Tonight’s games Women’s basketball Bay College at Henry Ford College, 5:30 p.m. Hockey Marquette at Escanaba, 6:30 p.m. Men’s basketball Bay College at Henry Ford College, 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s games Football 11-player Division 8 District final Maple City Glen Lake at Bark River-Harris, noon Men’s basketball Bay College at Macomb C.C., TBA
“Blue autumn, there’s a rainbow in the sky, but no matter how hard I try, I still see only shades of blue,” – Bobby Goldsboro Not long after the sound of my car door shutting stopped reverberating through the quiet woods, I heard a light tapping sound off to my left as I began ...
1869 — First U.S. college football game played, Rutgers 6, Princeton 4. 1934 — Joe Carter scores four touchdowns and Swede Hanson rushes for 190 yards as the Philadelphia Eagles crush the Cincinnati Reds 64-0. 1966 — Philadelphia’s Timmy Brown returns kickoffs 93 yards and 90 yards for touchdowns to lead the Eagles to a 24-23 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. 1981 — Larry Holmes knocks out Renaldo Snipes in the 11th round to retain the world heavyweight title in Pittsburgh. 1983 — James Wilder of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rushes for 219 yards and a touchdown in a 17-12 ...
MANISTIQUE — What appeared would be a close volleyball match changed after the first set here Wednesday night as the Manistique Emeralds broke away for a 3-0 (30-28, 25-14, 25-13) triumph over the Bark River-Harris Broncos in a Division 3 district semifinal. The victory enabled the Emeralds (8-19-6) to advance to Thursday’s title match at Norway (19-10-1), which eliminated Iron Mountain in five sets Wednesday. The Broncos finished 5-18. Thursday’s winner advanced to Tuesday’s regional opener at Gwinn to face tonight’s Calumet/Painesdale Jeffers winner. Iron Mountain had ...
Young & American Circlemcountry.com 66, Lucky Strikes 53, E&E Furniture 53, Spare Time 52, Red Hots 50. H.T.G. — Circlemcountry.com 341 H.T.S. — Circlemcountry.com 926 H.I.S. — Tim Thibault 519, Rhonda Imeson 506 Five high games — Men: Tim Thibault 198, Trevor Sebeck 186, Dave Moran 174. Women: Rhonda Imeson 203, Abby Dubord 173, Sheree Smith 126.
The deadliest wildfire in the U.S. was the 1871 Peshtigo Fire. It scorched well over a million acres, torched 17 villages, and killed more than 1200 people. The personal accounts are horrific. And, this was a time when relatively few people lived in the northern hinterlands. Most the fire was in Wisconsin, with roughly 150,000 acres creeping into the southern Upper Peninsula along Green Bay. In the same year, well beyond 2.5 million acres burned across the Lower Peninsula in the Great Michigan and Thumb complexes. In 1881, another million acres burned through the Thumb. These ...
