A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it. Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles. In an order wholly indecipherable [...]
Tag Archives: Big Reds
Take care, coach Koziak: Muskegon coach resigns after 1 year
News broke late Thursday night that first year Muskegon football coach Matt Koziak will be stepping down from his post effective immediately. Mike Mattson from the Muskegon Chronicle had the story first: Matt Koziak’s stay as Muskegon’s head football coach [...]
Rockford stuns everyone but themselves in improbable win over Muskegon
Entering Friday’s matchup against undefeated Rockford, D-1 champs taking on D-2 champs, the Big Reds had two goals: control the running game, and don’t turn the ball over. No ambivalence about it, Muskegon played their game. They shut down Rockford’s [...]
Rockford at Muskegon, a dissection
Remember way back in the preseason, everyone was looking to this week’s matchup between Rockford and Muskegon to decide who was the overall, pound-for-pound powerhouse of West Michigan high school football. EGR was in the mix for that title back [...]
Games to watch in Week-7: Separating the best from the rest
With two-thirds of the 2009 football regular season behind us (sniff, sniff), we are now officially in the home stretch. The best have locked up their playoff berth, the worst are out of the running (apart from a surprise or [...]
MaxPreps Top-5 teams in Michigan (for real this time?)
MaxPreps refuses to give up. After a collossal whiff in their Top-25 rankings, gleaned via sifting through individual team-preview pages on their site, and another on their Top-10 rankings, published on the bottom of their homepage, the nationwide high school [...]
Heavy weighs Matt Koziak's new crown
Historically Michigan’s winningest high school football program, Muskegon dominated in recent years under head coach Tony Annese. Annese set a standard at Muskegon that few in Michigan, East side or West, have been able to match. But after winning a [...]
The repeating rise and fall of Muskegon (with interview)
Coming off a state championship, it’s difficult to regenerate the intensity needed to do it again. Winning the ultimate prize in high school football requires a ravenous hunger. Once that hunger is sated, it’s natural to become cocky, overconfident, or [...]
W.Mich dominates MaxPreps Top-25
Ranking football teams before the first snap of official practice, much less live game action, is ridiculous. It’s way too early to predict how teams will gel together, which talent will fail to live up to its billing, and which [...]
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Week 3 Top 10 Teams in the OK Conferences
- VOTING OPEN: 2010 West Michigan Baseball Allstars
- CONTEST: 2009 West Michigan Football Allstars team
- W.Mich dominates MaxPreps Top-25
- CONTEST: 2010 West Michigan Basketball Allstars
- CONTEST: Football Allstar team nominations end Wednesday
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Week 3 Top 10 Teams in the OK Conferences
- Bremer helped East Grand Rapids beat West Ottawa in girls swimming
- Belding still on a roll in girls volleyball
- Forest Hills Northern Girls Golf Team Still Has a Shot at Conference Title
- Jason Stacy Comes from a Forest Hills Central Soccer Family
- Michaela Rookus Brings Versatility to Hudsonville Swim Team
