First-round games, and with them often familiar opponents, are out of the way as we move into District Finals for 11-player and Regional Finals for 8-player teams still alive in the MHSAA Football Playoffs.   This weekend, in most cases, we’ll get a str...

This week’s show kicks off with highlights from the Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals and closes with highlights from the Boys Soccer Finals, which saw three of the four championship games go into overtime and two decided in shootouts.

This week so far has seen 78 volleyball District champions celebrate – and while today’s list of Thursday’s headliners couldn’t include every great story, it’s a pretty strong selection of statewide coverage.

Wednesday night was the week’s busiest for Volleyball Districts as teams all over the state earned opportunities to play for championships.

Carter Solomon was Plymouth’s top runner the last three years and capped his high school cross country career as the state’s best – and one of its fastest champions all-time.  Solomon won the Lower Peninsula Division 1 championship Saturday at Mi...

This week, MHSAA assistant director Brent Rice announces the new officials playlist now available on the MHSAA YouTube channel.

This edition of State Champs Sports Network's “Clip of the Week” features Flint Beecher's Earnest Sanders with a 74-yard touchdown run during a playoff win over Clarkston Everest Collegiate.

Schyler Andersen had no idea what he had just accomplished. The senior running back may have known he rushed for 126 yards in Manistique's 54-21 loss in the regular-season finale at Lake Linden-Hubbell on Oct. 26. What he didn't know right away is he had set the school...

Volleyball Districts continued Tuesday across Michigan with a number of state-ranked teams advancing, some to championship matches.

More than 100 volleyball matches in the MHSAA District Tournament will take place on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network this week, joining a group of District Championship Football Playoff games – plus three Prep Zone events on FOXSportsDetroit.com.

First the local media picked it up, which made sense – it was a great story, and easy to appreciate whether you’ve heard of Maple City or could find Fife Lake on the map. In what was still perhaps surprising but a logical next step, The Associated Press and...

District play began across the state Monday for many of more than 700 volleyball teams, and we gathered some of the most notable headlines from vast coverage on both peninsulas.

Many athletes seem to believe time spent not training is time wasted. But, on the contrary. The time athletes spend resting and sleeping is actually just as important. Take the world’s best female skier, Mikaela Shiffrin, for example. Shiffrin reportedly not only...

Everything starts fresh in the playoffs. It’s not supposed to matter which teams have dominated during the regular season or won the first time when two rivals are set to meet again. When coaches need a little help convincing their players of any of that, they sh...

In addition to Lower Peninsula Cross Country and Boys Soccer Finals covered elsewhere on Second Half, the volleyball regular season finished up over the weekend with a few final tournaments, and we also include today championship recaps from State Champs Sports Network ...

Case studies have revealed that kids want to participate in high school sports because they are fun. 

Evan Bishop of East Grand Rapids had already established himself as one of the elite runners in a state known for producing great distance talent. But while Bishop had credentials and a reputation that stacked up favorably with anyone’s in Michigan, he didn&rsquo...

Zofia Dudek wasn’t on anyone’s radar as a potential MHSAA champion cross country runner during her freshman year. She not only wasn’t running in Michigan, she wasn’t running in the United States.

Carter Solomon could finally relax, a luxury he couldn’t afford himself for almost 3.1 miles. The Plymouth senior had the fastest time in the state this fall and was fourth in the Foot Locker National Cross Country Championship last year, accomplishments that did...

As Anna Petr charged toward the finish line at Michigan International Speedway, trying to overtake the reigning champion, her mind began to think of all the people who helped her get to this position. One special memory was that of her mother, Angela, who died from bre...