This week could determine whether the Detroit Lions are ready to join the rest of the National Football League's better teams. The college draft — an event that has often seen the Lions fail miserably — starts Thursday. Think about it. This is the team that wasted (that's not strong ...
There is little doubt the Detroit Tigers will be an entertaining team in the 2017 season. Any team that has the star power (Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander, etc.) is going to be in the headlines most of the time. But the one thing the Tigers are lacking in appears to be pitching. Oh, the ...
It probably didn't come as much of a surprise, but the recent decision by Baraga and Ewen-Trout Creek High School to enter into a sports co-op next football season with two old rivals still raised a few eyebrows. The Vikings, who had fielded eight-person teams the last few seasons, will now ...
Sometimes in sports, the singular moment is bigger than any of the context surrounding it. I have been a part of state and regional championship teams. I have played in a national tournament. I have played on teams that won league titles. I have never experienced a moment like that so clearly ...
If it was maybe one or two calls, you could maybe explain the officiating at the NCAA men's basketball final game. But the referees did such a shoddy job — especially in the second half — that they tarnished what should have been a classic matchup. Instead, they turned the game in a ...
The other night, I could have sworn I was in a time warp as I waited to cover the second game of the Gibson Cup series between the Portage Lake Pioneers and Calumet Wolverines. Sitting in my car outside the Calumet Colosseum before the game, I watched as the good-sized crowd filed in. There ...
For the second time in three years, the Michigan Tech Huskies' hockey team made it to the NCAA Tournament, something that had not happened with any regularity since the late 1970s. After the Huskies won the WCHA Playoff title in double overtime, I knew that I was going to want to be there to ...
One of the things that makes the annual NCAA basketball tournament such a hit is its unpredictability. Just when you figure you've got March Madness (and its brackets) down, something comes along. Now, I've been watching this annual two weeks of madness for a long time. Once upon a time, I ...
It’s often been said that March Madness brings out the best in teams and players. That was certainly the case this season. Take the Dollar Bay High boys basketball team. The Blue Bolts won the Copper Mountain Conference with a late-season win over Jeffers, then went through a tough ...
He not only came to the snowy Copper Country, but Brandon Robinson stayed for four years at Finlandia University. Robinson, a native of North Hollywood, Ca., made the decision to play basketball at FU. And he did it in a quiet, business-like manner. Now, getting anyone from the West Coast ...
It's an argument that sports fans have been debating for a long time. Is there such a thing as being too successful? It's an argument that flies opposite of the American Dream. The feeling is that the more success a person or company has, the better. But in the world of sports, ...
With two weekends left in the regular season for the WCHA, the Michigan Tech Huskies find themselves sitting in second — where they have spent much of the season — 10 points back of the Bemidji State Beavers and 10 points ahead of the Minnesota State Mavericks. As USCHO.com announced its ...
Just recently, I was asked what was the first sports event I ever covered. I didn't have to think too long because the fall of 1965 was a pretty interesting one for me. For one thing, I had just enrolled at Suomi College after working at McLouth Steel Co. in Trenton for one year. I might ...
I will be the first to admit, at some point last week, I walked into the office in the morning and started my day in what has become my tradition, stopping by to say hello to the news editor and to her boss. Her boss was kind enough to remind me that I had made a comment about a week earlier or ...
In this age of glitter and glamour, it's possible the upcoming Super Bowl game between the Patriots and Falcons may be overshadowed. I would like to think otherwise, but we live in an era where style trumps (no pun intended) substance. Now, the hi-jinx for Super Bowls started many years ...
Six years ago, the Michigan Tech Huskies hockey program was a shell of its former glory. Then-head coach Jamie Russell was coming off of a 4-30-4 season in which the Huskies closed the season on a seven-game losing streak. That was after a 15-game losing streak which was part of a larger, ...
By the time this column appears in Wednesday's paper, the streak achieved by the Chassell High boys basketball team in 1958 will have been tied. In all likelihood, North Central will have won its 65th straight game (North Central did beat Mid Peninsula 76-24). The powerful Jets can set the ...
Over a weekend that saw the Michigan Tech Huskies hockey team earn four of a possible six points from the Minnesota State Mavericks in a key WCHA series, fans at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena had the opportunity to be witness to the Huskies’ offense breaking out in a big way. The Huskies ...
The dunk shot, with all of its pros and cons, still remains one of the things about basketball that sets it a part from other sports Now, I'm not a big fan of certain kinds of dunking. Mostly the kind practiced in the National Basketball Association where every player seems to auditioning ...
There's a feeling nowadays that being "old school" is simply a matter of yearning for the past. If that's true, count me in. Now, I was raised in an era when there were no such things as Facebook, Twitter and all that nonsense that has pervaded our society in the past 20 years. Come to ...