IRON MOUNTAIN — The Dickinson Area Hockey Association’s Bantam-level 41 Lumber Iron Kings have their first home games in Iron Mountain on Saturday.

The puck drops at 9:30 a.m. as the Iron Kings take on M&M Thunder of Marinette, Wis. The games are open to the public free of charge.

Against the Marquette Provisions at Lakeview Arena, the Iron Kings fell 9-4 and 6-4. Tyler Berglund and Remington Vitale scored the first goals and helped the Iron Kings secure the lead in the first period of the second game, but Marquette rallied for the win.

The DAHA team consists of players from Iron Mountain-Kingsford, Munsing, Manistique, Iron River, and Pembine and has only been able to practice together twice this season. “Hardest Work On the Ice” jerseys went to Jacob Waara on defense and Tyler Berglund on offense.

HUTCHINSON SURPRISES MARINE

CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Jacob Rinehart, who was injured while training to be a Marine, was surprised recently when Detroit Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson knocked on his door and gave him four tickets to the Thanksgiving game against the Chicago Bears.

Rinehart watched warmups at Ford Field in Detroit on Thursday morning along the sideline, where team owner Sheila Ford Hamp told him he had two tickets for the Super Bowl and wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown stopped by to autograph his jersey.

SWIATEK ACCEPTS SUSPENSION

By The Associated Press

The International Tennis Integrity Agency says five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek has accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine. That is a heart medication known as TMZ.

The ITIA says Swiatek failed an out-of-competition drug test in August, and it accepted her explanation that the result was unintentional and caused by the contamination of a nonprescription medication, melatonin, that Swiatek was taking for issues with jet lag and sleeping.

It was determined her level of fault was “at the lowest end of the range for no significant fault or negligence,” according to the ITIA.

EDWARDS CALLS OUT WOLVES

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In his four-plus NBA seasons, Anthony Edwards has never been afraid to speak his mind. But the Minnesota Timberwolves star was particularly candid in a profanity-laced explanation of his team’s recent struggles following a 115-104 loss to the Sacramento Kings. Edwards says the team is “soft” internally and “can’t talk to each other.”

He described the Timberwolves as “just a bunch of little kids” and went on to say: “Everybody right now is on different agendas. I think that’s one of the main culprits of why we’re losing.”