Second Half Starts Your Football Drive
August 31, 2014
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Just like that, the first weekend of MHSAA football season 2014 is in the books.
But we've got three more months of exciting stories to follow as September kicks off Monday.
Here's a brief breakdown of regular features to come this season on Second Half:
- A Game for Every Fan: Weekly looks each Friday at the best games to be played in every corner of the state.
- Drive for Detroit: Weekly reviews each Tuesday at the most significant results from the weekend across both peninsulas.
- Be the Referee: Weekly series from our director of officiating, Mark Uyl, that will include a number of football topics during the fall.
- This Week on MHSAA.TV: We'll fill you in on all the games available on-demand on MHSAA.TV from the week before and let you know which coming up can be watched live on a subscription basis.
- Inside Selection Sunday: Our annual explanation of how playoff pairings are chosen and some of our toughest decisions when building brackets in October.
- Live from the Finals: We'll cover all nine MHSAA Finals, beginning with the 8-Player championship game and through two days of 11-player title contests during Thanksgiving weekend.
- Records Report: Each week we'll fill you in on our latest additions to the MHSAA record books, including for football, which has our largest set of listings.
- All the scores, schedules and standings: Keep an eye on "Scores & Schedules" on MHSAA.com for scores every weekend as we receive them, and visit your favorite team's page for all results from this fall plus league standings, the rest of the schedule to come and playoff point averages.
Kalamazoo's Winter a Pro in the Fall
July 19, 2012
Kalamazoo's Ron Winter has been part of just about every major event possible on a football field with more than four decades officiating high school, college and now National Football League games.
He can appreciate each level for what makes it special. And he's passed on those experiences and lessons galore to young officials and students at Western Michigan University.
Winter -- and MHSAA registered official the last 42 years -- was appointed earlier this month to serve a two-year term on the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports.
Click to read more about what he enjoys about each level of the game, and for his advice for young officials looking to join him at the highest level.