Gremlins 66, Copper Kings 25 CALUMET — The Houghton Gremlins boys basketball team went into Calumet Tuesday night and earned a 66-25 win over the Calumet Copper Kings. “Great defense was the key to the game,” said Gremlins coach Jared Lawson. Alex Hebert led the Gremlins in scoring ...
Jets 62, Lakes 48 PAINESDALE — The Jeffers Jets girls earned a key win Tuesday with a 62-48 victory at home over the visiting Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes. The Jets had four girls finish in double figures in scoring. Isabelle Rajala, Karissa Rautiola, and Kylee Kangas all finished with 13 ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — After years of preparation and planning, the Winter Olympics are getting underway Wednesday with the first curling matches in Cortina. Curling at the historic curling stadium — eight teams in mixed doubles — began two full days before the opening ceremony for ...
DETROIT — Mickey Lolich, who had three complete-game victories for the Detroit Tigers in the 1968 World Series, the last Major League Baseball pitcher to post the incredible feat, died Wednesday. He was 85. The Tigers said Lolich's wife told them that he died after a short stay in hospice ...
MILAN — Hockey was not televised, at least not for free, in France when Pierre-Edouard Bellemare was growing up there. The rare chance he got to watch the sport he loved came every four years at the Olympics. "I was born into this Olympic family where if you ever made the Olympics, it's an ...
MILAN — Norwegian skier Nikolai Schirmer on Wednesday handed the International Olympic Committee a petition signed by more than 21,000 people and professional athletes who want to stop fossil fuel companies from sponsoring winter sports. Schirmer delivered the "Ski Fossil Free" petition to ...