Recruiting: Top WR target going to IMG won't dissuade Spartans
One of the top players on the Michigan State recruiting board for the class of 2017 is Orchard Lake St. Mary’s wide receiver Kahlee Hamler. The 5-foot-9, 155-pound prospect was offered by MSU nearly...
View ArticleSound Mind Sound Body: Cass Tech’s Kelly-Powell gets chance to shine
“I love the exposure,” Jaylen Kelly-Powell said. “Even if you don’t do well, you still learn.” Jaylen Kelly-Powell and a couple of his football buddies went for a run Saturday and came home with a...
View ArticleWMU coach loves that Sound Mind Sound Body start has no football
Jim Harbaugh has insisted for the duration of his nationwide satellite camp tour he’s not in it for the recruiting benefits. Harbaugh says it’s about what’s best for football and what’s best for the...
View ArticlePrep boys golf: Forest Hills squads from Grand Rapids top Division 2
Chase Lebster is one of four senior starters for Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern. Freshmen Noah and Andrew Kolar share the fifth. “Familiarity breeds contempt” is an old proverb — one that the golf...
View ArticleSound Mind Sound Body camp stressing what players do away from game
Players listen during the Sound Mind Sound Body presentation on Thursday in Wayne State. About 600 high school football players, some of the best in Michigan, arrived with eager anticipation Thursday...
View ArticleSharp: MSU’s Dantonio, Ohio State’s Meyer also draw crowds at SMSB
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio, left, and Ohio State coach Urban Meyer talk Friday during the Sound Mind Sound Body camp at Wayne State. What was Mark Dantonio doing at the Sound Mind Sound Body...
View ArticleRecruiting: Will June bring a series of Michigan State commits again?
Historically, June is when Michigan State picks up a significant number of commitments. With Lake Park (Ill.) defensive lineman Jacub Panasiuk picking MSU on June 2, the Spartans are already off to a...
View ArticleSound Mind Sound Body: Southfield QB Samuel Johnson III shines again
Southfield sophomore Sam Johnson goes through quarterback drills Friday during the Sound Mind Sound Body camp. He already has a fancy nickname: SJ3. Samuel Johnson III is now a veteran of the Sound...
View ArticleWR KJ Hamler has mixed feelings on leaving Orchard Lake St. Mary’s
Orchard Lake St. Mary’s receiver K. J. Hamler decided earlier this week to move to IMG Academy in Florida for his senior season. It was something of a farewell performance for KJ Hamler when he ran...
View ArticleSMSB: Big Rapids QB Braeden Childress getting buzz as projected TE
Big Rapids High School’s Branden Childress goes through drills during the Sound Mind Sound Body football camp at Wayne State University on Friday. The quarterbacks at this weekend’s Sound Mind Sound...
View ArticleMichigan lands four-star 2017 defensive end from Virginia
Michigan Wolverines Michigan’s June commitments are continuing. The Wolverines landed their second defensive end of the month today when Alexandria (Va.) Episcopal Academy’s four-star Luiji Vilain...
View ArticleMaize-N-Brew: Sound Mind Sound Body camp more than just football
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh watches students compete during the Sound Mind Sound Body football camp held at Wayne State on Friday, June 10, 2016...
View ArticleOhio State’s Mike Weber: Michigan rivalry nothing personal
Ohio State running back Mike Weber Mike Weber will always be in that unusual position. Now a sophomore running back at Ohio State, he’s one of the few players who was committed to the Michigan at one...
View ArticleRecruiting: D-coordinator Don Brown makes quick impact for Michigan
Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown works at the Princeton, N.J., satellite camp June 7. When Michigan hired former Boston College defensive coordinator Don Brown last December, he had an...
View ArticleMott frosh coach Nick Linseman ‘asked to leave,’ feels like fall guy
Waterford Mott coach Chris Fahr Nick Linseman is no longer the Waterford Mott freshman football coach — out weeks after the Free Press reported the Michigan High School Athletic Association was...
View ArticleMcCabe: Stritzinger gets in a good position for De La Salle
Warren De La Salle running back Allen Stritzinger thinks his ticket to a scholarship may come at defensive back. The final portion of last week’s Sound Mind Sound Body camp at Wayne State was a...
View ArticleRecruiting: Can U-M make splash, out-recruit SEC for Nico Collins?
Clay-Chalkville’s Nico Collins catches a third-quarter TD over Saralands Wydale Flott during the AHSAA Super 7 Class 6A high school state championship game at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. on...
View ArticleRecruiting: Muskegon LB Ward on Spartans radar
Muskegon’s Andrew Ward Muskegon has one of the most successful high school football programs in Michigan history. The Big Reds are poised for another run at a state championship and Andrew Ward is a...
View ArticleReport: NCAA could limit satellite camps to a 10-day stretch
Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh, left, tries to distract Zahir Wilder, a senior-to-be quarterback at Rahway (N.J.) High School, during a satellite camp July 8, 2016, at Paramus (N.J.) Catholic....
View ArticleDiv. 3 baseball: New Lothrop downs defending champ
New Lothrop #14 Cam Pope gets a hit against Jackson Lumen Christi on Friday, June 17, 2016 at the MHSAA Division 3 baseball semi finals at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. New...
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