As students at Moorhead High School return from the holiday break this week, they are walking into a special place. Their old school – at least much of the old school – has been replaced with new facilities, which are opening as kids come back to class.
Decades from now, a small group of dedicated female athletes will look back with pride at what they accomplished in their time at Albany High School. Their numbers are small but they are pioneers as members of the school’s very first varsity gymnastics team.
After watching a mix of early-season girls and boys basketball games, seven or eight contests in all, I can file this report about the biggest change to the sport this season: Shot clocks are not making a huge difference.
For those of us who attend lots of games, tournaments and related events, the pep bands add so much to the experience. So let's pick the single best Minnesota high school pep band song.
Paul McDonald closed a 35-year career as a football official during the 2023 Prep Bowl, and the 2023-24 basketball season will be his last in that sport.
Chad Johnston has been the Minneota head football coach for 22 years, and this year, as has long been the custom, he will quickly transition to another sport.
When games are played, things can go exceptionally right or terribly wrong. Under the best of circumstances, lessons are learned, lessons that go way past sports and deep into life.
For any team in any sport that’s ever been down in the dumps with seemingly little reason to be hopeful, take a look at the 2023 Kingsland High School football team. The Knights are having a dream season and will take a perfect record of 13-0 into the Nine-Player Prep Bowl championship game.
