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Marquette hosts 18th annual UP football showcase

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MARQUETTE — The 18th annual Upper Peninsula Football All-Star Game is scheduled for 1 p.m. Eastern time today at the Superior Dome in Marquette. Tickets are $12 for those walking up to the Northern Michigan University facility, with doors opening at noon. Children ages 6 years and under get in free. There’s been a week’s worth of activities leading up to the game for the 79 athletes participating. WLUC-TV6 is scheduled to livestream the game this afternoon with a reairing on Fox-U.P. at 11 a.m. Eastern time Sunday. Here are the rosters for each team, listed with school and ...

Still waiting to see if loon nest yields chicks

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The watch continues on whether Six Mile Lake’s loon pair will successfully hatch chicks this summer. A loon was still on nest Friday, roughly two weeks since I’d spotted one among the tall grasses and other vegetation in a narrow side pool where the lake flows into Six Mile Creek. While ...

Misiorowski tagged for 2 runs, Braves beat Brewers 3-2

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ATLANTA (AP) — Jacob Misiorowski lost for the first time in two months as the Atlanta Braves scored two runs against the Milwaukee Brewers' ace and Mike Yastrzemski hit a home run in a 3-2 victory in the first game of a three-game series between NL division leaders Friday ...

Skubal fans 8, Tigers beat White Sox 4-3

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DETROIT (AP) — Tarik Skubal struck out eight while pitching into the sixth inning, and Matt Vierling and Kerry Carpenter hit home runs to help lift the Detroit Tigers past the Chicago White Sox 4-3 on Friday night. Skubal allowed three runs and seven hits with a walk in 5 2/3 innings in ...

US advances to World Cup knockout round

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SEATTLE (AP) — Christian Pulisic’s injury absence didn’t hurt the Americans one bit. The U.S. national soccer team found a way to advance to the knockout round without the injured forward on the field, beating Australia 2-0 Friday for its second straight victory at the largest World ...

North Carolina going for 1st national title in baseball

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Scott Forbes had just wrapped up a College World Series news conference Friday when Skip Johnson walked into the room to pose with him for an annual picture of the head coaches next to the national championship trophy, a longtime tradition the day before the start of ...