By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer Michigan’s Hailey Brown says she came very close to opting out of this women’s basketball season. The 6-foot-1 senior forward from Hamilton, Ontario, was struggling with a fear of COVID-19 and the travel restrictions she faced as a Canadian with the ...
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Right-hander Casey Mize will be part of the Tigers’ starting rotation and Michael Fulmer will pitch out of the bullpen. Detroit manager AJ Hinch also said Friday that left-hander Derek Holland will make the team. Mize was the No. 1 pick in the 2018 amateur draft. He ...
By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer INDIANAPOLIS — Villanova spent all season operating with the security of having senior point guard Collin Gillespie leading the attack. Michigan knew it could depend on versatile veteran Isaiah Livers. Now the Wildcats and Wolverines have figured out how ...
By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer INDIANAPOLIS — Kelvin Sampson never set out to take a once-proud Houston program back to national prominence by leaning on transfers. “Sometimes that’s just the way it works out,” Sampson said. And there’s no reason to change that approach, ...
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SAN ANTONIO — The women’s NCAA Tournament regional semifinals field is set with many familiar faces like UConn, Baylor, Stanford and South Carolina. There’s also some fresh ones, including Michigan and Arizona. The Sweet 16 will tip off Saturday ...
By PHILLIP B. WILSON Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Caris LeVert scored 28 points and the Indiana Pacers snapped a six-game home losing streak with a 116-111 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night. LeVert’s fourth 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds remaining clinched the victory. ...
ALBA (AP) — A boys basketball team in the northern Lower Peninsula has won its first state playoff game — since 1955. Alba defeated Central Lake, 43-39, in a district game Tuesday night. “Due to COVID, we didn’t pour anything on anybody," coach Nathan Bootz said Wednesday when asked ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writers The NHL announced Wednesday that Tim Peel’s career as a league referee is over after he was picked up by a TV microphone saying he wanted to give the Nashville Predators a penalty, an incident that put the notion of “make-up” calls ...
Some of the best play in the women’s NCAA Tournament has come in pairs. From Michigan’s Leigha Brown taking the scoring burden off of Big Ten player of the year Naz Hillmon to Iowa lighting up the scoreboard with the outside-inside threat of the Caitlin Clark and Monika Czinano, talented ...
By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer Michigan’s second-round game against LSU was intense from the start. Up and down the court the teams went, trading runs and momentum swings with the season on the line. One player for the Wolverines seemed calm and steady — guard Eli Brooks. “I ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville built some momentum on its long road trip. The Predators were certainly happy to be back home. Juuse Saros made 31 saves for his first shutout of the season and the Nashville Predators beat the Detroit Red Wings 2-0 on Tuesday night. Mikael Granlund and ...
ALLEN PARK (AP) — The Detroit Lions have signed linebacker Alex Anzalone and receiver Damion Ratley. The Lions made the moves Wednesday, reuniting first-year coach Dan Campbell with Anzalone. He played for New Orleans the past four seasons while Campbell was the Saints’ assistant head ...
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Lions have signed kicker Randy Bullock and quarterback Tim Boyle. The Lions also announced the signing of wide receiver Breshad Perriman on Monday. Bullock spent parts of the past five seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals. Prior to that, he appeared in games for ...
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SAN ANTONIO — It’s been a season of firsts for Michigan, and now the Wolverines can add a trip to the Sweet 16 to that list. Leigha Brown scored 23 points and Naz Hillmon added 19 to lead No. 6 seed Michigan to its first regional semifinals ...
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The Rocket Mortgage Classic made its debut on the PGA Tour in 2019 and won the inaugural “Fair Way Award” for diversity and inclusion by leaning on minority-owned vendors at Detroit Golf Club and having a volunteer base that reflected the community. Turns ...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Ashley Joens scored an Iowa State NCAA Tournament record 33 points, including the clinching free throw with 3.1 seconds left, to lift the Cyclones to a 79-75 women’s opening-round win over Michigan State on Monday. Iowa State made 8 of 12 free throws in the fourth ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer INDIANAPOLIS — Top-seeded Michigan salvaged the Big Ten’s best hope for NCAA Tournament glory Monday, getting 21 points each from Chaundee Brown and Eli Brooks in a a roller-coaster 86-78 victory over talent-rich LSU. In a game full of big runs, the ...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A showdown of two of the nation’s top-10 scorers was nearly over before it started. Central Michigan star Micaela Kelly picked up her third foul with 1:11 left in the first quarter on an unfortunate trip near midcourt. And the nation’s leading scorer, Caitlin Clark, ...
By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer The New York Giants’ anemic offensive is adding quite possibly the best free agent receiver on the market. The Giants on Saturday signed former Detroit Lions star Kenny Golladay to a four-year contract worth roughly $80 million in the hopes of giving ...
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SAN ANTONIO — Leigha Brown missed more than a month in the middle of the season because of the coronavirus. She looked fully recovered in Michigan’s women’s NCAA Tournament opener. Brown scored 28 points, including 17 straight for sixth-seeded ...