MARQUETTE — Nearly a quarter of the players chosen to play and be drafted onto teams in the 18th annual Upper Peninsula Football All-Star Game are from area schools. Those are high schools in Marquette, Alger, Baraga, Schoolcraft and Luce counties. The game is scheduled today at the ...
MARQUETTE — With the Ishpeming High School girls basketball team capturing its second state championship in three years, Grady Gauthier has done his part to represent the Hematites’ boys team on the state level. The senior Ishpeming player was the lone area representative to make a top-10 ...
MARQUETTE — Ryan Reichel stepped down in May as Ishpeming High School varsity girls basketball coach on the highest of notes after 11 years at the Hematites’ helm. That was shortly after he led the Ishpeming girls to their second state championship in three years. Reaching that lofty a ...
MARQUETTE — One of the stars of a college hockey program that Northern Michigan University Dave Shyiak formerly coached at will be joining the Wildcats on their coaching staff. Shyiak announced the hiring of Chris Kamal as an assistant coach on Wednesday after Kamal had been on the ...
MARQUETTE — A national champion from Northern Michigan University will continue his NHL head coaching odyssey north of the border in his native Canada. Jim Hiller, a star on the Wildcats’ 1991 NCAA national title team, has been named head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, one of the ...
HARRIS — A Negaunee High School graduate now golfing for the Central Michigan University women’s team has gained a sponsor’s exemption for the second straight year to play in the Island Resort Championship to be held at the Sweetgrass Golf Club near Harris starting Friday, June ...