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June 13, 2025 ~ State Representative Parker Fairbairn joins Paul live from Walstrom Marine in Harbor Springs.

June 13, 2025 ~ Tom Ervin, President Walstrom Marine joins Paul live from their Harbor Springs showroom.

June 13, 2025 ~ Paul broadcasting live from Walstrom Marine in Harbor Springs.

In our final hour, we were joined by Frank Schwab from Yahoo Sports. He and Huge talked about the upcoming NFL schedule release later this week, gave their thought's on the Eagles/Cowboys in the season opener, they talked about the overseas games, talked about which NFL teams will surprise us this year, and much more. We were then joined by John Flynn who Coached at Harbor Springs along with his wife Amy, but were ultimately let go. He filled us in what he's heard in regards to why they were let go, told us how they plan to fight this, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We were joined by John Flynn who Coached at Harbor Springs along with his wife Amy, but were ultimately let go. He filled us in what he's heard in regards to why they were let go, told us how they plan to fight this, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show, we're talking about the Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers, and more as we were joined by some of our great guests. We kicked off the show talking about the Detroit Lions as Scott Bischoff from the Detroit Lions Podcast joined us. It was released today that the NFL season opener will be the Eagles/Cowboys - so Scott and Huge gave their thought's on who the Lions could take on in their regular season open, talked about the first week of mini-camp, and much more. In our second hour we talked about the Tigers as we were joined by Alex Urban from the "Eat 'Em Up: Detroit Tigers Podcast." He and Huge talked about a rough series for the Tigers over the weekend, talked about what they really like about this team, gave their thought's on some players they don't think should be in the Major Leagues, and more. We were then joined by John Maakaron from the Detroit Lions Podcast and Sports Illustrated. John was at Rookie mini-camp last week, so he told us about who impressed him the most, he and Huge talked about who they would like to see the Lions play in week 1, and more. We were then joined by Tim Staudt from Staudt on Sports in Lansing. He and Huge talked about the Lions and who they'd like to see in the season opener, and much more. In our final hour, we were joined by Frank Schwab from Yahoo Sports. He and Huge talked about the upcoming NFL schedule release later this week, gave their thought's on the Eagles/Cowboys in the season opener, they talked about the overseas games, talked about which NFL teams will surprise us this year, and much more. We were then joined by John Flynn who Coached at Harbor Springs along with his wife Amy, but were ultimately let go. He filled us in what he's heard in regards to why they were let go, told us how they plan to fight this, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Vic Verchereau welcomes Emily Emmott, who is the General Manager of Hotel Walloon. Enjoy the charm and hospitality of the early twentieth century along with the comforts of every modern amenity. Located in Northern Michigan, Hotel Walloon is settled against the breathtaking backdrop of Walloon Lake. This privately owned boutique hotel features spacious guest rooms, elegant design, rich history, and world-class service. Explore the beauty of Michigan from this central location. Travel from Walloon Lake Village to Petoskey, Boyne City, Harbor Springs, Mackinac Island, and Traverse City. Your Trip ambassador Vic Verchereau welcomes Emily Emmott, the General Manager of Hotel Walloon and shares the details of this special spot in the world on this edition of Michigan Corners. Listen in as you pack your bags! » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MichiganbusinessnetworkMBN » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

"My piece “returning” was inspired by the field recording “in the turbine hall” by Cities and Memory. As I listened to the field recording, especially the resonance of the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, I immediately thought that it would blend well with some of my own recent experiments with resonance to create a new sonic landscape.  "The sound sources consist of field recordings of a playground in Syracuse, NY, and a ceiling fan in Harbor Springs, Michigan, that have been edited and processed in the studio (EQ, reverberation, etc.).  "Also included is a recording of various metal plates struck and dipped in water in my basement studio in Syracuse. An abridged and edited version of “in the turbine hall” is included in the second half of the piece." Tate Modern turbine hall reimagined by Edward Ruchalski. IMAGE: the wub, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Julie Rogers, Director of Marketing at The Highlands in Harbor Springs visited with us to talk about new lift and enhanced resort offerings at The Highlands for the upcoming season.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fresh episode from #MEMA24 in Harbor Springs, MI, talking with Dr. Henry Moss, discussing whippit abuse and smoking cessation. Two topics, one podcast!

On this episode of the Club + Resort Talks podcast, Rob Thomas, Editor-in-Chief of Club + Resort Business, chats with John Woodeshick, SVP and General Manager of The Hills Country Club in Austin, Texas. Woodeshick discussed the comprehensive renovations at the club's Live Oak Golf Course. These efforts are part of an ongoing reinvestment project at the club focused on creating a refined yet inviting environment that best serves today's members. The Hills is one of several properties identified by Invited to be included in its multi-year, multi-million-dollar reinvestment strategy aimed at enhancing the company's diverse portfolio of clubs. Work at The Hills began in 2021 with a renovation project at The Signature Course at the club, as well as the opening of The Chophouse, a new, elevated dining experience in 2023. Nearby, Westlake Country Club, a sister property, is going through three phases of renovation. Phase 1 started in November 2022 with enhancements to the racquet sports facilities, aquatics and Icehouse Bar and Restaurant. The second phase will transform the golf course and practice facilities into a well-rounded, challenging, and beautifully maintained layout. The course will be completed and unveiled in November. The final phase will include the renovation of the main clubhouse and will touch everything from dining, private events, locker rooms, audio-visual equipment, family areas, parking lots, and landscape. Rob and Senior Editor Phil Keren also discussed projects and initiatives happening in Michigan, Washington, Texas and Pennsylvania. The Highlands in Harbor Springs, Mich. will host a new event on the Epson Tour in 2025. The inaugural Great Lakes Championship will be contested on The Highlands' Heather Course from June 9-15, 2025. “Hosting this prominent event underscores our commitment to golf and further highlights northern Michigan as a premier destination for exceptional golf,” says Mike Chumbler, President and General Manager of The Highlands. The dining experience at Canterwood Golf & Country Club in Gig Harbor, Wash. has been reimagined through the opening of The Stablehouse. The new name pays homage to Canterwood's rich equestrian roots as the club's name originated from the community's beginnings as a private equestrian community. The dining area has been renovated, the menu overhauled, and the space restructured to better serve members. A private dining area was built to accommodate private gatherings, while the bar space was doubled in size from the previous one to provide a more spacious and comfortable setting for guests. A second big name in golf is now connected with the Cobbs Creek Golf Course in West Philadelphia, Pa. The Cobbs Creek Foundation received a grant award from the Jordan Spieth Family Foundation to construct a junior putting green on the revitalized Cobbs Creek Campus. The $250,000 grant will provide all funding for a 20,000 sq.-ft. Jordan Spieth Family Foundation Junior Putting Green for young players to be introduced to the game of golf. The junior putting green will be built outside of the TGR Learning Lab, the educational center under construction on the campus. The TGR Learning Lab will provide year-round education programs for local youth and is being developed through the Cobbs Creek Foundation's partnership with TGR Foundation, a Tiger Woods charity. The Cobbs Creek Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created in 2018 to restore the Cobbs Creek Golf Course and to return the site to its status as one of Philadelphia's historical landmarks.

Eve's family moves to Harbor Springs, a small lake town nestled along the shores of Northern Michigan. Her parents are eager to make a new start-and new friends. But Eve soon realizes there is something sinister about Simon and Marigold Blackwell. When Eve's cousin, Alice, dies and is said to have committed suicide, she knows something fishy is going on. Alice would never take her own life. Things get complicated further when the Blackwell's nanny disappears without explanation. The Blackwells endear themselves to Eve's family, gaining the trust of her parents. Simon claims to be a prophet and expects his prophecies to be obeyed. Eve is frightened by the things Marigold says she is be able to see in the spirit world. Eve struggles to resist their manipulation, but the Blackwells steadily gain control of everything in her life-disrupting her plans for college and hopes of marrying her soulmate. After what seems like an eternity of resisting the hold the Blackwells have over her, Eve faulters. She fears a curse and the safety of her family if she refuses the Blackwell's demands. She finally gives in and joins them. Eve finds herself on a plane to the Soviet Union. The Blackwells have persuaded her to take an internship at The House of Angels, an orphanage they run in Armenia. Eve soon discovers there's something evil going on. She sets out to find the truth and is determined to do everything in her power to protect the children, even if it means sacrificing herself.

June 14, 2024 ~ Tom Ervin, President Walstrom Marine joins Paul in Harbor Springs.

June 14, 2024 ~ Paul broadcasts live from Walstrom Marine in Harbor Springs.

New endowed fund to foster next generation of women's health leaders   To close the gap between women's health research and other scientific disciplines, Ward and Mari Walstrom of Harbor Springs have made a $1 million gift to bolster education and research in the MSU College of Human Medicine's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.  The Walstrom Family Endowed Women's Health Research Fund is creating an early-career training program to increase the number of scientists and clinicians pursuing a lifelong career focused on women's health care and research.  The program pairs medical and graduate students with research teams and will support independent research projects. Four College of Human Medicine early-career graduate students, including one third-year medical student, were recently selected and awarded the endowed funds; each will utilize the philanthropic funds to push forward current research projects, which would not have been otherwise possible.  Three Spartans describe the impact the gift will have on women's health. Dr. Richard Leach is professor and chair of the MSU College of Human Medicine's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health. Shannon Harkins is a PhD candidate and Walstrom fund recipient. And Roksolana Sudyk is a future Spartan MD and Walstrom fund recipient. Conversation Highlights: (0:19) – Leach on the strengths, mission, and evolving excellence of the MSU College of Human Medicine's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.   (5:01) – Leach on the Walstroms and the impact of their gift.  (11:24) – Sudyk on her path to MSU, her passion for women's health, and meeting the Walstroms. (15:54) – Harkins on her passion for women's health, her research project, and meeting the Walstroms. (31:02) – Sudyk was attracted to MSU by the College of Human Medicine's focus on women's health and equity. And she describes her research project. Listen to “MSU Today with Russ White” on the radio and through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your shows.

www.atravelpath.com https://delicioats.com?sca_ref=2606128.heLxZNHtFuUse code “PATH”   Wow! What an information-filled episode this was as we welcomed back Joe and Kalyn from Open Roading to Travel Tips! We learned a ton about Mackinac Island in Michigan, and after speaking with them, it sounds like such a fascinating place to visit. It certainly doesn't hurt that they spent a full season as Joe worked at a campground near the island (more on that in Part 1.) In this episode you'll learn all about:   Mackinac Island First of all, it is pronounced MackinAW, and Joe informed us pretty quickly that if your pronounce it they way it is spelled, the locals will be quick to correct you. The small island offers an escape from the modern world, as there are no cars on the island. Everything is either on foot, horseback, or bike.   Biking Bike rentals are a popular activity at Mackinac Island, and the eight-mile loop along the edge is a scenic and peaceful ride. They shared the tip of renting a bike on the island as opposed to renting one and bringing it on the ferry. This way, if something happens with your bike, the company is on the island to fix it. We also cover the best time to visit, nearby attractions, where to stay, and so much more! You'll definitely want to listen to this episode a few times if you plan on making a trip. And if you haven't heard of Mackinac Island or weren't considering visiting it, after listening I'm sure it will be on your list.   3,2,1 Countdown 3 Things to Bring to Mackinac Island: ·        Bike ·        Warm Clothes ·        Comfortable Walking Shoes 2 Complaints or Things You Should Be Prepared For: ·        Smell of Horse Manure ·        Dress Code at Grand Hotel ·        Bonus: Bugs 1 Thing You CAN'T Leave Mackinaw Island Without Doing: ·        8 Mile perimeter bike ride   Chapters ·        00:00 Introduction to Mackinac Island ·        05:30 How Long Should Someone Plan to Spend on Mackinac Island? ·        06:30 When is Mackinac Island Shut Down/Best Time to Visit? ·        09:15 Dog Friendly/Kid Friendly Activities on Mackinac Island? ·        11:30 Bike Rentals ·        12:30 Lodging & Transportation ·        15:00 Activities ·        16:30 Overall Cost of Mackinaw Island ·        18:45 Planning and Reservations ·        20:00 Favorite Food Spots ·        21:30 Nearby Attractions ·        23:00 Delicioats.com use code PATH ·        24:00 3, 2, 1 Countdown     Ferries ·        Shepler's Ferry: https://www.sheplersferry.com/ ·        Mackinac Island Ferry Company: https://www.mackinacferry.com/     Lodging ·        Mackinac Mill Creek Camping: https://www.campmackinaw.com/ ·        Grand Hotel: https://www.grandhotel.com/#   Restaurants/To Do ·        Millie's On Main: https://www.milliesonmain.com/ ·        Sanders Fudge: https://sanderscandy.com/pages/stores ·        Ryba's Fudge Shops: https://ryba.com/ Mackinac Family Heritage Pass (gets you into multiple locations in the area) https://tickets.mackinacparks.com/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=MSHP&c=3 ·        Butterfly House: https://www.originalbutterflyhouse.com/     Fireworks ·        Saint Ignace: https://stignace.com/event/fireworks-over-the-bay/2024-05-25/ ·        Mackinac City: https://www.mackinaw-city.com/mackinaw_city_events_bak.php     Nearby Attractions ·        Wilderness State Park and Beach: https://www2.dnr.state.mi.us/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?id=509&type=SPRK ·        Harbor Springs: https://www.michigan.org/city/harbor-springs ·        Petoskey: https://www.michigan.org/city/petoskey-area ·        Charlevoix: https://www.michigan.org/city/charlevoix ·        Drummond Island: https://www.visitdrummondisland.com/   Previous Podcast Episodes ·        Indian Lake State Park and Upper Peninsula: https://atravelpath.com/michigan-upper-peninsula/   Music ·        Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): ·        https://uppbeat.io/t/sky-toes/ready-as-ever ·        License code: WYQ2IKRBMVFP3EJS   Disclaimer *All content from atravelpath.com, including but not limited to The Travel Path Podcast and social media platforms, is designed to share general information. We are not experts and the information is not designed to serve as legal, financial, or tax advice. Always do your own research and due diligence before making a decision.   Transcript Host: Hey Joe and Kalyn, welcome back to the Travel Path podcast. Thanks so much for being here again.   Guest: Thank you for having us.   Host: So, if anybody missed part one, we delved deep into your full-time travel lifestyle with your fifth-wheel RV. We covered everything from your work camping life to budgeting and all the other aspects of living on the road. Today, for travel tips, we're focusing on one particular destination. Where are we talking about today?   Guest: Yeah, we're going to Northern Michigan and specifically Mackinac Island. Surprisingly, a lot of people haven't heard of this little island up there.   Host: That's awesome. How much time have you guys actually spent on Mackinac Island?   Guest: On the actual island, I think we've done four trips, four days in total. But we spent the entire summer in Mackinac City, which is just a ferry ride away from the island. So, the entire area is kind of immersed in Mackinac City, Mackinac Island, this whole space. And as a public service announcement to your listeners, it is spelled M-A-C-K-I-N-A-C Island, but when you go there, make sure you pronounce it "Mac" or the locals will be very eager to correct you.   Host: That's a great travel tip. You always need to know exactly how to pronounce where you're going, otherwise that can happen. What made you guys want to share about this destination today?   Guest: It's actually one of my favorite places because there are no cars allowed on the island at all. So, it really feels like you're stepping back in time. Everything is either accessed by walking, biking, or taking a horse taxi. Even the "garbage trucks" are horses pulling wagons to pick up the bins. It's just a quaint little place we've fallen in love with.   Host: Sounds amazing. So, Mackinac Island is a great destination for someone who likes what type of experience?   Guest: I would say a more laid-back experience, obviously. You're not rushing from place to place because you don't have a car. But if you want to be a bit more active, there are walking and biking options. And if you enjoy quaint shops, popping into boutiques, and indulging in the fudge, it's perfect. There are around 15 to 20 fudge shops on the island. And if you're into history, there's a fort and other old structures to explore.   Host: The Grand Hotel sounds fascinating. It must be quite an experience.   Guest: Definitely. It's very old and still functioning.   Host: Sounds like a place where you'd really be stepping back in time when you visit. How long do you think someone should plan a trip for to get the full Mackinac Island experience?   Guest: You can do the full experience in a day. But something we really want to do is spend the night sometime. We hear that it's a different atmosphere after the last ferry leaves for the day. The foot traffic builds up throughout the day, but you can see everything you want in a day or even an afternoon. It's a place you want to come back to and experience again and again. I think it's not just like one and done and yeah forget about it.   Host: Perfect, so you could do it in an afternoon and just make it part of your trip to the Michigan Upper Peninsula. But of course, you could keep going back there every day, just taking the ferry over. I think it's nice to have that versatile type of trip. Now, I know that Mackinac Island does shut down for part of the year, correct?   Guest: Yeah, yeah, I believe it's October. I mean, shut down, quote-unquote, if they can get through the ice, they will run a ferry. But most people are not taking that back and forth unless they're locals. There is an airport on the island, so if you're living on the island and can't get out via ferry, you can pay, which is pretty pricey, to take a flight out. And then you have to pay weight actually in the grocery and items that you bring back, in addition to the trip.   Host: Wow. So, what would you say is the best time of year to visit to avoid the ice and flying situation?   Guest: Yeah, July and August are probably going to be my favorite. I know people are like, "Oh, go maybe in the spring or the fall to avoid crowds." But the problem with the springtime is there are these things called midge flies, and they are like clouds of black flies all over the place, specifically by the water. And Mackinac Island is surrounded by water. So, if you go in May and June, expect to have that experience, which may color your entire view of the island. July and August are really the best, and then September, it's just getting really cold because, again, it's on the water. And so that breeze coming off the water is pretty cool. And when she's saying black clouds of midge, she is not exaggerating. Like, they are clouds. And if there's any white surface, the white surface just becomes black with these flies. They don't bite, but they are just a pain. Along with the time frame though, if you really want to enjoy the island, there's two ferry companies, Shepler's and Star Line, and Shepler's is the main ferry company. And you want to get on one of the first two boats out to the island because if you jump off one of those first two boats, you're one of the first people on the island, except for anybody who's spent the night the night before. And the streets are quiet and clean and, yeah, and clean. Everything is horses. And so, you really get the peaceful downtown. And there's a courtyard in front of the castle, and you can really just kind of walk through the courtyard, take pictures, and there's nobody around. And like I said, throughout the day, the amount of foot traffic builds, everything starts getting more and more crowded. So, your most enjoyable time will be those two to three hours in the morning.   Host: That's awesome. So, don't sleep in those days. Plan to get up and get over there.   Guest: Yes.   Host: Awesome. Now, would you say it's a dog and kid-friendly place? Have you seen a lot of families there or pets at all?   Guest: Well, that's a great question. For the dogs, I'm not sure. I've seen them take smaller dogs. In fact, I know you can because they sell tickets for them to put them on the ferry. But I guess it depends on where you take your dog. If you take your dog with you everywhere, you can take them on the island. There's not going to be anything, unless they're going to scare horses. I wouldn't — that's true — if they're afraid of horses or if they're going to bark at horses, probably not a good idea. Interestingly enough, selling tickets in the campground store all summer, we sold ferry tickets, and the number of times I would see one parent come back to the campground with the kids was very high. You know, one parent would come back and the kids would be getting ready to go swimming and be like, "Oh, did you enjoy your island?" And, "Oh, my husband's still there," or "Oh, my wife's still there." But the kids weren't having a good time. There's just not a lot of kid-friendly entertainment. There's history and things like that. But if you're walking and biking and shops, yeah, not a lot of transportation where the kids are going to get a break, where they're not going to be on their feet or not going to have to walk places. However, I would say in Mackinac City, which is where you're either going to from Mackinac City or St. Ignace, you're going to take the ferry over to Mackinac Island. There are three indoor water parks in Mackinac City, and so the kids really, really loved those. So, you can still take your family to the area and enjoy Mackinac City. And it's my understanding that you can get one wristband that will go to all three of those indoor water parks as well.   Host: Oh, very cool. So that's something that you could go and like you said, go in the morning, go to Mackinac Island, take the family, and just plan to be there for maybe a couple of hours or where your kids' threshold is for being able to walk and pop in and out of shops, and then head back. And then you've got those really fun activities that they can kind of look forward to throughout the day. So, I think that's perfect.   Guest: Exactly.   Host: And we have talked about transportation. Obviously, you're either taking the ferry or you're flying over there. But do you bring your own bikes? Do they have bike rentals once you get over there?   Guest: You can totally bring your own bikes. So, I think it cost — this last year, I think $16 per bike. Okay, that was more than I remembered. But anyway, it costs you to take your own bike. You can rent them over there. There are places on the island that you can rent them from as well. But don't rent them from the mainland and then take them over. It's not going to be as cost-effective. It's not really that expensive to rent the bikes on the island. The only thing I wouldn't rent the bikes is off the island and then pay to bring them over because if they break down on the island, you don't have anyone to replace that, whereas if you rent on the island, the company will ride out to you with another bike so that you can keep going. So, that is nice to know.   Host: Wow, very good information. Yeah, that's a good tip. So, lodging. I know you said there are hotels or boutique hotels that you can probably stay at on Mackinac Island, which you haven't done yet. But where are you staying when you are going there in your camper?   Guest: Specifically for RVing, there are RV parks on the Mackinac City side, and I think there's an RV park in St. Ignace. There's also a couple of casinos in the area that allow some overnight parking. So, if you're looking just for a quick overnight, you might be able to just pop into one of the casinos and park there overnight. I do recommend — and you know I'm not a shill for them, I worked for them, I'm done — but the best campground I think in that area is Mackinac Mill Creek. They have over a mile of their own beachfront property. So, they have a beach that you can walk your dogs on, they have a beach that's dog-free, and it's just really a beautiful place to stay if you're planning on staying for more than one or two nights. Yeah, it's kind of spaced out so the spaces feel a little bit like a state park with trees and everything, so we had a look at the other campgrounds in the area, and I think Mackinac Mill Creek by far would be the most enjoyable.   Host: Awesome. And how are you getting from your campground to the ferry?   Guest: So, you can take a couple of ways. If you're taking your bikes to the island, there's actually a rail trail that goes right to the ferry parking lot that you can ride your bike to the ferry parking lot and then just jump on the ferry. Otherwise, there's ferry parking pretty close by and they will shuttle you to the ferry. Or, a lot of times, campgrounds in the area have shuttles that run from their campground again to the docks. And not a lot of people know this, but there's free parking if you can get there early enough behind the Rusted Spoke.   Host: That's specifically for that one ferry company, right?   Guest: Yeah, they're rebranding, it's hard to keep it straight. That's specifically for that one. They are very much in competition, so you don't want to park in one slot and go to the other.   Host: Very good. So, what is there to do at night? I know you guys have not stayed there and really experienced the full nightlife. I'm not sure the last ferry, so maybe what do you do right before you get on the ferry or what do you do once you get off the ferry back in the city area?   Guest: Yeah, there are a lot of different restaurants there that you can go to. But if you're staying on the island, something that we would like to do the next time that we go is they have dinner at the Grand Hotel, which is very, very pricey, and you have to really dress up for it, no jeans, like you need to be wearing suit coats. So, it's again that kind of step back in time to another era. And so, that would be like a fun date night activity that you could do at the Grand Hotel. And then as far as just general activities throughout the summer, generally every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night, there are fireworks that are launched from either St. Ignace or Mackinac City. It rotates depending on the day, and you would be able to see those from the island or from either mainland.   Host: Very cool, that's awesome. So, I guess transitioning, speaking about nighttime, any good sunset spots you guys have found?   Guest: Pretty much everywhere, I think, because it's on like this, where the sun sets is kind of like on the water. So wherever you are, like on the beachfront, either on the island or over in Mackinac City, watching the sunset from one of those locations, you'll be able to get a good view.   Host: Yeah, perfect. And now, because you guys are very budget-conscious, and if you haven't listened to episode one, make sure you do that. I have enjoyed seeing all your posts on your social media every month because you keep us updated that way, so it's really nice. But would you say the overall cost is more or less than you expected when you visited Mackinac Island?   Guest: I think it's about what I expected because you are paying for the ferry and then you're paying to rent a bike, so you have to factor that in. And when you're on the island, really the only extra things that you would be paying for are activities. So, like, whether you're getting into the fort or you're paying for a horse taxi carriage ride or you're buying souvenirs from the shop. So generally, I think it was what we expected. To save probably the most amount of money and to have a good experience is to buy a ferry carriage ride combo ticket. Those are actually some pretty good deals rather than just taking the ferry and then getting to the island and deciding you want to do the carriage ride. And especially if you're not a fan of maybe biking or walking or you're not able to, that's a really great way to explore the island.   Host: Perfect.   Guest: One thing that is not budget-friendly is the Grand Hotel, like Kalyn said. You can't tour the hotel without paying, and then any meal there, anything that they have there, I mean, it's just... I think dinner was over $100 a person. Yeah, it's another level.   Host: Is that the same thing as the castle you referenced earlier?   Guest: No, you meant the fort. Oh, castle, sorry. The fort is the historical — this is a step back in time. Oh, no, no, no. Castles, forts too, though.   Host: Those are definitely a step back in time.   Guest: Yeah. And you can get a pass, I think, from any really the stores sell them, the campgrounds sell them. I can't remember the name of the pass, but I'll have to look it up and let you know, you can put it in the show notes. But it gives you access to the fort and to like a butterfly garden there, and to another place. So if you buy like the one-time pass, it's actually worth the that amount if you go to all the locations that are featured on the pass.   Host: Awesome, very good tip. Yeah, we'll definitely link that in the show notes. Now, did you guys have to make any of your reservations ahead of time or do you feel like if you were just decided you wanted to head there you could get a ferry ticket and go on the island and enjoy the day?   Guest: Yeah, you could totally buy everything day of, especially if you're getting on those first boats. Actually, if I was getting on the first boat, I'd want to buy my ferry ticket the day before. All the tickets are untimed, so you just buy it and then it's first come, first serve to actually get on the boat. So if you get there and the line is too long, you're just getting on the next boat as opposed to the first one. Yeah, and they run about every half hour to an hour.   Host: Perfect. So for campsites too, are they pretty flexible?   Guest: So, campsites, I would book further in advance if you are planning on staying for a weekend. If you can stay Monday to Thursday or Monday to Friday, you'd probably be fine booking anytime. I know Mackinac Mill Creek has 600, I believe, campsites, so they have the capacity, but they do fill up on the weekends, especially if there's any sort of holiday weekend going on. And so I think the other campgrounds fill up as well. But yeah, if you're staying Monday through Friday, you could just drive in and get a site.   Host: Very good info. So, how about food spots? What did you guys find any favorites?   Guest: Yeah, I don't know, we're not great foodies, so we eat PB&J. We do just pack sandwiches and save some money. But one of the restaurants that we did like on Mackinac Island was Millie's on Main, and we went there twice, and we got different things each time, and it was really, really good. The two fudge shops that I recommend, like I said, there's so many on the island, so you could actually just have fun sampling them all. But we really liked Sanders and Ryba's Fudge the best, so I would try those first.   Host: Perfect. I'll take those recommendations, do my own little fudge tour there. Yep, it's the humidity, right? Is it really humid there or is that not so?   Guest: So, we lived in Florida for six years, and it did not feel like Florida at all. So, it was interesting because when certain people would arrive there, it was never really got above 80 the whole summer, and there would be some people, and I can't remember where they were from, that would be complaining about the heat, and Kayla and I would just kind of look at each other and be like, "Where are these people from?" It's not hot. And so, it definitely didn't feel like if you're used to a Florida humid, it is nowhere near anything like that.   Host: They're from northern Michigan.   Guest: Probably.   Host: Too funny. Alright, and if you haven't mentioned it already, any other nearby attractions either on the island itself or outside the island maybe near your campground that you haven't mentioned yet?   Guest: Yeah, there is a Wilderness State Park, which you could stay there in an RV, but we found I liked the beach there the best. It was the quietest. It didn't seem like a lot of people knew it existed. So that is one place I would go. If you want more quaint towns, you can go a little bit further south of that into like Harbor Springs and Petoskey and Charlevoix. They're cute, just lakeside towns that you can visit. And then if you want to go north, kind of to the east side, we visited Drummond Island, which not a lot of people have heard about. It's very outdoorsy, like not as quaint as Mackinac Island but definitely more for like, what is it, four-wheelers, ATVs? Yeah, if you were into being more active. One thing too, one thing too with the Wilderness State Park and that area in general is the Wilderness State Park is a dark skies park. So if you are going to Northern Michigan and hoping to catch the northern lights, that is a good place to set up if you've seen that, you know, that, hey, the northern lights are possible tonight. It's a good spot to go.   Host: That's very cool, and if you don't get the Northern Lights, you probably get some awesome stargazing, so take that. Perfect. So I think now we'll transition to the 321 countdown. Hey, guys, I wanted to take a quick break to tell you about Delicia Oats. We've been enjoying Delicia Oats for many years, and they have helped fuel us for those extra-long hikes. They are flavored oats that come in a pouch and are very easy to set up. Just add water, give it a shake, and let it sit overnight and enjoy the next morning. Or you can add boiling water if you like them served hot. We've also added them to our morning smoothie or sprinkled some into my yogurt for some extra flavor and to help fill me up. You can make them in less than a minute, and there is no cleanup, which is huge for us on the road. Now, if you're like me, the first question you'll ask is, how much added sugar is there? And here's a big one for me, no added sugar. They come in a variety of flavors. My personal favorite is Cherry Chocolate. Enjoy them for yourself by placing an order at DeliciaOats.com and use the coupon code PATH at checkout. That's DeliciaOats.com, D-E-L-I-C-I-A-O-A-T-S.com, and use the coupon code PATH.   Alright, the final three segments of the podcast, 3-2-1 countdown. I just want to say too, you guys have rocked this interview talking about Ma Island. Thank you for being so detailed, and I feel like this is a place everyone, when they talk about going somewhere, it's out west, it's down south, but people sleep on Northern Michigan. There's a lot of cool things, fun things to do so out there. And I think we're lucky we had some insider knowledge working at a campground for a whole season. And if you're looking to go to Northern Michigan, we had it with Jim and Michelle, episode six or seven, I believe, and they talked about Upper Peninsula, and there really wasn't much overlap here. We could really listen to both episodes and have completely different things to do. So if you're going to do an extended stay there, definitely tune in. But we'll start wrapping this thing up here. So, what are three things you're packing when you're heading to Mackinac Island?   Guest: I think number one is if you do have your own bike, pack your bike because that's hands down the best way to visit the island in our opinion. Dress in warm layers because you've got sometimes a cold ferry ride out in the morning and a cold ferry ride back in the evening, and then it will warm up throughout the day. And then good walking shoes, whether you're biking or walking, make sure you're really comfy as you're getting around the island.   Host: Nice, bring your own bike, good walking shoes, and warm clothes. What are two complaints somebody might have or things they should be prepared for before visiting?   Guest: So, it's an island where the primary source of transportation for a lot of things is horses, so it's going to smell like two things on the island, especially as the day goes on. It's going to smell like fudge and it's going to smell like horse poo. So that, a lot of people, they come back and they're like, "I wasn't prepared for that." So, again, if you go early, a lot of the horse poo isn't out yet, it's been cleaned up from the day before. But as the day goes on, it's going to smell a little bit more. And along those same lines, don't step in the mud puddles because they're not water. And then the second one is the Grand Hotel. A lot of people go expecting to be able to, "Hey, we're going to get to walk around the Grand Hotel, see a tour," and whatnot, and they're surprised that A, it costs money, and B, there's a dress code. At certain, is it all day to get in the Grand Hotel? The dress code, I think it's more at night.   Host: Yeah.   Guest: But, you know, they're just surprised that they can't go in in their shorts and a t-shirt. But you can walk the grounds, like the courtyard, which is very beautiful. So, smell some of the restrictions at the hotel, maybe a bonus would be bugs if you go at a certain time of year.   Host: Yes, that's an interesting combination, horse poo and fudge, and don't get them confused which way you're downwind from. We've talked about a lot of things to do on Mackinac Island, but what is one thing, if you had to pick one thing, you could not leave without doing?   Guest: The eight-mile perimeter bike ride. Yeah, I know we keep bringing up bikes, but it truly is so enjoyable. And you start in the town, and then you kind of get out of town, and you just have trees overhanging and you're by the lake the whole time. And it's, again, with that back in time feeling with you being on a bike and not driving, the perimeter, it really helps you just slow down and savor and enjoy the experience.   Host: That's great. That does sound, I feel like it sounds like a really great place, but when you bring the factor that there's no cars, it just makes it that much more kind of alluring and desirable to go to, just to take a step out of for a little while and get on an island where you're riding bikes, it's horseback sounds like a really wonderful place.   Guest: Yeah.   Host: Well, guys, thank you for being so thorough with this podcast. We definitely want to add this to a stop at some point. And guys, if you're listening to this podcast right now, you saw, you heard how thorough they just were, and the part one was exactly the same. They shared their story on how they started out, how everything from budgeting and their entire basically their five past five years traveling full-time. So definitely tune in to that one. And Joe and Kayin, before we let you go, where can our audience find out more about you guys?   Guest: Yeah, we're on YouTube, youtube.com/openroading, and same place on Instagram at openroading. And we respond to DMs there primarily.   Host: Awesome. Alright, guys, thanks again.   Guest: Yeah, thank you so much for having us. This was a lot of fun.

Our final episode of season 3 is the conclusion to Chris' conversation with Taylor Dueweke, an independent filmmaker who is working on a project to tell the stories of the property that holds both the Club Manitou and the Club Ponytail. They continue their conversation about both eras of the property along with Taylor's project which is set to tell the tales of people who experienced the Club Ponytail in person. If you were someone who had the opportunity to experience the Club Ponytail at its peak, please reach out to Taylor himself on his website: www.taylordueweke.com/pony-tales -no matter how small of a story you have, he would love to speak with you! This conversation is timely as the property on which these two infamous clubs were located is currently up for sale and Taylor, along with his partner in the project Nate Graham (The realtor of the property) are looking for a buyer who will help protect and save the property from behind torn down and a new house being built. If you are someone interested in an investment in the history of Harbor Springs and Northern Michigan in general and have the funds, check out the property for sale yourself! We here at Tales of Northern Michigan's Past would love to see it preserved! https://www.grahamre.com/listing/472478-8470-pleasantview-lane-harbor-springs-mi-49740/

As our season 3 comes to a close, Chris was able to sit down with Taylor Dueweke, an independent film maker who is working on a project to tell the stories of property that holds both the Club Manitou and the Club Ponytail. They talk about both eras of the property along with Taylor's project which is set to tell the tales of people who experienced the Club Ponytail in person. -Stick around for next week for a bonus episode that continues this conversation between Chris and Taylor Dueweke just in time for the holidays!- If you were someone who had the opportunity to experience the Club Ponytail at its peak, please reach out to Taylor himself on his website: https://www.taylordueweke.com/lead-collection -no matter how small of a story you have, he would love to speak with you! This conversation is timely as the property on which these two infamous clubs were located is currently up for sale and Taylor, along with his partner in the project Nate Graham (The owner of the real estate business which is currently selling the property) are looking for a buyer who will help protect and save the property from behind torn down and a new house being built. If you are someone interested in an investment in the history of Harbor Springs and Northern Michigan in general and have the funds, check out the property for sale yourself! We here at Tales of Northern Michigan's Past would love to see it preserved! https://www.grahamre.com/listing/472478-8470-pleasantview-lane-harbor-springs-mi-49740/

Aug. 13, 2023 ~ Host Dave Lorenz previews the 10th Annual Balloons Over Bellaire event and Clean Coast Great Lakes Conservation Week in Harbor Springs. Plus, he looks at Turtle Creek Casino near Traverse City, and the "Wild Where You Are" documentary series about finding natural wonders in Michigan.

NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Ottawa Senators 6, Detroit Red Wings 2 Anaheim Ducks 4, Chicago Blackhawks 2 Senators 6, Red Wings 2 – Giroux has goal, 3 assists as Senators beat Red Wings 6-2 Claude Giroux scored the tiebreaking goal and had three assists, Thomas Chabot had a goal and two assists and the Ottawa Senators beat the Detroit Red Wings 6-2. Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stutzle, Drake Batherson and Jake Sanderson also scored to help Ottawa win its second straight after a two-game skid. Cam Talbot finished with 22 saves. David Perron and Tyler Bertuzzi scored goals for the Red Wings, who have lost two straight after winning seven of eight. Magnus Hellberg had 36 saves. Ducks 4, Blackhawks 2 – Ducks snap Blackhawks’ 5-game win streak with 4-2 victory Max Jones scored the go-ahead goal, Troy Terry had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks ended the Chicago Blackhawks' five-game winning streak with a 4-2 victory on Monday night. Isac Lundestrom and Jakob Silfverberg also scored, Mason McTavish had three assists, and the Ducks won their third straight game. Lukas Dostal made 24 saves after losing his previous five starts. Tyler Johnson had a power-play goal and an assist, and Andreas Athanasiou scored for the Blackhawks, who had been on their longest run of sustained success since winning five in a row in January 2020. Petr Mrazek gave up four goals on 33 shots. Tonight Detroit Red Wings at Ottawa Senators, 7:00 p.m. Chicago Blackhawks at Arizona Coyotes, 9:00 p.m. NHL – Maple Leafs up ante in East by making trade with Blackhawks The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired forward Sam Lafferty and defenseman Jake McCabe from the Chicago Blackhawks. Their latest big trade comes the day after division-rival Tampa Bay paid a hefty price to acquire forward Tanner Jeannot from Nashville. Talent continues to flow to Eastern Conference contenders ahead of the NHL trade deadline Friday. In recent days, New Jersey got big winger Timo Meier from San Jose and Boston traded with Washington for Garnet Hathaway and Dmitry Orlov.  Toronto sent a conditional 2025 first-round pick, a second-rounder in 2026, prospect Pavel Gogolev and forward Joey Anderson to the Blackhawks for Lafferty, McCabe and conditional fifth-round picks in 2024 and ‘25. Chicago is retaining half of McCabe's salary.  Dubas, in his fifth season as Leafs general manager, said talks with Chicago counterpart Kyle Davidson predated trades by the Lightning and Bruins, but isn’t downplaying the value of keeping up knowing how difficult the first couple of rounds will be this spring. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Charlotte Hornets 117, Detroit Pistons 106 Hornets 117, Pistons 106 – Ball fractures ankle in Hornets’ 117-106 win over Pistons LaMelo Ball made six 3-pointers before breaking his right ankle in the third quarter, and the Charlotte Hornets held on to beat the Detroit Pistons 117-106 for their fifth straight victory. Terry Rozier scored 22 points and Gordon Hayward had 19 points for Charlotte, which is still second-to-last in the Eastern Conference standings — ahead of only Detroit. Ball finished with 18 points. He was hurt on a non-contact play, and the Hornets announced after the game that he had fractured his right ankle. Hamidou Diallo and James Wiseman each scored 23 points for the Pistons. Tonight Chicago Bulls at Toronto Raptors, 7:30 p.m. Indiana Pacers at Dallas Mavericks, 8:30 p.m. NCAAMBKB – Men's College Basketball Tonight Toledo at Central Michigan, 7:00 p.m. Eastern Michigan at Bowling Green, 7:00 p.m. Miami (OH) at Western Michigan, 7:00 p.m. Michigan State at Nebraska, 9:00 p.m.                 Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 8:00 NCAAMBKB – Houston stays at number 1 The top five spots in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll remained the same. The rest of the AP Top 25 was a big jumble. Houston was No. 1 for the second straight week in the poll released Monday, receiving 49 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel. No. 2 Alabama had five first-place votes and No. 3 Kansas received eight. UCLA and Purdue rounded out the top 5. The Boilermakers held at No. 5 despite losing to No. 15 Indiana. The rest of the poll, only No. 20 Providence kept the same position from last week. NCAAWBKB – 36 weeks and counting for South Carolina South Carolina is No. 1 for the 36th consecutive week. That ties Louisiana Tech for the second-longest run atop The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll in history. Only UConn with 51 weeks has a longer streak. Indiana stayed at No. 2 despite a last-second loss to Iowa. Utah was third with LSU and Maryland rounding out the top five. Iowa was seventh with Virginia Tech eighth. UConn fell five spots to ninth after losing to St. John's. Notre Dame is 10th. South Florida re-entered the Top 25 at No. 25. Florida State dropped out. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Chicago Cubs (ss) 12, Cleveland Guardians 4 Arizona Diamondbacks 3, Chicago Cubs (ss) 0 Chicago White Sox 10, Seattle Mariners 1 New York Yankees 8, Detroit Tigers 5 Today Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Arizona Diamondbacks, 3:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers, 3:10 p.m. Tennis – Novak Djokovic breaks record for most weeks ranked No. 1 Novak Djokovic has broken the record for the most time spent at No. 1 in the professional tennis rankings by a man or woman. He begins his 378th week in the ATP's top spot on Monday to surpass Steffi Graf's 377 leading the WTA. Djokovic already held the men’s mark. He eclipsed Roger Federer's old ATP standard of 310 weeks in March 2021. Djokovic returned to No. 1 this time by winning the Australian Open in January. After Djokovic and Graf on the all-time No. 1 weeks list are Martina Navratilova with 332 and Serena Williams with 319. The computerized rankings began in the 1970s. Soccer – US women’s soccer coach paid 27% as much as men’s coach U.S. women's coach Vlatko Andonovski earned 27% as much as American men's coach Gregg Berhalter in the year ending last March 31, down slightly from 28% in the previous year. Andonovski earned $446,495, according to the U.S. Soccer Federation's tax filing, including $50,000 in bonus money for the Americans' third-place finish in the Tokyo Olympics. Berhalter earned $1,641,398, including $300,000 in bonus money in a year that included winning the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup. NBAGL – NBA “G” League Last Night Lakeland Magic 123, Motor City Cruise 108 Tonight Grand Rapids Gold at Memphis Hustle, 8:00 p.m. Glen Oaks Community College 63, Southwestern Michigan 55 ECHL – ECHL Hockey League Today Kalamazoo Wings at Indy Fuel, 10:30 a.m. MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Tonight Women's Basketball Southwestern Michigan College at Lake Michigan College, 5:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Valley Community College at Glen Oaks Community College, 5:30 p.m. Men's Basketball Southwestern Michigan College at Lake Michigan College, 7:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Valley Community College at Glen Oaks Community College, 5:30 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – District Quarterfinals Division 1 at Portage Northern (1st round at local sites) Mattawan 52, St. Joseph 48 After St. Joe took a 1 point lead with 78 seconds left, Mattawan outscored St. Joe 5-0, all at the free throw line and held on for a 52-48 win over the Bears.  Delaney Elsmore had a game high 22 points for Mattawan, who advance to play top seed Kalamazoo Central on Wednesday.  Jaslynn Ward had 13 points to lead St. Joe, who finish the season at 8-14.  Eleah Hedstrom added 12 and Elenor Conway scored 11 points for St. Joe. Lakeshore 52, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 42 Emily Lockman led the Lancers with 18 points as Lakeshore advanced to Wednesday's District Semifinals against Portage Central, after a 52-42 win over Kalamazoo Loy Norrix.  Paige Lies added 13 for the Lancers while Megan Wurster had 10. Portage Central 43, Portage Northern 38 Division 1 at Battle Creek Lakeview Battle Creek Central 44, Harper Creek 24 Gull Lake 54, Sturgis 20 Division 2 at Edwardsburg Benton Harbor 43, Berrien Springs 32 Benton Harbor slowly started pulling away as the Tigers defeated Berrien Springs 43-32 in the opening round at Edwardsburg. Desrae Kyles led the Tigers with 15 points while Jmya Jordan had 14 in the Tigers win. Grace Constable led the Shamrocks with 10 points.  Benton Harbor advances to Wednesday's semifinal matchup against host Edwardsburg at 7:00, which will be live on News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM. Division 2 at Vicksburg Marshall 47, Battle Creek Pennfield 38 Division 2 at Hopkins Hamilton 62, Allegan 30 Division 3 at Bloomingdale Bloomingdale 49, Bangor 35 Division 3 at Lawton Delton-Kellogg 42, Comstock 15 Lawton 45, Galesburg-Augusta 39 Division 3 at Constantine Union City 39, Constantine 31 Division 3 at Coloma Cassopolis 54, Bridgman 34 Division 4 at Michigan Lutheran Our Lady of the Lake 52, Watervliet Grace Christian 13 New Buffalo wins over Countryside Academy by forfeit Division 4 at Decatur Byron Center Zion Christian 41, Decatur 23 Lawrence 69, Eau Claire 22 Division 4 at Mendon Marcellus 34, Burr Oak 30 Tonight Boys Basketball St. Joseph at Grand Haven, 7:00 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Lakeshore, 7:00 p.m. Benton Harbor at Coloma, 7:00 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Bridgman, 7:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Holland Black River, 7:00 p.m. Wyoming Lee at Countryside, 6:30 p.m. South Haven at Berrien Springs, 7:00 p.m. Portage Central at Caledonia, 7:00 p.m. Mattawan at Holt, 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Central at Muskegon, 7:00 p.m. Parchment at Gull Lake, 7:00 p.m. Three Rivers at Constantine, 7:30 p.m. Niles at Dowagiac, 7:15 p.m. Brandywine at Edwardsburg, 7:00 p.m. Coldwater at Otsego, 7:15 p.m. Lawton at Paw Paw, 7:15 p.m. Plainwell at Schoolcraft, 7:00 p.m. Buchanan at Vicksburg, 7:15 p.m. GR West Mi Aviation at Allegan, 7:15 p.m. Zion Christian at Galesburg-Augusta, 7:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Hopkins, 7:15 p.m. Martin at Muskegon West MI Christian, 7:00 p.m. Fennville at Wyoming Tri-Unity, 7:00 p.m. Bangor at Bloomingdale, 7:30 p.m. Cassopolis at Centreville, 7:30 p.m. Decatur at Comstock, 7:30 p.m. Hartford at Lawrence, 7:30 p.m. Marcellus at White Pigeon, 7:30 p.m. MHSAA – Michigan High School AP Rankings Boys Basketball Division 1 1. Detroit Cass Tech (5)                         (21-0)  75 2. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice             (20-1)  70 3. North Farmington                               (17-1)  64 4. Grand Blanc                                      (19-2)  59 5. Muskegon                                          (19-2)  57 6. Ann Arbor Huron                               (19-1)  48 7. Detroit U-D Jesuit                             (17-4)  43 8. Kalamazoo Central                          (18-2) 41 9. Grand Rapids Northview                     (17-4)  38 10. Port Huron Northern                       (18-3)  23 Others receiving votes: Lansing Waverly 22, Grosse Pointe South 16, Okemos 14, Warren De La Salle 9, Mason 7, Hamtramck 3, River Rouge 3, Saline 2, Troy 2, Mattawan 2, Jackson 1, Oak Park 1. Division 2 1. Warren Michigan Collegiate (3)          (18-2)  71 2. Warren Lincoln                                  (18-4)  63 3. Olivet                                                (20-0)  62 4. Romulus Summit Academy (2)               (18-2)  61 5. Grand Rapids South Christian              (18-3)  49 6. Grand Rapids Christian                       (15-5)  39 7. Hart                                                  (20-0)  38 8. Standish Sterling Central                  (18-0)  37 9. Grand Rapids Catholic Central            (15-6)  31 10. Big Rapids                                        (17-2)  25 Others receiving votes: Ferndale 21, Ludington 20, Boyne City 17, Croswell-Lexington 13, Bridgeport 12, Cadillac 12, Kingsford 9, Onsted 5, Benton Harbor 4, Flat Rock 4, Wyoming Lee 3, Saginaw 2, Marshall 1, Whitehall 1. Division 3 1. Detroit Loyola (3)                             (20-1)  87 2. Laingsburg (1)                                   (19-0)  80 3. Flint Beecher (2)                               (16-3)  79 4. Napoleon                                           (19-0)  64 5. Iron Mountain                                    (18-1)  55 6. Grandville Calvin Christian                 (19-1)  52 7. Watervliet                                       (18-3) 45 8. Brandywine                                     (18-2) 42 9. Traverse City St. Francis                    (17-3)  41 10. Ecorse                                             (13-3)  23 Others receiving votes: Blanchard Montabella 23, Cass City 23, Brown City 21, McBain 21, Saginaw Nouvel 20, Maple City Glen Lake 9, Ovid-Elsie 8, Bad Axe 5, Beal City 4, Jonesville 4, Riverview Gabriel Richard 4, Elkton-Pigeon Bay Port Laker 3, Erie-Mason 3, New Haven 2, Tawas 2. Division 4 1. Painesdale Jeffers (3)                         (19-1)  71 2. Munising                                            (19-1)  61 3. Taylor Trillium Academy                      (16-1)  59 4. Hillman                                              (18-2)  44 5. Baldwin                                             (19-1)  43 6. Genesee Christian (2)                         (15-5)  42 7. Lake Leelanau St Mary                         (15-3)  39 7. Powers North Central                        (15-4)  39 9. Mio Au Sable                                      (17-1)  37 (tie) Wyoming Tri-unity Christian            (15-5)  37 Others receiving votes: Bellevue 34, Ironwood 27, Gaylord St. Mary 27, Rudyard 7, Onaway 7, Kingston 6, Watersmeet 5, Mackinaw City 4, McBain Northern Michigan Christian 4, Detroit Douglass 4, Hillsdale Academy 2, Norway 1. Girls Basketball Division 1 1. West Bloomfield (4)                           (20-2)  74 2. Rockford                                           (21-1)  67 3. Flint Carman Ainsworth (1)                (19-0)  65 4. Detroit Renaissance                            (18-1)  62 5. Grosse Pointe North                          (19-2)  53 6. Farmington Hills Mercy                      (19-3)  49 7. Wayne Memorial                                  (17-5)  39 8. Byron Center                                     (19-3)  35 9. Temperance Bedford                            (21-1)  29 10. DeWitt                                            (20-2)  27 Others receiving votes: Coldwater 18, North Farmington 15, Jackson Northwest 12, Kalamazoo Central 11, Canton Salem 9, Holt 8, Utica Ford 8, Saline 6, 18, Grand Blanc 6, Belleville 5, Lake Orion 2. Division 2 1. Grand Rapids West Catholic (5)          (21-0)  75 2. Detroit Edison                                   (16-3)  70 3. Chelsea                                             (21-1)  64 4. Lake Fenton                                       (22-0)  59 5. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard                  (19-3)  56 6. Haslett                                             (21-1)  50 7. Vicksburg                                         (22-0) 44 8. Frankenmuth                                      (19-2)  38 9. Lansing Catholic                                (17-5)  37 10. North Branch                                   (20-2)  27 Others receiving votes: Goodrich 25, Wixom St. Catherine of Siena Academy 16, Escanaba 11, Detroit Country Day 8, Dearborn Divine Child 6, Big Rapids 5, Redford Westfield Prep 3, Standish-Sterling 3, Olivet 1, Warren Fitzgerald 1, Marysville 1. Division 3 1. Buchanan (1)                                  (19-1) 70 2. Ypsilanti Arbor Preparatory (3)          (15-6)  68 3. Blissfield                                           (21-1)  59 4. Lake City (1)                                      (21-1)  55 5. Hancock                                             (19-1)  53 6. Dansville                                           (18-2)  41 7. Hemlock                                             (19-3)  38 8. Traverse City St. Francis                    (19-2)  36 9. Kent City                                           (19-3)  31 (tie) Brandywine                                 (20-2) 31 Others receiving votes: Sanford-Meridian 21, Calumet 15, Ovid-Elsie 14, McBain 13, Evart 10, Hart 9, Ithaca 7, Sandusky 6, Watervliet 5, Brooklyn Columbia Central 5, Bronson 4, Elk Rapids 3, Plymouth Christian Academy 2, Harbor Springs 2, East Jackson 1, Saginaw Valley Lutheran 1. Division 4 1. Maple City Glen Lake (5)                     (18-2)  75 2. Kingston                                            (21-1)  68 3. Mackinaw City                                    (21-1)  61 4. Gaylord St. Mary                               (19-3)  58 5. St. Charles                                        (20-2)  54 6. Petersburg Summerfield                      (19-3)  42 7. Norway                                              (19-3)  27 8. Baraga                                               (17-5)  24 9. Martin                                             (17-4) 23 (tie) Pittsford                                       (18-3)  23 Others receiving votes: Portland St. Patrick 20, Cedarville 18, Colon 14, Hillman 13, Lake Linden-Hubbell 13, Fowler 12, Brethren 11, Morenci 11, Ontonagon 9, Genesee Christian 6, Ewen-Trout Creek 5, Carney-Nadeau 4, Manistee Catholic Central 4, Indian River-Inland Lakes 3, Adrian Lenawee Christian 2.Detroit Red Wings center Pius Suter (24) pushes Ottawa Senators left wing Tim Stutzle (18) off the puck during second-period NHL hockey game action in Ottawa, Ontario, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)Anaheim Ducks’ Isac Lundestrom (21) celebrates after his goal with Trevor Zegras (11) as Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Petr Mrazek (34) stands in front of his net during the first period of an NHL hockey game Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Detroit Pistons guard Rodney McGruder (17) drives to the basket while defended by Charlotte Hornets forward JT Thor (21) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Ottawa Senators 6, Detroit Red Wings 2 Anaheim Ducks 4, Chicago Blackhawks 2 Senators 6, Red Wings 2 – Giroux has goal, 3 assists as Senators beat Red Wings 6-2 Claude Giroux scored the tiebreaking goal and had three assists, Thomas Chabot had a goal and two assists and the Ottawa Senators beat the Detroit Red Wings 6-2. Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stutzle, Drake Batherson and Jake Sanderson also scored to help Ottawa win its second straight after a two-game skid. Cam Talbot finished with 22 saves. David Perron and Tyler Bertuzzi scored goals for the Red Wings, who have lost two straight after winning seven of eight. Magnus Hellberg had 36 saves. Ducks 4, Blackhawks 2 – Ducks snap Blackhawks’ 5-game win streak with 4-2 victory Max Jones scored the go-ahead goal, Troy Terry had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks ended the Chicago Blackhawks’ five-game winning streak with a 4-2 victory on Monday night. Isac Lundestrom and Jakob Silfverberg also scored, Mason McTavish had three assists, and the Ducks won their third straight game. Lukas Dostal made 24 saves after losing his previous five starts. Tyler Johnson had a power-play goal and an assist, and Andreas Athanasiou scored for the Blackhawks, who had been on their longest run of sustained success since winning five in a row in January 2020. Petr Mrazek gave up four goals on 33 shots. Tonight Detroit Red Wings at Ottawa Senators, 7:00 p.m. Chicago Blackhawks at Arizona Coyotes, 9:00 p.m. NHL – Maple Leafs up ante in East by making trade with Blackhawks The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired forward Sam Lafferty and defenseman Jake McCabe from the Chicago Blackhawks. Their latest big trade comes the day after division-rival Tampa Bay paid a hefty price to acquire forward Tanner Jeannot from Nashville. Talent continues to flow to Eastern Conference contenders ahead of the NHL trade deadline Friday. In recent days, New Jersey got big winger Timo Meier from San Jose and Boston traded with Washington for Garnet Hathaway and Dmitry Orlov.  Toronto sent a conditional 2025 first-round pick, a second-rounder in 2026, prospect Pavel Gogolev and forward Joey Anderson to the Blackhawks for Lafferty, McCabe and conditional fifth-round picks in 2024 and ‘25. Chicago is retaining half of McCabe’s salary.  Dubas, in his fifth season as Leafs general manager, said talks with Chicago counterpart Kyle Davidson predated trades by the Lightning and Bruins, but isn’t downplaying the value of keeping up knowing how difficult the first couple of rounds will be this spring. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Charlotte Hornets 117, Detroit Pistons 106 Hornets 117, Pistons 106 – Ball fractures ankle in Hornets’ 117-106 win over Pistons LaMelo Ball made six 3-pointers before breaking his right ankle in the third quarter, and the Charlotte Hornets held on to beat the Detroit Pistons 117-106 for their fifth straight victory. Terry Rozier scored 22 points and Gordon Hayward had 19 points for Charlotte, which is still second-to-last in the Eastern Conference standings — ahead of only Detroit. Ball finished with 18 points. He was hurt on a non-contact play, and the Hornets announced after the game that he had fractured his right ankle. Hamidou Diallo and James Wiseman each scored 23 points for the Pistons. Tonight Chicago Bulls at Toronto Raptors, 7:30 p.m. Indiana Pacers at Dallas Mavericks, 8:30 p.m. NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball Tonight Toledo at Central Michigan, 7:00 p.m. Eastern Michigan at Bowling Green, 7:00 p.m. Miami (OH) at Western Michigan, 7:00 p.m. Michigan State at Nebraska, 9:00 p.m.                 Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 8:00 NCAAMBKB – Houston stays at number 1 The top five spots in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll remained the same. The rest of the AP Top 25 was a big jumble. Houston was No. 1 for the second straight week in the poll released Monday, receiving 49 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel. No. 2 Alabama had five first-place votes and No. 3 Kansas received eight. UCLA and Purdue rounded out the top 5. The Boilermakers held at No. 5 despite losing to No. 15 Indiana. The rest of the poll, only No. 20 Providence kept the same position from last week. NCAAWBKB – 36 weeks and counting for South Carolina South Carolina is No. 1 for the 36th consecutive week. That ties Louisiana Tech for the second-longest run atop The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll in history. Only UConn with 51 weeks has a longer streak. Indiana stayed at No. 2 despite a last-second loss to Iowa. Utah was third with LSU and Maryland rounding out the top five. Iowa was seventh with Virginia Tech eighth. UConn fell five spots to ninth after losing to St. John’s. Notre Dame is 10th. South Florida re-entered the Top 25 at No. 25. Florida State dropped out. MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training Yesterday Chicago Cubs (ss) 12, Cleveland Guardians 4 Arizona Diamondbacks 3, Chicago Cubs (ss) 0 Chicago White Sox 10, Seattle Mariners 1 New York Yankees 8, Detroit Tigers 5 Today Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Arizona Diamondbacks, 3:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers, 3:10 p.m. Tennis – Novak Djokovic breaks record for most weeks ranked No. 1 Novak Djokovic has broken the record for the most time spent at No. 1 in the professional tennis rankings by a man or woman. He begins his 378th week in the ATP’s top spot on Monday to surpass Steffi Graf’s 377 leading the WTA. Djokovic already held the men’s mark. He eclipsed Roger Federer’s old ATP standard of 310 weeks in March 2021. Djokovic returned to No. 1 this time by winning the Australian Open in January. After Djokovic and Graf on the all-time No. 1 weeks list are Martina Navratilova with 332 and Serena Williams with 319. The computerized rankings began in the 1970s. Soccer – US women’s soccer coach paid 27% as much as men’s coach U.S. women’s coach Vlatko Andonovski earned 27% as much as American men’s coach Gregg Berhalter in the year ending last March 31, down slightly from 28% in the previous year. Andonovski earned $446,495, according to the U.S. Soccer Federation’s tax filing, including $50,000 in bonus money for the Americans’ third-place finish in the Tokyo Olympics. Berhalter earned $1,641,398, including $300,000 in bonus money in a year that included winning the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup. NBAGL – NBA “G” League Last Night Lakeland Magic 123, Motor City Cruise 108 Tonight Grand Rapids Gold at Memphis Hustle, 8:00 p.m. Glen Oaks Community College 63, Southwestern Michigan 55 ECHL – ECHL Hockey League Today Kalamazoo Wings at Indy Fuel, 10:30 a.m. MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Tonight Women’s Basketball Southwestern Michigan College at Lake Michigan College, 5:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Valley Community College at Glen Oaks Community College, 5:30 p.m. Men’s Basketball Southwestern Michigan College at Lake Michigan College, 7:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Valley Community College at Glen Oaks Community College, 5:30 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Girls Basketball – District Quarterfinals Division 1 at Portage Northern (1st round at local sites) Mattawan 52, St. Joseph 48 After St. Joe took a 1 point lead with 78 seconds left, Mattawan outscored St. Joe 5-0, all at the free throw line and held on for a 52-48 win over the Bears.  Delaney Elsmore had a game high 22 points for Mattawan, who advance to play top seed Kalamazoo Central on Wednesday.  Jaslynn Ward had 13 points to lead St. Joe, who finish the season at 8-14.  Eleah Hedstrom added 12 and Elenor Conway scored 11 points for St. Joe.  Lakeshore 52, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 42 Emily Lockman led the Lancers with 18 points as Lakeshore advanced to Wednesday’s District Semifinals against Portage Central, after a 52-42 win over Kalamazoo Loy Norrix.  Paige Lies added 13 for the Lancers while Megan Wurster had 10. Portage Central 43, Portage Northern 38 Division 1 at Battle Creek Lakeview Battle Creek Central 44, Harper Creek 24 Gull Lake 54, Sturgis 20 Division 2 at Edwardsburg Benton Harbor 43, Berrien Springs 32 Benton Harbor slowly started pulling away as the Tigers defeated Berrien Springs 43-32 in the opening round at Edwardsburg. Desrae Kyles led the Tigers with 15 points while Jmya Jordan had 14 in the Tigers win. Grace Constable led the Shamrocks with 10 points.  Benton Harbor advances to Wednesday’s semifinal matchup against host Edwardsburg at 7:00, which will be live on News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM. Division 2 at Vicksburg Marshall 47, Battle Creek Pennfield 38 Division 2 at Hopkins Hamilton 62, Allegan 30 Division 3 at Bloomingdale Bloomingdale 49, Bangor 35 Division 3 at Lawton Delton-Kellogg 42, Comstock 15 Lawton 45, Galesburg-Augusta 39 Division 3 at Constantine Union City 39, Constantine 31 Division 3 at Coloma Cassopolis 54, Bridgman 34 Division 4 at Michigan Lutheran Our Lady of the Lake 52, Watervliet Grace Christian 13 New Buffalo wins over Countryside Academy by forfeit Division 4 at Decatur Byron Center Zion Christian 41, Decatur 23 Lawrence 69, Eau Claire 22 Division 4 at Mendon Marcellus 34, Burr Oak 30 Tonight Boys Basketball St. Joseph at Grand Haven, 7:00 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Lakeshore, 7:00 p.m. Benton Harbor at Coloma, 7:00 p.m. Michigan Lutheran at Bridgman, 7:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Lake at Holland Black River, 7:00 p.m. Wyoming Lee at Countryside, 6:30 p.m. South Haven at Berrien Springs, 7:00 p.m. Portage Central at Caledonia, 7:00 p.m. Mattawan at Holt, 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Central at Muskegon, 7:00 p.m. Parchment at Gull Lake, 7:00 p.m. Three Rivers at Constantine, 7:30 p.m. Niles at Dowagiac, 7:15 p.m. Brandywine at Edwardsburg, 7:00 p.m. Coldwater at Otsego, 7:15 p.m. Lawton at Paw Paw, 7:15 p.m. Plainwell at Schoolcraft, 7:00 p.m. Buchanan at Vicksburg, 7:15 p.m. GR West Mi Aviation at Allegan, 7:15 p.m. Zion Christian at Galesburg-Augusta, 7:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Hopkins, 7:15 p.m. Martin at Muskegon West MI Christian, 7:00 p.m. Fennville at Wyoming Tri-Unity, 7:00 p.m. Bangor at Bloomingdale, 7:30 p.m. Cassopolis at Centreville, 7:30 p.m. Decatur at Comstock, 7:30 p.m. Hartford at Lawrence, 7:30 p.m. Marcellus at White Pigeon, 7:30 p.m. MHSAA – Michigan High School AP Rankings Boys Basketball Division 1 1. Detroit Cass Tech (5)                         (21-0)  75 2. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice             (20-1)  70 3. North Farmington                               (17-1)  64 4. Grand Blanc                                      (19-2)  59 5. Muskegon                                          (19-2)  57 6. Ann Arbor Huron                               (19-1)  48 7. Detroit U-D Jesuit                             (17-4)  43 8. Kalamazoo Central                          (18-2) 41 9. Grand Rapids Northview                     (17-4)  38 10. Port Huron Northern                       (18-3)  23 Others receiving votes: Lansing Waverly 22, Grosse Pointe South 16, Okemos 14, Warren De La Salle 9, Mason 7, Hamtramck 3, River Rouge 3, Saline 2, Troy 2, Mattawan 2, Jackson 1, Oak Park 1. Division 2 1. Warren Michigan Collegiate (3)          (18-2)  71 2. Warren Lincoln                                  (18-4)  63 3. Olivet                                                (20-0)  62 4. Romulus Summit Academy (2)               (18-2)  61 5. Grand Rapids South Christian              (18-3)  49 6. Grand Rapids Christian                       (15-5)  39 7. Hart                                                  (20-0)  38 8. Standish Sterling Central                  (18-0)  37 9. Grand Rapids Catholic Central            (15-6)  31 10. Big Rapids                                        (17-2)  25 Others receiving votes: Ferndale 21, Ludington 20, Boyne City 17, Croswell-Lexington 13, Bridgeport 12, Cadillac 12, Kingsford 9, Onsted 5, Benton Harbor 4, Flat Rock 4, Wyoming Lee 3, Saginaw 2, Marshall 1, Whitehall 1. Division 3 1. Detroit Loyola (3)                             (20-1)  87 2. Laingsburg (1)                                   (19-0)  80 3. Flint Beecher (2)                               (16-3)  79 4. Napoleon                                           (19-0)  64 5. Iron Mountain                                    (18-1)  55 6. Grandville Calvin Christian                 (19-1)  52 7. Watervliet                                       (18-3) 45 8. Brandywine                                     (18-2) 42 9. Traverse City St. Francis                    (17-3)  41 10. Ecorse                                             (13-3)  23 Others receiving votes: Blanchard Montabella 23, Cass City 23, Brown City 21, McBain 21, Saginaw Nouvel 20, Maple City Glen Lake 9, Ovid-Elsie 8, Bad Axe 5, Beal City 4, Jonesville 4, Riverview Gabriel Richard 4, Elkton-Pigeon Bay Port Laker 3, Erie-Mason 3, New Haven 2, Tawas 2. Division 4 1. Painesdale Jeffers (3)                         (19-1)  71 2. Munising                                            (19-1)  61 3. Taylor Trillium Academy                      (16-1)  59 4. Hillman                                              (18-2)  44 5. Baldwin                                             (19-1)  43 6. Genesee Christian (2)                         (15-5)  42 7. Lake Leelanau St Mary                         (15-3)  39 7. Powers North Central                        (15-4)  39 9. Mio Au Sable                                      (17-1)  37 (tie) Wyoming Tri-unity Christian            (15-5)  37 Others receiving votes: Bellevue 34, Ironwood 27, Gaylord St. Mary 27, Rudyard 7, Onaway 7, Kingston 6, Watersmeet 5, Mackinaw City 4, McBain Northern Michigan Christian 4, Detroit Douglass 4, Hillsdale Academy 2, Norway 1. Girls Basketball Division 1 1. West Bloomfield (4)                           (20-2)  74 2. Rockford                                           (21-1)  67 3. Flint Carman Ainsworth (1)                (19-0)  65 4. Detroit Renaissance                            (18-1)  62 5. Grosse Pointe North                          (19-2)  53 6. Farmington Hills Mercy                      (19-3)  49 7. Wayne Memorial                                  (17-5)  39 8. Byron Center                                     (19-3)  35 9. Temperance Bedford                            (21-1)  29 10. DeWitt                                            (20-2)  27 Others receiving votes: Coldwater 18, North Farmington 15, Jackson Northwest 12, Kalamazoo Central 11, Canton Salem 9, Holt 8, Utica Ford 8, Saline 6, 18, Grand Blanc 6, Belleville 5, Lake Orion 2. Division 2 1. Grand Rapids West Catholic (5)          (21-0)  75 2. Detroit Edison                                   (16-3)  70 3. Chelsea                                             (21-1)  64 4. Lake Fenton                                       (22-0)  59 5. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard                  (19-3)  56 6. Haslett                                             (21-1)  50 7. Vicksburg                                         (22-0) 44 8. Frankenmuth                                      (19-2)  38 9. Lansing Catholic                                (17-5)  37 10. North Branch                                   (20-2)  27 Others receiving votes: Goodrich 25, Wixom St. Catherine of Siena Academy 16, Escanaba 11, Detroit Country Day 8, Dearborn Divine Child 6, Big Rapids 5, Redford Westfield Prep 3, Standish-Sterling 3, Olivet 1, Warren Fitzgerald 1, Marysville 1. Division 3 1. Buchanan (1)                                  (19-1) 70 2. Ypsilanti Arbor Preparatory (3)          (15-6)  68 3. Blissfield                                           (21-1)  59 4. Lake City (1)                                      (21-1)  55 5. Hancock                                             (19-1)  53 6. Dansville                                           (18-2)  41 7. Hemlock                                             (19-3)  38 8. Traverse City St. Francis                    (19-2)  36 9. Kent City                                           (19-3)  31 (tie) Brandywine                                 (20-2) 31 Others receiving votes: Sanford-Meridian 21, Calumet 15, Ovid-Elsie 14, McBain 13, Evart 10, Hart 9, Ithaca 7, Sandusky 6, Watervliet 5, Brooklyn Columbia Central 5, Bronson 4, Elk Rapids 3, Plymouth Christian Academy 2, Harbor Springs 2, East Jackson 1, Saginaw Valley Lutheran 1. Division 4 1. Maple City Glen Lake (5)                     (18-2)  75 2. Kingston                                            (21-1)  68 3. Mackinaw City                                    (21-1)  61 4. Gaylord St. Mary                               (19-3)  58 5. St. Charles                                        (20-2)  54 6. Petersburg Summerfield                      (19-3)  42 7. Norway                                              (19-3)  27 8. Baraga                                               (17-5)  24 9. Martin                                             (17-4) 23 (tie) Pittsford                                       (18-3)  23 Others receiving votes: Portland St. Patrick 20, Cedarville 18, Colon 14, Hillman 13, Lake Linden-Hubbell 13, Fowler 12, Brethren 11, Morenci 11, Ontonagon 9, Genesee Christian 6, Ewen-Trout Creek 5, Carney-Nadeau 4, Manistee Catholic Central 4, Indian River-Inland Lakes 3, Adrian Lenawee Christian 2.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball Tonight Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan, 7:00 p.m. Central Michigan at Buffalo, 7:00 p.m. (17) Indiana at Michigan State, 9:00 p.m.   Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 8:00 NCAAWBKB – Women’s College Basketball Yesterday (16) Ohio State 74, (12) Michigan 61 (16) Ohio State 74, (12) Michigan 61 – Harris, Ohio State women beat Michigan 74-61 Rikki Harris scored a career-high 23 points with five assists and seven steals, Taylor Thierry added 15 points and No. 16 Ohio State beat No. 12 Michigan 74-61 to complete a season sweep of the Wolverines. It was Ohio State’s first victory over a ranked team since topping Michigan 66-57 on New Year’s Eve. Taylor Mikesell made four 3-pointers and scored 12 for Ohio State (23-5, 12-5 Big Ten). Cotie McMahon had seven points, eight rebounds and seven assists. McMahon was named the Big Ten freshman of the week for the sixth time earlier on Monday after averaging 19.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. Leigha Brown scored a career-high 36 points with nine rebounds for Michigan. NCAAMBKB – Houston back at No. 1 as Northwestern makes debut Houston returned to No. 1 in the AP men’s college basketball poll for the third time this season while Northwestern and Texas A&M barged into the rankings after each had a pair of impressive wins last week. The Cougars picked up 48 first-place votes from the 62-member national media panel with just two weeks left in the regular season. Alabama dropped one spot after losing to Tennessee and routing Georgia in its lone week at No. 1. The Crimson Tide held onto seven first-place votes, while Kansas also earned seven to climb two spots to No. 3. North Carolina State and Florida Atlantic dropped out after each lost games last week. NCAAWBKB – South Carolina’s No. 1 run in Top 25 hits 35 weeks South Carolina remained No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll after topping Mississippi in overtime on Sunday. The Gamecocks have been No. 1 for 35 straight weeks, the third-longest streak of all time. They received 27 of the 28 first-place votes from the national media panel, marking the first time all season they weren’t a unanimous choice. Indiana got the other first-place vote and stayed second in the poll. The Hoosiers have won 14 consecutive games and are 9-0 against AP Top 25 teams this season — the most wins against ranked opponents of any team in the country. Stanford, UConn and LSU round out the top five teams. NHL – National Hockey League Tonight Detroit Red Wings at Washington Capitals, 7:00 p.m. Vegas Golden Knights at Chicago Blackhawks, 8:30 p.m. Olympics – Nations: No clarity on neutrality, no Olympics for Russia The governments of 35 nations signed a statement calling on the IOC to clarify the definition of “neutrality” as it seeks a way to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes back into international sports and next year’s Paris Olympics. The statement said the countries do not agree Russian and Belarusian athletes should be allowed back into competition as long as the lack of clarity and concrete details on a workable neutrality model aren’t addressed. The United States, Britain, France, Canada and Germany were among those signing. Those five countries brought nearly one-fifth of all the athletes to the Tokyo Games in 2021. The letter was the product of a Feb. 10 summit in London. MLB – Cubs, RHP Michael Fulmer finalize $4M, 1-year contract The Chicago Cubs have added Michael Fulmer to their bullpen, finalizing a $4 million, one-year contract with the right-hander. Fulmer played for Detroit and Minnesota last season, going 5-6 with 3.39 ERA in a career-high 67 appearances. He began the season with the Tigers and was traded to the Twins in August. Fulmer says conversations with former Cubs relievers Andrew Chafin and Daniel Norris cemented his decision to join the team. MLB – Elvis Andrus to play 2nd base with Chicago White Sox Elvis Andrus is joining the Chicago White Sox, stepping into the team’s opening at second base. Andrus has finalized a $3 million, one-year contract. The two-time All-Star has played shortstop for his entire big league career, but he is going to move over to second in his return to Chicago. To make room on the roster, left-hander Bennett Sousa was designated for assignment. The 34-year-old Andrus finished last season with Chicago, hitting .271 with nine homers and 28 RBIs in 43 games after he was cut by Oakland. MLB – Milestones behind him, Cabrera hopes for fun final year Miguel Cabrera sounds at ease with his decision to call it a career. The Detroit slugger joked with reporters in his usual playful way and insisted he doesn’t need opponents to lavish him with attention. That will likely come this season whether he wants it or not. Two decades after his big league debut as a 20-year-old Florida Marlin, Cabrera is entering his final season. He’s hoping for good health and more wins for the Tigers. Cabrera hit his 500th home run two years ago. Last season he reached 3,000 hits. MLB – Major league teams searching for advantages with new rules The only certainty about Major League Baseball’s new rules for the 2023 season is that everyone is going to push and pull on them in search of an edge. The size of the bases has been increased to 18-inch squares from 15. The new pitch clock is 15 seconds with no runners on base and 20 seconds with runners. The increasingly frequent infield shift has been eliminated, and there is a limit of two of what MLB calls disengagements — pickoff attempts or steps off the rubber — per plate appearance. AHL – American Hockey League Yesterday Manitoba Moose 5, Grand Rapids Griffins 1 MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Basketball St. Joseph 47, Berrien Springs 42 St. Joe rallied from a 40-30 deficit heading into the final quarter and outscored Berrien Springs 17-2 in the fourth quarter for a 47-42 win over the upset minded Shamrocks.  Chase Sanders had 12 points to lead St. Joe while Matt Lanier and Luke Lehner had 11 points each.  Allen Taylor had 14 points to lead Berrien Springs while Brady Blasko had 13. Buchanan 61, Our Lady of the Lake 30 Brandywine 71, New Buffalo 27 Coloma 55, Dowagiac 51 Decatur 53, Bloomingdale 37 Landon Fisher had 27 points for Decatur in the 53-37 win over Bloomingdale Edwardsburg 65, Sturgis 42 Battle Creek Central 63, Gull Lake 48 Parchment 56, Portage Northern 49 Girls Basketball Benton Harbor 47, Our Lady of the Lake 32 Athens 58, Michigan Lutheran 29 Bloomingdale 66, Decatur 33 Edwardsburg 65, Sturgis 9 Portage Northern 51, Parchment 26 Galesburg-Augusta 33, Climax-Scotts 26 Saugatuck 51, Kentwood Grand River 34 Tonight Boys Basketball Our Lady of the Lake at New Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Countryside at Michigan Lutheran, 7:30 p.m. River Valley at Buchanan, 7:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Bridgman, 7:15 p.m. South Haven at Constantine, 7:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Gobles, 7:00 p.m. Watervliet at Kalamazoo Christian, 7:00 p.m. Allegan at Kalamazoo Hackett, 7:00 p.m. Coloma at Lawton, 7:00 p.m. Martin at Howardsville Christian, 7:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Parchment, 7:00 p.m. Mendon at Bangor, 7:30 p.m. Centreville at Bloomingdale, 7:30 p.m. Marcellus at Decatur, 7:30 p.m. White Pigeon at Hartford, 7:30 p.m. Cassopolis at Lawrence, 7:30 p.m. Comstock at Vermontville Maple Valley, 7:00 p.m. Otsego at Battle Creek Lakeview, 7:00 p.m. Portage Northern at Plainwell, 7:15 p.m. Vicksburg at Portage Central, 7:00 p.m. Girls Basketball Lakeshore at Dowagiac, 6:30 p.m. Brandywine at St. Joseph, 7:00 p.m. Watervliet Grace Christian at New Buffalo, 6:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at River Valley, 6:00 p.m. Paw Paw at Gull Lake, 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Hackett at Watervliet, 7:00 p.m. Constantine at Edwardsburg, 7:00 p.m. Howardsville Christian at Martin, 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Allegan, 7:00 p.m. Lawton at Fennville, 7:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Gobles, 5:30 p.m. Bangor at Mendon, 7:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Centreville, 7:30 p.m. Decatur at Marcellus, 7:30 p.m. Hartford at White Pigeon, 7:30 p.m. Cassopolis at Lawrence, 7:30 p.m. Vermontville Maple Valley at Comstock, 7:00 p.m. Portage Central at Vicksburg, 7:15 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Otsego, 7:15 p.m. Plainwell at Portage Northern, 7:15 p.m. MHSAA – High School Basketball AP Rankings Boys Basketball Division 1 1. Detroit Cass Tech (5)                           (20-0)   75 2. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice                (18-1)   67 (tie) North Farmington                             (17-1)   67 4. Grand Blanc                                       (17-2)   59 5. Muskegon                                           (17-2)   57 6. Detroit U-D Jesuit                               (16-3)   49 7. Ann Arbor Huron                                 (17-1)   46 8. Kalamazoo Central                            (18-2)  38 9. Grand Rapids Northview                        (15-4)   35 10. Grosse Pointe South                          (16-3)   21 Others receiving votes: Port Huron Northern 19, Warren De La Salle 16, Lansing Waverly 12, Mason 9, Okemos 7, Grand Haven 6, Detroit King 5, Mount Pleasant 3, Port Huron 3, Troy 2, Hamtramck 2, Orchard Lake St. Mary’s 1, Oak Park 1. Division 2 1. Romulus Summit Academy (5)                  (16-1)   75 2. Warren Lincoln                                   (16-4)   65 3. Olivet                                                (18-0)   62 4. Warren Michigan Collegiate                  (16-2)   57 5. Grand Rapids Christian                         (14-4)   45 6. Grand Rapids South Christian                (16-3)   42 7. Big Rapids                                           (16-1)   35 (tie) Grand Rapids Catholic Central           (14-5)   35 9. Boyne City                                          (17-2)   33 10. Benton Harbor                                (14-6)  25 Others receiving votes: Saginaw 22, Standish Sterling Central 21, Chelsea 17, Hart 17, Ferndale 16, Ludington 14, Bridgeport 5, Croswell-Lexington 4, Cadillac 4, Onsted 3, Marshall 1, Whitehall 1, Wyoming Lee 1. Division 3 1. Detroit Loyola (4)                               (18-1)   88 2. Laingsburg (1)                                     (18-0)   83 3. Flint Beecher (1)                                 (15-3)   73 4. Watervliet                                        (17-2)  67 5. Napoleon                                            (18-0)   62 6. Iron Mountain                                     (18-1)   57 7. Grandville Calvin Christian                   (17-1)   48 8. Brandywine                                      (16-2)  42 9. Cass City                                            (16-1)   34 10. Traverse City St. Francis                     (15-3)   27 Others receiving votes: Saginaw Nouvel 24, Blanchard Montabella 22, McBain 18, Maple City Glen Lake 15, Ovid-Elsie 13, Brown City 10, Ecorse 9, Jonesville 8, St. Ignace 8, Plymouth Christian 5, Beal City 4, New Haven 2, Detroit Edison 1. Division 4 1. Taylor Trillium Academy (4)                   (16-0)   74 2. Painesdale Jeffers (1)                           (17-1)   65 3. Munising                                            (17-1)   53 4. Lake Leelanau St Mary                           (15-2)   50 5. Hillman                                              (16-1)   47 6. Powers North Central                          (14-3)   43 7. Baldwin                                             (18-1)   42 8. Bellevue                                             (17-1)   36 (tie) Mio Au Sable                                     (16-1)   36 10. Genesee Christian                              (13-4)   33 Others receiving votes: Wyoming Tri-unity Christian 28, Ironwood 27, Gaylord St. Mary 21, Rudyard 9, Kingston 9, Onaway 7, Eau Claire 6, Detroit Douglass 5, Watersmeet 4, Pittsford 4, Norway 1. Girls Basketball Division 1 1. West Bloomfield (4)                             (18-2)   73 2. Detroit Renaissance (1)                        (19-0)   70 3. Rockford                                            (19-1)   65 4. Flint Carman Ainsworth                        (17-0)   61 5. Wayne Memorial                                   (17-4)   53 6. Grosse Pointe North                            (17-2)   49 7. Farmington Hills Mercy                         (17-3)   46 8. Byron Center                                      (17-3)   30 9. DeWitt                                              (18-2)   23 10. Temperance Bedford                           (20-1)   21 Others receiving votes: North Farmington 19, Coldwater 18, Jackson Northwest 16, Holt 12, Kalamazoo Central 11, Utica Ford 9, Saline 8, Grand Blanc 5, Belleville 5, Riverview 3, Lake Orion 2, Rochester 1. Division 2 1. Grand Rapids West Catholic (5)              (19-0)   75 2. Detroit Edison                                    (15-3)   69 3. Chelsea                                              (19-1)   66 4. Lake Fenton                                        (20-0)   59 5. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard                    (17-3)   53 6. Haslett                                              (20-1)   51 7. Vicksburg                                         (20-0)  45 8. Frankenmuth                                       (17-2)   35 9. Goodrich                                            (18-2)   26 (tie) North Branch                                  (18-2)   26 Others receiving votes: Lansing Catholic 18, Dearborn Divine Child 14, Escanaba 14, Big Rapids 12, Wixom St. Catherine of Siena Academy 8, Detroit Country Day 5, Standish-Sterling 5, Redford Westfield Prep 4, Caro 4, Romulus 4, Ludington 3, Warren Fitzgerald 3, Marysville 1. Division 3 1. Dansville (1)                                       (17-1)   66 (tie) Ypsilanti Arbor Preparatory (3)          (15-5)   66 3. Buchanan                                          (18-1)  65 4. Blissfield                                           (19-1)   61 5. Lake City (1)                                        (19-1)   54 6. Hancock                                             (17-1)   44 7. Hemlock                                             (16-3)   35 8. Traverse City St. Francis                       (17-2)   34 (tie) Sanford-Meridian                             (18-1)   34 10. Kent City                                          (17-3)   29 Others receiving votes: Brandywine 27, McBain 14, Hart 13, Evart 11, Calumet 11, Bronson 7, Ithaca 7, Springport 7, Sandusky 5, Harbor Springs 3, Elk Rapids 3, Saginaw Valley Lutheran 2, Madison Heights Bishop Foley 1, Ovid-Elsie 1. Division 4 1. Maple City Glen Lake (5)                        (17-2)   75 2. Kingston                                            (18-1)   68 3. Gaylord St. Mary                                 (18-2)   61 4. Mackinaw City                                     (19-1)   60 (tie) St. Charles                                     (17-2)   60 6. Petersburg Summerfield                         (18-2)   47 7. Baraga                                               (16-4)   33 8. Norway                                              (17-3)   28 9. Martin                                              (15-4)  21 10. Cedarville                                        (15-4)   20 (tie) Pittsford                                        (16-3)   20 Others receiving votes: Brethren 16, Lake Linden-Hubbell 16, Hillman 15, Fowler 13, Ontonagon 8, Colon 8, Genesee Christian 8, Morenci 7, Carney-Nadeau 5, Indian River-Inland Lakes 4, Manistee Catholic Central 4, Mendon 2, Ewen-Trout Creek 1.AP MEN’S TOP 251Houston(48)25-22Alabama(7)23-43Kansas(7)22-54UCLA23-45Purdue24-46Virginia21-47Arizona24-48Texas21-69Baylor20-710Marquette21-611Tennessee20-712Gonzaga23-513Miami22-514Kansas State20-715Saint Mary’s24-516Xavier20-717Indiana19-818UConn20-719Creighton18-920Providence20-721Northwestern20-722San Diego State21-523Iowa State17-924TCU18-925Texas A&M20-7AP WOMEN’S TOP 251South Carolina(27)27-02Indiana (1)26-13Stanford25-34UConn24-45LSU25-16Iowa22-57Maryland22-58Utah23-39Virginia Tech22-410Notre Dame22-411Duke23-412Michigan20-613Oklahoma22-414Arizona21-615Villanova23-516Ohio State22-517UCLA21-618Gonzaga25-319Texas21-720Iowa State17-721Colorado21-622North Carolina19-823Florida State22-724UNLV25-225TMiddle Tennessee22-425TIllinois20-7See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Detroit Red Wings 6, Vancouver Canucks 1 Red Wings 6, Canucks 1 – Red Wings trounce struggling Canucks 6-1 Dylan Larkin scored twice and the Detroit Red Wings beat the struggling Vancouver Canucks 6-1 for their third straight win. Robby Fabbri and Gustav Lindstrom each had a goal and an assist, and Pius Suter and Jonatan Berggren also scored for the Red Wings. Michael Rasmussen had two assists and Ville Husso made 29 saves, including a late penalty shot. It was the Red Wings' second lopsided win in the last three days against the Canucks after winning 5-2 in Detroit on Saturday. Sheldon Dries scored for Vancouver and Collin Delia stopped 17 shots. The Canucks have given up five or more goals in 25 of 54 games this season. Tonight Chicago Blackhawks at Montreal Canadiens, 7:00 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Orlando Magic 100, Chicago Bulls 91 Utah Jazz 123, Indiana Pacers 117 Magic 100, Bulls 91 – Banchero, Wagner, Fultz lead Magic over Bulls 100-91 Paolo Banchero scored 22 points, Franz Wagner and Markelle Fultz added 18 points apiece and the Orlando Magic beat the cold-shooting Chicago Bulls 100-91. Fultz just missed a triple-double with 10 rebounds and nine assists. Wendell Carter Jr. scored 15 points against his former team as the Magic won for the fourth time in six games. The Bulls matched a season high by dropping their fourth in a row. They missed their first 16 3-pointers before Coby White hit one late in the third and 18 of 21 in all. Zach LaVine led Chicago with 26 points. Jazz 123, Pacers 117 – Clarkson, Markkanen lead Jazz past Pacers 123-117 Jordan Clarkson and Lauri Markkanen each scored 29 points and the Utah Jazz beat the Indiana Pacers 123-117. Clarkson hit a 3-pointer for a 115-110 lead with 2:03 remaining, and added a 13-foot baseline jumper to extend the lead to 117-113 in the final minute. Lauri Markkanen sealed the win with four free throws in the final 14.2 seconds. Tyrese Haliburton finished with 30 points and 12 assists, Bennedict Mathurin scored 21 and Aaron Nesmith 19 for Indiana. NCAAFB – Alabama announces hiring of coordinators Steele, Rees Alabama coach Nick Saban has hired Kevin Steele as defensive coordinator and Tommy Rees as offensive coordinator. Alabama announced the already widely reported hirings on Monday, along with the addition of inside linebackers coach Austin Armstrong. Steele is a former defensive coordinator at a number of Power Five schools and spent last season at Miami. Rees had spent the last three seasons as offensive coordinator at Notre Dame, where he’s a former starting quarterback. Armstrong was the Southern Miss defensive coordinator the past two seasons. NCAAFB – Michigan says it had proof against fired football assistant Michigan fired football co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss in January after he failed to attend a meeting to discuss whether he had gained access to computer accounts that belonged to other people. That’s according to documents released to The Associated Press. An athletic department official told Weiss that the university had evidence that he had “inappropriately accessed” the accounts. Weiss was fired on Jan. 20, after skipping a meeting. Campus police are investigating possible computer crimes at the football building known as Schembechler Hall. Weiss has not directly addressed the allegations, saying only that he looks forward to “putting this matter” behind him. NFL – Super Bowl averages 113 million, 3rd most-watched in history Sunday's Super Bowl was the third most-watched television show in history, with an estimated 113 million people watching the Kansas City Chiefs rally to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles. Fox said Monday that the preliminary numbers include the broadcasts on Fox and Fox Deportes as well as streaming on Fox and the NFL's digital sites. The figures are via Nielsen's Fast National data and Adobe Analytics. Final Nielsen data will be available on Tuesday. Rihanna's halftime show averaged 118.7 million viewers, making it the second-most watched in Super Bowl history behind Katy Perry’s 2015 performance. NCAAMBKB – Men's College Basketball Tonight Michigan at Wisconsin, 9:00 p.m.    News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM (joined after HSBB) Notre Dame at Duke, 7:00 p.m. Kent State at Western Michigan, 7:00 p.m. Central Michigan at Bowling Green, 7:00 p.m. Akron at Eastern Michigan, 7:00 p.m. NCAAMBKB – Bama takes over number 1 in men's top 25 Alabama is the new No. 1, rising to the top spot in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll for the first time in 20 years. Purdue's loss to Northwestern last week caused a jumble at the top of the AP Top 25 and the Crimson Tide were the biggest beneficiaries. Alabama received 38 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel, moving up two spots to leapfrog No. 2 Houston. The Cougars had 22 first-place votes to remain at No. 2 and Purdue, down to No. 3, still had two votes at No. 1. UCLA and Kansas rounded out the top five. NCAAWBKB – South Carolina still #1 The UNLV women are ranked No. 23 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll. It is the first ranking for the Lady Rebels since 1994. South Carolina is ranked No. 1 for the 34th consecutive week — the third-longest run in poll history. Indiana, Stanford, Utah and LSU round out the top five. UConn saw its 30-year streak of not losing consecutive games end last week and is now ranked sixth. NCAAMBKB – Former Michigan State star pleads guilty in 2021 murder case A former Michigan State University basketball star has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a firearm charge in the fatal shooting of a Detroit man. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy says 31-year-old Keith Damon Appling pleaded guilty Monday to one count each of second-degree murder and felony firearm in the killing of 66-year-old Clyde Edmonds. Prosecutors say Appling fatally shot Edmonds in May 2021 after the men argued over a handgun. His plea agreement calls for 18 to 40 years in prison on the second-degree murder charge and two years to be served consecutively on the firearm charge. The Detroit Pershing prep star played at Michigan State from 2010 to 2014. Appling also played pro basketball overseas and had two brief contracts with the NBA's Orlando Magic. MLB – Spring training’s start brings pitch clocks, shift limits Spring training opens Monday in Florida and Arizona. And there’ll be lots of new changes, like pitch clocks, limits on defensive shifts and larger bases. Players are reporting early ahead of the World Baseball Classic. Opening day is March 30. This season will see some star players in new places: Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander, Trea Turner and Xander Bogaerts. There also are four new managers: Bruce Bochy, Matt Quatraro, Pedro Grifol and Skip Schumaker. MLB – ‘Ghost runner’ in extra innings made permanent by MLB Starting extra innings with a runner on second base during the regular season was made a permanent rules change by Major League Baseball after three seasons of use during the coronavirus pandemic. Use of position players as pitchers also was tightened by the joint competition committee. They will be limited to extra innings, when a player's team is losing by eight or more runs or is winning by 10 or more runs in the ninth inning. Last year, a position player could pitch only in extra innings or if his team was losing or winning by six or more runs. NBAGL – NBA ‘G' League Last Night Windy City Bulls 115, Grand Rapids Gold 112 – OT Tonight Windy City Bulls at Grand Rapids Gold, 7:00 p.m MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Basketball Portage Central 55, Lakeshore 49 Portage Central got 29 points from junior Alex Beachnau in a 55-49 win over Lakeshore.  The Lancers were lead by 17 points from Jack Carlisle.  The Lancers fall to 6-10 on the year. Our Lady of the Lake 45, Hartford 41 – OT Matt Lage had 28 points to help lead Our Lady of the Lake to a 45-41 overtime win at Hartford. Owen McLoughlin added 15 points for the Lakers. Lawrence 63, Michigan Lutheran 55 Lawrence outscored Michigan Lutheran 20-2 in the 3rd quarter for a 63-55 win over the Titans. Tim Coombs had 26 points to lead Lawrence, and John Schumann had 20 points, 11 rebounds and 11 blocks. Zac Lockman scored 12 to lead ML, Jared DeWeerd had 10. Brandywine 85, Bloomingdale 37 Fennville 58, Covert 48 Homer 56, Centreville 50 Girls Basketball St. Joseph 48, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 34 St. Joe picked up their second straight win with a 48-34 win over Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, Jaslynn Ward scored a game high 15 points to lead the Bears, while Tess Kapelke added 13. Brandywine 42, Michigan Lutheran 14 Coloma 35, Delton-Kellogg 27 Bridgman 34, Parchment 32 Fennville 30, Comstock 23 Schoolcraft 46, Cassopolis 35 Tonight Boys Basketball Non-Conference Kalamazoo Central at Benton Harbor, 7:00 p.m. WSJM Martin at Michigan Lutheran, 7:00 p.m. Countryside Academy at Kalamazoo Phoenix, 8:00 p.m. Watervliet at Berrien Springs, 7:00 p.m. Brandywine at Bridgman, 7:15 p.m. South Haven at Dowagiac, 7:15 p.m. Howardsville Christian at Hartford, 6:30 p.m. Marcellus at New Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Decatur at River Valley, 7:00 p.m. Coldwater at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 7:00 p.m. Allegan at Comstock, 7:00 p.m. Mendon at Tekonsha, 7:30 p.m. SAC Kalamazoo Hackett at Holland Black River, 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Delton-Kellogg, 7:00 p.m. Lawton at Galesburg-Augusta, 7:00 p.m. Constantine at Gobles, 7:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Saugatuck, 7:00 p.m. Wolverine Paw Paw at Niles, 7:15 p.m. Three Rivers at Otsego, 7:15 p.m. Edwardsburg at Sturgis, 7:15 p.m. Plainwell at Vicksburg, 7:15 p.m. Girls Basketball Non-Conference Benton Harbor at Kalamazoo Central, 7:00 p.m. Fennville at Our Lady of the Lake, 7:00 p.m. River Valley at Decatur, 6:00 p.m. Dowagiac at Watervliet, 7:00 p.m. New Buffalo at Marcellus, 7:00 p.m. Hartford at Howardsville Christian, 6:30 p.m. Mattawan at Coldwater, 7:00 p.m. Comstock at Allegan, 7:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Lawrence, 7:30 p.m. Burr Oak at Mendon, 6:30 p.m. Wolverine Niles at Paw Paw, 7:15 p.m. Otsego at Three Rivers, 7:15 p.m. Sturgis at Edwardsburg, 7:15 p.m. Vicksburg at Plainwell, 7:15 p.m. SAC Martin at Kalamazoo Christian, 7:00 p.m. Galesburg-Augusta at Kalamazoo Hackett, 7:00 p.m. Holland Black River at Lawton, 7:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Parchment, 7;00 p.m. Gobles at Schoolcraft, 7:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Basketball AP Rankings Boys Basketball Division 1 1. Detroit Cass Tech (5)                           (17-0)   75 2. North Farmington                                (15-1)   67 3. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice                (16-1)   64 3. Muskegon                                           (15-1)   64 5. Grand Blanc                                       (15-2)   54 6. Detroit U-D Jesuit                               (15-3)   49 7. Ann Arbor Huron                                 (16-1)   47 8. Port Huron Northern                           (16-2)   30 (tie) Kalamazoo Central                         (15-2)  30 10. Grand Rapids Northview                      (13-4)   28 Others receiving votes: Grosse Pointe South 18, Grand Haven 13, Warren De La Salle 11, Okemos 10, Battle Creek Lakeview 8, Portage Northern 7, Clarkston 6, Hamtramck 4, Mason 4, Mount Pleasant 4, Saline 2, St. Joseph 2, Ann Arbor Skyline 1, Mattawan 1, River Rouge 1. Division 2 1. Romulus Summit Academy (4)                  (15-1)   72 2. Warren Michigan Collegiate                  (14-2)   67 3. Warren Lincoln                                   (15-3)   61 4. Olivet                                                (17-0)   59 5. Saginaw                                             (15-4)   48 6. Benton Harbor                                  (13-4)  46 7. Grand Rapids Christian                         (12-4)   44 8. Grand Rapids Catholic Central               (12-5)   29 9. Ludington                                          (15-1)   28 10. Boyne City (1)                                   (15-2)   22 (tie) Grand Rapids South Christian             (14-3)   22 Others receiving votes: Big Rapids 20, Standish Sterling Central 16, Chelsea 15, Hart 13, Ferndale 12, Flat Rock 9, Kingsford 7, Cadillac 5, Flint Hamady 3, Richmond 2. Division 3 1. Detroit Loyola (4)                               (15-1)   88 2. Laingsburg (1)                                     (16-0)   82 3. Flint Beecher (1)                                 (13-3)   80 4. Watervliet                                        (15-1)  68 5. Napoleon                                            (16-0)   54 6. Brandywine                                      (14-1)  51 7. Iron Mountain                                     (16-1)   46 8. Grandville Calvin Christian                   (15-1)   45 9. Cass City                                            (15-1)   34 10. Maple City Glen Lake                           (15-1)   32 Others receiving votes: Traverse City St. Francis 26, St. Ignace 25, Blanchard Montabella 19, Saginaw Nouvel 18, Jonesville 11, McBain 10, Clinton 7, Ovid-Elsie 6, Ecorse 5, Brown City 4, New Haven 3, Bad Axe 3, Beal City 2, Erie-Mason 1. Division 4 1. Taylor Trillium Academy (2)                   (14-0)   72 2. Painesdale Jeffers (2)                           (16-0)   63 3. Mio Au Sable                                       (14-0)   54 4. Hillman                                              (14-1)   50 5. Munising                                            (16-1)   48 6. Lake Leelanau St Mary (1)                      (14-1)   47 7. Powers North Central                          (11-3)   38 8. Gaylord St. Mary                                 (15-2)   37 9. Baldwin                                             (16-1)   34 10. Bellevue                                           (14-1)   32 Others receiving votes: Genesee Christian 28, Wyoming Tri-unity Christian 26, Ironwood 20, Detroit Douglass 15, Kingston 10, Rudyard 9, Pittsford 4, Watersmeet 3, Onaway 3, Eau Claire 1. Girls Basketball Division 1 1. West Bloomfield (4)                             (17-2)   73 2. Detroit Renaissance (1)                         (15-0)   69 3. Rockford                                            (16-1)   64 4. Flint Carman Ainsworth                         (14-0)   61 5. Farmington Hills Mercy                         (16-2)   57 6. Wayne Memorial                                   (15-4)   49 7. Grosse Pointe North                            (15-2)   47 8. Holt                                                  (15-2)   27 9. Byron Center                                      (15-3)   23 10. DeWitt                                             (16-2)   18 Others receiving votes: Jackson Northwest 16, Temperance Bedford 16, North Farmington 14, Coldwater 13, Saline 11, Utica Ford 8, Kalamazoo Central 8, 18, Grand Blanc 6, Belleville 4, Lake Orion 4, East Grand Rapids 3, Rochester 3, Howell 2, Lowell 2, Riverview 1, Canton Salem 1. Division 2 1. Grand Rapids West Catholic (5)              (17-0)   75 2. Detroit Edison                                     (14-3)   68 3. Chelsea                                              (18-1)   64 4. Haslett                                              (19-0)   63 5. Lake Fenton                                        (19-0)   55 6. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard                    (15-3)   47 7. Vicksburg                                         (18-0)  36 8. Goodrich                                            (17-1)   32 9. Dearborn Divine Child                          (13-5)   29 10. Frankenmuth                                     (15-2)   26 Others receiving votes: Lansing Catholic 15, Big Rapids 14, Escanaba 12, North Branch 11, Romulus 11, Redford Westfield Prep 10, Wixom St. Catherine of Siena Academy 6, Ludington 5, Standish-Sterling 5, Warren Fitzgerald 4, Marine City 4, St. Clair 3, Marysville 2, Macomb Lutheran North 2, Hamilton 1. Division 3 1. Buchanan (1)                                     (17-1)  69 2. Dansville (2)                                       (16-1)   64 3. Blissfield                                           (17-1)   62 4. Ypsilanti Arbor Preparatory (1)              (12-5)   60 5. Hancock                                             (15-1)   54 5. Lake City (1)                                        (17-1)   54 7. Hemlock                                             (15-3)   31 8. Traverse City St. Francis                       (15-2)   29 9. Sanford-Meridian                                (17-1)   28 (tie) Kent City                                        (16-3)   28 Others receiving votes: McBain 22, Brandywine 14, Saginaw Valley Lutheran 14, Evart 13, Harbor Springs 13, Hart 12, Calumet 12, Ovid-Elsie 7, 19, Sandusky 5, Ithaca 5, Bronson 4. Division 4 1. Maple City Glen Lake (4)                        (14-2)   74 2. Kingston (1)                                       (15-1)   69 3. Gaylord St. Mary                                 (16-2)   63 4. Mackinaw City                                     (16-1)   60 5. St. Charles                                         (16-2)   53 6. Petersburg Summerfield                         (16-2)   40 7. Norway                                              (17-2)   35 8. Baraga                                               (14-3)   31 9. Cedarville                                          (13-3)   24 10. Hillman                                            (15-3)   20 (tie) Martin                                          (14-3)  20 Others receiving votes: Morenci 19, Pittsford 18, Fowler 14, Lake Linden-Hubbell 14, Brethren 13, Genesee Christian 10, Colon 8, Ontonagon 8, Hillsdale Academy 3, Indian River-Inland Lakes 2, Ewen-Trout Creek 1, Manistee Catholic Central 1.Detroit Red Wings’ Pius Suter (24) scores against Vancouver Canucks goalie Collin Delia (60) during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)Orlando Magic’s Paolo Banchero (5) shoots as Chicago Bulls’ Patrick Williams (44) and Nikola Vucevic watch during the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)FILE – Notre Dame offensive coordinator Tommy Rees talks with players during a timeout in the Blue-Gold NCAA spring football game on May 1, 2021, in South Bend, Ind. Rees has spoken with Alabama coach Nick Saban about filling a vacancy on the Crimson Tide’s coaching staff and was scheduled to be in Tuscaloosa on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Robert Franklin, File)AP MEN'S TOP 251Alabama (38)22-32Houston (22)23-23Purdue (2)23-34UCLA21-45Kansas20-56Texas20-57Virginia19-48Arizona22-49Baylor19-610Tennessee19-611Marquette20-612Kansas State19-613Gonzaga21-514Indiana18-715Miami20-516Xavier19-617Saint Mary’s22-518Creighton17-819Iowa State16-820UConn19-721San Diego State20-522TCU17-823NC State20-624Providence18-725Florida Atlantic24-2AP WOMEN'S TOP 251South Carolina (28)25-02Indiana23-13Stanford24-34Utah22-25LSU23-16UConn22-47Iowa20-58Maryland21-59Duke22-310Notre Dame20-411Virginia Tech20-412Michigan20-513Ohio State21-414Villanova22-415Oklahoma20-416UCLA20-617Texas20-618Arizona19-619North Carolina18-720Gonzaga23-321Colorado20-522Iowa State15-723UNLV24-224Florida State20-725USC19-6See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NHL – National Hockey League Last Night Detroit Red Wings 6, Vancouver Canucks 1 Red Wings 6, Canucks 1 – Red Wings trounce struggling Canucks 6-1 Dylan Larkin scored twice and the Detroit Red Wings beat the struggling Vancouver Canucks 6-1 for their third straight win. Robby Fabbri and Gustav Lindstrom each had a goal and an assist, and Pius Suter and Jonatan Berggren also scored for the Red Wings. Michael Rasmussen had two assists and Ville Husso made 29 saves, including a late penalty shot. It was the Red Wings’ second lopsided win in the last three days against the Canucks after winning 5-2 in Detroit on Saturday. Sheldon Dries scored for Vancouver and Collin Delia stopped 17 shots. The Canucks have given up five or more goals in 25 of 54 games this season. Tonight Chicago Blackhawks at Montreal Canadiens, 7:00 p.m. NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Orlando Magic 100, Chicago Bulls 91 Utah Jazz 123, Indiana Pacers 117 Magic 100, Bulls 91 – Banchero, Wagner, Fultz lead Magic over Bulls 100-91 Paolo Banchero scored 22 points, Franz Wagner and Markelle Fultz added 18 points apiece and the Orlando Magic beat the cold-shooting Chicago Bulls 100-91. Fultz just missed a triple-double with 10 rebounds and nine assists. Wendell Carter Jr. scored 15 points against his former team as the Magic won for the fourth time in six games. The Bulls matched a season high by dropping their fourth in a row. They missed their first 16 3-pointers before Coby White hit one late in the third and 18 of 21 in all. Zach LaVine led Chicago with 26 points. Jazz 123, Pacers 117 – Clarkson, Markkanen lead Jazz past Pacers 123-117 Jordan Clarkson and Lauri Markkanen each scored 29 points and the Utah Jazz beat the Indiana Pacers 123-117. Clarkson hit a 3-pointer for a 115-110 lead with 2:03 remaining, and added a 13-foot baseline jumper to extend the lead to 117-113 in the final minute. Lauri Markkanen sealed the win with four free throws in the final 14.2 seconds. Tyrese Haliburton finished with 30 points and 12 assists, Bennedict Mathurin scored 21 and Aaron Nesmith 19 for Indiana. NCAAFB – Alabama announces hiring of coordinators Steele, Rees Alabama coach Nick Saban has hired Kevin Steele as defensive coordinator and Tommy Rees as offensive coordinator. Alabama announced the already widely reported hirings on Monday, along with the addition of inside linebackers coach Austin Armstrong. Steele is a former defensive coordinator at a number of Power Five schools and spent last season at Miami. Rees had spent the last three seasons as offensive coordinator at Notre Dame, where he’s a former starting quarterback. Armstrong was the Southern Miss defensive coordinator the past two seasons. NCAAFB – Michigan says it had proof against fired football assistant Michigan fired football co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss in January after he failed to attend a meeting to discuss whether he had gained access to computer accounts that belonged to other people. That’s according to documents released to The Associated Press. An athletic department official told Weiss that the university had evidence that he had “inappropriately accessed” the accounts. Weiss was fired on Jan. 20, after skipping a meeting. Campus police are investigating possible computer crimes at the football building known as Schembechler Hall. Weiss has not directly addressed the allegations, saying only that he looks forward to “putting this matter” behind him. NFL – Super Bowl averages 113 million, 3rd most-watched in history Sunday’s Super Bowl was the third most-watched television show in history, with an estimated 113 million people watching the Kansas City Chiefs rally to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles. Fox said Monday that the preliminary numbers include the broadcasts on Fox and Fox Deportes as well as streaming on Fox and the NFL’s digital sites. The figures are via Nielsen’s Fast National data and Adobe Analytics. Final Nielsen data will be available on Tuesday. Rihanna’s halftime show averaged 118.7 million viewers, making it the second-most watched in Super Bowl history behind Katy Perry’s 2015 performance. NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball Tonight Michigan at Wisconsin, 9:00 p.m.    News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM (joined after HSBB) Notre Dame at Duke, 7:00 p.m. Kent State at Western Michigan, 7:00 p.m. Central Michigan at Bowling Green, 7:00 p.m. Akron at Eastern Michigan, 7:00 p.m. NCAAMBKB – Bama takes over number 1 in men’s top 25 Alabama is the new No. 1, rising to the top spot in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the first time in 20 years. Purdue’s loss to Northwestern last week caused a jumble at the top of the AP Top 25 and the Crimson Tide were the biggest beneficiaries. Alabama received 38 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel, moving up two spots to leapfrog No. 2 Houston. The Cougars had 22 first-place votes to remain at No. 2 and Purdue, down to No. 3, still had two votes at No. 1. UCLA and Kansas rounded out the top five. NCAAWBKB – South Carolina still #1 The UNLV women are ranked No. 23 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll. It is the first ranking for the Lady Rebels since 1994. South Carolina is ranked No. 1 for the 34th consecutive week — the third-longest run in poll history. Indiana, Stanford, Utah and LSU round out the top five. UConn saw its 30-year streak of not losing consecutive games end last week and is now ranked sixth. NCAAMBKB – Former Michigan State star pleads guilty in 2021 murder case A former Michigan State University basketball star has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a firearm charge in the fatal shooting of a Detroit man. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy says 31-year-old Keith Damon Appling pleaded guilty Monday to one count each of second-degree murder and felony firearm in the killing of 66-year-old Clyde Edmonds. Prosecutors say Appling fatally shot Edmonds in May 2021 after the men argued over a handgun. His plea agreement calls for 18 to 40 years in prison on the second-degree murder charge and two years to be served consecutively on the firearm charge. The Detroit Pershing prep star played at Michigan State from 2010 to 2014. Appling also played pro basketball overseas and had two brief contracts with the NBA’s Orlando Magic. MLB – Spring training’s start brings pitch clocks, shift limits Spring training opens Monday in Florida and Arizona. And there’ll be lots of new changes, like pitch clocks, limits on defensive shifts and larger bases. Players are reporting early ahead of the World Baseball Classic. Opening day is March 30. This season will see some star players in new places: Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander, Trea Turner and Xander Bogaerts. There also are four new managers: Bruce Bochy, Matt Quatraro, Pedro Grifol and Skip Schumaker. MLB – ‘Ghost runner’ in extra innings made permanent by MLB Starting extra innings with a runner on second base during the regular season was made a permanent rules change by Major League Baseball after three seasons of use during the coronavirus pandemic. Use of position players as pitchers also was tightened by the joint competition committee. They will be limited to extra innings, when a player’s team is losing by eight or more runs or is winning by 10 or more runs in the ninth inning. Last year, a position player could pitch only in extra innings or if his team was losing or winning by six or more runs. NBAGL – NBA ‘G’ League Last Night Windy City Bulls 115, Grand Rapids Gold 112 – OT Tonight Windy City Bulls at Grand Rapids Gold, 7:00 p.m MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Basketball Portage Central 55, Lakeshore 49 Portage Central got 29 points from junior Alex Beachnau in a 55-49 win over Lakeshore.  The Lancers were lead by 17 points from Jack Carlisle.  The Lancers fall to 6-10 on the year. Our Lady of the Lake 45, Hartford 41 – OT Matt Lage had 28 points to help lead Our Lady of the Lake to a 45-41 overtime win at Hartford. Owen McLoughlin added 15 points for the Lakers. Lawrence 63, Michigan Lutheran 55 Lawrence outscored Michigan Lutheran 20-2 in the 3rd quarter for a 63-55 win over the Titans. Tim Coombs had 26 points to lead Lawrence, and John Schumann had 20 points, 11 rebounds and 11 blocks. Zac Lockman scored 12 to lead ML, Jared DeWeerd had 10. Brandywine 85, Bloomingdale 37 Fennville 58, Covert 48 Homer 56, Centreville 50 Girls Basketball St. Joseph 48, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 34 St. Joe picked up their second straight win with a 48-34 win over Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, Jaslynn Ward scored a game high 15 points to lead the Bears, while Tess Kapelke added 13. Brandywine 42, Michigan Lutheran 14 Coloma 35, Delton-Kellogg 27 Bridgman 34, Parchment 32 Fennville 30, Comstock 23 Schoolcraft 46, Cassopolis 35 Tonight Boys Basketball Non-Conference Kalamazoo Central at Benton Harbor, 7:00 p.m. WSJM Martin at Michigan Lutheran, 7:00 p.m. Countryside Academy at Kalamazoo Phoenix, 8:00 p.m. Watervliet at Berrien Springs, 7:00 p.m. Brandywine at Bridgman, 7:15 p.m. South Haven at Dowagiac, 7:15 p.m. Howardsville Christian at Hartford, 6:30 p.m. Marcellus at New Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Decatur at River Valley, 7:00 p.m. Coldwater at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 7:00 p.m. Allegan at Comstock, 7:00 p.m. Mendon at Tekonsha, 7:30 p.m. SAC Kalamazoo Hackett at Holland Black River, 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Delton-Kellogg, 7:00 p.m. Lawton at Galesburg-Augusta, 7:00 p.m. Constantine at Gobles, 7:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Saugatuck, 7:00 p.m. Wolverine Paw Paw at Niles, 7:15 p.m. Three Rivers at Otsego, 7:15 p.m. Edwardsburg at Sturgis, 7:15 p.m. Plainwell at Vicksburg, 7:15 p.m. Girls Basketball Non-Conference Benton Harbor at Kalamazoo Central, 7:00 p.m. Fennville at Our Lady of the Lake, 7:00 p.m. River Valley at Decatur, 6:00 p.m. Dowagiac at Watervliet, 7:00 p.m. New Buffalo at Marcellus, 7:00 p.m. Hartford at Howardsville Christian, 6:30 p.m. Mattawan at Coldwater, 7:00 p.m. Comstock at Allegan, 7:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Lawrence, 7:30 p.m. Burr Oak at Mendon, 6:30 p.m. Wolverine Niles at Paw Paw, 7:15 p.m. Otsego at Three Rivers, 7:15 p.m. Sturgis at Edwardsburg, 7:15 p.m. Vicksburg at Plainwell, 7:15 p.m. SAC Martin at Kalamazoo Christian, 7:00 p.m. Galesburg-Augusta at Kalamazoo Hackett, 7:00 p.m. Holland Black River at Lawton, 7:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Parchment, 7;00 p.m. Gobles at Schoolcraft, 7:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Basketball AP Rankings Boys Basketball Division 1 1. Detroit Cass Tech (5)                           (17-0)   75 2. North Farmington                                (15-1)   67 3. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice                (16-1)   64 3. Muskegon                                           (15-1)   64 5. Grand Blanc                                       (15-2)   54 6. Detroit U-D Jesuit                               (15-3)   49 7. Ann Arbor Huron                                 (16-1)   47 8. Port Huron Northern                           (16-2)   30 (tie) Kalamazoo Central                         (15-2)  30 10. Grand Rapids Northview                      (13-4)   28 Others receiving votes: Grosse Pointe South 18, Grand Haven 13, Warren De La Salle 11, Okemos 10, Battle Creek Lakeview 8, Portage Northern 7, Clarkston 6, Hamtramck 4, Mason 4, Mount Pleasant 4, Saline 2, St. Joseph 2, Ann Arbor Skyline 1, Mattawan 1, River Rouge 1. Division 2 1. Romulus Summit Academy (4)                  (15-1)   72 2. Warren Michigan Collegiate                  (14-2)   67 3. Warren Lincoln                                   (15-3)   61 4. Olivet                                                (17-0)   59 5. Saginaw                                             (15-4)   48 6. Benton Harbor                                  (13-4)  46 7. Grand Rapids Christian                         (12-4)   44 8. Grand Rapids Catholic Central               (12-5)   29 9. Ludington                                          (15-1)   28 10. Boyne City (1)                                   (15-2)   22 (tie) Grand Rapids South Christian             (14-3)   22 Others receiving votes: Big Rapids 20, Standish Sterling Central 16, Chelsea 15, Hart 13, Ferndale 12, Flat Rock 9, Kingsford 7, Cadillac 5, Flint Hamady 3, Richmond 2. Division 3 1. Detroit Loyola (4)                               (15-1)   88 2. Laingsburg (1)                                     (16-0)   82 3. Flint Beecher (1)                                 (13-3)   80 4. Watervliet                                        (15-1)  68 5. Napoleon                                            (16-0)   54 6. Brandywine                                      (14-1)  51 7. Iron Mountain                                     (16-1)   46 8. Grandville Calvin Christian                   (15-1)   45 9. Cass City                                            (15-1)   34 10. Maple City Glen Lake                           (15-1)   32 Others receiving votes: Traverse City St. Francis 26, St. Ignace 25, Blanchard Montabella 19, Saginaw Nouvel 18, Jonesville 11, McBain 10, Clinton 7, Ovid-Elsie 6, Ecorse 5, Brown City 4, New Haven 3, Bad Axe 3, Beal City 2, Erie-Mason 1. Division 4 1. Taylor Trillium Academy (2)                   (14-0)   72 2. Painesdale Jeffers (2)                           (16-0)   63 3. Mio Au Sable                                       (14-0)   54 4. Hillman                                              (14-1)   50 5. Munising                                            (16-1)   48 6. Lake Leelanau St Mary (1)                      (14-1)   47 7. Powers North Central                          (11-3)   38 8. Gaylord St. Mary                                 (15-2)   37 9. Baldwin                                             (16-1)   34 10. Bellevue                                           (14-1)   32 Others receiving votes: Genesee Christian 28, Wyoming Tri-unity Christian 26, Ironwood 20, Detroit Douglass 15, Kingston 10, Rudyard 9, Pittsford 4, Watersmeet 3, Onaway 3, Eau Claire 1. Girls Basketball Division 1 1. West Bloomfield (4)                             (17-2)   73 2. Detroit Renaissance (1)                         (15-0)   69 3. Rockford                                            (16-1)   64 4. Flint Carman Ainsworth                         (14-0)   61 5. Farmington Hills Mercy                         (16-2)   57 6. Wayne Memorial                                   (15-4)   49 7. Grosse Pointe North                            (15-2)   47 8. Holt                                                  (15-2)   27 9. Byron Center                                      (15-3)   23 10. DeWitt                                             (16-2)   18 Others receiving votes: Jackson Northwest 16, Temperance Bedford 16, North Farmington 14, Coldwater 13, Saline 11, Utica Ford 8, Kalamazoo Central 8, 18, Grand Blanc 6, Belleville 4, Lake Orion 4, East Grand Rapids 3, Rochester 3, Howell 2, Lowell 2, Riverview 1, Canton Salem 1. Division 2 1. Grand Rapids West Catholic (5)              (17-0)   75 2. Detroit Edison                                     (14-3)   68 3. Chelsea                                              (18-1)   64 4. Haslett                                              (19-0)   63 5. Lake Fenton                                        (19-0)   55 6. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard                    (15-3)   47 7. Vicksburg                                         (18-0)  36 8. Goodrich                                            (17-1)   32 9. Dearborn Divine Child                          (13-5)   29 10. Frankenmuth                                     (15-2)   26 Others receiving votes: Lansing Catholic 15, Big Rapids 14, Escanaba 12, North Branch 11, Romulus 11, Redford Westfield Prep 10, Wixom St. Catherine of Siena Academy 6, Ludington 5, Standish-Sterling 5, Warren Fitzgerald 4, Marine City 4, St. Clair 3, Marysville 2, Macomb Lutheran North 2, Hamilton 1. Division 3 1. Buchanan (1)                                     (17-1)  69 2. Dansville (2)                                       (16-1)   64 3. Blissfield                                           (17-1)   62 4. Ypsilanti Arbor Preparatory (1)              (12-5)   60 5. Hancock                                             (15-1)   54 5. Lake City (1)                                        (17-1)   54 7. Hemlock                                             (15-3)   31 8. Traverse City St. Francis                       (15-2)   29 9. Sanford-Meridian                                (17-1)   28 (tie) Kent City                                        (16-3)   28 Others receiving votes: McBain 22, Brandywine 14, Saginaw Valley Lutheran 14, Evart 13, Harbor Springs 13, Hart 12, Calumet 12, Ovid-Elsie 7, 19, Sandusky 5, Ithaca 5, Bronson 4. Division 4 1. Maple City Glen Lake (4)                        (14-2)   74 2. Kingston (1)                                       (15-1)   69 3. Gaylord St. Mary                                 (16-2)   63 4. Mackinaw City                                     (16-1)   60 5. St. Charles                                         (16-2)   53 6. Petersburg Summerfield                         (16-2)   40 7. Norway                                              (17-2)   35 8. Baraga                                               (14-3)   31 9. Cedarville                                          (13-3)   24 10. Hillman                                            (15-3)   20 (tie) Martin                                          (14-3)  20 Others receiving votes: Morenci 19, Pittsford 18, Fowler 14, Lake Linden-Hubbell 14, Brethren 13, Genesee Christian 10, Colon 8, Ontonagon 8, Hillsdale Academy 3, Indian River-Inland Lakes 2, Ewen-Trout Creek 1, Manistee Catholic Central 1.AP MEN’S TOP 251Alabama (38)22-32Houston (22)23-23Purdue (2)23-34UCLA21-45Kansas20-56Texas20-57Virginia19-48Arizona22-49Baylor19-610Tennessee19-611Marquette20-612Kansas State19-613Gonzaga21-514Indiana18-715Miami20-516Xavier19-617Saint Mary’s22-518Creighton17-819Iowa State16-820UConn19-721San Diego State20-522TCU17-823NC State20-624Providence18-725Florida Atlantic24-2AP WOMEN’S TOP 251South Carolina (28)25-02Indiana23-13Stanford24-34Utah22-25LSU23-16UConn22-47Iowa20-58Maryland21-59Duke22-310Notre Dame20-411Virginia Tech20-412Michigan20-513Ohio State21-414Villanova22-415Oklahoma20-416UCLA20-617Texas20-618Arizona19-619North Carolina18-720Gonzaga23-321Colorado20-522Iowa State15-723UNLV24-224Florida State20-725USC19-6See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NBA – National Basketball Association Last Night Boston Celtics 111, Detroit Pistons 99 Chicago Bulls 128, San Antonio Spurs 104 Celtics 111, Pistons 99 – Jayson Tatum scores 34, Celtics cruise past Pistons 111-99 Jayson Tatum started slow and finished strong with 34 points, leading the Boston Celtics to a 111-99 win over the Detroit Pistons. The All-Star forward missed his first five shots and had as many fouls as field goals after missing 10 shots in the first half. Tatum made three 3-pointers and an array of driving layups in the third, scoring 18 points in the quarter to turn a seven-point halftime lead into a 18-point cushion. Bojan Bogdanovic scored 21 for the Pistons, who have won just one-fourth of their game Bulls 128, Spurs 104 – Vucevic, Drummond come up big, Bulls beat Spurs 128-104 Nikola Vucevic had 22 points and 12 rebounds, and the Chicago Bulls handed San Antonio its ninth straight loss with a 128-104 victory over the Spurs. Andre Drummond set season highs with 21 points and 15 rebounds, helping the Bulls match a season high with their third straight win. They also got some payback for a loss at San Antonio in October. It was tied at 85 late in the third quarter when Chicago went on a 23-3 run. Keldon Johnson led San Antonio with 21 points. Tonight Chicago Bulls at Memphis Grizzlies, 8:00 p.m. NBA – NBA reschedules 3 games to make up for 1 postponed by storm The NBA has rescheduled three games after one game was postponed last week when the Detroit Pistons were stranded in Dallas due to a winter storm.  The Pistons will make up their home game against the Washington Wizards on March 7. The league also rescheduled games for both franchises to avoid either team playing on three straight days. Detroit will host the Portland Trail Blazers on March 6, a day before previously scheduled. The Wizards will face the Milwaukee Bucks at home on March 5, also a day earlier than previously planned. NBA – NBA approves sale of Phoenix Suns, Mercury to Mat Ishbia Mortgage executive and former Michigan State guard Mat Ishbia is approved to become the new majority owner of the Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. The NBA’s board of governors approved his plan to purchase the controlling stake of those franchises from Robert Sarver. The vote was 29-0, with the Cleveland Cavaliers abstaining, according to a person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the vote had not yet been announced publicly. Ishbia agreed on Dec. 20 to the deal, one that put the total value of the Suns and Mercury at $4 billion. NHL – National Hockey League Tonight Edmonton Oilers at Detroit Red Wings, 7:30 p.m. Anaheim Ducks at Chicago Blackhawks, 8:30 p.m. NFL – Super Bowl opening night returns with energetic atmosphere Nick Sirianni answered questions about Rocky, Santa Claus and even which of his players on the Philadelphia Eagles he’d want to date his 5-year-old daughter when she grows up. Welcome to Super Bowl opening night where football talk gives way to the wacky. The circus atmosphere that kicks off the NFL’s biggest week has returned for the first time since 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic forced teams to meet the media on video conferences the past two seasons. Sirianni and the Eagles took the stage first at the home of the Phoenix Suns. “Fly, Eagles, Fly” chants greeted players and coaches before they spent an hour answering wide-ranging questions from more than 2,000 media members. NFL – For Super Bowl ads this year, crypto is out, booze is in The hottest ticket in town for advertisers is officially sold out. Fox said Monday that in-game ads for Super Bowl LVII have all been sold. The big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles takes place on Sunday. The Super Bowl is advertising’s biggest stage, with advertisers jockeying to get their products in front of the more than 100 million people that watch each year. Mark Evans, executive vice president of ad sales for Fox Sports, said a few ads went for more than $7 million for a 30-second spot. Most sold between $6 million and $7 million. NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball Tonight Western Michigan at Miami (OH), 7:00 p.m. Ball State at Central Michigan, 7:00 p.m. Eastern Michigan at Buffalo, 7:00 p.m. Maryland at Michigan State, 9:00 p.m.                 Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 8:00 NCAAMBKB – Big 10 – Minnesota-Illinois postponed for COVID-19 Minnesota’s game at Illinois has been postponed because of COVID-19 health and safety protocols within the Gophers’ program. The teams were scheduled to play Tuesday. They will meet on Feb. 20 instead. Minnesota’s announcement did not specify how many players would have been unable to play. The Gophers had only eight available scholarship players for their last game when they lost 81-46 to Maryland. The game will be rescheduled by the Big Ten with input from both schools. Minnesota is next scheduled to host Iowa this Sunday. Illinois will host No. 24 Rutgers this Saturday. NCAAMBKB – Purdue stays No. 1 in AP Top 25; NC State in at No. 22 Purdue remains atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll despite losing its second game of the season. The new poll out Monday also saw Marquette push into the top 10 and North Carolina State make its first poll appearance in four years. The Boilermakers earned 38 of 62 first-place votes to stay at No. 1 for a third straight week and seventh time this season. Houston rose to No. 2 with 22 first-place votes. Marquette is in the top 10 for the first time since 2019. That also was the last time N.C. State was ranked before checking in at No. 22. NCAAWBKB – Indiana reaches No. 2 in women’s Top 25; SC still No. 1 South Carolina beat UConn to remain No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll for the 33rd consecutive week. Indiana moved up to No. 2 for its highest ranking in school history. LSU stayed third and has a showdown with the Gamecocks on Sunday in a matchup of the last undefeated teams. The Huskies moved up to fourth and Iowa was fifth. Stanford fell to sixth after losing to Washington. Utah, Maryland, Duke and Notre Dame round out the top 10. Colorado re-entered at No. 25 while Middle Tennessee fell out. Golf – PGA – Justin Rose wins at Pebble Beach to end 4-year drought Justin Rose is a PGA Tour winner again after four years. Rose made short work on a short Monday with three birdies in four holes. That sent him to a 66 and a three-shot victory in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Rose had not won since Torrey Pines four years ago. Now he’s headed to the Masters again. The tournament was delayed to a Monday finish because of high wind on Saturday. Rose benefited from that stoppage of play. And he was helped by hardly any wind over the final nine holes he played Monday. Brendon Todd and Brandon Wu finished second. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Basketball Plainwell 54, Edwardsburg 52 – OT Niles 65, Buchanan 48 Holland Black River 55, Lawrence 52 Saugatuck 54, Fennville 41 Russell Vande Poel scored 13 points while Carter Miller had 12 in Saugatuck’s 54-41 win over Fennville. Matt Hartgerink added 11 for the Trailblazers, who beat Fennville for the first time since 2017. Harper Creek 46, Sturgis 36 Marcellus at Cassopolis, Cancelled Girls Basketball Mattawan 55, St. Joseph 43 Mattawan’s Delaney Elsmore had 13 of her game high 25 points in the third quarter to help give the Wildcats a 55-43 win at St. Joe.  Jade Mosher added 12 for Mattawan. Eleah Hedstrom led St. Joe with 17 points while Jaslynn Ward scored 10 Buchanan 60, Lakeshore 46 Buchanan’s Faith Carson led all scorers with a game high 28 points in Buchanan’s 60-46 home win over Lakeshore. Labria Austin added 14 for the Bucks.  Paige Lies had 16 to lead Lakeshore, while Emily Lockman had 12 Lawrence 38, Our Lady of the Lake 36 Abby Schrauben scored 20 points for the Lakers in a 38-36 loss to Lawrence. Watervliet 48, Plainwell 40 Watervliet Grace Christian 48, Eau Claire 46 – OT Lawton 54, Delton-Kellogg 20 Harper Creek 48, Sturgis 42 Centreville 47, Hartford 27 Holland Black River 48, Parchment 23 Tonight Boys Basketball SMAC Gull Lake at St. Joseph, 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Lakeshore, 7:00 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Mattawan, 7:00 p.m. Portage Central at Battle Creek Central, 7:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Central at Portage Northern, 7:00 p.m. BCS Michigan Lutheran at Countryside Academy, 7:00 p.m. Howardsville Chr. at Our Lady of the Lake, 7:00 p.m. Covert at New Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Eau Claire at River Valley, 7:30 p.m. SAC Galesburg-Augusta at South Haven, 7:00 p.m. Gobles at Allegan, 7:00 p.m. Martin at Bridgman, 7:15 p.m. Holland Black River at Coloma, 7:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Watervliet, 7:00 p.m. Southwest 10 Decatur at Cassopolis, 7:30 p.m. Comstock at Centreville, 7:30 p.m. Hartford at Marcellus, 7:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Mendon, 7:30 p.m. Bangor at White Pigeon, 7:30 p.m. Non-Conference Constantine at Berrien Springs, 6:45 p.m. Three Rivers at Dowagiac, 7:15 p.m. Lawton at Vicksburg, 7:00 p.m. Vermontville Maple Valley at Delton-Kellogg, 7:00 p.m. GR Covenant Christian at Kal. Christian, 7:00 p.m. Girls Basketball SMAC St. Joseph at Gull Lake, 7:00 p.m. Lakeshore at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 5:45 p.m. Mattawan at Battle Creek Lakeview, 7:00 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Portage Central, 7:00 p.m. Portage Northern at Kalamazoo Central, 7:00 p.m. BCS Our Lady of the Lake at Howardsville Chr., 7:00 p.m. River Valley at Eau Claire, 6:00 p.m. SAC Watervliet at Galesburg-Augusta, 7:00 p.m. Coloma at Gobles, 7:00 p.m. Allegan at Martin, 7:00 p.m. Bridgman at Saugatuck, 7:00 p.m. Southwest 10 Cassopolis at Decatur, 7:30 p.m. Centreville at Comstock, 7:30 p.m. Marcellus at Hartford, 7:30 p.m. Mendon at Bloomingdale, 6:00 p.m. White Pigeon at Bangor, 7:30 p.m. Non-Conference Berrien Springs at Constantine, 7:30 p.m. Brandywine at Schoolcraft, 7:00 p.m. Vicksburg at Lawton, 7:00 p.m. Edwardsburg at Marshall, 7:00 p.m. Dowagiac at Three Rivers, 7:00 p.m. Kal. Christian at GR Covenant Christian, 7:00 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Vermontville Maple Valley, 7:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Basketball AP Rankings Boys Basketball Division 1 1. Detroit Cass Tech (5)                           (17-0)   75 2. North Farmington                                (12-1)   60 3. Muskegon                                           (13-1)   57 4. Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice                (14-1)   56 5. Detroit U-D Jesuit                               (14-2)   55 6. Grand Blanc                                       (14-2)   52 7. Ann Arbor Huron                                 (13-1)   44 8. Port Huron Northern                           (14-1)   40 9. Grand Rapids Northview                        (12-3)   36 10. Kalamazoo Central                          (12-2)  31 Others receiving votes: Okemos 19, Bloomfield Hills 14, Warren De La Salle 9, Orchard Lake St. Mary’s 8, Lansing Waverly 8, Grosse Pointe South 5, Mattawan 5, Mount Pleasant 5, Battle Creek Lakeview 5, Grand Haven 3, Hamtramck 3, Troy 3, Saline 2, Mason 2, Oak Park 2, St. Joseph 1. Division 2 1. Romulus Summit Academy (5)                  (15-1)   75 2. Warren Michigan Collegiate                  (12-1)   68 3. Olivet                                                (15-0)   60 4. Benton Harbor                                  (13-3)  46 (tie) Warren Lincoln                                (11-4)   46 6. Saginaw                                             (14-3)   42 7. Grand Rapids Catholic Central               (10-5)   40 8. Grand Rapids Christian                         (9-4)     34 (tie) Ludington                                       (14-1)   34 10. Chelsea                                            (12-2)   21 Others receiving votes: Hart 20, Standish Sterling Central 18, Cadillac 16, Big Rapids 14, Grand Rapids South Christian 13, Kingsford 10, Boyne City 10, Flat Rock 9, Onsted 6, Flint Hamady 5, Ferndale 5, Croswell-Lexington 4, Ionia 4. Division 3 1. Detroit Loyola (3)                               (14-1)   87 2. Laingsburg (1)                                     (14-0)   82 3. Flint Beecher (2)                                 (12-3)   75 4. Watervliet                                        (13-1)  65 5. Napoleon                                            (14-0)   57 6. Brandywine                                      (13-1)  54 7. Iron Mountain                                     (13-1)   39 8. Grandville Calvin Christian                   (13-1)   35 9. Cass City                                            (13-1)   33 10. Maple City Glen Lake                           (13-1)   32 Others receiving votes: New Haven 21, St. Ignace 21, Saginaw Nouvel 20, Traverse City St. Francis 19, Blanchard Montabella 18, Jonesville 17, McBain 11, Riverview Gabriel Richard 10, Reading 6, Brown City 4, Bad Axe 4, Ecorse 4, Beal City 3, Ovid-Elsie 2, North Muskegon 1. Division 4 1. Taylor Trillium Academy (1)                   (13-0)   70 2. Painesdale Jeffers (2)                           (14-0)   61 3. Genesee Christian (1)                           (12-3)   59 4. Lake Leelanau St Mary (1)                      (13-1)   57 5. Mio Au Sable                                       (12-0)   53 6. Powers North Central                          (11-2)   49 7. Baldwin                                             (12-1)   40 8. Hillman                                              (12-1)   39 9. Munising                                             (14-1)   31 10. Gaylord St. Mary                               (13-2)   30 Others receiving votes: Bellevue 25, Wyoming Tri-unity Christian 25, Ironwood 17, Detroit Douglass 14, Rudyard 14, Kingston 7, Pittsford 4, Onaway 2, Watersmeet 2, Hillsdale Academy 1. Girls Basketball Division 1 1. West Bloomfield (4)                             (15-2)   72 2. Detroit Renaissance (1)                         (15-0)   69 3. Rockford                                            (14-1)   64 4. Flint Carman Ainsworth                         (12-0)   61 5. Farmington Hills Mercy                         (14-2)   54 6. Grosse Pointe North                            (13-2)   47 7. Wayne Memorial                                   (12-5)   46 8. Jackson Northwest                              (15-1)   38 9. Byron Center                                      (13-3)   26 10. Holt                                                (14-2)   24 Others receiving votes: Saline 23, DeWitt 20, North Farmington 14, Temperance Bedford 8, East Grand Rapids 7, Utica Ford 7, Lake Orion 5, Coldwater 4, Grand Blanc 3, Kalamazoo Central 3, Muskegon 2, Howell 1, Belleville 1, Rochester 1. Division 2 1. Grand Rapids West Catholic (5)              (15-0)   75 2. Chelsea                                             (16-1)   66 (tie) Detroit Edison                                 (12-3)   66 4. Haslett                                              (17-0)   62 5. Lake Fenton                                        (17-0)   56 6. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard                    (14-3)   49 7. Vicksburg                                         (16-0)  42 8. Goodrich                                            (14-1)   35 9. Dearborn Divine Child                          (13-4)   31 10. Frankenmuth                                     (13-2)   30 Others receiving votes: Standish-Sterling 23, Lansing Catholic 17, Escanaba 15, Big Rapids 11, Redford Westfield Prep 5, Romulus 4, Wixom St. Catherine of Siena Academy 3, Tecumseh 3, Marysville 3, Macomb Lutheran North 2, Detroit Country Day 2. Division 3 1. Ypsilanti Arbor Preparatory (2)              (9-4)     71 2. Buchanan (1)                                     (14-1)  64 3. Dansville (1)                                       (15-1)   62 4. Blissfield                                           (16-1)   60 5. Lake City (1)                                        (15-1)   53 6. Hancock                                             (13-1)   50 7. Hemlock                                             (13-3)   34 8. Kent City                                            (15-3)   29 9. Harbor Springs                                    (14-2)   28 10. McBain                                             (12-5)   25 Others receiving votes: Sanford-Meridian 23, Evart 19, Ovid-Elsie 14, Traverse City St. Francis 13, Bronson 11, Calumet 11, Brandywine 10, Saginaw Valley Lutheran 9, Elk Rapids 7, Madison Heights Bishop Foley 3, Kalamazoo Christian 3, Detroit Osborn 1. Division 4 1. Maple City Glen Lake (5)                         (13-2)   75 2. Kingston                                             (13-1)   69 3. Mackinaw City                                     (14-1)   59 4. Gaylord St. Mary                                 (13-2)   58 5. St. Charles                                         (14-2)   50 6. Norway                                              (16-1)   41 7. Petersburg Summerfield                         (14-2)   38 8. Baraga                                               (13-3)   36 9. Morenci                                             (15-2)   35 10. Cedarville                                        (12-3)   22 Others receiving votes: St. Ignace LaSalle 15, Brethren 14, Lake Linden-Hubbell 13, Fowler 12, Martin 11, Pittsford 11, Hillman 10, Colon 8, Burton Genesee Christian 6, Ontonagon 5, Hillsdale Academy 4, Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart 3, Mendon 2, Auburn Hills Oakland Christian 2, Onaway 1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Oct. 15. It dropped for free subscribers on Oct. 18. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoBen Doornbos, General Manager at Nub's Nob, MichiganRecorded onOctober 10, 2022About Nub's NobClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The Fisher familyPass affiliations: Indy PassReciprocal pass partners: NoneLocated in: Harbor Springs, MichiganClosest neighboring ski areas: The Highlands (4 minutes), Mt. McSauba (35 minutes), Boyne Mountain (37 minutes), Otsego (55 minutes), Treetops (1 hour), Shanty Creek (1 hour, 9 minutes), Hanson Hills (1 hour, 22 minutes), Mt. Holiday (1 hour, 26 minutes), Hickory Hills (1 hour, 41 minutes), Missaukee Mountain (1 hour, 41 minutes), Snow Snake (1 hour, 58 minutes), The Homestead (2 hours, 11 minutes), Crystal (2 hours, 14 minutes), Caberfae (2 hours, 14 minutes)Base elevation: 911 feetSummit elevation: 1,338 feetVertical drop: 427 feetSkiable Acres: 248Average annual snowfall: 123 inchesTrail count: 53 (24% double-black, 49% black, 20% intermediate, 7% beginner)Lift count: 10 (3 fixed-grip quads, 4 triples, 1 double, 1 carpet, 1 ropetow - view Lift Blog's inventory of Nub's Nob's lift fleet)Uphill capacity: 17,075 skiers per hourWhy I interviewed himWe all have those places that made us skiers, that wrecked us or rescued us, that in our private worlds are synonymous with skiing itself. For me those places are Mott Mountain, Apple Mountain, Snow Snake, Caberfae, Boyne Mountain, and Searchmont. Without those places I am not a skier, or at least I am not the particular version of a skier that's writing this newsletter. These are, in order, the first, second, third, and fourth places I skied; the place I learned to thread bumps; and the place I learned to navigate little drops and off-piste terrain. The first two are dead, the others survive in various states of modernized. In my head they all stand available at any moment for viewing, a tattered Stu-flix, a vault of skinny-ski adventures crashing through 1990s stop-animation reels.But there's a seventh ski area in my mental vault: Nub's Nob. It's a funny name, perhaps jarring if this is your first time seeing it. I happen to think it's the best ski area name in America. It's simple, memorable, intriguing, evocative of what it is: a 427-foot locals' bump with an Alta-grade following of devoted locals.That's not the same thing as having Alta-grade skiing (who does besides Snowbird)? But consider this: across the street lies The Highlands, the Boyne-owned runner formerly known as Boyne Highlands. The Highlands is larger than Nub's. It has one high-speed lift and is dropping in another next year – a six-pack so fancy that it makes the iPhone 14 look like a block of aged Roquefort. Highlands' season pass costs a bit more than Nub's, but it comes with days at Big Sky, which is like buying a microwave and getting a free car as a thank-you gift.None of it matters. Well, it probably matters to some people. But Nub's is the opposite of the endangered indie. It may be the best ski area under 500 vertical feet in the country: a big, sprawling trail layout; numerous and redundant lifts; grooming that makes an Olympic skating rink look like a Tough Mudder course; glades everywhere; and, like any Midwest ski area with a stocked trophy cabinet, an absolute flamethrower of a terrain park. Nub's is that lost treasure of Midwest skiing, rare as a 200-grade Boone-and-Crockett trophy buck: the balanced mountain. Grooming, yes, of all kinds, but bumps always on Twilight Zone, and maybe also on Chute (like many Michigan ski areas, the runs stack side by side on the trailmap, creating half a dozen that you could tuck into Park City's pumphouse). Several times per decade the ski area punches new glades into the forest. And since Nub's has one of the world's best snowmaking systems, supplemented with a reliable train of lake-effect and an ability to ninja-dodge freeze-thaw cycles, the whole mountain opens in the early season and often stays filled to the edges into April.Bad people can ruin a great ski area, of course. I can stay salty for decades over unprovoked attitude from a liftie. But I've been skiing Nub's Nob for as long as I've been skiing and I've never encountered anything other than an Extreme Welcome. The lifties chitter-chatter as you load and Patrol lets you ski where you please and the bartenders are tolerant of pitchers ordered in bulk at 11 a.m.My first day at Nub's was one of the weirdest ski days of my life. It was my sixth day ever on skis and I was geared up in sweatpants and a discount-superstore winter coat of the sort that rips when you yank the zipper open too sternly. We arrived in the snowslammed evening with tennis ball-sized flakes drifting in the wind. I did not have goggles of course and scoffed at the notion. At age 17 I had lived all my life in snowy climes and had never once needed such decorative nonsense. In a catastrophic freefall down Valley or perhaps it was Scarface I understood at last that storm-skiing sans goggles was like swimming without water: painful and really quite impossible. In the baselodge I purchased the least-expensive pair of goggles I could find, which I believe cost $25, an astonishing sum for a bagboy earning $4.50 an hour at the local Meijer superstore.Nub's excused the error. The upside of place-based defeat is the clear path to redemption. In all phases of my ski life I have returned to Nub's and it has always had something useful to say, something I couldn't exactly find anywhere else. I still can't, and I needed to poke around in the machine a bit to try and decode the trance.What we talked aboutWhen snowmaking starts at Nub's Nob; the mountain's earliest and latest openings ever; “bottom line, the ski industry in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan doesn't exist without snowmaking”; why freeze-thaw isn't really a thing for Nub's; “if you can open, you should open”; the path from $8.25-an-hour rental tech to general manager; Marquette Mountain; Nub's incredible seasonal employee retention rate; Jim Bartlett, the ski area's legendary general manager; not breaking a good thing; becoming the boss of the people who taught you everything you know; how Nub's Nob got its name; whether Nub's will stay independent over the long term; “where skiers go”; going deep on the Green lift upgrade: why it won't be a high-speed lift, when it's coming, and whether it will be green; whether the ski area considered wiping out the front-side lifts in favor of a six-pack; the tug-of-war between Fixed-Grip Bro and Detach Bro; why Orange won't be a high-speed lift either; comparing a modern fixed-grip Skytrac chair to a 1978 Riblet lift; why the new lift won't have a carpet load; why lifties need to talk to skiers; the installation and maintenance cost of a fixed-grip versus a high-speed lift; why the new lift will be the same length but occupy a smaller footprint; whether the new lift will load and unload at the same spots as the current Green lift; whether Nub's will sell the chairs; the Blue chair Killer; why the Blue lift isn't coming back; the power of the ropetow and where we could see more on Nub's; long-term plans for the Purple and Orange lifts; “there's something special about riding a double chairlift”; regional differences in safety-bar culture; “I'd like to have a super-modern lift fleet”; whether a lift from the bottom of Pintail Peak to the top of Nub's Nob South would make sense; how Nub's continues to develop new terrain on essentially the same footprint; how to access Nub's endless glade stash; why Arena and Tower glades don't continue farther skier's left along their respective ridges; the glades always open in Northern Michigan; Nub's last big expansion opportunity and what kind of terrain sits in there; keeping the parks rad Brah; the return of the halfpipe; why Nub's doesn't build earthwork features; the importance of night-skiing; considering lights on Pintail Peak; the history and secrets behind the Nub's Nob snowgun; “you can fix everything with a pipe wrench” and why the ski area is happy with a low-tech snowgun arsenal; long-live the metal wicket ticket; “we always think of technology as making our lives better, but sometimes, it's making our lives worse”; the competitive and cooperative dynamic between Nub's Nob and The Highlands, which sit across the street from one another; why Nub's finally joined the Indy Pass; the ski-industry problem that Indy Pass is solving; why Nub's is rolling with 32 Indy Base Pass blackouts; looking out for the little ski areas down the street; and how much it hurt to finally push Nub's peak-day lift-ticket prices over $100.    Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewA lot of pretty obvious reasons: the new Green Chair, the resort's decision to at last join the Indy Pass, the obvious example of another thriving indie belying the whole Megapass-Killbot theory. But we booked this pod in May, weeks before the Indy announcement (which I knew was coming), and the chairlift upgrade (which I didn't). The simple fact is that I'd had Nub's Nob on my interview-the-GM list since Storm day one, and I finally reached out and we set everything up pretty quickly.This is a good time, however, to restate something that's core to this whole operation: this podcast is for everyone. And by “everyone,” I mean every ski area of any size. If it has a lift, I'm interested. For now, that means the United States, but I will fold Canada in soon enough. That will probably remain the focus over the long-term, but if you are running a ski area of any size anywhere on Planet Earth*, consider yourself relevant to The Storm Skiing Podcast.But from a practical, logistical point of view, I have tried very hard to balance the podcast across regions. This does not mean that I will guarantee an equal ratio of Western, Midwestern, and Northeast interviews (I haven't quite gotten to the Southeast yet; I will soon, but there are only a couple dozen ski areas down there, so pods focused in the southern states will likely always be infrequent). But I will promise a consistent flow of Midwest pods. It's where I came from, where I learned to ski, and it's one of the world's greatest and most vital ski regions.When the season's ski mags would drop each August in my early ski years, I would flip through slowly, hopefully, for any nugget of writing on Midwest ski areas. It was like searching for ice cream at a hardware store. No one cared. If a ski magazine was 200 pages, the West got 195, the East got five, and the Midwest got mentioned whenever a writer noted that Big Sky was owned by the same outfit that owned Boyne Mountain. It was a different, internet-less world, of course, but I am now in a position to create the sort of immersive ski area profiles that Teen Stu longed to see about my local bumps. These will keep landing in your inbox as long as The Storm does.You can view all past and future Storm Skiing Podcasts by clicking through below:*I will also consider ski areas on other planets.What I got wrongThe opening day of Michigan's deer-hunting season is a big deal. Like day-off-from-school big deal. And I don't mean parents pull their kids out while the non-hunters press on. I mean every Nov. 15 is a school holiday like Thanksgiving or Labor Day or Christmas. Our morning announcements each fall would warn us to watch out for sugarbeets – an enormous root crop stacked in clearings to bait deer – that had bounced off transport trucks on M-30. Deer hunting in Northern Michigan is a big deal.So, during a discussion about Nub's previous years' opening dates, I told Doornbos that it was pretty bold of him to open on the first day of deer-hunting season, after I thought he'd referenced a recent Nov. 15 opening. Doornbos rolled with it, but I realized while editing the pod that he had actually said Nov. 16. Oops.Why you should ski Nub's NobMichigan has 39 active ski areas, according to the National Ski Areas Association. This is the second-most of any state, behind New York, which sports 52. About two-thirds of Michigan's ski areas sit in the Lower Peninsula. This is a useful distinction: Lower Peninsula skiers rarely hit the Upper Peninsula (UP), and UP skiers rarely ski below the Mackinaw Bridge. Geography explains this disconnect: the UP's ski areas are mostly bunched in its western portion, far closer to Wisconsin than the population centers of Michigan. Marquette Mountain, the closest non-ropetow bump, is seven hours from Detroit airport, but fewer than five hours from Milwaukee. In that time, Southeast Michigan skiers can be at Keystone (with help from an airplane).That's all background. What I'm getting to is that the Lower Peninsula only has a half dozen or so well-equipped, substantially built-out ski areas with respectable vertical drops (relative to their neigboring hills): Nub's Nob, Caberfae, Crystal, Shanty Creek, Boyne Mountain, and The Highlands. Otsego Club, a longtime private joint, recently opened to the public, but its infrastructure is a bit creaky. So if you're planning a best-of-Michigan tour, these are the six to hit.But if you only have one day to ski Michigan before an asteroid crashes into the planet and wipes out life as we know it, pick Nub's. I'm not sure that it has the best terrain of those six – Highlands, I think, is equal in its sprawling videogame-ish dimensions. Nub's isn't the steepest – Boyne Mountain has the most consistent pitch along its extended main ridge. Nub's is probably also the least-resort-ish of the six, with little onsite lodging. But, like Caberfae, another family-owned bump that is on a constant crusade to enhance the skiing, Nub's is defined less by what I can easily point to and more by what's hard to describe. By that thing called atmosphere, a sort of sense of place that collectively descends upon all who ski there. It's not a thing you can order, like a lift, or something you can streamline, like parking. It's just something that is. You'll have to go and see for yourself.Podcast notes* I make the point several times that Nub's Nob is constantly upgrading. The ski area has collated an excellent timeline, starting with the ski area's 1957 founding. Skim this page and Nub's decades-long commitment to constant, mostly subtle but always impactful improvement is obvious. I wish all ski areas would create something like this.* A 2016 obituary for longtime owner Walter Fisher, who bought Nub's Nob from founder Dorie Sarnes in 1977 and owned it until he passed away (his family continues to own the ski area). An excerpt:Jim Bartlett — who joined Nub's that same year and now serves as its general manager — noted that the ski area has added significantly to its amenities since then, expanding from about a dozen runs to 53.“The business has grown almost continuously since Walter bought it in 1977,” said Bartlett, who described Fisher as “absolutely one of the most sincere, thoughtful, kind, classy men I've ever met.” …With neighboring Boyne Highlands Resort establishing itself as a ski area with extensive on-site lodging, Bartlett said Walter Fisher decided early in his Nub's involvement to pursue another niche — wanting the property to become "the best day ski area in the Midwest."Nub's would phase out its own limited lodging options so it could channel resources toward skiing amenities, grooming and snowmaking operations and food and beverage options. The ski area's offerings have since achieved regional and national recognition on numerous occasions.* Doornbos and I also talked extensively about Bartlett, who served as general manager from 1987 until handing the job off to Doornbos in 2017. An excerpt from this excellent profile by Kate Bassett:General Manager of Nub's Nob, Jim Bartlett, is a guy who has earned a nationwide reputation as a leader and champion of the old-school-cool Harbor Springs ski resort. But that's not the reason Jim Bartlett is a person whose story is worth telling.He's on top of the hill. He's at the bottom of the hill. He's in the maintenance garage. He's in the cafeteria. He's at a chairlift on-ramp. He's in the rental area. He's in the parking lot. He's everywhere. He's Nub's Nob's JB. …In his tenure at Nub's Nob, first as area manager and then as general manager, following the death of his mentor, legendary snow maker Jim Dilworth, Bartlett has turned 14 runs into 53, four chairlifts into nine, 15 patented snowmaking guns into 292, plus added a Pintail Peak Lodge, new locker room and so much more. The most impressive part? He's done it without sacrificing Nub's signature vibe, best described as a home away from home.Bartlett's an expert in snow making techniques. A public relations superstar. A guy who understands the importance of blending tradition with new technology. He's even learned how to make peace with the Midwest's occasionally uncooperative winter weather. In short, he's like a walking, talking master's class of how to run a resort that's focused 100 percent on skiing and riding.* We go deep on the Green lift upgrade, which Doornbos announced in an excellent video last month:* Nub's Nob is The Storm's fourth podcast focused explicitly on a Michigan ski area - I've also featured The Highlands, Boyne Mountain, and Caberfae:I should have another Michigan episode coming next week - and it's a good one. Listen to the end of the pod to find out who.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 112/100 in 2022, and number 358 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Land Investing From the Road: Update Number 3 (LA 1863) Transcript: Speaker 1: Steven, Jill here. Speaker 2: Hello. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Speaker 2: And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from Hall, the MotorCity from Detroit. Speaker 1: Today Jill and I talk about land investing from the road and this is update number three. We started in Arizona, we worked our way across the country. Spent way too much time because we were having a blast in Colorado. Didn't spend too much time, but had a blast in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin. Speaker 2: So last week when we were recording, we were coming to you from Traverse City, Michigan. As you can see, we didn't make it that far. We have a lot of family to see and we're actually having a good time. You know what? We have a lot of family to see and the weather has been cooperative. And those of you who know Michigan, especially know the northern parts, it's so pretty with your lakes. It's just awesome. My favorite's been Harbor Springs now. Now I moved, I keep changing my favorite places. Speaker 1: There's a huge, huge gap between the sale prices for houses and sale prices for land, which is great for us. Speaker 2: It's true. Speaker 1: So the whole time that we've been doing this, Jill and I have been researching land, land values, all the way, every time we get in a car. So I've come up personally with a bunch of places I want to send mail throughout. Speaker 2: Yeah. Isn't that interesting? So wait, let me just go... I want to continue that thought for just a minute. We're on the north west side of Lake- Speaker 1: St. Clair. Speaker 2: St. Clair, okay. And I've noticed homes around here. You can get a home for $200 000 to $300,000 and then there's lots for $200 000 to $300,000. So you're right, these numbers being all over the map are good for us. Speaker 1: It is great for us. Where we're sitting is not a place you want to buy land at all. But there have been places on the way here where you got 5, 6, 7 and mostly upstate Michigan, we call it up north here, $800,000 houses. And then lots are on the MLS for $20,000 in the same vicinity. So those are great places to send mail. Speaker 2: Well the Michigan started to come out there for a second. Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Speaker 2: Yeah. I like it. Speaker 1: I'm not happy about it. Speaker 2: It's good. Speaker 1: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope by now Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a one on one class called Career Path. So it's for people who, this is already your career or you want it to be career called Career Path. I think Jill, you got a class coming up, right? Speaker 2: And by the way, October 12th, as this launches we are 10 days out. I may still have slots for recording, I do. As of, when this is releasing, I'm not sure. But if this is something that you really think about, please schedule a call with me and you could actually schedule a call with me. Just go to landacademy.com/careerpath, scroll down and there's a spot to click on and schedule a call and I'll call you. If you think, "Ah, shoot. You know what Jill? I think this is the direction we're going. I think I'm ready for it or I just don't want to wait that long to get ramped up. I got this. How fast can I get to your level?" That's who Career Path is for and I will happily have a chat with you and even Jack too. Speaker 1: Or, "Haha, we passed you guys a long time ago, but we could use your advice." Speaker 2: Oh, not usually that, but that's okay. Anyway, just to click on that, schedule a call and I'll have a chat with you and we'll figure it out. So, thank you. All right, so back to the question Kim wrote, "I have a purchase agreement signed and there are three owners. The seller I'm talking has stated he has talked with ma...

Land Investing From the Road: Update Number 3 (LA 1863) Transcript: Speaker 1: Steven, Jill here. Speaker 2: Hello. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Speaker 2: And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from Hall, the MotorCity from Detroit. Speaker 1: Today Jill and I talk about land investing from the road and this is update number three. We started in Arizona, we worked our way across the country. Spent way too much time because we were having a blast in Colorado. Didn't spend too much time, but had a blast in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin. Speaker 2: So last week when we were recording, we were coming to you from Traverse City, Michigan. As you can see, we didn't make it that far. We have a lot of family to see and we're actually having a good time. You know what? We have a lot of family to see and the weather has been cooperative. And those of you who know Michigan, especially know the northern parts, it's so pretty with your lakes. It's just awesome. My favorite's been Harbor Springs now. Now I moved, I keep changing my favorite places. Speaker 1: There's a huge, huge gap between the sale prices for houses and sale prices for land, which is great for us. Speaker 2: It's true. Speaker 1: So the whole time that we've been doing this, Jill and I have been researching land, land values, all the way, every time we get in a car. So I've come up personally with a bunch of places I want to send mail throughout. Speaker 2: Yeah. Isn't that interesting? So wait, let me just go... I want to continue that thought for just a minute. We're on the north west side of Lake- Speaker 1: St. Clair. Speaker 2: St. Clair, okay. And I've noticed homes around here. You can get a home for $200 000 to $300,000 and then there's lots for $200 000 to $300,000. So you're right, these numbers being all over the map are good for us. Speaker 1: It is great for us. Where we're sitting is not a place you want to buy land at all. But there have been places on the way here where you got 5, 6, 7 and mostly upstate Michigan, we call it up north here, $800,000 houses. And then lots are on the MLS for $20,000 in the same vicinity. So those are great places to send mail. Speaker 2: Well the Michigan started to come out there for a second. Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Speaker 2: Yeah. I like it. Speaker 1: I'm not happy about it. Speaker 2: It's good. Speaker 1: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope by now Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a one on one class called Career Path. So it's for people who, this is already your career or you want it to be career called Career Path. I think Jill, you got a class coming up, right? Speaker 2: And by the way, October 12th, as this launches we are 10 days out. I may still have slots for recording, I do. As of, when this is releasing, I'm not sure. But if this is something that you really think about, please schedule a call with me and you could actually schedule a call with me. Just go to landacademy.com/careerpath, scroll down and there's a spot to click on and schedule a call and I'll call you. If you think, "Ah, shoot. You know what Jill? I think this is the direction we're going. I think I'm ready for it or I just don't want to wait that long to get ramped up. I got this. How fast can I get to your level?" That's who Career Path is for and I will happily have a chat with you and even Jack too. Speaker 1: Or, "Haha, we passed you guys a long time ago, but we could use your advice." Speaker 2: Oh, not usually that, but that's okay. Anyway, just to click on that, schedule a call and I'll have a chat with you and we'll figure it out. So, thank you. All right, so back to the question Kim wrote, "I have a purchase agreement signed and there are three owners. The seller I'm talking has stated he has talked with ma...

Land Investing From the Road: Update Number 3 (LA 1863) Transcript: Speaker 1: Steven, Jill here. Speaker 2: Hello. Speaker 1: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Speaker 2: And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting from Hall, the MotorCity from Detroit. Speaker 1: Today Jill and I talk about land investing from the road and this is update number three. We started in Arizona, we worked our way across the country. Spent way too much time because we were having a blast in Colorado. Didn't spend too much time, but had a blast in Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin. Speaker 2: So last week when we were recording, we were coming to you from Traverse City, Michigan. As you can see, we didn't make it that far. We have a lot of family to see and we're actually having a good time. You know what? We have a lot of family to see and the weather has been cooperative. And those of you who know Michigan, especially know the northern parts, it's so pretty with your lakes. It's just awesome. My favorite's been Harbor Springs now. Now I moved, I keep changing my favorite places. Speaker 1: There's a huge, huge gap between the sale prices for houses and sale prices for land, which is great for us. Speaker 2: It's true. Speaker 1: So the whole time that we've been doing this, Jill and I have been researching land, land values, all the way, every time we get in a car. So I've come up personally with a bunch of places I want to send mail throughout. Speaker 2: Yeah. Isn't that interesting? So wait, let me just go... I want to continue that thought for just a minute. We're on the north west side of Lake- Speaker 1: St. Clair. Speaker 2: St. Clair, okay. And I've noticed homes around here. You can get a home for $200 000 to $300,000 and then there's lots for $200 000 to $300,000. So you're right, these numbers being all over the map are good for us. Speaker 1: It is great for us. Where we're sitting is not a place you want to buy land at all. But there have been places on the way here where you got 5, 6, 7 and mostly upstate Michigan, we call it up north here, $800,000 houses. And then lots are on the MLS for $20,000 in the same vicinity. So those are great places to send mail. Speaker 2: Well the Michigan started to come out there for a second. Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Speaker 2: Yeah. I like it. Speaker 1: I'm not happy about it. Speaker 2: It's good. Speaker 1: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free and I hope by now Jill and I instruct a handful of new and existing Land Academy members in a one on one class called Career Path. So it's for people who, this is already your career or you want it to be career called Career Path. I think Jill, you got a class coming up, right? Speaker 2: And by the way, October 12th, as this launches we are 10 days out. I may still have slots for recording, I do. As of, when this is releasing, I'm not sure. But if this is something that you really think about, please schedule a call with me and you could actually schedule a call with me. Just go to landacademy.com/careerpath, scroll down and there's a spot to click on and schedule a call and I'll call you. If you think, "Ah, shoot. You know what Jill? I think this is the direction we're going. I think I'm ready for it or I just don't want to wait that long to get ramped up. I got this. How fast can I get to your level?" That's who Career Path is for and I will happily have a chat with you and even Jack too. Speaker 1: Or, "Haha, we passed you guys a long time ago, but we could use your advice." Speaker 2: Oh, not usually that, but that's okay. Anyway, just to click on that, schedule a call and I'll have a chat with you and we'll figure it out. So, thank you. All right, so back to the question Kim wrote, "I have a purchase agreement signed and there are three owners. The seller I'm talking has stated he has talked with ma...

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