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Michigan debates lifting ban on high school contact sports

by Anna Liz Nichols
| January 29, 2021 12:03 AM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The fight over whether to allow youth contact sports took center court Thursday in Lansing as Michigan lawmakers heard testimony from educators, parents and students wanting to get back to competition.

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