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This Week In High School Sports leads off this week with a feature about high school teams giving back through special nights, hands out game balls to Karina VanDuinen of Muskegon Reeths-Puffer and Dylan Fritz and David Binder of Owendale-Gagetown, and concludes with a ...

This week’s program leads with a story on Otsego’s girls cross country team, passes out This Week Game Balls to Corunna volleyball and Petoskey football and closes with a "Perspective" about the MHSAA School Broadcast Program.

This edition of This Week In High School Sports leads with a story on Constantine three-year quarterback Matt Hasbrouck, passes out three This Week Game Balls for outstanding performances, and presents a real view of day-to-day life for referees...

This edition of This Week In High School Sports leads with a story on Hannah and Sarah Tabit of Mount Morris, who have led the Panthers to the top of the heap in Class B girls volleyball; passes out three This Week Game Balls, discusses how officials can corre...

The second edition of This Week In High School Sports features the Engadine-Brimley 8-player football game from last week, passes out three Game Balls, talks about spearing in the Be The Referee segment and says good-bye to a few good coaches.

Following a decade-long run of "MHSAA Perspective" on radio stations all over Michigan, the MHSAA is debuting this week "This Week in High School Sports," a collection of features discussing current issues and highlighting accomplishments that will be produced through t...

Every year before the school year starts, Hudsonville athletic director Kevin Wolma choose one word to help him focus on what is important and shed all the other clutter in his life. Wolma discusses why for the 2015-16 school year he chose "partnership," and how that ca...

Former Jackson Citizen Patriot sports editor Tommy Cameron penned a commentary during the late 1980s titled "Stealing Without Guilt" on attendance at high school sporting events.  It was his plea to parents missing out on the special moments experienced by their c...

The decision to focus solely on one sport sometimes is done by athletes (or their parents) who believe that quitting other sports is the sole way to earn a coveted college scholarship. However, even though counter intuitive, sport specialization may be hampering their p...

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about the seeding of MHSAA Tournaments, how it's happened in some sports, and why it hasn't happened in basketball.

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about the 50-year anniversary of the highest scoring performance ever in an MHSAA Boys Basketball Tournament game – 60 points by Richie Jordan of Fennville.

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about how gamesmanship – the act of bending the rules without breaking them, or at least not getting caught – has no place in sports.

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about the 1949 Coldwater High School boys basketball team, which won the Class B title and changed the way the game was played.

Coaches often cite parents as one of the most uncontrollable and frustrating aspects of coaching. Let’s face it, when this relationship goes south, there can be pent-up frustration and hard feelings between the two parties which can result in a negative experienc...

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson discusses how the perspective of parents in the stands towards officials would change if they were required at some point in time to become officials themselves.

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about two situations where schools played in memory of deceased team members, the involvement of the younger brothers, and the brotherhood shared.

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about the stress that specialization places on a young athlete's body, and how ways to relieve that stress actually work in combination with learning the fundamentals of a sport.

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about the findings of a national study recently released by the University of Michigan, which indicate that participation fees for high school sports are keeping kids on the sidelines. 

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about a newspaper advice column where the letter writer is worried about how expensive her daughter's club sports team has become, and he wonders how a legendary columnist would have responded to it.  

In this week's edition of MHSAA Perspective, John Johnson talks about a bowling match he sat in on last week, and how well the sport has fit in over the last 10 years.