Appeals Court Won’t Budge on New Jersey Prep Football Cheating Scandal, Leaving Title Vacant

A New Jersey state appeals court denied a high school’s bid to reverse that state’s high school athletic association’s decision to strip its football team of its 2011 state title.   In so ruling, the court found that the North Bergen High School head football coach “cheated his team as well ... of the opportunity to learn the most valuable lesson of competitive sports: maximum effort in an even playing field.”   Patrick J. Jennings, the Hackensack attorney representing the No