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Today High school hockey Marquette at Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice, 6 p.m. NMU events Volleyball: vs. Lake Superior State, Vandament Arena, 6 p.m. Men’s basketball: vs. Maryville, at Wisconsin Dells, Wis., 4 p.m. EDT Women’s basketball: vs. Upper Iowa, at Wisconsin Dells, Wis., ...

Suddenly hot Wildcats football hosts winless Wayne State

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MARQUETTE — This is not a situation the football team at Northern Michigan University could’ve envisioned a month ago for its final game of the season — worrying about overconfidence. Exactly one month ago, the Wildcats were three days away from winning their first game since 2022, ...

Wildcats soccer teams in GLIAC semis today

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MARQUETTE — The men’s and women’s soccer teams at Northern Michigan University are playing simultaneously in the semifinals of their respective conference tournaments this afternoon. Both will be in the Lower Peninsula, though at different schools, with the Wildcat women the No. 5 seed ...

NMU’s Wright, Ceglinski earn GLIAC swim, dive awards

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MARQUETTE — A pair of past All-American athletes on the women’s swimming and diving team at Northern Michigan University have earned conference weekly awards after the Wildcats’ dominant performance over a nationally ranked foe. The No. 10 nationally ranked NMU women blasted No. 13 ...

Road warriors continue on

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BIG RAPIDS — It’s just about impossible to lose when no one scores on you. But you still need some sort of offense to make sure the game doesn’t go on forever. The women’s soccer team at Northern Michigan University married both those propositions together for a 2-0 victory over ...

Armchair Quarterback: Fire your coach and make my day

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By STEVE BROWNLEE Journal Sports Editor Watching all these coaches at major college football programs getting fired made me think about how wonderful all this churning — this mixing up — of coaches makes me feel good. No, not good about the coaches, nor about their teams. I think ...