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Ognacevic bounces back after missing season due to injury and leads Lipscomb into NCAA Tournament bid

Ognacevic bounces back after missing season due to injury and leads Lipscomb into NCAA Tournament bid

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Hillsboro Globe Reports March 19, 2025

NASHVILLE (AP) — Hillsboro High School's favorite neighbor is headed for the NCAA Basketball Tournament and the Burros, CorteZ Graham-Howard is headed to North Alabama next fall. Top-seeded...

2025 Mr. and Miss Basketball Winners Announced

2025 Mr. and Miss Basketball Winners Announced

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – TSSAA ANNOUNCEMENT March 19, 2025

March 17, 2025 The top girls and boys basketball players in six classifications of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association were honored by being named the winners of the 2025 Mr. and...

Hillsboro High School point guard watches for the announcement of the 2025 TSSAA Mr. Basketball finalists. (photo Margo Jenkins, 2/13/2025)

For Immediate Release: Cortez Graham-Howard named as a Mr. Basketball Finalist.

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Margo Jenkins, Sports February 13, 2025

2025 TSSAA Mr. and Miss Basketball Finalists Announced Awards to be presented on Tuesday, March 18 February 13, 2025 For Immediate Release: NASHVILLE, TENN - Hillsboro High School is proud to...

Hillsboro Boys Basketball is having a great first half of the season

Hillsboro Boys Basketball is having a great first half of the season

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Sports Desk February 4, 2025

There's no place like home for Hillsboro, which bounced back after a loss on the road last Saturday in Chattanooga, where they played Whitehaven in a tournament. On Tuesday and Friday,...

Burchella 2024 - Winter Spirit Week Photos and Fun

Burchella 2024 – Winter Spirit Week Photos and Fun

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Ariyana Whitsey, Reporter February 14, 2024

Hillsboro students showed up big for the 2024 Annual Coming Home event and for the Winter Spirit Week to celebrate our basketball teams and this year's Coming Home Court. In true Burros fashion, many participated...

Hillsboro High School adds Jackie Turner during the naming of the gymnasium

Hillsboro High School adds Jackie Turner during the naming of the gymnasium

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Margo Jenkins, Editor November 20, 2023

On Thursday, November 16th, 2023, Hillsboro High School was proud to announce and celebrate the new naming of the school gym. The previously known Ed Hessey Gymnasium will now be known as the Ed...

Hillsboro's Gym New Edition: Mrs. Jackie Turner

Hillsboro’s Gym New Edition: Mrs. Jackie Turner

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Truly Eckles, Writer November 15, 2023

Hello Burros! Spread the word! The unveiling of the new signage at the Hillsboro gym will take place on Thursday, November 16, at 4:00 PM, before the Lady Burros play their first home game of the...

A black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials

A black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Arnez Anderson, Contributing Writer October 2, 2023

HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a Black high school student in Texas who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Saturday against the state's governor and attorney general,...

Furman guard JP Pegues (1) celebrates while leaving the court after their win against Virginia in a first-round college basketball game in the NCAA Tournament, Thursday, March 16, 2023, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Pegues, Furman hoping to extend March Madness stay

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – FRED GOODALL and Drew Thornton March 20, 2023

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — JP Pegues has watched the shot repeatedly. A March Madness memory for Furman for all time. In Pegues' wildest dreams, he never imagined himself becoming an instant star. But the...

Alcoa just barely beats by Pearl Cohn High School with score of 65-62

Alcoa just barely beats by Pearl Cohn High School with score of 65-62

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – HIllsboro Sports Desk March 16, 2023

When the Pearl Cohn Firebirds lost to Whites Creek, so fans thought their season was over, but not the team. They chose to get closer as a team and rely on one another to win out and travel to Murfreesboro...

HIllsboro Burros beat Sevier Co. 65-39 in the TSSAA State basketball tournament

HIllsboro Burros beat Sevier Co. 65-39 in the TSSAA State basketball tournament

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – HIllsboro Sports Desk March 16, 2023

Hillsboro Burros Boys Basketball team proved Tuesday that they are ready to play and ready to win. Leading the entire game, the Burros demonstrated that they had an answer to any run Sevier Co. attempted....

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner, stands listening to a verdict in a courtroom in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. American basketball star Brittney Griner apologized to her family and teams as a Russian court heard closing arguments in her drug possession trial said it expected to deliver a verdict later Thursday. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)

WNBA’s Brittney Griner appeals her Russian prison sentence

August 16, 2022

MOSCOW (AP) — Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner have filed an appeal of her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported Monday, amid talks...

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