go back to being Uncle Bob to my niece and nephew here in Kansas. Here’s the final installment with an all-best of the rest. Basically, teams in the OKC area that aren’t in one of the... Read More

All-Private schools football team... December 24, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Back again. This time around we’re looking at the private schools in the Oklahoma City area. Plenty of good choices, couple of tough calls. Here ya go: All-Private schools Offense QB — Cooper Cloud, Heritage Hall RB — Barry J. Sanders, Heritage Hall RB —... Read More

All-Edmond football team... December 23, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com This time we’re heading to Edmond. Very interesting dynamic here with a heavy North offense and a heavy Memorial defense. Read More

All-Mid-Del football team... December 22, 2010 By Robert Przybylo BPrzybylo@opubco.com Now this list is done by me. So if you’re upset, yep, come to me on this one. I had fun doing the All-Edmond and All-Private schools team last year. This year I’ve added the Mid-Del and the Best of the Rest. One team per day. Read More

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The Varsity High School Bloggers

Ryan Aber

Reporter

Ryan Aber has worked for The Oklahoman since 2006, covering high schools, the Oklahoma City RedHawks, the Oklahoma City Barons and OU football recruiting. An Oklahoma City native, Aber graduated from Northeastern State. Before joining The Oklahoman, Aber worked for the Muskogee Phoenix, Southwest Times-Record in Fort Smith, Ark., and the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas.

Jason Kersey

OU Sports Reporter

Jason Kersey became The Oklahoman's OU football beat writer in May 2012 after a year covering high school sports and OSU recruiting. Before joining the newspaper in November 2006 as a part-time results clerk, he covered high school football for the Newcastle Pacer. During his time with The Oklahoman, he has also coordinated Thunder coverage, worked on the copy desk and covered several NFL games, including Super Bowl XLV. A Noble High School and OU graduate, he lives in Norman.

Jacob Unruh

Copy Editor

Jacob Unruh is a graduate of Northeastern State University. He was born in Cherokee and raised near Vera where he attended Caney Valley High School.During his tenure at NSU, Unruh wrote for The Northeastern (NSU's student newspaper), the Tahlequah Daily Press and the Tulsa World. From there, Unruh spent three years at the Lawton Constitution covering prep sports and Oklahoma football before joining The Oklahoman sports staff.

Scott Wright

Reporter

A lifelong resident of the Oklahoma City metro area, Scott Wright has been on The Oklahoman staff since 2005, covering a little bit of everything on the state's sports scene.

He has been a beat writer for football and basketball at Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, writing about athletes like Blake Griffin, Sam Bradford, Adrian Peterson, Dez Bryant and Brandon Pettigrew before they moved on to outstanding professional careers.

He also has covered small college athletics, minor league sports and NASCAR. Currently, he specializes in high school sports, football and basketball recruiting, and coverage of the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association.