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Former Eastern Michigan standout Jamie Nieto won the men's high jump at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials on Monday night, qualifying him for the team that will compete in London beginning July 27. It will be his second Olympics.
Brandon Dixon's tie-breaking double started a three-run ninth inning for Arizona, and the Wildcats (48-17) won their first national title since 1986 with a 4-1 victory over two-time defending champion South Carolina in the College World Series on Monday night in Omaha, Neb.
Blashill had been an assistant coach with the Wings. He replaces Curt Fraser, who left the Griffins to become an assistant coach with the Dallas Stars last week. Blashill previously was the head coach at Western Michigan.
Michigan State added the eighth and ninth members to its 2013 football recruiting class in the last 24 hours, when tight end Dylan Chmura and wide receiver Trey Kilgore verbally committed.
The secondary phase of this tragedy involves Penn State's institutional lapses. It's inconceivable -- now given the broad scope of Jerry Sandusky's insidiousness -- that the university can say it had no prior knowledge or suspicion of Sandusky's deviant conduct over such an extended time.
CMU head coach Dan Enos and his staff took a class that was already leading the Mid-American Conference (along with Toledo) in total number of commitments and doubled it in about 26 hours. They added three offensive linemen, a running back, a defensive end and a linebacker.
Here are players with local ties taken in the NHL Entry Draft, listed by round, pick and club:
Community service Pistons guard Brandon Knight took time away from his summer conditioning program Saturday morning to help volunteers build a playground at the Commonwealth Community Development Academy in Detroit.
Late Friday, after a swift trial and less than two days of deliberations, a jury issued an emphatic verdict: Jerry Sandusky was guilty on 45 counts of sexual abuse, meaning the man once considered a successor to coach Joe Paterno will likely die in prison.
The jury believed the kids in the Jerry Sandusky case, only they're not children anymore. Their childhood ended so early, with a nightmare that had no morning. Too bad the victims can't be like all of the TV crews outside the courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., who now pack up the equipment and head for the next story.
A juror says Jerry Sandusky showed no emotion as the guilty verdict was read at his trial and the juror views that as confirmation that the verdict was the right one.
A jury took less than two days to find Jerry Sandusky guilty of 45 of 48 counts of child sexual abuse, but the judge will need substantially more time to decide his punishment.
Jurors convicted Jerry Sandusky on 45 counts of child sex abuse Friday, ending his high-profile trial, but opening another painful chapter in which more victims might come forward and Penn State University could find itself the defendant.
HONORS The Michigan Sports Hall of Fame formally will enshrine the latest class of athletes and sports figures at the 56th Induction Event on Aug. 16 at the Gem Theatre in Detroit.
Jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial listened again Friday to testimony from a key prosecution witness against the former Penn State assistant football coach, then went back behind closed doors for a second day of deliberations.
The Eagles football team will open the 2012 season with new uniforms by Adidas, coach Ron English announced today.
Here are players with local ties who are likely to be drafted, listed by their final North American ranking by NHL Central Scouting:
HOCKEY: Michigan released its schedule for 2012-13, its final season in the CCHA. U-M will open with five games at Yost Ice Arena, beginning with two against the Rochester Institute of Technology on Oct. The Wolverines have a home-and-home series vs. Michigan State on Nov. MSU in Ann Arbor on Feb. MSU on Feb. Joe Louis Arena. The schedule also includes a 2012 Frozen Apple game Nov. Cornell at Madison Square Garden....
Archer took part in rookie minicamp on a tryout last month. He will compete with undrafted free agent Kellen Moore for the No. 3 quarterback job or a spot on the Lions' practice squad.
As the Bowl Championship Series slowly -- some would say much too slowly -- fades from view, college football's next postseason step becomes enticing.
Coach Rob Passage is leaving Kalamazoo's men's team to become the athletic facilities and operations manager at Willamette University in Salem, Ore. Passage had coached Kalamazoo's team since 2002.
When the major football bowl commissioners met at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Chicago, they stood together on a stage and announced a resolution for the new football postseason in 2014.
Every varsity sport at both schools -- and at Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan -- received passing marks in today's report.
The BCS commissioners say they have come to a consensus on a model four-team seeded playoff that will be presented to the university presidents next week for approval.
Henry Ford Community College centerfielder Daniel Muller is one of nine players at the high school or collegiate level in the nation to win a 2012 Rawlings Gold Glove Award.
Defense attorneys in Sandusky’s child sex-abuse trial suggested in their questioning that investigators shared details among accusers that led to evolving accounts of abuse.
The NFL went public Monday with some of its evidence against the four players suspended for their roles in the New Orleans Saints' bounty program.
He shot a four-under 66 on Monday in the opening round at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township.
Michigan State was a part of four winning awards at the Big Ten Network Awards, which were announced tonight. Draymond Green became the second Spartan to win the Jesse Owens Men's Athlete of the Year.
Hill was recruited by previous Dayton coach Brain Gregory and his staff but never made the impact many expected after he averaged 22.6 points per game at Westerville (Ohio) North High School.
Dario Franchitti won the pole position for today's IndyCar race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wis., and he will lead the field to the green flag for the second straight year.
Forcier had been competing with former Central Michigan QB Dan LeFevour for the team's No. 3 job.
The world changes today for college basketball coaches. Years of contact restrictions with high school prospects are officially unbuckled as an NCAA rule approved in October goes into effect, allowing Division I basketball coaches unlimited texting and calls to recruits who have finished their sophomore year.
Detroit Mercy forward Eli Holman and Ohio State guard William Buford were among the 15 draft prospects named by the Pistons on Friday who have worked out for the team.
Jerry Sandusky's defense against 52 child-sex abuse charges is set to begin Monday.
Six more players committed to play at Michigan State.
The Houston Texans signed first-round pick Whitney Mercilus to a four-year deal on Thursday. Mercilus was the 26th overall pick in this year's draft out of Illinois.
The last of Jerry Sandusky's accusers testified Thursday that he spent more than a hundred nights in the former Penn State coach's home and that he was forced into sex with him in a basement the boy thought was soundproof. After the teen's testimony, Judge John Cleland said the trial would resume Monday. Prosecutors have not yet rested their case.
The former Southfield High star played in 15 games with U-M last season. He scored six total points and grabbed eight rebounds. After the season, he decided to leave U-M.
The Michigan and Ohio State football rivalry usually plays out miles apart. On Wednesday, there was a meeting in between -- deep in Michigan territory at Southfield High.
Wolverines basketball and Buckeyes football are among 954 athletic teams to make the grade on this year’s list of academic overachievers. OSU is among 11 FBS teams to make the list.
Starting Friday, Division I men’s basketball coaches will be able to send unlimited texts and make unlimited calls to recruits who have wrapped up their sophomore year of high school.
One, a foster child, said he was threatened, warned he would never see his family again if he ever told anyone what happened. Another said he stayed quiet because he didn't want to stop getting tickets to the hottest game in town -- Penn State football.
See what happens when you start hanging out and sharing ribs with Urban Meyer, like Brady Hoke did Wednesday at that Sound Mind Sound Body camp at Southfield High? Familiarity breeds a lack of contempt.
The ex-coach faces 52 criminal counts involving alleged assaults of 10 boys over a 15-year span. He denies the charges, which brought disgrace to Penn State and led to the ouster of both the school's president and Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno.
The Plymouth Whalers announced the signing of two 16-year-old goaltenders.
That today's camp is in Michigan, where Ohio State usually gets one or two players per year -- at most -- doesn't bother him.
The conference commissioners who have been working on a four-team playoff to determine college football’s national champion plan to present the BCS presidential oversight committee multiple formats from which to choose.
Another alleged victim of Jerry Sandusky says the former coach pinned him down and sexually abused him, then told him he’d never see his family again if he told anyone.
Three Wolverines recruits and three Spartans recruits headline the finalized rosters for this year's Michigan High School Football Coaches Association's East-West All-Star Game on June 30 at Central Michigan University.
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