Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series of stories about the incoming class for Finlandia baseball. Keep an eye out here for further previews as we go through the summer. HANCOCK — As manager Evan Brandt and his Finlandia Lions baseball team learned during the 2019 season, the WIAC ...
I had to chuckle to myself a couple of days ago when I heard two people talking about the recent spate of hot weather in our area. Now, temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s are nothing to take lightly. There are some pretty severe consequences if you ignore the heat. Like a really bad ...
HANCOCK — With the Durocher Tournament looming this weekend, both Garnet Garage and REL Inc.-Mohawk Technology were both looking for a win to give them some momentum heading in during Copper Country Twilight League play. In a five-inning battle Tuesday, REL turned a 6-2 contest into a 14-4 ...
omentum heading into the Durocher Tournament this weekend on the line, a Copper Country Twilight League game ended with neither team finding a win. After 12 innings and even an inning of international-rules baseball, Superior National Bank-Stanton (SNB) played to a 6-6 tie against Dean ...
CALUMET — With the Calumet Colosseum’s naming as the fourth Kraft Hockeyville USA at the end of March comes the quickly approaching preseason NHL game between the St. Louis Blues and the Detroit Red Wings in a game that will be played on Thursday, Sept. 26, and will also be televised on ...
As we have reached Monday, July 8, the NHL free agency period has reached the start of its second week. Some teams have jumped all over multiple players, other teams have lost a lot of what made them successful last season. It is always fun for me to look at which teams what teams panic, and ...
CHASSELL — Superior National Bank (SNB) split Monday night’s doubleheader against Coca Cola in Copper Country Women’s Fastpitch Softball League play. The ladies from Coca Cola took the first game 8-3, and SNB put a 2-0 shutout together in the second game. Game One belonged to Coca Cola ...
STANTON — What a difference a week made for the Copper Country Flames in American Legion baseball. Seven days ago they were mercied by the Negaunee Diamonds. However, on Saturday afternoon, the Flames bounced back and hit their way to a 12-4 win in a nine-inning game. “Our kids played ...
HANCOCK — By 5:45 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, Josh Tews had had enough. Since Saturday morning, he’d been throwing a Frisbee and been hit by a Frisbee one too many times. He was tired and dirty. His feet were swollen. It was time to go home. He and his team, the Appleton Assassins, were ...
The second annual Mid America Snow and Terrain Expert Racers (MASTERS)-Ojibwa Casino Hillclimb took place at Whealkate Bluff this past Saturday. The hill that built its fame for motorcycle hillclimbs in the 1970s and 80s proved just how challenging the hill is to climb. Of the 84 runs up the ...
LAURIUM — He’s widely known for his exploits on the football field. But George Gipp likely would have played major league baseball — if he had not died tragically in 1920 in the prime of his youth. And it is very likely the Notre Dame football legend would have been a member of the ...
HOUGHTON — When Dr. William Sproule, a recently retired professor of civil and environmental engineering from Michigan Tech University, set out to discover what it meant for Houghton to claim it was the birthplace of professional hockey, he knew that he had his work cut out. “Anyone who ...
HOUGHTON — The signage that welcomes travelers to “Houghton — the Birthplace of Professional Hockey” on the town’s city limits can be attributed to Dr. William Sproule, professor emeritus at Michigan Tech University, along with his extensive research on local hockey history. ...
DALLAS — Tanner Kero, Hancock native and former Michigan Tech Huskies center from 2011-2015, signed a two-year, two-way contract with the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars earlier this week. Kero, who finished his previous two-year contract with the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks and ...
MARQUETTE — The 12th annual Upper Peninsula Football All-Star Game was a booming success that sent 87 seniors from around the U.P. off on a high note. It was Travis Ojala who sent his team to victory as well, with the Calumet linebacker notching a fourth-quarter interception that he ...
Should this country ever land on Mars, Neptune or wherever, it’s almost a certainty that some professional sports franchise will immediately set up a game there. After years and years of staging make-believe games overseas, the greedy owners may have established a low when when they had the ...
STANTON — In a battle between Keweenaw Little League’s Copper World and Portage Lake Little League’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Saturday, Copper World earned the Senior Little League title, thanks to a 9-7 victory. Dryden Nelson got the start for Copper World, but could not make it through ...
HANCOCK — When current Finlandia Lions men’s hockey coach Joe Burcar was invited back into the fold, there were some obvious expectations locally: he would do his best to get the Lions back to competitive on a nightly basis, and he would do that with local talent. Stepping into the role ...
STANTON — Superior National Bank-Stanton defeated REL Inc.- Mohawk Technologies, 7-3, in Twilight League action on Tuesday in a game that could be summed up in just two half innings. For REL, it was the top of the fourth inning where they scored three runs. For SNB-Stanton, it was the ...
HANCOCK — Hot weather made for hot bats in favor of Dean Kangas-State Farm as they earned a 14-4 win against a younger, slightly slower Garnet Garage at the Hancock Driving Park on Tuesday. “We were patient at the plate and swung at some good pitches and put the ball in play tonight,” ...