ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -  Dontae Johnson doesn’t keep a calendar or a daily planner with him, but with all the events he’s involved with at the Pennington (N.J.) School, you would think he should.
Johnson, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior, is a captain on both the football and basketball teams. As a safety, he holds [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Since I last wrote about Trevor “T.J.” Clemmings of Paterson Catholic back in February, he has added a slew of big-time scholarship offers and made quite a name for himself.
Chris Melvin, a recruiting analyst for EliteRecruits.com, calls Clemmings the No. 1 prospect in New Jersey in the Class of 2010.

“He’s my [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The thundershowers had just turned to sunshine and Chris Melvin was standing on the turf at Rutgers Stadium surrounded by nearly 200 of the top high school football players on the East Coast.
Divided into position groups and wearing numbers to identify them, the players performed drills under the watchful eyes of high [...]

In a remarkable ending that was broadcast on ESPNU, Ramsey (N.J.) Don Bosco Prep edged Concord (Calif.) De La Salle, 23-21, when kicker Patrick Murray made a 19-yard field goal with 10 seconds remaining.
“It’s the greatest feeling in the world,” Murray, who missed an extra-point try on the Ironmen’s final touchdown, told the San Francisco [...]

Like two heavyweight boxers trying to make a championship fight, Ramsey (N.J.) Don Bosco Prep and Concord (Calif.) De La Salle High School have been working to set up a football game on and off for the past five years.
The showdown will finally take place Saturday night when De La Salle (2-0), No. 15 [...]

For the first time since the 2005 state championship game, Ramsey (NJ) Don Bosco Prep lost a football game.
The Ironmen, No. 3 in the RivalsHigh Top 100, fell at No. 24 St. Xavier of Ohio, 17-10, before 5,500 fans Saturday afternoon. The Ironmen had a 24-game winning streak snapped in the RivalsHigh Game of the [...]

The morning after his starting signal-caller threw three more interceptions in a 44-12 home loss to North Carolina on ESPN, Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano insisted he wasn’t contemplating a quarterback change.
“Mike (Teel) is our quarterback,” Schiano said of the senior from Oakland, N.J. “We’re going to have our package for (backup QB) Jabu (Lovelace). [...]

The Don  Bosco football team of Ramsey, N.J. will travel to De La Salle in Concord, Calif. for a nationally televised contest on Sept. 27.
The game will air at 10:30 EST on ESPNU.
Bosco is ranked No. 4 in the USA Today Super 25, while De La Salle is No. 7.
Bosco is the two-time New Jersey [...]