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Today in Sports Aug. 19

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1909 — The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twelve-thousand spectators watch Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer win a five-mile race with an average speed of 57.4 miles per hour. The track’s surface of crushed rock and tar breaks up in a number of places and causes the deaths of two drivers, two mechanics and two spectators. 1921 — Detroit’s Ty Cobb gets his 3,000th career hit at age 34, the youngest player to reach that plateau. 1934 — Helen Hull Jacobs wins the women’s title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships. 1981 — Renaldo Nehemiah ...

Island Resort and Casino to host top collegiate golfers

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Harris, MI – Island Resort & Casino will once again welcome some of the nation’s top collegiate men’s golf programs to the Upper Peninsula over Labor Day weekend, September 6 and 7, 2026, for the seventh annual Island Resort Intercollegiate at Sage Run Golf Course. The public is welcome to watch the tournament. Admission is free. Hosted by South Dakota State University, the 54-hole, two-day stroke-play tournament has established itself as a premier early-season event on the collegiate golf calendar. The 2026 field of twelve NCAA Division I programs includes defending champions, ...

C.J. Greaves wins Richard Ault Legacy long jump

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BARK RIVER — The 50th Island Resort and Casino’s Off-Road Rumble in the U.P. got underway on Friday with five classes in action plus the Richard Ault Legacy Long Jump at Bark River International Raceway. In the Sportsman SxS, Chad Emling picked up the win Raymond Deininger finished ...

Sports Flashback Aug. 9-15

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August 10, 1966 — Barney Barnhart and Jack Smith led the way in the Highland Golf Club Men’s Twilight League by shooting 37. They were led by Bob Monson, Bob Boucher and Dave Friets with 38 and Dave Friets, Bob Heyman and Mel Manske at 39. August 11, 1966 — Mike Jensen sank his first hole-in-one at the Escanaba Country Club. Jensen, who has been playing golf for 40 years, achieved that by using a five-iron on the 122-yard No. 13 hole. Bill Eis, Jr. fired a two-under-par 34 in the ECC Men’s Twilight League. He was followed by Dave Erickson 37, Elmer Swanson 38 and Bill Eis, ...

A much needed recharge

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“Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong,” – John Denver I had just pulled out of the drive-through line and grabbed my container of French fries out of the paper bag. I hit the highway like a man possessed, and by that, I mean I felt like I was breaking down inside, ...

The Elm Apocalypse

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The Lake States have three native elm tree species. The American elm is the most common and the standard-bearer for the genus Ulmus, in the family Ulmaceae. Then, there is red or slippery elm and, finally, rock elm. Elms have long been minor components in the eastern forests of the United States. In Michigan, as much as five percent of forest volume was elm. That percentage is now under one percent. The graceful, vase-shaped, elegance of the American elm (U. americana) rendered it popular among urban and residential plantings. Many streets and boulevards were once lined with ...