HOUGHTON — The SDC Gym Thursday night, two volleyball teams battled through four full sets and then also a full fifth set as the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs held off the Michigan Tech Huskies in the opening game of the season for both teams and the opening game of the UP North ...
NEW YORK — Jackson Chourio went 4 for 5 with two homers, four RBIs and four runs to help Jacob Misiorowski and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the New York Mets 8-2 on Thursday night. Misiorowski (14-5) overcame some command issues and reduced velocity — at least by his standards — to allow ...
CHEBOYGAN — The Houghton Gremlins soccer team traveled to Cheboygan Thursday and defeated the Chiefs, 6-0, improving to 4-0 on the season. Sophomore Eli Garnell scored four times in the contest to lead the Gremlins’ offense. He now has nine goals on the season. Rowen Dellinger and Matthew Bennett had multiple assists. Keeper Maxwell Livesay, recorded his third shutout of the season.
L'ANSE — As the L'Anse Purple Hornets football program lined up for their team photo earlier this week, it was not, “Say cheese,” at the snap of the camera, but rather, “Beat the Wykons!” The power of positive thinking worked as they crushed the West Iron County Wykons, 54-6. The ...
HOUGHTON — Looking to build off a strong 2025 season, the Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes carried that momentum into the start of the 2026 season as they shined brightly Thursday at Kearly Stadium on the campus of Michigan Tech University. They defeated the Ishpeming Hematites, 52-36, in the process. In 8-player football, scoring can come fast and furious, and for Lake Linden, it certainly did. They scored 14 points in the first quarter, 24 in the second, and added 14 more in the third. Brady Axford had a strong day through the air to lead the offense, going 5-for-5 for 103 yards and ...
Two days after the Southeastern Conference passed a rule barring players from returning to the league from the pros, a Texas judge put that rule on hold Thursday in a case involving more than 40 players. It was the latest piece of news in what has turned into a breakneck week of legal wrangling over the NCAA's new five-year eligibility rule. The rule does not apply to college players who exhausted their fourth year of eligibility last spring; many are suing across the country for that fifth year. "As long as they would have been eligible to continue playing college sports in the ...
