From Oregon, here's a story that has something of a local tie.

It seems that a 6-foot-1 12-year-old has been banned from playing basketball at a private basketball facility in Beaverton, Ore., and the kid's coach thinks it's because the kid is too good to play with the rest of the team.

Did we mention that the 12-year-old, Jaime Nared, is a girl and the league is an all-boys league? Jaime's coach, Michael Abraham, thinks she is being punished for her parents' decision to have her play with children her own age, whom her skills are apparently superior to, rather than with older girls.

By the way, here's the local tie: Jaime Nared's father, Greg, is a former University of Maryland point guard, and her older sister, Jackie, recently signed a letter of intent to play basketball at College Park this fall.