Deon ThomasWe reported a few weeks ago that Deon Thomas, the University of Illinois basketball program's all-time leading scorer who settled briefly in Pembroke Pines, was taking a job as the coach of a community college near St. Louis. And now Thomas tells Juice that he's taking some of the region's prep basketball talent with him: Brison Smith and Rico Pierre-Villus, both stars on the Santaluces High School Chiefs team in Lantana.Thomas dropped us an email on his way out of town, describing th
Flickr: elevenwarriorsLed by Brandon Linder, arguably the state's best prospect, St. Thomas Aquinas at a practice prior to a nationally televised game.If you had to pick the county in America with the best high school football players, it would probably be Los Angeles -- but that's not fair: With 10 million people, L.A. County's the biggest county in the nation. Now if you picked the best tri-county area, per capita, for high school football, you'd simply have to go with Miami-Dade, Broward