Sports View

Sports View 11/8/07
[Nov. 8, 2007]  

Sports View 11/1/07
[Nov. 1, 2007] As the regular season for high school football has come and gone, all of us who’ve braved the lights of Friday night for the past nine or 10 weeks realize how hard each and every athlete has to compete in order for a quality program to gel the way it truly needs to.

Sports View 10/25/07
[Oct. 25, 2007] What’s in your child’s equipment bag? Cleats, perhaps uniforms, T-shirts, shorts, water bottles, candy and an iPod, if they are typical high school athletes. It’s what else that may be lurking in their bags, football/ hockey pads and other equipment that is increasing the risk to them and others, and closing some schools throughout the state that has parents and school officials worried.

Sports View 10/18/07
[Oct. 18, 2007] One point often tells the tale in sports, especially at the high school level. In the best of situations, it shows who is in first place in heated league races, who are the top contenders in any given sport or who stands in the way of any other team accomplishing a strong finish.

Sports View 10/11/07
[Oct. 11, 2007] ANN ARBOR — In 1984, Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen starred in the movie Red Dawn, about an invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union and Cuba, as well as the resulting guerilla actions of an American faction called the “Wolverines.”

sports view 10/04/07
[Oct. 4, 2007] Humble pie and crow now being served to all Sparty doubters — and Wisconsin fans, who thought they had a routing in the works last Saturday.

Sports View 9/27/07
[Sep. 27, 2007] Blame game
School districts throughout the state continue to keep a closer watch on their student athletes and are dealing with a few more violations of the Athletes Code of Conduct. Everyone is all too familiar with the Flint Southwestern case, where two of its football players exercised poor judgment over the summer and pleaded guilty to home invasion, but were allowed to play football on jail release on Friday nights.

Sports View 9/20/07
[Sep. 20, 2007] Long before the advent of Thermolite, Scentlock, glove and boot warmers, and better designs of weather-resistant clothing, generations of us were interrupted from our dance with the sandman and bundled up in warm layers. Those layers kept us warm for about half an hour as we joined our parents or grandparents in one of Michigan’s longest traditions — hunting.

Sports View 9/13/07
[Sep. 14, 2007] The news that two Flint Southwestern Academy football players, currently serving 90-day sentences for breaking into a Grand Blanc Township home, were allowed to compete in the school’s football game last Friday raised more than a few eyebrows.

Sports View 9/6/07
[Sep. 6, 2007]  

Sports View 8/30/07
[Aug. 30, 2007] Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) was recently diagnosed in one of two Marathon Township horses, after both were put down within a day of each other. Because the first horse was euthanized without testing, his cause of death will never be known, but speculation is that he also was positive for EEE.

Sports View 8/23/07
[Aug. 23, 2007] Fork in the road
Life often presents many and varied opportunities at home, school and work. Some are not followed up, while others are explored with great abandon and excitement.
High school sports is no different and every season, opportunities emerge for kids, giving them chances they may have seen coming, and in instances, some they did not.

Sports View 8/16/07
[Aug. 16, 2007]  

Sports View 5/3/2007
[May 3, 2007] “We lost. Why do you want our score?” asked the beleaguered coach. “Because the kids deserve the coverage for trying,” I replied.
Win, lose or draw, we want your team’s results each week. They may be ugly losses, or they may be even uglier wins. As you say to your kids, a win, is a win, is a win.