Thanks to problems in professional sports, steroids stay in our sports news headlines. And sometimes the problems of the pros become confused with the problems of schools.
[Read the rest of this article...]
As high school football programs kick off their 2009 seasons this week, some schools are also looking to 2010 when the MHSAA may add an eight-player division to its Football Playoffs for those Class D schools which are struggling to start or maintain 11-player programs.
Some high school sports remain for many years under the radar of the public’s passion, unless you participate or are the parent of a participant. Then some event or series of events has everyone talking. That’s how it is with high school swimming and diving.
In any successful enterprise, some time will be devoted to trying to learn what the customer wants. In school sports, there are many diverse customers, but none more important than the student-athlete.
One of the certainties of these uncertain economic times is that more people register to officiate school sports in bad times than in good.
For the first time in history, all MHSAA tournament sports – including football, which started practice yesterday and the rest of the fall sports which can begin practice tomorrow – have a minimum number of days of team practice before the first interscholastic contest.
For more than 23 years we’ve been taking some space in MHSAA publications and some time in the busy days of readers for editorials to which I affix my name. These editorials are intended as much to provoke thinking as to report fact.
From the Director is the official MHSAA Blog which will touch on pertinent school sports topics periodically throughout the school year from various MHSAA Staff.