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NMU football shows hope

NMU Sports

MARQUETTE — Halfway through last season, any change for the football program at Northern Michigan University would’ve been welcome when the Wildcats were mired in a 28-game losing streak spanning back to the start of the 2023 season. But just weeks after that streak ended, head coach ...

Area players named Special, Honorable Mention

Prep Sports

MARQUETTE — Eight girls high school basketball players from The Mining Journal’s coverage area in five central Upper Peninsula counties earned Special Mention and Honorable Mention in All-U.P. voting last week. The U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association met at Northern Michigan ...

DB’s Tourtillott, Kentala named D-4 boys First Team All-State

Local Sports

DETROIT — Dollar Bay reached the furthest of any Upper Peninsula team in the MHSAA Division 4 boys basketball tournament nearly a month ago. The Blue Bolts now have also received the top two honors gained by any U.P. team when Division 4 all-state honors were handed out Monday by the ...

Sports Look

Local Sports

Today High school girls soccer Marquette at Houghton, time TBA NMU events Women’s golf: ODU NC4K Classic, hosted by Ohio Dominican, at Pinnacle Golf Club, Grove City, Ohio, time TBA Thursday High school baseball Westwood at North Dickinson (doubleheader), 4 p.m. ...

Wildcats’ Kuehl twice a national basketball award finalist

Local Sports

MARQUETTE — Even while not receiving another actual award, men’s basketball player Dylan Kuehl of Northern Michigan University is moving into some rarified air. The graduate student forward from Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, was named a national finalist for two prestigious awards on Saturday. ...