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Burney's Bytes will focus primarily on the local preps sports scene, but will also touch on some college and pro athletics, mostly in regards to athletes who hail and have played high school sports in Oakland County. My goal for the blog is to be conversational and anecdotal, a more relaxed and free formal take on high school athletics than you see in regular game day coverage.

Five For Fighting - For Openers

FIVE FOR FIGHTING – Best season-opening efforts on the local boys hardwood

1 Ahkemji Williams (RH Adams) – Went all AHKEMJI per usual in the Highlanders 81-76 win over AH Avondale to the tune of 25 points, six rebounds, five assists and four steals..YEAH, SO THAT JUST HAPPENED

2 David Lett (North Farmington) – Looked like the second coming of Charles Barkley in the Raiders' 40-35 victory on the road at River Rouge, totaling a gutty double-double of 18 points and 12 boards

3 Jake Daniels (Holly) – Put up a super slick outing of 27 points in TEAM BAYLIS' bludgeoning of Flint Kearsley....kid's got some sick game....THERA-FLU anyone?

4 Justin Nafso (WL Central) – Pumped in 21 points to go along with five assists and five steals in the Vikings upending of Novi...Think Brandon Jennings!

5 Chris Barton (AH Avondale) – Tallied a season-opening best 29 points in the 'Jackets narrow loss to Adams....and looked MAD NICE doing it

About Me

Scott M. Burnstein grew up in Bloomfield Hills and attended school at Birmingham Roeper, where he earned multiple varsity letters in both basketball and baseball, and has been following the local preps scene since the 1980's. Mr. Burnstein attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he received a bachelors of arts degree in political science, and the John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, Illinois, where he got his Juris Doctrate. He has covered high school sports for both the Detroit Free Press and the Oakland Press, and is the author of the 2007 regional best-selling book, The Motor City Mafia - A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit, Family Affair - Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in The Chicago Mafia (2010), Mafia Prince - The Crazy Phil Leonetti Story (2012) and The Detroit True Crime Chronicles (2013).

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