The WTA Finals, the elite season-ending event in women's tennis, will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the next three years in a move that organizers hope will create "the Super Bowl for women's sports." The tournament will be played at the Spectrum Center, home of the NBA's ...
HOUGHTON — For 45 minutes Friday night, the Michigan Tech Huskies soccer team did something they had not done all season, they put together a half of soccer that looked like what coach Melissa Kuhar has been waiting for from her team. They had played the visiting Saginaw Valley State ...
PITTSBURGH — Jacob Misiorowski struck out seven in five shutout innings and the Milwaukee Brewers won their their fourth straight National League Central title with a 5-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night. About 50 minutes after the final out, the Brewers clinched the division when the second-place Chicago Cubs lost to Atlanta. Milwaukee players watched the end of that game on television, raising hands and cheering at the final out. The flamethrowing Misiorowski (15-5) dropped his ERA to major league-best 1.89 and boosted his season strikeout total to 243. Nine of ...
TORONTO — Spencer Torkelson hit a three-run homer, Drew Anderson pitched five shutout innings and the Detroit Tigers won their sixth straight game by thumping the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1 on Tuesday night. The Blue Jays have lost six of nine. Toronto fell two games behind Cleveland in the race for the final American League wild card after the Guardians rallied in the ninth to beat the Chicago White Sox 7-6. The Tigers are 4 1/2 games behind Cleveland, with three teams in between. Anderson (5-6) allowed two hits, both singles. He struck out four and walked three for his first win ...
PAINESDALE — In the world of geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle with three equal sides. In the world of volleyball, a triangular meet is when three teams come together for three games. One such meet took place on Tuesday in Painesdale, as the Jeffers Jets welcomed the Dollar ...
HOUGHTON — With the opening of the GLIAC season last weekend, the Michigan Tech Huskies volleyball team continued to have some success, and make some mistakes en route to another split, losing in five sets to the Davenport Panthers Friday before defeating the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals ...
