Stevens:  Bob Wolfe, the veteran Apex High football coach, has retired from coaching after 18 seasons as the Cougars head coach.

Stevens:  Broughton High graduate Jesse Williams will be presented the Jesse Owens Award Saturday night in St. Louis as the top U.S. male track and field athlete.

Stevens:  Three hours before the kickoff, the Blue Crew began driving into the gravel parking lot near Garner High's Trojan Stadium.

Stevens:  Football is a team game, as Garner showed emphatically Friday night when an unlikely cast of heroes earned the Trojans a berth in the N.C.

High School Heroes:  Brendan Lough is thankful for two art teachers at Leesville Road High School.

Stevens:  One of the most successful groups of girls volleyball players ever in the state held a little ceremony at their school Tuesday afternoon. The official purpose was to celebrate the players' college decisions, but the occasion also was about saying goodbye.

Stevens:  How could it be better? The NCHSAA has created the most exciting, most dramatic, most entertaining and most incredibly fun football playoff system the state has ever had. It also saved a buck or two.

Stevens:  Keith Marshall, one of the top-ranked high school running backs in the country, is expected to announce his college decision within the next few weeks. Marshall will graduate from Millbrook in December and enroll in college for the spring semester.

Stevens:  Carrboro boys' soccer coach Mark Kadlecik switched his lineup around on the eve of the N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs even though the Jaguars were 19-1-2 and ranked among the best 2A teams in the state.

Stevens:  Garner didn't begin the season as the top-ranked high school football team in the area, but the Trojans held the top spot for eight weeks before someone - me - dropped them to second behind Leesville Road, which is still perched atop The News & Observer rankings.

Stevens:  Frank Lassiter, Smithfield-Selma's football coach for the past two years, resigned as head coach and as a social studies teacher on Wednesday.

Stevens:  Millbrook High is expected to play one of the best boys' high school basketball teams in the country during the Clash at Cameron on Dec. 17 at Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium.