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 ...
A new year has begun and that usually brings a lot of change. Most changes currently happening are coaching ones, like what the Green Bay Packers are doing right now. The Packers are dismissing just about any coach on the roster not named Mike McCarthy and are reassigning people in the ...
Any and all of the eight teams playing in the NFL wild-card round of the playoffs this weekend are real longshots at winning the Super Bowl. Each winner will have to hit the road next weekend, and in all likelihood the following weekend, just to make it to Minneapolis on the first Sunday in ...
Changing coaches is never easy and sometimes, that can be painfully obvious. Sometimes it happens quicker than expected and sometimes it takes what seems like years before it actually occurs. However, eventually every team or school has to do it, and for the ones that I’ve covered, both ...
You have to give the NFL credit for trying. With numerous games on Sunday deciding playoff berths, division titles or home-field advantages, the league moved around some games so those vying for a position play at the same time. That included not moving any game to the night. With ...
Sports are really the gift that keeps on giving in our society. It can be heartbreaking and depressing at times, but it takes us away from our troubles and gives us thrills that will live on in our memories along with the players who gave them to us. A few days back, Los Angeles Lakers ...
A whole lot of us NFL fans probably won’t win any popularity contests this weekend if we dig in and insist on watching — or at least keeping up with — the games this week, Week 16. Late this afternoon and through the night is shot with a pair of games — including the Packers and ...
Even a thousand miles away in Texas, Patsy Ross wanted to be on hand for her induction into the Marquette County Bowling Hall of Fame on Sunday. Of course, attendance wasn’t mandatory for induction at River Rock Lanes. Her daughter, Heidi Ross, was happy to stand in for her mother. Patsy ...
The Pontiac Silverdome is no more. What was once the largest stadium in the NFL, the structure finally crumbled to the ground a couple of weeks ago. It didn’t go without a fight, though, as it withstood the first demolition blast before finally succumbing the following day to a second ...
In honor of today having the last Thursday game of the NFL season, let’s find a way of getting rid of this tradition that began in 2006. Lots of players say they haven’t healed since Sunday and it leads to more injuries, a no-no now that we know what head injuries do to players when they ...
Four area bowlers will be inducted into the Marquette County Bowling Hall of Fame on Sunday afternoon in Ishpeming. Festivities kick off at 2 p.m. at River Rock Lanes, located just west of Blimpie’s Subs, just down the turnoff for McDonald’s along U.S. 41. There’s no charge and finger ...
College football has failed once again. After stumbling its way for decades in attempting to crown a national champion at the end of the season, it looked as if the sport had figured it out by creating the College Football Playoff four years ago. However, last weekend, it showed that it still ...
Maybe it’s a little early to talk about the playoffs, but we are in the final four weeks of the regular season and the playoffs start in almost exactly one month. You would think the biggest difference in seeds is between Nos. 1 and 2 in each conference. In all likelihood, that’s what ...
Hail to the what? That was my wife’s Facebook status minutes after Michigan fell to Ohio State for the sixth year in a row and the 13th time in 14 years. A diehard Buckeyes fan, she had to be one of the few people in the Upper Peninsula, let alone the state, thrilled with the result last ...
I’m sure it would’ve been of little comfort on Sunday night, but this swoon by the Green Bay Packers since quarterback Aaron Rodgers was injured could prove to be a blessing in disguise. The good thing that a bunch of wins by Brett Hundley would’ve provided was that the Packers have a ...
Two area bowlers just lived in the moment on their way to bowling their first 300 games. Both Jordan Windahl of Ishpeming and Jake Garceau of Sands Township said they didn’t even think about perfection until they reached the 10th frame of those games. Each threw their “3” earlier this ...