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Sports columns

Pietila off to special start to season

With two goals in a 2-1 win over Davenport on Friday and another in a 2-1 loss to No. 1 Grand Valley State, Michigan Tech Huskies forward Julia Pietila improved her offensive output to four goals through her team’s first five games. For the senior soccer star, the fast start has her leading ...

Clark making an incredible impact on the WNBA

A couple of weeks ago, on a Sunday night, I joined my mother for a quick meal at KFC. While waiting for our food to cook, I was scrolling X, and noticed yet another tweet discussing Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, comparing which player is having a bigger impact on the WNBA season. I could not ...

Lions finally giving fans, including Eminem, chance to cheer Sunday

DETROIT — Eminem stood alongside Pro Football Hall of Famers Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson before the Detroit Lions hosted a playoff game for the first time in three decades, soaking up an electric atmosphere at Ford Field. “The energy in the building was amazing,” Johnson said in a ...

If you knew Jimmie (like I knew Jimmie)

Longtime Detroit Tigers radio announcer Jim Price passed away recently. Anyone who listens to the ballgames may remember how he liked to start each broadcast by saying “It’s a beautiful day…” even when it was cold and rainy. You could just hear the excitement and optimism in his ...

Baseball, softball in good hands

In this era of sports we live in, at least at the professional level, everything is “win now.” There is no room left in major sports for rebuilding or reloading, it is all win, win, win. This line of thinking led to the Florida Panthers dropping Andrew Brunette as the interim head coach ...

Picking the Kentucky Derby

Okay, I will be the first to admit that I only watch three horse races a year, the Triple Crown. I fully admit I know next to nothing about horse racing, other than the three races are all different lengths, which is why it is so hard to win the Triple Crown, I know the horses all have crazy ...