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LSJ All-Decade Team: Softball

With this our fourth installment in the weekly All-Decade posts, there's no question it was the toughest to whittle down so far. I'm sure I've missed some people. Tell us about it.

Summer -- Where did you go?

It's over -- about a month after spring sports ended with the baseball, softball and soccer state finals. We hardly knew ye ...

On the run for GL and MS

If you're cruising through the northern perimeter of Greater Lansing today and see the Grand Ledge cross country team running by, here's why.

LSJ All-Decade Team: Girls Soccer

If a decade's worth of Dream Team selections are an indication, this could be the most debated of our All-Decade posts.

All-Star event

After a decade of all-star games, I feel good saying the Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association on Wednesday put on some of the best I've covered in a while. 

Maple Valley will miss Mittelstaedt, and vice versa

After connecting with Guenther Mittelstaedt today, here are a few final closing thoughts from the retired Maple Valley football coach, and a glance at all of this offseason's football switches.

News Tip: Former Everett star moving up coaching ranks

Former Everett and Michigan State basketball standout Candice Jackson has been hired as an assistant coach at Wake Forest.

LSJ All-Decade Team: Girls Tennis

As I head off into vacation, you’ll have a week to debate these possibilities for an all-decade girls tennis team – our second installment in a series we’ll be offering up each Thursday. 

News Tip: Darling getting offers

Holt's Cole Darling has three Division I basketball scholarship offers. And the big-time could be coming soon.

Football talk: Another thought on public vs. private

This was a hotter debate in Michigan a year ago, or even two, but an interesting column from Oklahoma found its way into my mailbox a few weeks ago, and it's worth sharing.