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These next four weeks make up arguably the most exciting sports time of every school year.  With MHSAA tournament play beginning last week for track and field, girls tennis and lacrosse — plus the other sports settling their league championships&nb...

It matters not which school you support: All of us cheer on those who emerge from sad or challenging circumstances to return to the field of play. Those are stories with which we all identify, no matter where they take place or the athletes involved. Grass Lake's Juli...

The resignation of one of Michigan's winningest boys basketball coaches made arguably the biggest headlines during a week that also saw sad news about two more coaches who will be remembered fondly in their respective communities. 

The clouds finally began to break last week. And as expected, teams in every spring sport quickly got started catching up on what they'd had to put off most of this month.  Read on for some of the top headlines from all over the state, plus our favorite story ...

A rough survey of Michigan newspapers over the last week found at least 13 reported on how this spring's rainy (snowy?) weather has affected spring high school sports. But a few more teams finally made it outside – although all-weather sports like soccer again d...

Near-constant rain – and for our northern schools, plenty of snow – has stalled many teams during this spring season. But there still were plenty of notable performances as most schools returned last week from spring break and battled the elements to get ba...

To casual high school basketball fans who hadn't heard about him coming up, Monte Morris introduced himself during Flint Beecher's run to last season's MHSAA Class C championship.  On Monday, the Iowa State recruit won a close competition among the top three final...

Freeland senior Tori Jankoska was named Michigan's Miss Basketball on Monday by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan.  The 5-foot-8 guard helped her team to the Class B Semifinals in 2012. She'll continue her career this fall at Michigan State University...

The Ann Arbor Pioneer boys and girls swim programs have received national acclaim over the years. And at the head of those efforts has been coach Denny Hill, who celebrated his 1,000th dual meet victory last month. 

The Flint area and MHSAA hockey community last week mourned the death of popular official Steven Winn. 

The Flint sports community lost a longtime contributor Monday, and one that no doubt left heavy hearts all over Michigan. Longtime Flint Powers Catholic coach Jack Pratt died at the age of 84.

One of the newest additions to the Lansing State Journal is its Michigander section, which each week highlights great reasons to enjoy life in our home state. And last week's section declared what we've always felt -- that high school football is weaved into our commu...

LaMarr Woodley was a football star at Saginaw High long before he went on to the University of Michigan and now the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's given students in his hometown the same opportunity for accomplishment without the cost they would've otherwise incurred this ...

A $9,000 donation by a concerned community member was matched by others throughout Cassopolis to wipe out sports participation fees for this school year.

Fans of U.S. Swimming already have plenty of reasons to cheer for Missy Franklin later this month at the Summer Olympics -- but fans of high school sports and what they provide athletes at all levels of ability can also support her for how she's chosen to compete when s...

At Lowell High, football parents who think their child should be playing more get an opportunity to convince coach Noel Dean of the same -- but must do so in a meeting with the parents of the player who would lose time in the process.

We've recognized the named "Kelly Lunghamer" for a while now, which makes sense. The Birmingham Marian senior just finished her high school career with 12 varsity letters -- and 12 appearances in MHSAA Finals.

Even for the best, coaching wouldn't be referred to as "easy" -- and many would argue that it's grown tougher as time commitment, financial need and parental influence all have increased. And yet, there are thousands who every year continue to lead our programs. 

From the crazy stuff that happens file: Richland Gull Lake senior Bryan VandenBerg hit a drive during Monday's Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference Tournament -- that ended up hitting his father Tim in the head. Really.