Entries for August 2009

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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.

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Posted in: Health & Safety
25

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.

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Posted in: Football
21

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.

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Posted in: Swimming & Diving
18

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. 

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Posted in: Sports - General
14

One of the certainties of these uncertain economic times is that more people register to officiate school sports in bad times than in good.

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Posted in: Officials
11

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.

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Posted in: Sports - General
07
We all read news accounts of economic plight and watch the stock market on a daily basis with one hand over our eyes and the other with fingers crossed, many times feeling helpless against the current tide.

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Posted in: Finance
03

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. 

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Posted in: Technology

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