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Niles cross country team places 12th in the combined standings »

ST. JOSEPH — Seventeen teams traversed the course at Riverview Park for the St. Joseph Invitational on Wednesday.
The host Bears won the boys’ portion of the cross country meet, while Otsego captured the girls’ title and also grabbed the overall championship.
The Bulldogs finished with a combined 66 points to defeat St. Joseph, which finished with [...]

Niles golf team ninth at tourney »

From staff reports
THREE RIVERS — The opening day of the Big 16 Conference Golf Tournament found Battle Creek Lakeview at the top of the heap after shooting 358 as a team at Pineview Golf Club.
Marshall was second with a 366 and Coldwater third with a 372. Rounding out the top five were Portage Central (386) [...]

Southwest Michigan Sports ‘airing’ games »

Southwest Michigan Sports is proud to announce that it will be covering high School football for the 2010 Season.
All games can be heard “live” every Friday night streaming online at www.swmsports.net.
All games will also be archived on the Web site to go back and listen to the games at anytime.
It will also be continuing the [...]

Niles freshmen football team improves to 2-0 »

From staff reports
The Niles freshmen football team improved to 2-0 on the season with a 26-14 victory over Marshall Wednesday night.
The Vikings got a pair of touchdowns from both Steven Smith and Michael Farmer.
Jeremy Wortham picked up a fumble and Smith picked off a pass for the Niles defense.
“The offensive line did a great job [...]

Big Ten announces division alignment for 2011 season »

PARK RIDGE, Ill. — The Big Ten Conference office announced football division alignments beginning with the 2011 season as recommended by conference directors of athletics and reviewed and supported by the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors.
Nebraska will officially begin conference competition in 2011, giving the Big Ten 12 football programs for the first time in [...]

Scott Novak: Off to a great start »

I don’t want to toot my own horn, but going 5-0 in my first week of predicting the local high school action, I feel pretty good about myself.
Of course, I have been down this road before with the college picks.
One week you are miraculously 10-0, the next week 4-6. So I understand [...]

Niles soccer team defeats Three Rivers, 4-1 »

By SCOTT NOVAK
Niles Daily Star
The Niles varsity soccer team remained unbeaten Wednesday night with a 4-1 victory over visiting Three Rivers in a non-conference match.
The Vikings (4-0-1) scored three goals in the opening half to set the tone.
Christian Rackley had a goal and an assist in the opening 40 minutes of play.
Rackley scored 13 minutes [...]

Question marks surround Boilermakers »

ByLARRY WATTS
Contributor, BigTen.org
Heading into his second season, Purdue head coach Danny Hope (5-7 overall last year, 4-4 Big Ten) faces nearly as many questions as a high school student taking a college entrance exam.
On offense, it starts with finding an able replacement for leading rusher Ralph Bolden (935 yards, 9 TDs), who tore his ACL [...]

ND to honor Mike McCoy at halftime »

NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Former University of Notre Dame All-America defensive lineman Mike McCoy will be honored at halftime of Notre Dame’s 2010 season-opening football game Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium against Purdue — in recognition of the Charlotte Touchdown Club in June naming McCoy winner of the 2010 Bronko Nagurski “Legends” Award, which recognizes [...]

Larry Lyons: Walking sticks are masters of disguise »

The other day I received a most interesting note from Linda, a regular follower of the column. She said just about every morning around 7 a family of walking sticks parades in single file across her patio. She said they travel in the most orderly fashion with mom or dad (she didn’t know which) in [...]

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