The optimal way for a high school basketball team to put a forgettable season in the rear-view mirror is to open the next campaign with a lights-out performance. Case in point: the 2023-24 Plymouth’s girls basketball team, which debuted Wednesday night with a never-in-doubt 52-21 triumph over Gibraltar Carlson. Showcasing crisp perimeter passing, lock-down defense […]
Defense and experience win championships, the timeless basketball saying goes. Northville’s new-look girls basketball team — Shaun Dicken is taking over as the new coach of the Mustangs, who graduated seven seniors — is equipped with Read More
Not that many years ago, entire boys basketball teams would be satisfied to walk into Canton’s Phase 3 gymnasium and score 50-something points against the Chiefs’ clamp-down defense. On Tuesday night, Saline sophomore Jonathan Sanderson Read More
Nine months after pulling off a district championship so dramatic it could be featured on an ESPN E:60 documentary (titled “Mustang Magic”, maybe?) Northville’s boys basketball team is back — with an almost entirely new Read More
When the world all but shut down during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, Bradley Eziuka made the most efficient use possible of the months dominated by social isolation. Already Read More
For possibly the first time in the history of Michigan high school girls basketball, a pre-season coaches poll fueled a team’s run to the Class A Final Four. It all started when Salem Heach Read More
So much drama had built up heading into the Nov. 4 MHSAA Division 1 boys cross country state meet, you’d have thought the script had been written by a Hollywood director (Scorsese, maybe?). During the previous 10 Read More
For decades, Salem’s girls swimming-and-diving program has been as solid as, well, a rock. But led by nine state-qualifying athletes, this year’s contingent of Rocks has performed better than any team since 1997. Earlier Read More
For the first two-and-a-half quarters of Saturday’s Division 1 Regional final football game at Belleville, Northville’s gritty, fearless, home-grown squad played toe-to-toe with the 22nd-ranked team in the United States. At one point early Read More
Sachiv Kumar’s favorite sport when he was growing up in Northville featured a ball and a net — but it wasn’t the activity he would earn unparalleled success in high school. “I remember loving Read More
