This Week in High School Sports: 3/19/19

March 19, 2019

This week's show highlights the buzzer-beating shot by Ypsilanti Lincoln in its Division 1 boys basketball championship game victory over Detroit U-D Jesuit, hands out Game Balls to New Haven's Romeo Weems and Detroit Edison's Rickea Jackson, discusses use of instant replay in high school basketball and closes with an example of keeping proper perspective in educational athletics. 

The 5-minute program, powered by MI Student Aid, leads off each week with feature stories from around the state from the MHSAA’s Second Half or network affiliates. "Be The Referee," a 60-second look at the fine art of officiating, comes in the middle of the show and is followed by a closing MHSAA "Perspective."

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Past editions

March 12: Lower Peninsula Division 1 Boys Swimming & Diving Finals, 1986 Class B boys basketball finish - Listen
March 5:
Bronson bowling champions, Individual Wrestling Finals impressions - Listen
February 26:
Lowell wrestling, basis for MHSAA's broadcast regulations - Listen
February 19: Traverse City Bay Reps hockey's Jake Stevenson, MHSAA Basketball Finals rematches - Listen
February 12:
Midland Dow basketball's Molly Davis, small-town support for the Mio Thunderbolt - Listen
February 5:
Alpena basketball's Chris DeRocher, sportsmanship shown on the court - Listen
January 29: 
Flint Kearsley bowler Imari Blond, Lansing Sexton's 1959 boys basketball run - Listen
January 22:
Warren Woods-Tower wrestling, poor sportsmanship faced by officials - Listen
January 15: East Kentwood boys basketball, reflections from visiting a small-town gym - Listen
January 8:
Niles Brandywine wrestling inspiration, parental sportsmanship - Listen
January 1: Unionville-Sebewaing three-sport star Rylee Zimmer, instructions for educational athletics - Listen
December 25:
St. Ignace student official Jackson Ingalls, values of high school sports - Listen
December 18:
Eastern Thumb Area co-op hockey, consequences of football playoff expansion - Listen
December 11:
Battle of the Fans VIII, MHSAA.tv's growing list of broadcasts - Listen
December 4:
New officials in southeastern Michigan, what college coaches are looking for in recruits - Listen
November 27:
Defensive performances from 11-Player Football Finals, experiences at Ford Field - Listen
November 20: 
8-player football champions Morrice and Rapid River, power of giving thanks - Listen
November 13: Port Huron Northern football, broadcasting one of the busiest championship weekends of the MHSAA school year - Listen
November 6:
Three-time cross country champs, MIS as LP XC Finals home - Listen
October 30:
Calumet football, changes to the MHSAA Transfer Rule - Listen
October 23: Jackson High football, "Football Week in Michigan" - Listen
October 16:
Selection Sunday football primer, past playoff expansion - Listen
October 9:
Pickford football, teams that finished undefeated/untied/unscored upon on the gridiron - Listen
October 2: 
Grand Rapids official Dolly Konwinski, "You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me" on a federal court case made by the parents of a kid who didn’t make the cut - Listen
September 25: Bronson volleyball's Kiera Lasky, the real blue-chip participants in high school sports - Listen
September 18: 
Hanover-Horton runner Judy Rector, countering a growing shortage of high school game officials - Listen
September 11:
Alpena soccer coach Tim Storch, balancing interests of all high school athletes - Listen
September 4:
Radio stations celebrating 77 years of high school sports broadcasts, and radio's importance in educational athletics - Listen
August 28:
Forest Hills Central football's Tate Hallock, keeping perspective amid changing times - Listen
August 21: Lansing Everett football coach Mike Smith, MHSAA executive director transition - Listen

This Week in High School Sports: 2/23/18

February 23, 2018

This week’s show features Eaton Rapids wrestler Austin O’Hearon, passes out Game Balls to winning swimming relay teams from Houghton and Gladstone at the U.P. Finals last week, discusses the block-charge call in basketball in the "Be The Referee" segment and closes with the upcoming winter championship schedule of live streaming on MHSAA.tv.

The 5-minute program, powered by MI Student Aid, leads off each week with feature stories from around the state from the MHSAA’s Second Half or network affiliates. "Be The Referee," a 60-second look at the fine art of officiating, comes in the middle of the show and is followed by a closing MHSAA "Perspective."

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Past editions
February 16: Muskegon Oakridge girls basketball standout Sophia Wiard, late MHSAA Executive Director Vern Norris - Listen
February 9: Women In Sports Leadership Award winner Meg Seng, MHSAA rules' member-driven nature - Listen
February 2: Dundee wrestler Brandon Whitman, college basketball's intrusion on winter Friday nights - Listen
January 26: Holland West Ottawa swimmer Derek Maas, notes from around the state - Listen
January 19: Ewen-Trout Creek basketball star Jake Witt, Battle of the Fans VII semifinalists - Listen
January 12: 2018 Women In Sports Leadership conference, referees being driven from the game - Listen
January 5: Battle of the Fans VII, "JordanVille" featuring Fennville's Richie Jordan - Listen
December 22: Public Address Announcers Clinic, 2017's most memorable moments - Listen
December 15: Centreville girls basketball, shout-outs to a pair of long-time high school sports figures battling health issues - Listen
December 8: Muskegon quarterback La'Darius Jefferson, unnecessary high school football combines - Listen
December 1: Ottawa Lake Whiteford's MHSAA football title, technology bringing more coverage to MHSAA.tv - Listen
November 24: Central Lake's MHSAA football title, selling 8-player football to 11-player communities - Listen
November 17: Muskegon Reeths-Puffer's 1992 Class A champion football team, a full weekend of NFHS broadcasts - Listen
November 10: Lansing Catholic cross country runner Olivia Theis, 30 years of MHSAA Football Playoff memories - Listen
November 3:  Traverse City West golfer Anika Dy, perps and vics in high school sports - Listen
October 27: Pinckney football's Marcus Ford, MHSAA's evolving record book - Listen
October 20: Retired Menominee football coach Ken Hofer and Farmington Hills Harrison football coach John Harrington - Listen
October 13: Sturgis girls golf, Homecomings and another sign of the apocalypse in youth sports - Listen
October 6: Portage Central soccer's Minh Le, college basketball’s shoe scandal - Listen
September 29: Lincoln Alcona soccer keeper Conner McCoy, sportsmanship on the soccer field and cross country course - Listen
September 22: Pontiac Notre Dame Prep's Maddy Chinn, the business that is youth sports - Listen 
September 15: Helpful directions in cross country, why sportsmanship resonates - Listen
September 8: Watervliet quarterback Zach Pickens, "High School Football Night" in America - Listen
September 1: Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart girls cross country, correcting a report on the health of Michigan high school football - Listen
August 25: 2016-17 head injury report, return of official Steve Johnson - Listen