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 to the naked eye. So look closely: Pictures from this [...]
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Games to watch in Week-7: Separating the best from the rest
October 8, 2009
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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 two), and the rest will be fighting for their playoff [...]
Games to watch in Week-6: Underdogs, overcats, etc.
October 1, 2009
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As a betting man, if you’re waiting for a sure thing, you’ll be waiting for a long time. But if you’re looking for a good, solid bet, something that you can be reasonably certain will pay off handsomely, talk to West Michigan Allstar’s resident high school football super-expert, AGF. Ask [...]
Implications of the East's better players and the West's better teams
September 30, 2009
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I spend a good portion of my life online looking at the latest high school sports news. Among the topics I research most frequently is recruiting. As in, who looks like they could play [insert sport here] at the collegiate level, and which colleges are courting which players. A major [...]
Track spikes and glass slippers for (un)surprisingly undefeated East Kentwood
September 11, 2009
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Last year, East Kentwood scored 191-points in what was an abysmal 2-7 campaign. Given that they return 16-starters from last year’s squad, many naturally expected more of the same. Especially considering their schedule. Week-1 was Caledonia, led by stud quarterback Luke Wiest, owner of virtually every school passing record and [...]
Games to watch in Week-3: Will the Fab-Four continue to roll?
September 10, 2009
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Two weeks (or 22.2% of the regular season for you math-majors, which is incidentally pretty depressing) in the books, and one West Michigan power knocked down a peg. The fab-four powerhouse West Michigan teams continue to win — Rockford, Muskegon, East Grand Rapids & Lowell remain undefeated. But for how [...]
Inkster loses another one
September 3, 2009
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When Inkster lost their first game to Ann Arbor Pioneer, it was news. People were calling it a fluke, especially given the stellar performance of quarterback Devin Gardner. But Thursday they dropped another one. So a fluke it officially isn’t. They lost a close one to East Kentwood, who a [...]
MaxPreps Top-5 teams in Michigan (for real this time?)
August 13, 2009
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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 sports megasite has returned to the plate for a third [...]
One Michigan team makes National Prep Poll
August 7, 2009
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It’s official: West Michigan All Star is in full-on ranking mode. This marks the third article this week about where high school football teams match up with one another. Although a completely subjective exercise, rankings are what happens when literally nobody is doing anything with any type of ball. Moving [...]
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