Leading off today: This has zero to do with high school sports, but it does nevertheless hit home in an indirect way.

   WHAM-TV reporter Rachel Barnhart is probably the best in the business in the Rochester market. Besides doing a lot of quality on-air reporting, she is very active on Twitter, Facebook and the station's website. She writes a lot of stuff that makes you ask, "Why didn't I think of that?" and a blog from last week was one such instance.

   With the new school year upon us, Barnhart asked a really good question: Why don't schools have simple names anymore, like Jefferson High or Vocational Tech, etc.

   In the Rochester City School District alone we now have Integrated Arts and Technology High School; Rochester Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics High School; Vanguard Collegiate High School; and Rochester Early College International High School. The old Frederick Douglass school building is now broken up into Northwest College Preparatory High School at Douglass Campus and Northeast College Preparatory High School at Douglass Campus.

   And, James Madison School of Excellence recently had its name changed to Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School Foundation Academy -- which makes it easy to confuse with nearby Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School Commencement Academy, a long-existing high school in a building that used to be known as West High.

   "These names are needlessly long and convoluted, but there’s another reason they rub me the wrong way," she wrote. "Schools are SUPPOSED to prepare you for college. They’re SUPPOSED to teach you math, science, and technology. They’re SUPPOSED to give you a foundation for what’s ahead. It’s as if the naming gurus decided that by giving them lofty titles, they’ll have a better chance at achievement."

   Buffalo reporter dies: Veteran Buffalo News reporter Robert J. "Bob" Summers died of an apparent heart attack late Saturday shortly after leaving work, the paper reported. He was 66.

   Summers wrote a horse racing column and covered Buffalo Blizzard indoor soccer and other sports for the paper. "He was an old-style journalist who could do it all," Editor Margaret Sullivan said.

   He joined The Buffalo News in 1977 as a financial writer, then moved into the sports department in 1984.

Many reporters use Twitter to deliver updates from fall sports contests. We track those tweets from a variety of venues 24/7. Visit the page to see what's going on.

   Wrong place, wrong time: The winningest football coach in the history of Volusia County in Florida was arrested during a weekend prostitution sting, the Beach News-Journal reported.

   Mainland coach John Maronto, 68, whose 259-110 record makes him the fifth winningest active coach in the state, approached an undercover police officer on Saturday and "engaged her in a conversation about sex for $50," Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood told the newspaper. He was charged with soliciting a prostitute, a misdemeanor.

   Poughkeepsie revamps blog: The Poughkeepsie Journal was freshened up online with the re-launch of its Varsity Club blog, which has a fresh design and acts as both portal and destination.

   Readers can find reports from the staff's Dan Pietrafesa, Sean McMann, Mike Benischek and Phil Strum on the blog as well as Twitter.

   More than a few papers have already found that the blog approach allows them to be a little more nimble in reporting the news and friendlier to high school sports fans by not asking them to navigate though extra layers to get to the "good stuff."

   NYC on the rise: The New York Post examined the steady improvement in the quality of football players coming out of Big Apple high schools lately, with many coaches crediting the NFL’s High School Development Program that started in 2001.

   Recent Staten Island Curtis grad Dominique Easley was one of last year's most coveted defensive linemen and signed with Florida. This summer, Holy Cross receiver Devon Cajuste became just the third New York City player in 23 years to commit to Stanford.

   “It’s the best I’ve seen,” veteran Tottenville coach Jim Munson said of the local depth of quality.