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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: district semifinals in the books

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:

East Grand Rapids upsets GR Union in district semifinals [...]

WMA takes attendance: districts from hell

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:

March 4 boys basketball scores — Associated Press
Ludington boys [...]

WMA takes attendance: Wayland is undefeated

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:

March 2 high school basketball scores (boys)(girls) — Associated [...]

WMA takes attendance: midterm madness

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

WMA takes attendance: wrestlers meet at district meets

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

Straight to the Pros — Derek Klein

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

Derek Klein attacks the basket | Craig Powers, Powers Media

Derek Klein (Otsego) — Andrea Bargnani

Spirit [...]

Create-a-Caption: there’s a disconnect here somewhere

Last week’s winner: slowride.  Caption: Helium, in the ball????????

Congrats, slowride!  Well played with the wonky shot picture.

This week’s pic is kind of odd.  It’s a basketball action pic, which would be normal, except it seems like a couple guys got abducted by aliens or something.  M. Night Shyamalan style. Anyway, once again, best caption for [...]

Steady as she goes, Otsego’s crew logs win over South Haven

Otsego's Carl Nord shoots a layup | Craig Powers, Powers Media

Complete pictures from this game (over 50 pics) can be found here.

They say the gauge of a great player is the effect he has on his teammates.  While the Klein brothers, Derek and Jared, justifiably garner the lion’s share of the publicity for Otsego’s [...]

WMA Game of the Week: South Haven at Otsego

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: Otsego no-mo

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:

Jan 26 high school basketball scores (boys) (girls) — [...]

West Michigan Allstar Top-10 Teams: Basketball Week-8

We here at West Michigan Allstar have done the dirty work, combing the far reaches of the Internet for nuggets of pertinent basketball info until our beards grew dark and the coffee was gone, all to rank the Top-10 basketball teams in West Michigan.  You’ll find the results below.

Along with a team’s record, these rankings [...]

WMA takes attendance: Kalamazoo Central proves it

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:

Kalamazoo Central, sans Oliver, wins over DCD! — Kalamazoo [...]

West Michigan Allstar Top-10 Teams: Basketball Week-7

We here at West Michigan Allstar have done the dirty work, combing the far reaches of the Internet for nuggets of pertinent basketball info until our beards grew dark and the coffee was gone, all to rank the Top-10 basketball teams in West Michigan.  You’ll find the results below.

Along with a team’s record, these rankings [...]

Mr. Basketball Watch – Vol. 1 – West side surprise?

Earlier today Matthew A. Anderson over at Legends High released a preliminary look at the Mr. Basketball scene this year. It’s obviously way early for anything definitive on that front, but a lack of concrete information has never stopped sports fans from pontificating on a subject as important as the best basketballer in Michigan before. [...]

West Michigan Allstar Top-10 Teams: Basketball Week-6

We here at West Michigan Allstar have done the dirty work, combing the far reaches of the Internet for nuggets of pertinent basketball info until our beards grew dark and the coffee was gone, all to rank the Top-10 basketball teams in West Michigan.  You’ll find the results below.

Along with a team’s record, these rankings [...]