Tyler Harris, who helped Long Island Lutheran to a Federation basketball championship as a sophomore and then Half Hollow Hills West to the NYSPHSAA Class AA final last March, is making the move to the highly regarded New Jersey basketball power.

   The 6-foot-8 small forward, the brother of 2010 Mr. Basketball Tobias Harris, averaged 14.5 points last season. He'll be playing for former St. John's and Duke player Roshown McLeod.

   "He likes my game and my style," Harris told Newsday. "It wasn't a tough decision. I needed to focus on getting ready for college."

   The paper reported Harris is targeting a November college decision and has trimmed his list of possible colleges to UConn, Iowa, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Providence, St. John's, South Florida and Wake Forest. Reports after last season had his contemplating prep schools with the idea of reclassifying in order to pick up an extra year of experience and maturity.

   More choices: Former Rice forward Kadeem Jack will continue his career at Rutgers next September, The New York Daily News reported yesterday.

   The 6-8 standout, a first-team all-state selection in Class AA by the New York State Sportswriters Association last spring after averaging 16.9 points a game, picked the Scarlet Knights over Arkansas, the paper reported.

   Before enrolling at Rutgers, Jack is taking on a post-graduate year at South Kent Prep in Connecticut.

   Jack's new South Kent teammate has also made a decision. Maurice Harkless will enroll at St. John's next fall to play for Steve Lavin, MaxPreps.com reported. The 6-foot-7 small forward played at Forest Hills last season as a junior, averaging 16.6 points a game and landing a spot on the all-state ninth team.

   Harkless made a non-binding commitment to Connecticut in December but reconsidered this spring after the NCAA accused Jim Calhoun's program of eight violations.

   Back on the job I: Seven years after retiring, Dave McLaughlin is back as the boys cross country coach at Brighton.

   McLaughlin, who has been a meet official since 2007, replaces Nate Huckle, a former assistant coach on his staff. McLaughlin, 62, coached boys and girls track and cross country at various levels for 30 years in his first tour of duty with the Barons.

   Back on the job II: One of the great guilty pleasures in

RoadToSyracuse.com Football Site

New York scholastic sports makes its season debut tonight as Keith McShea of The Buffalo News does his first live chat of the fall tonight at 8 o'clock.

   The online event, done via Cover It Live, is usually a lively mix of rants, raves, questions, gossip and taunts by an enthusiastic cast of regulars. It's always worth checking out.

   On the web: Keaton Flint is having a pretty good preseason.

   The Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake senior, who was an all-state receiver as a junior, has moved to quarterback for the Spartans, who are coming off two consecutive trips to the NYSPHSAA Class A final. He makes his regular-season debut vs. Lansingburgh on Friday.

   He was featured last week on the cover of The Times Union's 60-page football magazine and there's a feature on him today on the MaxPreps.com website.

   I haven't received my copy of the magazine yet, but I'm hearing raves about "Insider" from folks in the Albany area who have picked up their copies already.

   And on the subject of MaxPreps, I highly encourage coaches and administrators to visit their website to sign up for a password. Once registered, they (or someone they designate) can add rosters and stats in a variety of sports. I've grown to like their site the past couple of years, including huge photo galleries that are second to none. We've been using technology they developed to provides scores and schedules on RoadToSyracuse.com and RoadToGlensFalls.com. The more schools that participate, the better the experience for players, fans and parents.

   Extra points: The school board agenda for tonight in Rome includes discussion of a proposal to name the football facility "Tom Hoke Field at RFA Stadium" in honor of the retired coach. Boosters stand ready to start raising funs for a $3,000 sign as well as possibly a mural.