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The latest news, analysis and ponderings about elite high school sports in West Michigan, along with the usual blog silliness.

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WMA takes attendance: grapple for titles

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye.  So look closely:

Feb. 5 high school basketball scores (boys) (girls) — [...]

WMA Game of the Week: Byron Center at Grandville

Each week, West Michigan Allstar takes our blogging circus over hill and dale to a high school gymnasium around West Michigan.  It’s traditionally one of the biggest games in the area, with the top players and teams duking it out against one another (we like to watch that stuff, too), and this week is no [...]

WMA takes attendance, as read by dual-threat frontrunners

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye.  So look closely:

The Venerable One predicts WMich to roll — Who’s [...]

WMA takes attendance, as read by bad comedians

What're you laughing at? Can't you see we're bad? Look, it says so on my shirt.

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly [...]

WMA takes attendance, as read by invisible narrators

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye.  So look closely:

The week-7 Searn Super 32 rankings, top-32 teams in [...]

Rockford shows why they’re the Rams, and you’re not

Stonewalled.

Conventional wisdom said that Rockford would beat Grand Haven in Friday night’s battle between the number-1 and number-6 teams in Division-1.  Although both teams were undefeated at 4-0, Rockford had historically owned the Buccaneers, having won their past eight matchups, including most recently a 51-0 drubbing in 2008.  The Rams continued their dominance in [...]

Straight to the pros — Zac Boersema

A weekly feature in which we spotlight a player from the West Michigan area, comparing him to his NFL counterpart based on his playing style, talent (relative, of course), appearance or anything else that warrants a comparison.

Zac Boersema (West Ottawa) — Marion Barber III

Boersma and the Panthers take no prisoners

Plenty a running back has [...]

WMA takes attendance, as read by Patterson posers

A look around the wide world of high school sports.  Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles.  In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye.  So look closely:

Can we please stop calling out EGR on athletic transfer transgressions now? — Grand Rapids [...]

John Bos baseball results

Buncha All-Star baseball games this time of year.  Looking for results?  Who’s the best of the best, as decided by the John Bos All-Star games?  Well I got your back.  O-K Gold over O-K Black, 7-3.  O-K Silver/Green beats O-K Blue/Green, 6-2.  O-K Red wallops O-K White, 6-0.  Booyah…