The Bay College Norse man's basketball team opened its season Friday night with a 106-60 win over the Minensota North-Hibbing Cardinals at the Bay College Gym. Bay jumped to a 16-2 lead and led, 55-26, at halftime. Jayden Brown scored a game-high 30 points in his Norse debut. Click the above headline for details, interviews, photos, and video highlights.
The Northern Michigan women's basketball team opened its season with a 56-35 defeat to the No. 14 Central Missouri Jennies on Friday afternoon at the D2CCA Midwest Tip-Off Challenge in Wisconsin Dells. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Bark River-Harris High School football team opened the MHSAA Division Eight state playoffs Friday night with a 59-30 win over the L'Anse Purple Hornets. Gabe Spear scored three touchdowns to lead the way. Click the above headline for details, and to hear post-game comments from Broncos Coach Caleb Adams.
The Bay College Norse volleyball team has won the MCCAA North Conference championship for the first time in program history. The Norse Monday night beat the Kirtland Community College Firebirds, 3-0, in Grayling, by scores of 25-20, 25-22, and 25-15. Click the above headline for details, and to hear from Head Coach Dan Porath.
Fourteen Upper Peninsula high school football teams have qualified for the Michigan High School Athletic Assocation playoffs. The pairings for the 256 eleven-man and 32 eight-man teams were announced Sunday night by the MHSAA. Click the above headline for the details.
The Northern Michigan University men's soccer team fell, 2-0, to the #14 Saginaw Valley State Cardinals, in what amounted to a GLIAC regular season title match Sunday afternoon. With the result, the Cardinals were crowned GLIAC Regular Season Champions and will host the 2026 GLIAC Postseason Tournament. NMU will travel to Saginaw Valley as the #2 seed in the tournament. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
Complementary football was the name of the game Saturday afternoon, as the Northern Michigan offense moved the ball throughout the contest and the defense shut out Roosevelt over the final three quarters en route to a 27-10 home victory. It was the first win for new NMU Coach Matt Janus. Click the above headline for details. Story, photo courtesy of NMU. Also click to hear RRN's Casey Ford interviews and to see RRN video highlights.
The Florence High School Ladycats are WIAA Division Five regional champions for the third straight year, after defeating Niagara Saturday night in four sets, 23-25, 25-19, 25-15, 25-7. Florence advances to the sectional semifinal next Thursday, at home, against Suring. First serve is set for 7:00 CT. (Florence Schools photo)
The Bay College Norse women's volleyball team lost to non-conference matches in Milwaukee on Saturday, falling to Harper College (Ill.) and Milwaukee Tech by identical 3-1 scores. But the Norse have a huge week ahead of them, with their final two conference matches of the season set for Monday and Wednesday, with a conference championship on the line. Click the above headline for details.
The No. 12-ranked Michigan Tech football team fell, 27-20, at No. 1 Ferris State on Saturday. The Huskies cut it to a one-score game late but weren't able to recover the onside kick. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech story, photo, and video)
The Northern Michigan University women's volleyball team split two matches this weekend at Vandament Arena, beating Purdue Northwest, 3-1, on Saturday, after being swept by top-ranked Ferris State on Friday. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Gladstone Braves football team jumped to a 14-3 lead over the Escanaba Eskymos Friday night, but the Eskymos scored 26 straight points and held off the Braves, 29-20, at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline for details.
The NMU men's soccer team earned three points in its penultimate regular-season game, Friday, beating Davenport 3-2, in Marquette. With the win, the Wildcats officially leapfrog Saginaw Valley State to sit alone atop the GLIAC table with one game left in the season. That sets up a huge battle on Sunday. Click the above headline for details, and to hear RRN's Casey Ford interview Coach Alex Fatovic. (NMU Photo)
Sixty years of Laker hockey, a revitalized rink, and a community ready to cheer on the Lakers make this year’s Great Lake State Weekend, a special celebration for Lake Superior State University. Adding to the excitement, film crews will be on hand to capture the action for Our Shot, an upcoming docuseries following LSSU’s NCAA Division I men’s hockey team. Click the above headline for details. (LSSU Photo)
-Another win for the Bay College Norse women's volleyball team, this time, downstate against the Montcalm Community College Centurions. The Norse won Monday night, 3-0, by scores of 25-22, 25-21, and 26-24. The Norse got revenge for a five-set loss to Montcalm earlier this month in Escanaba. These are by far the best records in school history.
The Northern Michigan University men's soccer team earned its biggest win of the 2026 campaign, downing the Roosevelt Lakers, 2-1, on a windy Sunday evening in Marquette. Click the above headline to read details. (NMU photo)
The NMU women's soccer team defeated rival Michigan Tech 4-0 on Sunday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The NMU hockey team and the (RV) Skyhawks skated to a 2-1 overtime decision Saturday night, with Stonehill College earning the overtime extra point. Click rerhe above headline to read details, and to hear post-game comments from Assistant Coach Ben Russell.
The No. 14-ranked Michigan Tech football team won its 16th straight Miner's Cup after defeating rival Northern Michigan 56-33 Saturday afternoon at Kearly Stadium in Houghton. Click the above headline for details from both schools, and RRN's video highlights. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Kingsford High School football team rallied from two touchdowns behind to beat the Menominee Maroons, 21-14, in a battle of unbeaten teams Friday night in Menominee. Dylan Beal threw two touchdown passes to Brody Daigneau to put the Maroons up 14-0, but Blake Tomasoski scored a touchdown and Jake Lockhart ran in two scores, including the game winner, for Kingsford. The loss breaks a 20-game winning streak for the defending state champion Maroons, and it gives the Flivvers the West-Pac Copper Division championship. Kingsford is the only undefeated eleven-man team in the Upper Peninsula.
The Gladstone Braves and Calumet Copper Kings combined to score more than 70 points in a non-conference football game Friday night, and the Copper Kings kept their playoff hopes alive with a 44-28 win at the Marble Athletic Field. Three different Copper King players scored two touchdowns each. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and to hear interviews.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team skated to a convincing 5-1 win over Stonehill College on Friday Night at the Berry Events Center. Click the above headline for details, and to hear RRN's interview with Asst. Coach Ben Russell. (NMU story and photo)
The Bay College Norse volleyball team keeps on rolling. The ladies swept North Central Michigan College, 3-0, Wednesday night, on Sophomore Night. The scores were 26-24, 25-12, and 25-18. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse women's volleyball team played another marathon match Monday night, and came through in the clutch to beat the Muskegon Community College Jayhawks, 3-2, at the Bay College Gym. The win moved the Norse into first place in the MCCAA North Conference standings, and it completed a season sweep of the Jayhawks. Click the above headline to read details and to see photos and video highlights/
Munising Mustangs freshman Jackson Lasak rang the bell Saturday night at halftime to celebrate completing his leukemia treatment at a special varsity football game hosted at Munising High School between the Superior Central Cougars and the Mustangs. Click the above headline to for more information, and to see photos from the evening. (Munising Schools/Casey Ford)
NFL Football. Detroit Lions vs Minnesota Vikings. From Ford Field in Detroit. Kick-off is 1:00 ET/Noon CT. Coverage begins at Noon ET/11 am CT. On WJPD-FM (92.3 Marquette/Munising), WCMM-FM (102.5 Escanaba/Manistique), and WIMK-FM (93.1 Iron Mountain/Crystal Falls). NOTE: NFL rules prevent us from putting the broadcast on our Internet streams. To listen on-line, you will need to buy access from the NFL.
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Women's College Basketball. Northern Michigan University Wildcats vs Minnesota State-Mankato Mavericls. From Just A Game Arena in Wisconsin Dells. Tip-off is 2:30 ET/1:30 CT. Coverage begins at 2:15 ET/1:15 CT. On WUPT-FM (100.3 The Point Marquette), WCHT-AM//FM (600/93.5 Escanaba), WMIQ-AM (1450 Iron Mountain), and on-line at https://streamdb7web.securenetsystems.net/cirrusencore/WUPT
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Men's College Basketball. Northern Michigan University Wildcats vs Lincoln Memorial University (Tenn.) Railsplitters. From Just A Game Arena in Wisconsin Dells. Tip-off is 8:00 ET/7:00 CT. Coverage begins at 7:45 ET/6:45 CT. On WUPT-FM (100.3 The Point Marquette), WCHT-AM//FM (600/93.5 Escanaba), WMIQ-AM (1450 Iron Mountain), and on-line at https://streamdb7web.securenetsystems.net/cirrusencore/WUPT
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College Volleyball. Northern Michigan University Wildcats vs Michigan Tech University Husklies. From the Student Developmental Complex in Houghton. First serve is 6:00 ET/5:00 CT. Coverage begins at 5:45 ET/4:45 CT. On WUPT-FM (100.3 The Point Marquette), WCHT-AM//FM (600/93.5 Escanaba), WMIQ-AM (1450 Iron Mountain), and on-line at https://streamdb7web.securenetsystems.net/cirrusencore/WUPT
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