The Florida High School Athletic Association on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to turn down an appeal by a Tampa Christian school in a battle about whether the school’s rights were violated when it was barred from offering a prayer over a stadium loudspeaker before a 2015 football championship game.

Outdoor football practices started Monday in one of the hottest weeks so far in the year.

The Florida High School Athletic Association put an exclamation point on its final board of directors meeting of the school year on Tuesday, voting to bring in a shot clock in playoff basketball next year, expanding a subset of the football playoffs and tinkering with the baseball postseason again.

Jackson senior track and field athlete Nieko Garnes currently holds the U.S. #1 time for the 400m hurdles. Clocking in at 52.67 seconds, which he ran at the Sam Burley Hall of Fame Invitational in Miami in February.

Raines, St. Augustine and Trinity Christian are the last area teams left standing in the high school football state playoffs.

Varsity 4 has you covered every step of the way for Week 10 of the high school football season.

The News4JAX Varsity 4 Super 6 high school volleyball rankings will be published each Wednesday during the regular season. Records are through Sept. 25 games.

The Florida High School Athletic Association is warning schools of potential name, image and likeness issues on the still yet-to-be implemented bylaw change.

The best against the best in major team sports. That’s what the championship division that was approved by the Florida High School Athletic Association this week in Gainesville aims to create. What does that look like when it’s put into play, what schools will benefit and could teams circumvent it if they wanted to?

The State Board of Education on Wednesday approved changes in the Florida High School Athletic Association’s bylaws that include replacing mentions of the word “gender” with the word “sex,” amid a larger dispute between federal and state officials.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation that shakes up the Florida High School Athletic Association’s board structure and gives control to the state, further eases restrictions on athletes in virtual and charter schools, and allows pregame remarks like prayer and state series games.

A bill that gives high school athletes greater options than ever in choosing where they want to play cleared the Florida Legislature and now awaits the signature of Gov. Ron DeSantis, another blow for the embattled Florida High School Athletic Association.

Questions about female athletes’ menstrual history will no longer appear on the medical forms that Florida high school students have to fill out before participating in sports.

For the fourth time in four years since taking over as the head coach at Bolles, Matt Toblin is preparing for a final four game. This time, the most successful program in the history of high school football all in Florida will play the role of the underdog.

Three key takeaways from the state’s football scene this past weekend -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.

The high school football regular season is in the books and the playoffs are on tap. Who’s in, who’s out and who’s going where? That will be finalized on Sunday morning when the FHSAA releases its first brackets for its new Suburban and Metro state playoffs.

So, where do the district races stand entering Week 10? Here are the district scenarios:

The high school football playoffs are coming into clearer focus as district races wind down. So, who’s in, who’s out and who’s got work left to do?

Three key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.

The News4Jax Super 6 high school volleyball rankings will be published each Wednesday during the regular season.

Three key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.

The News4JAX girls lacrosse Super 6 will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season. Records are through April 6 games

The News4JAX boys Super 6 lacrosse rankings will be published weekly through the end of the regular season. Records are through April 5 games.

The News4JAX girls lacrosse Super 6 will be published Thursday through the end of the regular season. Records are through March 30 games.

The News4JAX boys Super 6 lacrosse rankings will be published weekly through the end of the regular season. Records are through March 29 games.

After this week, the News4JAX Super 6 girls lacrosse rankings will be published weekly through the end of the regular season. Records are through March 22 games.

The Super 6 boys high school lacrosse rankings will be published weekly through the end of the regular season. Records are through March 22 games.

The FHSAA Board requested that the FHSAA staff gather input from various committees and then present some options. This is the current start date, although the FHSAA board will meet before then to consider any changes to the schedule. Under the plan, games would begin the week of Sept. 7, and state playoffs would be held as scheduled. This amounts to a one month push back of the original schedule that would have had teams beginning fall practices this past Monday. The FHSAA Board will next meet on Aug. 14.

It comes with a warning from its own Sports Medicine Advisory Committee that provided plenty of dialogue throughout the night. The breakthrough in a slog of a night came on the backside of the calendar after three separate motions for an Aug. 10 start date were shot down. Schools would have to declare their intentions on whether they would participate in the state series playoffs by a set date. If they elect not to participate in the state series for instance, a program in hard-hit Miami-Dade County they could then play through the end of state series playoffs to essentially have a fuller season. Executive director George Tomyn was publicly against that plan and the FHSAA largely held to the original calendar start date of July 27 for when teams could begin practice.