Is ther anyway to kill the middle link between the home page and the forums. Doing this would simply make a smoother transition to the forums. Just a small user friendly idea.

Avatar Links look great Pig. Clean up looks great to. If you still want to include the other sports then you may want to have HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS TAB that when you click on it it willopen a page that has links to the different kinds of sports: FOotball, Baseball, etc. Same thing with the other levels of sprort. This would help give you a clean forum home page that looks less cluttered.
Keep up the good work and progress. I still think that you need to get rid of the middle link to the forums to where it goes straight to the forums from the home page.