In the ongoing battle to reduce blowouts in high school sports, the NJSIAA executive committee approved a basketball mercy rule, starting this school year, that will trigger a running clock in the ...

ROBBINSVILLE − How big a win is too big? And at what point does a mercy rule become counterproductive in high school sports? A lot of items were approved at a busy Sept. 17 meeting of the NJSIAA ...

The embarrassing result has reignited heated discussions about New Jersey’s growing adoption of mercy rules designed to prevent runaway scorelines. In the past two years, the state has introduced such ...

Blowout games in basketball and football might not get as out of hand with the passing of mercy rules in both sports, a decision made Wednesday by the NCHSAA board of directors at its spring meeting ...