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MI Sports Chat Week 6 High School Picks
Well, we test our luck on the High School gridiron picks.
Week 5 Statewide: Portland's Streak Hits 31 on a Last-Second Boot!
We've passed the midway point of the 2026 season, and Friday night gave us a Michigan high school slate worth every minute.
Week 5 Brings the Heavyweights: Undefeateds Collide Across Michigan
Friday night in Michigan is where the pretenders get sorted from the contenders, and Week 5 stacks the card with unbeaten-versus-unbeaten showdowns from the Thumb to the U.P. Millington (4-0) rolls into Cass City (4-0) for a Big Thumb Conference White title rematch — the two shared the crown a year ago, and Cass City already handled the Cardinals in overtime 17-14 last time these teams met.
Michigan Multi-Sport Numbers Hold Strong: Detroit Community, Watersmeet Post a Perfect 100 Percent!
The MHSAA's eighth Multi-Sport Participation Survey is in, and our high school kids are still doing it the old-fashioned way — playing more than one game.
MI Sports Chat Week 6 High School Picks
Well, we test our luck on the High School gridiron picks.
Week 5 Statewide: Portland's Streak Hits 31 on a Last-Second Boot!
We've passed the midway point of the 2026 season, and Friday night gave us a Michigan high school slate worth every minute.
Week 5 Brings the Heavyweights: Undefeateds Collide Across Michigan
Friday night in Michigan is where the pretenders get sorted from the contenders, and Week 5 stacks the card with unbeaten-versus-unbeaten showdowns from the Thumb to the U.P. Millington (4-0) rolls into Cass City (4-0) for a Big Thumb Conference White title rematch — the two shared the crown a year ago, and Cass City already handled the Cardinals in overtime 17-14 last time these teams met.
Michigan Multi-Sport Numbers Hold Strong: Detroit Community, Watersmeet Post a Perfect 100 Percent!
The MHSAA's eighth Multi-Sport Participation Survey is in, and our high school kids are still doing it the old-fashioned way — playing more than one game.
Imlay City Storms to 4-0, Sits Atop the Blue Water Area Conference!
What a Week 4 across our High School gridirons, and no story lands harder than Imlay City.
The Judge Never Stopped: Antoine Joubert's Life in the Game We Love
You know the name if you know Detroit basketball, and if you don't, let us introduce you to Antoine Joubert — Michigan's Mr.
Wroubel Chases History as Notre Dame Prep's Winningest Voice Climbs to 1,807
Here's a name every Michigan prep fan ought to know cold: Betty Wroubel.
Stapleton Rewrites the Frankenmuth Record Book as the Eagles Climb to No. 11!
We've watched Carter Stapleton grow up in front of us, and on Aug. 24 the Frankenmuth senior did something no Eagle has ever done — he supplanted Kendall Morris and Matt Hinds in the same night, and he now owns both school career records: 90 goals and 134 points.
MI Sports Chat - Week 5 Football Picks
Well, we are back again to test our luck on the High School gridiron picks for Week 5.
Grandville's Livermore Torches Spartan Invitational Elite Field, Headed to GVSU!
Our high school cross country runners keep giving us reasons to brag, and this week it's Grandville senior Caden Livermore leading the way.
MI Sports Chat - Week 4 Football Picks
Well we are back again to test our luck on the High School Gridiron picks for Week 4.
Recent Whiteford Grad Ovall Takes the Reins of the Bobcats' First-Ever Girls Golf Team!
Here's a story that's tough not to love: Addison Ovall graduated in June from Ottawa Lake Whiteford, and this fall she might be the youngest varsity head coach in the entire state of Michigan.
Stapleton Rewrites Frankenmuth's Record Book as Eagles Chase History
Every so often a kid comes along who turns the record book into his own diary, and for our Frankenmuth Eagles that kid is Carter Stapleton.
Eisenhower Goes 6-0, Claims Program Cup and a Jump in the Division 1 Poll!
The prep volleyball season is heating up, and our Utica Eisenhower squad made the loudest statement of Week 4: a perfect 6-0 run to win its Program Cup.
Kingsley Stays Perfect as Middleton Hammers Career Kill No. 2,000!
What a stretch across our High School fields and gyms, and it starts with Kingsley — the Division 2 No. 3 squad finished 5-0 to win its invitational, and Jenna Middleton reached 2,000 career kills doing it.
Montrose Edges New Lothrop 35-33 to Push MMAC Streak to 11!
Week 3 gave us a Friday-night nailbiter, and our Montrose squad found a way past New Lothrop 35-33 in the closest league win they've managed in two years.
MI Sports Chat - Week 3 Football Picks
Well we are back again to test our luck on the High School Gridiron weekly picks for Week 3.
Edwardsburg Eddies Dreaming Big Again After Best Season in School History
Last fall was the kind of season we don't forget around here: our Eddies compiled a 17-2-1 record, the best in school history, claimed an outright Wolverine Conference championship, and raised a Division 2 District trophy before running into eventual Finals runner-up Hudsonville Unity Christian in the Regional final, a 4-1 loss to close the book on a dream year.
Caro Seniors Tetil and Herron Push Each Other Toward a Division 3 Top Five!
Every so often a program gets two runners who make each other better just by lacing up, and that's exactly what we've got in Caro this fall with seniors Violet Tetil and Luke Herron leading the way.
Grand Haven Storms Back Into Contention: Bucs Hit 2-0 for First Time Since 2018
Our Grand Haven Buccaneers are off to their first 2-0 start since 2018, and they earned every inch of it — a triple-overtime survival test against Spring Lake, then a road win up at Muskegon Reeths-Puffer.
Jonesville Outlasts Leslie 64-62 in Triple-OT Classic as Week 2 Delivers
Week 2 across our high school gridirons gave us everything on September 5, and nothing topped Jonesville and Leslie trading haymakers in a 64-62 triple-overtime marathon that tied for the fifth highest-scoring overtime game in MHSAA history.
Detroit King Outlasts St. Mary's in a Triple-OT Thriller!
Friday night gave us the kind of high school football that keeps us up past our bedtimes, and our Detroit King squad delivered — outlasting Orchard Lake St. Mary's in a triple-overtime thriller that had everything a fan could ask for out at Orchard Lake.
Gideon Gash Chases Repeat Title as Catholic Central Star Eyes Texas Tech
Here's a name every Michigan high school fan ought to know: Gideon Gash, the Detroit Catholic Central Senior chasing a repeat and doing it in three sports at once.
Top 10 Week 2 High School games of the week - MI Sports Chat
Here are the MI Sports Chat Top 10 games of the week 2 slate of games: Thurs.
As Fall Practices Open Aug. 10, MHSAA Puts Heat Safety Front and Center
With practices for all Fall 2026 sports cleared to begin Monday, Aug. 10, the MHSAA is asking every one of our high school programs to take the heat seriously — and after multiple regions across Michigan approached record-high temperatures this summer, that message could not land at a better time.
Byron Center's Mallory Johnson Earns U23 USA Volleyball Roster Spot for Pan American Cup!
This is the kind of story that makes our high school volleyball scene something to shout about: Byron Center senior Mallory Johnson, a 5-foot-6 outside hitter, has been named to the U23 USA Volleyball Pan American Cup roster.
Tabron Commits to Texas A&M as Cass Tech's Title Hopes Ride on Their Junior QB
There's a fresh spring in the step of our Detroit Cass Tech faithful this week, and it's easy to see why: junior quarterback Donald Tabron, one of the top recruits in the country in the Class of 2028, committed to Texas A&M on Saturday.