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All-UP baseball teams selected

Local Sports

Norway’s Owen Baij and Cameron Varda and Kingsford’s Jack Kriegl earned spots on the Upper Peninsula baseball Dream Team announced by the Cold Weather Baseball Coaches Alliance. In addition to landing on the Dream Team, Baij was named Player of the Year in Division 4. Escanaba’s ...

Red card sidelines US star striker Balogun

Local Sports

The Americans are seeing red over the most controversial and consequential red card so far in the World Cup. While the United States celebrated a 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina, fans and players were angry and frustrated by a second-half red card that sent off star striker Falorin ...

Marion Park to host LL championship game

Local Sports

NORWAY — Kingsford holds the advantage entering today's championship game at Marion Park in the District 10 Little League Majors (ages 10-12) baseball tournament. In Tuesday's winner's bracket game, Kingsford defeated Gladstone 5-3 to advance to today's title game at 5 p.m. A loss would ...

Escanaba captures Little League softball title

Local Sports

Escanaba will represent District 10 in the Michigan Little League Majors (ages 10-12) state softball tournament, following a 15-5 win over Gladstone on Tuesday at Escanaba's Lemerand Park. Gladstone advanced from the loser's bracket and forced a winner-take-all championship game Tuesday ...

Clark voted to start 3rd straight All-Star game

National Sports

NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlin Clark was voted to start her third straight All-Star Game and will be joined by Indiana Fever teammates Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston, the WNBA announced Thursday. It's the second time in four years that three players from the same team were chosen to start ...

Jaylen Brown set to form All-Star trio in Philadelphia

National Sports

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Reeling from an early exit in the NBA playoffs, Jaylen Brown was still a Boston Celtics star when he dissed Joel Embiid and called him a flopper on a livestream. "Joel Embiid is a great player, one of the best bigs in (expletive) basketball history," Brown said. ...