Kingsford High School head varsity football coach Mark Novara, center with gray shirt, monitors a tackling drill in the team’s first evening practice of the 2021 season Monday at Flivver Field, preparing for their first game Aug. 27 hosting Green Bay East. All MHSAA-sanctioned fall sports in Michigan could begin practice statewide Monday. In Wisconsin, Florence County High School’s eight-player football team starts practice this afternoon, while the 11-player co-op Northern Elite squad — made up of players from Niagara, Goodman-Armstrong Creek and Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine high schools — opened practice Aug. 3. (Matt McCarthy/Daily News photo)