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UP football, volleyball polls released

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Menominee and Lake Linden-Hubell hold the top spots in the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association football poll. In the volleyball tally, Calumet and Hancock get the top nods. Menominee captured all five first-place votes in the 11-player football poll, followed by Kingsford and Calumet. All three have 3-0 records. Negaunee (2-1) is fourth and Bark River-Harris (3-0) is No. 5. Kingsford will host Negaunee on Friday, while Calumet plays at Menominee. The 8-player poll shows very little separation at the top, with Norway and Pickford narrowly behind Lake ...

LadyCats go 4-2 in NLC tourney

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Florence will host Laona-Wabeno tonight, coming off a 2-1 volleyball loss to the Rebels in the recent Northern Lakes Conference tournament. The LadyCats went 4-2 overall in the NLC tourney played Thursday and Saturday, posting wins against Crandon, Elcho, Phelps and Goodman-Pembine, but dropping a 2-0 decision to Three Lakes. “It is great that our conference is highly competitive," said Florence coach Teresa Chrisman. "I really feel that on any given night the three top teams could win. We had the opportunity to be in a three-way tie for first place coming out of Saturday, but ...

Packers turn promising start into maddening finish

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jordan Love was stood up at the line on a fourth-and-1 sneak for the Green Bay Packers, disappearing from view beneath a pile of purple-clad Minnesota Vikings defenders as the fate of a pivotal drive was turned over to the NFL's virtual measurement system. When the ...

NFL offenses open in high gear

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Offenses didn't need any time to shake off the rust. They lit up the scoreboard in one of the highest-scoring opening weeks in NFL history. The Bears beat Carolina 59-37, falling three points shy of tying Atlanta's 53-year-old record for the most in Week 1. The game featured 1,030 total ...

Sports briefs

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Larson surges to second MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Even as his winless drought stretched on for more than a year and Hendrick Motorsports' Chevrolets lagged behind his competitors' Toyotas, Kyle Larson never lost faith in his abilities or his team. After a timely win in NASCAR's Chase, ...

MLB pennant races hit the home stretch

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Clinching season has begun, with the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers becoming the first teams to wrap up spots in the postseason. Here's a quick rundown of baseball's remaining unresolved races as of Monday: American League The New York Yankees and Boston are almost certain to join Tampa Bay in the playoffs out of the AL East. The Rays have a comfortable four-game lead in the division over the Yankees, and they're likely to have the tiebreaker over New York, but that race isn't completely over since the two teams face each other in a four-game series in the final week of ...