HOUGHTON — The 2026 Twilight League regular season wrapped up Tuesday with Garnet Garage downing Houghton Building Supply/Stanton with an 8-7 win. With that win, Garnet Garage clinched the top spot in the five-team league with a 9-3 finish. Houghton Building Supply ended the season 5-7 ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA Division II will move to the age-based eligibility model that has prompted athlete lawsuits across the country since it was adopted in Division I. The Division II executive board voted Tuesday to have athletes' eligibility to begin upon initial full-time enrollment or the regular academic year immediately following the athlete's 19th birthday, whichever occurs earlier. Athletes will be allowed five seasons of competition over five years. Previously, Division II athletes were allowed four seasons of competition to be completed within their first 10 semesters ...
The UP Sports Hall of Fame 23-member council recently held their annual meeting and is pleased to announce the 2027 class of ten new inductees into the UP Sports Hall of Fame. They are: Kelly Jean Allen (Paralympic canoeist, Kingsford), Don Carlson (basketball player, Kingsford), Gordy Chinn (coach, Ishpeming), John Croze (track/football coach, Ishpeming), Angela Guisfredi VanWagner (basketball player, Hubbell), Charles Lucchesi (football player, Hancock), Mike Ludlum (sports broadcaster, Marquette), Kevin Luke (basketball coach, Houghton), Troy Mattson (basketball player/coach, ...
Zach Hinchcliffe, of Stevens Pointe, Wisconsin, crosses the finish line first at the Mini Mize race of the Verna Mize Triathlon on Saturday at Ray Kestner Waterfront Park in Houghton. The Mini Mize was one-quarter-mile of swimming, then four-miles of biking, followed by two miles of running. ...
HOUGHTON — It is becoming a first-Saturday-in-August tradition in the Copper Country, and 2026 did not disappoint. The Verna Mize triathlon marked its sixth year on Aug. 1 with a record number of participants, 66, up from around 50 people. While race organizer Mary Kaminski is happy with ...
HANCOCK — Good hitting, good fielding and strong pitching was the key mix Thursday night at the Hancock Driving Park for Garnet Garage as they posted a 3-1 win over Coldwell Banker Craig Heinonen in Twilight League baseball. After a scoreless three innings, Garnet posted two in the fourth ...
