Jon Marley's Blog – January 2021 Archive (10)

High school football finally returned this weekend with the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s state regional round for all eight divisions. Check out MLive’s coverage below, including highlights from each region, as well as photographs and more.

It's taken a while, but the the Michigan high school football playoffs have reach the Final Four in its 11-man divisions, and the finals of the two 8-man fields. Beginning in September, the season was suspended in November in an…

Former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor is returning to the octagon to face #2 ranked lightweight Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 257 on January 23.

McGregor has fought just twice since 2016, losing the lightweight championship to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018 and scoring a first round knockout against welterweight Donald Cerrone in January 2020. The UFC star has flirted with retirement but said he was "grateful" for his latest UFC…

The nearly two-month wait was worth the wait as far as Saturday’s regional winners are concerned.

High school football finally returned this weekend with the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s state regional round for all eight divisions. Check out MLive’s coverage below, including highlights from each region, as well as photographs and more.…

It has been a very, very long football season, but we have finally made it to championship week. And what would the championship week be without some championship predictions?

MLive’s Scott DeCamp and Jared Purcell joined WLCS-FM 98.3 high school football play-by-play announcer Matt Tjapkes on the John Mackay Show on Tuesday to break down each game of the football state championships held at Ford Field on Friday and Saturday.…

That’s the thought behind this, and how the coaching staffs and players for each of the eight teams left in the postseason should be thinking as the Divisional Round arrives. Conservative play calling or performance won’t get teams to the next round, one step closer to a Lombardi Trophy.

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The 2020 football season is officially in the books after the state champions were crowned on Friday and Saturday at the Gridiron Classic.

Here is our recap of each game, interesting stories and what we saw happen. It was a great ending to a trying season and we are thankful to have been a part of it from start to finish.…

There are four matchups featuring local teams this week. The Dallas Morning News’ staff previews every one — highlighting players to know — and makes their picks. You can view them here or in the link below.

A spot in an AT&T Stadium suite awaited Susie Vickery, but she couldn’t get herself to go.

The toll of working as an administrative assistant for the Argyle football team this fall — especially this season — had finally hit her. The months of ensuring everything went…

AUSTIN, Texas — The 2020 UIL Football State Championships for Conference 5A-6A will take place Jan. 15-16 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

School pre-sale tickets will be available from Sunday, January 10 at 12:00 p.m. until Monday, January 11 at 12:00 p.m. You must have a code from a participating school. Tickets will then go on sale to the general public Monday, January 11 at 1:00 p.m.…

Neymar will make his return for Paris Saint-Germain when they take on rivals Marseille in the Trophee des Champions.

PSG will look to win the trophy for a remarkable eighth consecutive season as they line up against Marseille in Lens on Wednesday.

New head coach Mauricio Pochettino confirmed Neymar will play some part in the contest after missing the last five matches with an ankle injury.

"Neymar is available - he will be with the group," Pochettino said about the…

Either Alabama or Ohio State have played in five of the six College Football Playoff National Championship games since the inception of the event in 2014, and one of those two has appeared in 10 of the past 14 national title games dating back into the Bowl Championship Series era. But through all that success, the Crimson Tide and Buckeyes have never faced each other with the sport's ultimate title on the line. That will change Monday night when the two titans of college football square off…