As with college football teams and professional

every high school team in every state has a mascot or team name. Many are generic allusions that convey an image of strength, speed and/or bravery. Thus, pluralized team names like Tigers, Eagles, Wildcats, Trojans and Warriors are quite common across the country. Other team names, however, have a historical connection to the city. or area where the school or school district is located, such as an industry locally important. For example, Yuma High School in Yuma, Arizona is known as “Criminals” due to the school’s historical connection to the infamous Yuma Territorial Prison. Many new schools, or schools that have merged with other schools, allowed their students to “vote” for a new school mascot or team nickname.

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As most games take place during prime time, television exposure high school football on a local basis tends to be limited only to championship games. Local public access cable television and stations Local radio stations often broadcast regular season contests and, in In some cases, the school’s own radio station broadcasts the game using student announcers. There has also been a sharp rise in recent years of media-based web covering high school sporting events. Examples include mid America Broadcasting in Indiana, Champs Sports Network and MSA Sports Network in western Pennsylvania, MSBN in Minnesota and BSports.org in Washington. In many television markets, local stations will broadcast 30-minute or 60-minute ‘scoreboard’ programs after the Friday news with scores and highlights from games in your coverage area. As of 2005, ESPN’s family of networks also aired regular season matchups between nationally ranked teams.