Every chance to compete is an opportunity to accomplish something never achieved before. The return of MHSAA football Saturday loudly reminded us how much we’ve been missing those moments.

Jocelynn Nicholls was first drawn to volleyball in grade school. Over the years, the Camden-Frontier senior has made the transition from being a wild swinging middle-schooler to an apprehensive freshman on the varsity to an all-state volleyball player headed to Trine...

There are a lot of ways to describe what Michigan’s football contenders will restart Saturday, and how it will be talked about for years and perhaps generations to come. But at the end of it all, it’s pretty simple: It’s great to be talking about th...

This edition features the return of fall sports and discusses the rapid test pilot program that will allow Football, Volleyball and Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Tournaments to proceed, explains the officials selection process for the footba...

The list of links to live-streamed broadcasts of this weekend’s 11 and 8-Player Football Playoff games has been posted to the Michigan High School Athletic Association website and will be updated to include not only the rest of this weekend’s games and next ...

Limited numbers of spectators will be allowed for the final rounds of the Michigan High School Athletic Association Football and Girls Volleyball Tournaments, per approval received today from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS).

In the ancient Chinese medicine of acupuncture, thin needles are gently inserted into specific areas of the body, stimulating blood flow to speed the recovery of certain ailments. It can be used as a treatment for everything from headaches and unbalanced&nb...

Promoting the value – and values – of school-based sports. No statement more completely, or succinctly, explains the mission of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. Those words were sparked in the mind of John Johnson, and also might best descri...

Nearly two months have passed since Maggie Duba received acclaim for an unselfish act of kindness at the end of the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 2 Girls Cross Country Finals. Duba, a Grand Rapids West Catholic junior, sacrificed her time and position in the eventual r...

The remaining 32 teams in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Girls Volleyball Tournament and individuals from 128 schools who have qualified for the Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals will restart their postseasons Monday, Jan. 4, with champio...

The concluding rounds of Michigan High School Athletic Association postseason tournaments in football, girls volleyball and girls swimming & diving will be completed during January, as the MHSAA continues to follow all emergency orders from the Michigan Department o...

The Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association today approved an adjusted regular-season calendar for indoor Winter sports, which under current Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) orders may restart their seasons Saturda...

The Michigan High School Athletic Association has adjusted its schedule to conclude Fall tournaments in football, volleyball and girls swimming & diving today after receiving full details and requirements for the pilot rapid testing program being provided by the Mic...

The three remaining Fall tournaments still to be completed this 2020 season by the Michigan High School Athletic Association will resume, with teams allowed to restart practice Monday, Dec. 21, according to an announcement today allowing those activities to resume by th...

Over the course of nearly 34 years on this job, you often get asked what single championship game you would rank at the top of your list.  You could ask that question to 100 people and get 100 answers – and guess what? They’d all be right. ...

With coronavirus continuing to grab headlines and physical distancing orders still in place, every day tends to feel the same. With both parents and kids feeling the stress of new daily routines, it's more important than ever to create a schedule that a...

Once we were a nation filled with one-room school houses. The 1950s and 1960s saw numerous Upper Peninsula and rural schools consolidate, while various big-city suburban districts split into two. Today, public and private academies seem to pop up and disappear over...

It’s been 45 years since the first MHSAA Football Playoffs took place, a two-week, 16-team tournament with the top teams of each of four regions in all four classes finally settling gridiron championships on the playing field. In that first year, cries of &ldqu...

After what Jonathan Baughey has gone through, kicking a football through two yellow goal posts doesn’t seem like a very big deal.  But, when it came against an undefeated, state-ranked team on the last play of the Division 6 District championship game, it ...

Menominee’s march from the southern tip of the Upper Peninsula to Ford Field had some storybook feel about it – a team which overcame injuries – and mixed in a grinder of a Semifinal victory to bring the  chants of “U.P. Power” to the ...