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Why 2025 is the year to try Formula 1

Personally, I grew up watching Formula 1 (F1) frequently as my father was a pretty big fan and my mom grew to enjoy races as well. Nowadays, my mom is a bigger fan than my dad, cheering on Max Verstappen as part of the “Oranje Army” (Verstappen is of Dutch-Belgian heritage and his fans lean heavily on orange, the national color for the Dutch). There are years where I completely understand the criticism of Formula 1 being, well, formulaic. There are some seasons when a particular team is hugely dominant and can literally lap all the competition. Sometimes that dominance lasts ...

Huskies hockey sweeps Wildcats again

By DAVER KARNOSKY dkarnosky@mininggazette.com HOUGHTON — The Michigan Tech Huskies hockey team earned a second series sweep of the Northern Michigan Wildcats with a 3-2 win on Friday night at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena in Houghton, and 4-0 win Saturday at the Berry Events Center in ...

Huskies prove they are more than ‘NobodyU’

For the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix, Wednesday’s noon matchup with the Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball team was going to be a problem no matter how it went. The Huskies entered the game riding a five-game winning streak that included a win over then-No. 3 Minnesota State-Moorhead to kick off the recent hot streak. In their previous game against Div. III Northland College, the Huskies had six players in double figures. In fact, over their last three games, they had five or more players in double figures in each of them. Oh, and they had beaten the Lumberjacks by 63 points, ...

Thoughts from the penalty box

The Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball team is on a four-game winning streak that started with a victory over then-No. 3 Minnesota State-Moorhead at the St. Louis County Basketball Classic. Since then, the Huskies knocked off St. Cloud State, Wisconsin-Parkside, and Purdue Northwest. While none of those teams carry the prestige of MSU-Moorhead, it was still important for the Huskies to come out fast and knock off all three of them. The wins over the Rangers and the Pride mean the Huskies are 6-3 overall and 2-0 already in GLIAC play. Even more impressively, the Huskies did it ...

Huskies football gave us a great season

Going into Saturday’s contest at Saginaw Valley State, Michigan Tech Huskies football coach Dan Mettlach’s team had already had a good season, going 6-4 with a 3-3 record in GLIAC play. They had beaten Northern Michigan, which is a priority every year, Wayne State, and Roosevelt. They gave Davenport and Grand Valley State very good games in their conference losses. In fact, the only game the Huskies really struggled in was the one at Ferris State, where the Bulldogs won, 51-13. Mettlach did not pull any punches after that game. “Went exactly how it looked,” he said a couple ...

Huskies football continues to make strides under Mettlach

When Michigan Tech announced that Dan Mettlach was going to be the next head coach of the football program, I, for one, was very excited, not just because I know Mettlach on a personal level, but also because I have always felt like he had this vibe, for lack of a better word, that he would make a good coach. I can’t say whether it was because he was a quarterback, or it was because of the way he carried himself as an assistant coach both at Finlandia and at Michigan Tech, but I always felt like it was there. Mettlach’s task is, by no means, easy. The Huskies play in the Great ...