It is fitting that Don Sleeman coaches high school students to excel at making long runs. Sleeman’s run at Pioneer, however, has not been long as compared to a cross country course. It has been long in terms of a marathon.

Of 30 runners who finished among the top 10 in an Upper Peninsula Girls Cross Country Final last season, 18 will be returning for another championship opportunity Saturday at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in Munising. And if that’s not sign enough that the competition...

Familiar faces could dominate photo finishes at Saturday’s Upper Peninsula Boys Cross Country Finals at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in Munising. Two reigning individual champions are back from a year ago, as is the runner-up from the race where the winner has moved ...

This week’s show features retired Menominee football coach Ken Hofer and Farmington Hills Harrison football coach John Harrington, passes out Game Balls to Justin Nicholas of Grayling and Riley Schlaud of North Branch and talks about goal line rules in f...

Boys Soccer Districts continued Thursday, and volleyball and cross country league titles were celebrated. But we topped today's list with a pair of football features that put high school athletics, and also how our communities support them, all in perspective.

Here, in my opinion, are the four greatest gifts of the National Federation to school sports in America.

Maybe because it still feels like summer some days downstate, but it seems like we’ve gotten to Week 9 of the football season more quickly this fall. So let’s get right into it. Playoff fields will be announced at 7 p.m. Sunday on FOX Sports Detroit PLUS. B...

Bloomfield Hills junior Andrew Zhang moved up to No. 1 singles this season after claiming the No. 2 championship at last season’s Lower Peninsula Division 1 Finals, and he hasn’t missed a beat.  The Black Hawks’ top player won his Regional last w...

Five of 12 teams occupying top-three spots in this week’s Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association state polls have never won an MHSAA championship. That fact alone sets this up to be a weekend of change. But there are other factors to consider heading i...

Brighton celebrated the week's big upset so far and topped our list of Wednesday headliners by eliminating the favorite in the Division 1 boys soccer tournament. 

In this week's edition, assistant director Mark Uyl explains a pair of rules that govern the football goal line when the defense gets the ball.

A rite of the conclusion of football’s regular season is the announcement of the qualifiers and pairings for the MHSAA Football Playoffs – powered by the Michigan Army National Guard – on the “Selection Sunday Show,” which takes place this ...

It’s rematch time for many of the powerhouse programs in Lower Peninsula boys tennis. This weekend’s MHSAA Finals feature the same No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams in both Divisions 3 and 4 as a year ago, a pair of rivals that tied for the 2015 title holding do...

Team depth in any sport can be an important factor in making a strong postseason run. The Forest Hills Northern girls golf team possesses just that this fall, and the hope is an abundance of contributors help carry it to a lofty finish at this weekend’s MHSAA Fin...

One of the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s most popular programs, the Scholar-Athlete Award, will again present 32 $1,000 scholarships to top student-athletes at member high schools during the 2017-18 school year.

Boys Soccer Districts continued Tuesday topped by a big-time comeback, and one of the top volleyball teams in all of the Upper Peninsula won a league title by digging itself out of a deficit. 

With a reward dangling in front of them, the Harper Creek swimmers had extra motivation at the All-City Girls Swimming & Diving Meet two weeks ago. They turned in one of their best performances of the season and captured the title for the first time in school histo...

Here is a list of Michigan High School Athletic Association football playing schools, displaying their win-loss records and playoff averages through the eighth week of the season.

Boys Soccer Districts kicked off all over the Lower Peninsula on Monday and we highlight a number of those headlines, while also including a few good reads (and a good watch) we've collected.

“It’s essentially Buffalo Wild Wings, without the liquor license."