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Sentinels, Miners tack on more wins

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MARQUETTE — Marquette and Negaunee chalked up several victories on the run-up to the Negaunee Invitational held at the Miners’ courts on Friday. Marquette held off Westwood 7-1 on Thursday, while Negaunee won a doubleheader on Wednesday, whitewashing Iron Mountain 8-0 before eking out a 5-3 win over Kingsford. Here are details from those meets: Marquette 7, Westwood 1 On Thursday at Westwood, the Sentinels didn’t miss a beat despite having several regulars out. “I thought all our boys played super clean and well,” MSHS head coach Karl Thomsen said in an email detailing ...

Packers, Lions part of NFL’s holiday fare

Michigan Sports

The 2026 NFL season will kick off with a Super Bowl rematch. Mike Macdonald, Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks will face off against Mike Vrabel, Drake Maye and the New England Patriots after raising their championship banner on Sept. 9 in the first of the NFL's 272 games. The Seahawks ...

Gwinn qualifies host of athletes at own track regional

Local Sports

GWINN — Gwinn picked up solid finishes of second and fourth places at an MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 2 high school track and field regional meet held at the Modeltowners’ track on Thursday. Gwinn’s boys were a close runner-up, while the girls were fourth in the six-team field. But this is the rare meet where team results weren’t as important as the individuals and relays who qualified for the MHSAA U.P. Finals in all divisions at Kingsford on Saturday, May 30. In Divisions 1 and 2, the top four finishers in every event, both individual and relays, advance to ...

Driver downplays dust-up during Indy 500 practice

National Sports

INDIANAPOLIS — Romain Grosjean used some humor — and cited his Swiss roots — to punch back at his feud with Marcus Armstrong on Thursday. Hey, it's worth a shot. Grosjean insisted he never intended to fight Armstrong when he said he wanted to hit him during a post-race dust-up on pit ...

Hurricanes riding wave of goalie Andersen

National Sports

RALEIGH, N.C. — Things didn't go smoothly for Frederik Andersen early in the regular season. He was hunting his game. And as he tried to work through it, a one-time waiver pickup was taking over the Carolina Hurricanes' crease with sudden stardom. That feels long ago, with Andersen playing ...