×

Local Sports

It’s not too late to begin

MARQUETTE — There’s a couple new kids in town, the “town” being the Upper Peninsula weekly high school basketball polls conducted by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. The new area teams in the polls both happen to be boys teams as they are in the final week of the ...

2 Marquette girls advance, 3 boys just miss at wrestling regionals

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Senior High School wrestling team had mixed results at a pair of individual MHSAA high school wrestling regionals held over the weekend. In a boys Division 2 regional held at Gaylord, three Sentinels boys came oh-so-close, just missing advancement. But they had two ...

Sports Look

Today High school wrestling Boys team regionals, Divisions 3 & 4, TBA High school boys basketball Baraga at Hancock, 6 p.m. Escanaba at Gwinn, 7:15 p.m. Manistique at Munising, 7:30 p.m. High school girls basketball Negaunee at Jeffers, 7:15 p.m. Hancock at L’Anse, 7:15 ...

Making dreams come true: Wildcats athletes raising funds for Make-A-Wish week

MARQUETTE — There’s still time to participate in the 2026 Make-A-Wish Wish Week being conducted by the Student Athletic Advisory Committee at Northern Michigan University. The week kicked off Sunday and runs through Saturday after last year’s fundraising effort by the NMU SAAC reached ...

High school basketball

Upper Peninsula scores GIRLS Friday Dollar Bay 52, Stephenson 34 Forest Park 57, Norway 55 (OT) Ishpeming 82, Manistique 30 Menominee 64, Westwood 38 Negaunee 48, Marquette 27 Rudyard 68, Alanson 11 Traverse City Central 61, Sault Ste. Marie 42 Northern Lights Conference ...

NMU hockey within 2 minutes of catching Ferris, now barely alive for playoffs

BIG RAPIDS — The hockey team at Northern Michigan University came within two minutes of pulling even for the last playoff spot in the conference on Friday night, but in the end put their tournament chances just about on life support in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The Wildcats ...