It's a basketball event that has become as annual as the McDonald's All-American Game, the Roundball Classic or the Derby Classic , the high school press conference. Today, Darius Miles, a 6-foot-7 senior forward at East St. Louis High (Ill.), will likely announce his eligibility for the NBA Draft at a press conference from his school.

Miles has already committed to attend St. John's University, but has said throughout the recruiting process that he would jump straight to the pros if he was going to be a lottery pick. According to reports out of Chicago, Miles and his AAU coach, Larry Butler, believe he will be.

The swift afoot, slashing guard/forward averaged 22.1 points, 12.1 rebounds and 7.4 rebounds per game this past winter for East St. Louis High.

	Darius Miles is expected to announce this afternoon that he will make himself eligible for the NBA Draft.

If Miles does declare himself eligible, he would join a list of players, Jonathan Bender, Al Harrington, Jermaine O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady and Kevin Garnett, who jumped from high school to the NBA in the past five years.

Penn Relay Results

The Penn Relays is an event like no other. But when Alan Webb of South Lakes High (Va.) turned in a time of 3:59.9 in his 1,600-meter leg of the distance medley relay Friday, the annual carnival became the epicenter of high school athletics.

Webb's effort was just the third sub-4:00 mile turned in by a scholastic athlete in the last 30 years. And yet, amazingly, his relay squad still came in second place (10:02.32) to St. Malachy's (Belfast, Ireland) , run by Thomas Frazer (3:06.9), Francis McCaffrey (49.7), John Frazer (1:56.2) and Conor Sweeney (4:07.9) , which won the event with a time of 10:00.7.

The national scholastic mile record is held by Wichita East High (Kan.) alumnus Jim Ryun, who ran a 3:58.3 in 1965.

Other champions from Friday's Penn Relays high school boys' competition included:

Mile: Mason Ward (Colerain, Ohio), 4:13.71
3,000: Aaron Emery (Beaver River Central, N.Y.), 8:32.18
400 hurdles: Ryan Clarke (Kingston College, Jamaica), 51.55
High Jump: Paul Klemic (Mainland Regional), 7 feet, ¼ inch
Pole Vault: Logan Odden (Marina, Calif.), 14-9
Long Jump: Aundre Edwards (Wolmer's Boys', Jamaica), 24-11
Shot Put: Dorian Scott (Seton Hall Prep, N.J.), 61-8 1/2
Discus: Vikas Gowda (Frederick, Md.), 183-2
Javelin: Leigh Smith (Cardinal Gibbons, N.C.), 213-8
4-x-800: St. Malachy's (Belfast, Ireland) - Francis McCaffrey, 1:55.8, John Frazer, 1:55.2, Thomas Frazer, 1:56.5, and Conor Sweeney, 1:51.4 ' 7:38.86 4-x-400: Jamaica College (Jamaica) - Winston Smith, 49.7, David Coombs, 46.2, Dwaune Barrett, 48.8, and Sekou Clarke 46.8 ' 3:11.52 '

More High School Basketball

Kevin Torbert of Northwestern High (Mich.) was a boy playing among well, lesser talented boys Sunday at the Show-Me Shootout in Columbia, Mo. Torbert, a junior guard, won the MVP trophy after leading his Michigan Mustangs team to a 78-65 win over Illinois Gold. He finished with 27 points and eight rebounds in the game.

Teammate Ricky Morgan of Pontiac Northern High (Mich.) scored 21 points in the win.

Tournament of Champions

There were a lot of guys pounding the snot out of each other in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. To be specific, nearly 3,000 wrestlers took to the mats for the freestyle Tournament of Champions (TOC).

The annual tourney kicked off its 11th year, featuring a XX division for wrestlers in grades K-12. Results from the Elite Division, the TOC's most competitive division for high school grapplers, are as follows:

106: Stephen Weaver of Toledo, Ohio, beat Chris Yentzer of Shermans Dale, Pa.
115: James Phillips of Warren, Ohio, beat Jeremy McKinney of Mt. Holly, N.C.
123: Chris Johnson of Cross Lanes, W.V., beat Jermain Thompson of Akron, Ohio
132: Eric Noel of Weirton, W.V., beat Ryan Finn of Sandusky, Ohio
143: Vinny DiGiovanni of Solon, Ohio, beat Chris Hardy of Chesapeake, Va.
154: Andy Coyle of Wheaton, Ill., beat Aaron Miller of Uniopolis, Ohio
165: Tony Howard of Gaithersburg, Md., beat Christopher Kallai of Wadsworth, Ohio
178: Jamel McLean of Rocky Point, N.C., beat Nicholas Morrison of Galloway, Ohio
192: Ryan Kirst of Mansfield, Ohio, beat John Dickerson of Eaton Rapids, Mich.
220: Nathaniel Johnston of West Jefferson, Ohio, beat Ray Griffin of Akron, Ohio
275: Christopher Burtscher of Toledo, Ohio, beat Doug Wernke of Wapakoneta, Ohio