Julien Smith stepped into a three-pointer near the Northern Michigan bench and sank a deep triple as the final horn sounded, stunning Illinois-Springfield, 85-83, Saturday night in Wisconsin Dells. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team fought off a tough challenge from U.P. rival Gogebic Community College Wednesday night, pulling out an 86-79 win in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The NMU women's soccer team hosted the Michigan Tech Huskies in the opening round of the GLIAC postseason tournament, turning in a 5-0 win at home to secure home-field advantage for the remainder of the conference postseason. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team came home from a long trip to Iowa empty-handed after taking a 83-77 loss late Saturday night to the Ellsworth Community College Panthers. It was a battle of two nationally-ranked JUCO teams, with the Norse being ranked 14th in the country and the Panthers ranked seventh. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team fell behind by double figures early and couldn't catch up Saturday night, losing to an Ellsworth Community College filled with international students, 79-64, in Iowa. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The 14th-ranked Bay College Norse men's basketball team took a tough loss Friday night in a down-to-the-wire game, falling to Iowa Western, 65-64, in Iowa Falls. The Norse led by seven early in the second half, but couldn't finish. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team won their season openers this weekend in Wisconsin Dells, beating Lewis University, 53-48, and Thomas More University, 48-46. Click the above headline for details from both games. (NMU phto)
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team opened its season with two victories this wweekend in Wisconsin Dells, beating Maryville on Friday and Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College women's basketball team had a rough time scoring points early, and a late comeback fell short on Friday with a 53-47 loss to the State Fair (Missouri) Community College Roadrunners at a tournament in Iowa. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team dropped game one of the Cappo Cup series, 5-0 to Lake Superior State, Friday night in Marquette. Click the above headline for details.
In a thrilling back and forth matchup, the top two women's soccer teams in the GLIAC, Northern Michigan and Grand Valley State, played to a 1-1 draw on Friday, thanks to a late equalizer from Maria Storm. The tie keeps NMU one point ahead of Grand Valley State with one match to go in the regular season. Click the above headline for details. (NMU photo)
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team withstood another challenge on Saturday, and finished its opening weekend with a 2-0 record after a 79-72 win over the Rock Valley (Illinois) Golden Eagles at the Bay College Gym. Click the above headline for details.
Northern Michigan University retired the number 40 basketball jersey of Lisa Jamula-Maki during a ceremony on Sunday before an exhibition game against Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Vandament Arena. She scored 1,699 points between 1987 and 1991, a record that stood for three decades. Click the above headline for photos and interviws.
In the final home game of the 2024 football season, Northern Michigan fell to the No. 2 Ferris State Bulldogs, 55-9, Saturday, at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
Michigan Tech earned a CCHA series sweep of Northern Michigan after a 6-3 victory over the Wildcats on Saturday. NMU held a 3-1 lead after the first period, but the Huskies scored five unanswered goals. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team opened the season Friday night with a tough 60-57 loss to the Jackson College Jets at the Bay College Gym. It was a rematch of the game played last March in the regionals, when Jackson eliminated the Norse. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos from the game.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team opened its season Friday night with a 82-78 win over the Minnesota North Hibbing Cardinals at the Bay College Gym. The 14th-ranked Norse were sluggish for most of the night, but found a way to pull it out as ten different players reached the scoring column. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team lost to the Michigan Tech Huskies, 3-0, Friday night, at the Berry Events Center.Two of Tech's goals came on the power play. Click the above headline for details from both schools. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team opens its season this Friday night against the team that knocked them out of the NJCAA regional tournament last year, the Jackson Jets. Both received votes in the national pre-season poll. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University volleyball team took victory from the jaws of defeat after a coach's challenge overturned what would have been a match point for the Michigan Tech Huskies. Instead, NMU pulled out a thrilling 3-2 victory. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan Tech football team won its 14th-consecutive Miner's Cup with a 17-point second quarter eruption and 19 points scored in the second half in the 39-9 victory over Northern Michigan during Hall of Fame weekend at Kearly Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details and post-game comments. (Michigan Tech photo)
The NMU hockey team welcomed the Arizona State Sun Devils to the Berry Event Center for the first time in program history, and the visitors brokw a 1-1 tie late and added and empty-net goal to beat the 'Cats, 3-1. Click the above headline for details. (NMU photo)
The Michigan Tech hockey team suffered its first loss of the season Friday, falling 4-1 to Clarkson in non-conference action from the MacInnes Student Ice Arena. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech Athletics photo, story)
The Northern Michigan women's basketball team will be retiring Lisa Jamula Maki's #40 jersey, its first jersey retirement in program history, on Sunday, November 3 at 4 p.m. in an exhibition against Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan football team had a chance to earn its first victory of the season on Saturday afternoon, but an overtime fumble proved costly as the Wildcats fell to Roosevelt 16-10. Click the above headline for details, and RRN highlights.
Fourth-ranked and GLIAC preseason favorite Ferris State used a 20-point first quarter and a 21-point second half to overwhelm Michigan Tech 51-13 at Top Taggart Field on Saturday. Click the above headine for details. (Michigan Tech Athletics photo, story)
The Michigan Tech University men's cross country team won the championship of the Bay College Invitational in Delta County on Friday, while the Northern Michigan University women finished on top. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
A sellout crowd of more than 11,000 people packed into the Superior Dome on Sunday to watch the Northern Michigan University men's basketball team play the Michigan State Spartans in a exhibition game. MSU Coach Tom Izzo, an Iron Mountain native and NMU graduate, had his jersey retired as his Spartan team won, 70-53. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University football team was downstate Saturday night to take on the nation's number two team, Grand Valley State. The Wildcats fell to the Lakers, 49-17. Click the above headline for details from both schools. (Grand Valley State photo)
The Michigan Tech football team saw its four-game unbeaten streak end in a back-and-forth battle ultimately seeing Davenport prevail 24-20 at Kearly Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)