By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers don’t believe a lopsided loss to start the season should impact their sky-high expectations for what they can accomplish this year. But it sure raises the stakes as they prepare to face the Detroit Lions in a ...
By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Yandy Diaz hit a leadoff home run and Mike Zunino later connected, reliever Dietrich Enns pitched four solid innings and the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2 on Thursday night. The Rays lead second place ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR — No. 25 Michigan has earned some momentum and has no plans to slow down against Northern Illinois. The Wolverines (2-0) began the season unranked and with relatively low expectations from outside the program for Jim Harbaugh’s seventh season. ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Michigan State’s offense has been a surprise this season. So has Miami’s, in a very different way. The Spartans (2-0) are moving the football more easily than they have in years, and they’ll look to keep that going on Saturday ...
By DAVE HOGG Associated Press DETROIT — Derek Hill hit a leadoff RBI double in the 11th inning, giving the Detroit Tigers a 1-0 win over Milwaukee on Tuesday night and snapping the Brewers’ five-game win streak. After the game, Hill had to try to explain to his teammates why he had slid ...
By DANA GAURUDER Associated Press DETROIT — Dustin Garneau homered and drove in two runs, rookie Matt Manning combined with the bullpen on a three-hitter and the Detroit Tigers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-1 on Wednesday to complete a two-game sweep. Milwaukee’s magic number to clinch ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR — Jim Harbaugh seems to have his best running game in seven seasons at Michigan, rotating two speedy and powerful backs behind an offensive line that has been opening huge holes. The Wolverines were so effective at moving the ball on the ground in a ...
By DAVE HOGG Associated Press DETROIT — The problem facing Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell isn’t finding things to fix. It is deciding where to start. The Lions trailed the San Francisco 49ers 31-10 at halftime and 41-17 with two minutes left before a late charge brought them within ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR — Jim Harbaugh has a lot on his plate at Michigan, leading college football’s winningest team that is desperately seeking another level of success. Harbaugh has to delegate a lot, as all coaches do, but he personally handles how the program uses ...
EAST LANSING (AP) — Payton Thorne threw for four touchdowns, including two long strikes to Jayden Reed, and ran for another score as Michigan State rolled to a 42-14 victory over Youngstown State on Saturday. Thorne connected with Reed on Michigan State’s first play from scrimmage, the ...
By DANA GAURUDER Associated Press DETROIT — Robbie Grossman drew a bases-loaded walk in the 11th inning, Jeimer Candelario homered twice, and the Detroit Tigers pulled out an 8-7 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. The walk issued by J.P. Feyereisen (4-4) brought in Victor ...
ANN ARBOR (AP) — Blake Corum sprinted for a 67-yard touchdown to give Michigan a double-digit lead in the second quarter, one play after Jim Harbaugh called for a fake punt and the Wolverines pulled away to beat Washington 31-10 Saturday night. Michigan (2-0) relied on a tandem of running ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT — Nick Bosa was ready to kick back and relax while the San Francisco 49ers coasted to a season-opening victory. The Detroit Lions made Bosa get back to work. Dre Greenlaw returned an interception for a touchdown to help San Francisco score 17 points ...
By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer If it didn’t really sink in when he slipped to the 10th pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Paul Pierce got the message when he went home to Los Angeles to play in the All-Star Game and got booed by his hometown fans. “That’s just the story of my career: Being ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT — Dan Campbell is taking over a team that isn’t supposed to win much this year and is leading a franchise as synonymous with losing as any in the NFL over the last several decades. The Campbell era in Detroit begins Sunday at home against the San ...
KALAMAZOO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday extended his order blocking Western Michigan University from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine requirement against 16 athletes. U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney issued a ruling from the bench granting the athletes the right to continue to compete and ...
DETROIT (AP) — Ten sexual assault victims sued the University of Michigan on Thursday over a policy that limits the number of people who can offer public comment at meetings of the school’s governing board. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of nine men and a woman who said they were molested ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR — Washington has a lot to prove, coming off a loss to Montana. Michigan does, too. The two motivated and unranked teams will meet under the lights Saturday night at the Big House. The Huskies (0-1) went into the season with high expectations as ...
EAST LANSING (AP) — Kenneth Walker III took a peek in the rear-view mirror on his first Michigan State carry last Friday, a 75-yard touchdown dash at Northwestern. But the Wake Forest transfer is done looking back at a nation’s-best, 264-yard, four-touchdown rushing performance in a 38-21 ...
By ALAN SAUNDERS Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Miguel Cabrera and Robbie Grossman each had four hits, and the Detroit Tigers avoided a sweep by beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-1 Wednesday night. Cabrera was 4 for 4 with a double and three RBIs. He doubled off the Clemente Wall in right ...