Football

Starting with this Saturday's Semifinals, every team left in the MHSAA football playoffs hits the road.  Some face longer trips than others. But all 32 hope their final journeys last long enough to land them at Ford Field for an extended Thanksgiving celebration.&...

Friday’s second-ever MHSAA 8-player football championship game will feature teams representing different stages of the new division’s development. Together, Bellaire and Deckerville should bring an exciting conclusion to the 8-player season at Greenville Hi...

Basketball is a source of pride at Flint Beecher, with a tradition of excellence that includes four boys and two girls MHSAA championships. Courtney Hawkins is as proud as anyone, having played on the 1984-85 and 1986-87 championship teams. But this fall's run...

Four of last season's MHSAA football champions still have opportunities to repeat when the games return to Ford Field in two weeks.  But this weekend's Regional Finals laid waste to some of the seemingly safest predictions from only a few weeks ago.

Let's face it. In high school football especially, it's tough to predict which teams will be around when the big trophies are awarded Thanksgiving weekend. It wouldn't take much research to figure out how many top-ranked favorites have fallen long before finishing the d...

Two down. Two to go. The postseason portion of this fall's Drive for Detroit is halfway complete. And while a number of contenders have traveled this far many times before, some of the most captivating moments are being created by teams make this leg of the journey for...

Time is running out on the 2012 MHSAA football season. And that's why it's the favorite time of year for fans all over the state. The field that began with 272 teams has been cut in half. Seven teams that entered the postseason undefeated suffered their first and only...

Terry Hessbrook has sensed this level of buzz around Ithaca's football program once before, during his senior year of 1984, when the team made the playoffs for the first time.  Local fans long have supported a winning football program. But thanks to a 38-game win...

Hopes are high for most of 242 teams heading into the first weekend of the MHSAA football playoffs. But we see it every October – the unexpected and plain unbelievable take over in the postseason as teams raise their games to meet the urgency of do-or-be-done.

What started as more than 600 MHSAA football teams is down to a mere 272. And eight are no doubt enjoying a whirlwind this week they've never experienced before.

Between double checking data for more than a third of our 626 football teams, and creating 136 first-round games for our most popular tournament, the morning of MHSAA football "Selection Sunday" is both one of the most exciting and nerve-wracking of the school year. S...

Just like that, another MHSAA football regular season is done. But not without hoopla that lasted into the final moments of Week 9. And many of those closing moments are covered in this week's Drive for Detroit.

At the end of Thursday’s practice, another chance at history only 24 hours away, Lansing Everett’s football team met for a players-only “family meeting” in the shadow of Archie Ross Stadium’s high concrete bowl. These brief night-before-g...

After nearly nine weeks of games to get to this point, the MHSAA football brackets will be constructed and released Sunday.  This is a re-publish of an explanation of last season's selection process, and the steps we take in lining up the final five weeks of the s...

Most of this weekend is about numbers for hopeful MHSAA football teams.  There are still a few league titles to determine. Some of those are listed below. But much of the focus is on the 256-team playoff field that will be determined Sunday. As of this morning, 17...

Homecoming is about many things to high school students. But this year it got a whole lot bigger when word got out that Travis Mills, paratrooper of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne, was coming home. Vassar High School seniors Alex Leveille and Tyler Langley tell us about h...

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.

As the old cliché goes, Week 8 was why they play the games. Sure, some of the weekend’s results could be anticipated. But others – think Detroit Martin Luther King over Cass Tech, Oxford over Oak Park and Bessemer over Crystal Falls Forest Park to m...

One team more than half of the 2010 MHSAA football playoff field has been decided, with 129 teams qualified for the 256-team field with two regular-season games to play. And each of these final weeks includes opportunities for plenty to do something they've never done ...

On any Friday night, history can be made. And two Michigan communities are celebrating football success like never before.  Two weeks ago, Swartz Creek earned its first playoff berth ever, and Grand Rapids Northview did the same in Week 7. Here's more on that big ...