The Northern Michigan University Athletics Department has announced the newest inductees to the NMU Sports Hall of Fame. There will be mo ceremony due to the coronavirus. Click the above headline to see who's being inducted.
Members of the Bark River-Harris and North Central High School football teams made the long trip to Lansing on Friday to take part in a rally with hundreds of their downstate peers on the steps of the state capitol. Click the above headline to see photos and listen to interviews with the Jets and Broncos players.
The 2020 high school cross country season got underway Friday with the Marquette Relays. Click the above headline for details, and Gladstone Braves photos.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Marquette Redettes played to a 4-4 tie in girls tennis Thursday in Marquette. Click the above headline to read the details.
Upper Peninsula State Senator Ed McBroom calls the cancellation of the high school and college football seasons in Michigan “ridiculous” and says that the decisions will hurt kids, young adults, and entire communities. Click the above headline for his comments.
The Battle of Delta County's first match-up of the high school girls tennis season was closely contested as always on Monday, as the Escanaba Eskymos beat the Gladstone Braves, 5-3, in Gladstone. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association representative Council decided on Thursday to move forward with volleyball, soccer, and swimming in the Upper Peninsula. Football remains cancelled until next spring. Up to . Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School softball team played together one final time on Saturday, taking part in a game against a team of Eskymo alumni at Lemmerand Park. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos from the game.
The Class of 2020 had all of their senior memories taken from them by the coronavirus, including their entire softball seasons. But 28 girls from across the Upper Peninsula got to take the field in a pair of All-Star type games Friday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details and to see game photos.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association decided to cancel the fall football season on Friday, moving it to the spring instead. For now, the U.P. volleyball season can continue. Click the above headline to read details.
The Northern Michigan University football team reacted Wednesday to the announcement that their season was being cancelled, with hopes that they might be able to salvage a season next spring. Click the above headline to read more, listen to interviews.
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference decided on Wednesday to cancel all fall sports, including football and volleyball, for the rest of 2020, with the hopes of playing those sports in the spring. This effects Northern Michigan, Michigan Tech, and Lake Superior State Universities. Click the above headline for details.
The U.P. Football All-Star Game announced Tuesday that sixteen U.P. high school football teams will receive donations from the game this year. The game was cancelled by the pandemic, but sponsor support was shared with schools. Twelve schools got $1,000 each and four schools were given equipment. Click the above headline for details.
The Iron Mountain-Kingsford-Norway Under-19 baseball team lost another one-run game on Sunday in the Wisconsin Dells, falling to the HTP Raptors from Apple Valley, Minn., 3-2, in the quarterfinals. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Iron Mountain-Kingsford-Norway Under-19 baseball team is competing this weekend at the "Back To School Bash" in the Wisconsin Dells. The boys dropped two games on Saturday, falling to the Midwest Prospects from Rockford, Ill., 6-5, and the HTP Raptors of Apple Valley, Minn., 8-3. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
There will be no postseason championships for fall sports in NCAA Division Two, which Northern Michigan and Michigan Tech Universities compete in. Wednesday's announcement does not cancel regular season games. Click the above headline for more.
The Gladstone Indians Under-19 baseball team celebrated a season that almost wasn't with a team banquet Tuesday night at the Gladstone Sports Park. Click the above headline to see photos taken by Nate Belleville, and hear from Manager Justin Jurek.
Gladstone High School graduate and former Bay College Norse baseball player Lucas Weinert has found a new home. He'll attend school and play ball at Aquinas College in downstate Grand Rapids. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Bears Under-12 baseball team cruised through its tournament play in Black Creek, Wis., on Saturday, but fell in the championship game to DePere, 3-0. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and video highlights.
Finlandia University in Hancock has cancelled football and its other sports seasons (soccer and volleyball). Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Bears 12-and-under baseball team swept a doubleheader over the West Ishpeming Ballers on Thursday as the boys played their final home games of the summer at Dickson Field. Click the above headline to see photos and video highlights.
The Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association Wednesday approved the next steps in returning sports for this fall. Cross Country, golf, and girls tennis can proceed. Volleyball practice can begin on time, but competition is delayed. Football practice can start Aug. 10 with conditioning only, but practice with pads can't start until Aug. 17 and games are delayed. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association Board of Directors has voted unanimously to welcome the University of St. Thomas as the league's eighth program beginning with the 2021-22 season. Click the above headline to read detals.
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Council of Presidents voted to play a conference-only schedule during the Fall 2020 sports season and will evaluate the feasibility of league competition on a sport-by-sport basis. Click the above headline for details.
The Menominee Red Wave Under-19 baseball team won a pair of wild one-run games to win the Upper Peninsula championship on a sultry afternoon Saturday in Iron Mountain. Menominee beat the host team, 9-8, in nine innings, then after Gladstone rallied past Marquette, 4-3, the Red Wave held off a late Gladstone rally to win the title, 7-6. Click the above headline for details, photos, video clips, and interviews.
It wasn't easy, but the Gladstone Indians Under-19 baseball team won a pair of games on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Upper Peninsula Finals in Iron Mountain. The Indians beat the Escanaba Cubs, 10-1, breaking a 1-1 tie in the fifth inning. Then Gladstone rallied past the Copper Country Flames, 9-6. The Cubs were eliminated with a 5-2 loss to Iron Mountain. Click the above headline to see photos videos.
The Escanaba Cubs Under-19 baseball team scored two runs in the fifth inning to break a 5-5 tie and beat the Copper Country Flames, 7-5, in the opening round of the Upper Peninsula Finals Thursday in Iron Mountain. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Indians Under-19 baseball team scored a run in the seventh inning and then held on after a bizarre bottom half to beat Iron Mountain-Kingsford-Norway, 2-1, Thursday, at the Upper Peninsula Finals opener in Iron Mountain. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, interviews, and video highloghts.
Former NMU Wildcat defenseman Phil Beaulieu, has agreed to a two-way deal with the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League and the Allen Americans of the East Coast Hockey League. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team waited four months to hold their annual post-season banquet Tuesday night. It wasn't the usual gathering, but the boys were still recognized with a social-distanced event. Click the above headline for setails.