Football

Yes, it's only mid-September. We've got a long way to go in this MHSAA football season.   But there were a number of games played during Week 3 that should impact significantly how league races unfold through the end of the October. 

In this final installment of an MHSAA benchmarks series on the growing presence of video in high school athletics, we remember the tape exchanges that used to mark the beginning of the football playoffs – and the journeys taken by one Upper Peninsula coach to...

Gone is the rain (at least, apparently, for this week). But here comes the storm of league play.  By the end of this weekend, all but a handful of conferences schedules will be underway.

Roughly 35 percent of MHSAA Week 2 games either were finished or played in full Saturday because of the string of lightening, thunder, rain and hail that made its way across most of the Lower Peninsula. At points before and after, teams continued finding their footing ...

Week 2 of the MHSAA football season generally means the start of league play for schools across Michigan. Five leagues were formed and nine reshuffled significantly for 2014 – so we’ll do our best to guide you through some of the new names and title chases ...

Opening night of MHSAA football season never disappoints. This weekend’s first games of 2014 again produced plenty of discussion fodder. But they also included a couple interesting rarities worth pointing out.

Just like that, the first weekend of MHSAA football season 2014 is in the books. But we've got three more months of exciting stories to follow as September kicks off. Here's a brief breakdown of regular features to come this season on Second Half.

Our first Second Half Throwback Thursday of 2014-15 is such a long toss into the past that we don't know many of the details behind this photo – aside from the common tie between these celebrating athletes and those kicking off this weekend who hope to celebr...

It’s a lot like birds knowing to fly north in the spring. If you’ve played, coached, parented or followed high school football, you’re likely having a hard time not jumping out of your shoes in anticipation of opening night.

How seriously should we take public criticism of tackle football when that public promotes boxing or cage fighting?

The first practices of 2014-15 begin next week for approximately 110,000 student-athletes taking part in eight sports in which the Michigan High School Athletic Association sponsors postseason tournaments. Nearly 41,000 football players practicing under a new policy in...

Retired Associate Director Jerry Cvengros, who served at the Michigan High School Athletic Association for more than 13 years after three decades at Escanaba High School, died Monday evening in Lansing. He was 80. A Hall of Fame football coach and longtime school admin...

Michigan’s Football Task Force proposal . . . reduces collision practices to one a day before the first game and to two per week after the first game.

Coaches and players in Texas and Illinois adapted to new football practice limitations this fall, with the Texas policy focusing on contact, and the Illinois regulation emphasizing length of preseason practices.  Following are the main changes those states put in ...

The next time you find yourself immersed in a tense crosstown football rivalry on a Friday night followed by a Saturday pilgrimage to the nearest college campus and a Sunday afternoon with a remote and your favorite snacks and beverages, take a moment to consider what t...

It’s a great thrill each Thanksgiving weekend for those schools that make the trip to the Finals of the MHSAA Football Playoffs at Ford Field.  For the players, they get to occupy the same space as some of their professional favorites did just hours earlier&...

A crowd of more than 52,000 fans – 5,000 more than in 2012 – plus countless others watching on Fox Sports Detroit witnessed the end of one era, the beginning of another and the continuation of one of the most impressive in the nation while watching the MHSAA...

Danny Bauder would rather trade touches for trophies.  In most other offenses, a player of Bauder's ability would be a featured running back. What team wouldn't want to keep feeding the rock to a kid who ran for 1,796 yards and 28 touchdowns this season?

There were more moments than he and his teammates might’ve expected this fall when Drake Wooten sensed his high school career could soon come to an end.  That wasn’t supposed to be the scenario after Grand Rapids West Catholic advanced to the Division...

Ian Eriksen came into his senior year with Achilles and ankle injuries, then underwent arthroscopic surgery for a partially torn meniscus in his right knee on Sept. 19. Four Friday nights passed with Eriksen in street clothes, unsure of when — or if — he'd...