"We’re working toward returning to competition safely." — Kris Dunbar, commissioner, Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ---------------- BAY CITY — Northern Michigan University’s main sports league, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, announced Monday ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the fall 2019 Northern Michigan University women’s soccer season
MARQUETTE — Former Northern Michigan University hockey 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, as announced by the clubs on Wednesday. Beaulieu, who was captain of the ...
LAS VEGAS — Mikaela Mayer made history Tuesday evening, but more importantly, she earned the win. Mayer improved her professional record to 13-0 with five knockouts as she outboxed Helen Joseph over 10 rounds, earning a unanimous decision at the MGM Grand “bubble.” Two judges scored ...
Tonight: Mikaela Mayer (12-0, 5 KOs) vs. Helen Joseph (17-4-2, 10 KOs), 9 p.m., ESPN ----------------- LAS VEGAS — Jamel Herring was supposed to fight Tuesday night as part of a feel-good card topped by two boxers who had tested positive for the coronavirus. The virus had other ideas. ...
MARQUETTE — Head coach Jenny Ryan and the Northern Michigan University women’s track and field team has landed six recruits for the 2020-21 indoor and outdoors seasons that run from early December through the end of May. “This incoming class will add depth and strength to many different ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University men’s soccer team has named a new assistant coach after previous assistant Jon Sandoval was promoted to the Wildcat women’s team head coach in February. Bruce Palmbaum, father of NMU men’s soccer player Ryan Palmbaum, was named the new ...
More info: Northern Michigan University Wildcats’ final WCHA season begins at the University of Wisconsin on Oct. 3-4 ------------------- MARQUETTE — The soon-to-be-re-formed CCHA got its man on Tuesday. The Central Collegiate Hockey Association, an entity that has lain dormant for ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Aiming to recruit and engage more competitive video gamers, a dozen schools in the Mid-American Conference are creating a standalone esports conference to offer structured competition without the extensive rules that govern intercollegiate athletics. That means the teams ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Shakur Stevenson ended the most unusual week of his boxing life with his usual dominance in another victory. Stevenson stopped Felix Caraballo with a body-punch knockdown in the sixth round Tuesday night in the first major boxing event held in North America since the start ...
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Alabama-Huntsville was officially reinstated into the WCHA after the university announced it would revive the program on May 29. Just a week earlier, UAH had announced it would end its men’s hockey program along with men’s and women’s tennis, but since that time, ...
Junior lightweight contender Mikaela Mayer has tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t fight in the co-main event of Las Vegas’ first major boxing card since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. She is a former U.S. Olympic Education Center boxer who trained at and attended Northern ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the Northern Michigan University hockey season
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the Northern Michigan University men’s basketball season
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University has made another move forward as a pioneer in esports by naming its first coach. The Wildcats hired William Garetto-Balmer, the university announced on May 12, for its inaugural season that begins this fall. “William has extensive knowledge ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama-Huntsville’s hockey program has gotten a reprieve — for now. Athletic director Cade Smith said Friday that “numerous individual donors” had combined to raise more than $500,000 this week to help save the program from the chopping block. Two other gifts ...
MARQUETTE — A key member of the Northern Michigan University 1991 NCAA championship hockey team and later Wildcats coach has taken a position at St. Cloud State in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Dave Shyiak has been named associate head coach for the Huskies of the National Collegiate Hockey ...
On the Net: For more on the NMU lacrosse program, visit the Wildcats official athletics website, www.nmuwildcats.com/sports/wlax/index ----------------- MARQUETTE — The women’s lacrosse team at Northern Michigan University was only able to fit in five games during the late winter ...
MARQUETTE — Eleven members of the Nordic ski teams at Northern Michigan University — six women and five men — earned All-Academic honors from the U.S. Collegiate Ski Coaches Association. Skiers receiving this recognition attained a cumulative 3.5 grade-point average while also ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama-Huntsville is dropping men’s hockey and men’s and women’s tennis as part of budget cuts in response to the coronavirus pandemic. School officials said athletes in those sports who want to join another school’s roster will be released without penalty and ...