In all the hoopla surrounding the high school state tournament regionals and finals, I forgot about part of the Upper Peninsula Bowling Conference’s end-of-season tournaments. That was the team events held at the Bowl-A-Rama in Escanaba on Feb. 17. Let’s right that wrong by ...
You impressed me Marquette County. A month ago, I wrote a column wondering why hockey fans, or just sports fans in general, weren’t attending Northern Michigan University hockey games. I listed some potential reasons why this might be occurring, including the big national conference ...
What a fun, easy and productive way to hold onto the legacy of a young man who was taken from us way too soon. The Hunter Negri Memorial 9-Pin Tournament will be held on Saturday, March 24, with shifts at 3:30 and 7 p.m. at Superior Lanes. Organizers have indicated that if enough teams sign ...
For two decades, Michigan State University head coach and Iron Mountain native Tom Izzo has ruled the world of college basketball in Michigan from the Winter Throne out of East Lansing. The House of Izzo has won a national championship and earned seven Final Four berths, eight ...
Usually advancing further into a state playoff means less success for local athletes no matter what the sport. The quality of the competition just keeps getting better and better. But the the Ishpeming-Negaunee and Westwood high school teams bucked that trend at the MHSAA Bowling Finals held ...
We need to look closely at kids playing football. Every NFL or college season, as I sit down to watch games on TV, I’m filled with mixed feelings. And I know I’m not the only one. A wide receiver makes a leaping one-handed catch over the middle. Watching it happen in front of your eyes, ...
Led by junior Megan Wilkins and sophomore Dylan Junak, the Ishpeming-Negaunee girls and Westwood boys bowling teams had huge success at the MHSAA regionals held downstate on Friday and Saturday. I-N’s Wilkins and the Patriots’ Junak not only won their regional singles tournaments against ...
Well, that was disappointing to watch. Every time the Winter Olympics comes around, the excitement builds among hockey fans to see if this would be the year that the U.S. men’s hockey team ends its gold medal drought that stretches back to the famous “Miracle on Ice” back in ...
Area girls one-upped the boys — literally — in their Upper Peninsula Bowling Conference singles tournament held recently. The boys held their event at River Rock Lanes on Feb. 3, while the girls went a week later at The Dome Lanes in Marinette, Wisconsin, on Feb. 10. The Dome is home to ...
Four years after moving here, this beautiful area continues to fascinate me. I came up here with many questions and almost all of them have been answered. However, there’s one that continues to baffle me after four years and I was left bewildered again last weekend. For those who ...
Last weekend, I finally made it to the Super Bowl. I braved the bitterly cold winds and strolled around my hometown of Minneapolis taking in the fun surroundings as the biggest sporting event in the country was about to take place just down the street. When I was in college in Indiana, ...
The waiting is finally over. Super Bowl Sunday has arrived and I’ll be right in the thick of it. I won’t be inside U.S. Bank Stadium cheering, but I’ll be downtown for some of the festivities and sitting on the couch with my family in Minneapolis watching the Eagles (sigh) and ...
Nobody, and in particular Eric Nault, saw his historic performance coming at River Rock Lanes last Monday night. The 38-year-old Ishpeming resident bowled his first perfect 300 game during the Road Machinery Supply Industrial League, a game after he began the night with a less-than-impressive ...
So how was your Sunday? Mine last weekend was less than ideal. I’ll just be honest. Mine sucked. As a longtime Minnesota Vikings fan, there have been days where I’ve been disappointed or upset over what I saw. However, Sunday took that to a whole new level. The Super Bowl will be played ...
If you watched the World Bowling Tour Championship finals on ESPN just over two weeks ago on Jan. 7, you may have noticed a slightly different scoring system used. It was still based on usual bowling scoring, where a premium is placed on strikes, with spares important to make instead of ...
The Minneapolis Miracle will live on forever. There are only a few football moments that will linger in people’s memories and will be replayed repeatedly year after year. What happened last Sunday in Minnesota is now one of them along with the Immaculate Reception, The Catch, and David ...
It’s been a crazy season with all kinds of strange upsets, so why should it stop now? The first-time-ever No. 6 seed being a favorite over a No. 1 seed ended up being an upset when the team that always should’ve been favored to win actually did. Did that make sense? That was ...
Alabama achieved something that was almost impossible. No, not its two national titles in the last four years. No, not its four straight college football playoff berths. The Crimson Tide have become the college version of the NFL’s New England Patriots. A dynasty that is both respected ...
It was nice to see a competitive set of wild-card games to start the NFL postseason last weekend. That first weekend is always a worry in almost every sport, since highly overrated or underrated teams can sneak into the playoff picture, turning a whole bunch of games into real duds. But ...
Less than two months ago in this space, I mentioned that Justin Stephens was going for the bowling version of the golf accomplishment of shooting your age. That came up when the 39-year-old Negaunee resident bowled a perfect 300 game. It was also his 36th 300, meaning he was just four short ...