Perhaps the biggest football event ever held in Green Bay was held Thursday at Lambeau Field as the National Football League put on its annual Players Draft. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell estimated that 125,000 people jammed into the Lambeau area, a number that is more than the entire normal population of Green Bay. Click the above headline for details.
High school game officials with 20 or more years of service will be honored at the Officials Awards & Alumni Banquet on April 26. A total of 706 officials will be praised for reaching their milestones, 47 of them from the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline for details.
Gladstone High School senior and U.P. Dream Team lineman Aaron Hughes will be playing football for Northern Michigan University, after making a long deliberation about going into the Air Force like his brothers did. Click the above headline to hear his story.
Escanaba High School senior wide receiver Javon Stevenson has signed his National Letter of Intent to play football at Northern Michigan University. Stevenson was joined by his family at a signing event on National Signing Day Wednesday. Click the above headline for detaiils.
The Crystal Falls Forest Park Trojans won the school's fifth football state championship on Saturday, beating the Morrice Orioles, 42-20, at the Suerior Dome. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. (MHSAA Photo)
The Pickford High School football team got off to a great start in the state championship game Saturday in the Superior Dome, but fell to the Deckerville Eagles in dramatic fashion, 30-28. Click the above headline for details, photos, courtesy of MHSAA.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assoication on Friday evening unveiled the All-U.P. teams for the eleven-man football divisions. And the Iron Mountain Mountaineers cleaned up on most of the major awards. Click the above headline for the details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association released its All-U.P. football players list Wednesday night for the eight-man divisions. The panel of 15 journalists from across the Upper Peninsula met at Northern Michigan University earlier this week to make the selections. Click the above headline to see the winners.
The MHSAA high school football playoffS are winding down. Click the above headline to see how the U.P. teams are doing.
Sophomore Dax Huuki ran for four touchdowns to lead the Forest Park Trojans to a 34-12 win over the North Central Jets to win the MHSAA Eight Player regional championship Friday night. Lane Gorzinski had two long touchdown runs for NCA to bring the Jets to within 13-12 at halftime, but the Forest Park defense pitched a shutout in the second half. The Trojans advanced to the state semifinals at home against Onekema.
In the final home game of the 2024 football season, Northern Michigan fell to the No. 2 Ferris State Bulldogs, 55-9, Saturday, at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The MHSAA Scholar-Athlete Award will again, with Farm Bureau Insurance, present 32 $2,000 scholarships to top student-athletes at member high schools during the 2024-25 school year. Click the above headline for information and how to apply.
The Michigan Tech football team won its 14th-consecutive Miner's Cup with a 17-point second quarter eruption and 19 points scored in the second half in the 39-9 victory over Northern Michigan during Hall of Fame weekend at Kearly Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details and post-game comments. (Michigan Tech photo)
olan Bink threw four touchdown passes and the Escanaba Eskymos broke a three-year losing streak against the arch-rival Gladstone Braves, 50-7, Friday night at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Iron Mountain High School football team faced its toughest test of the season Thursday night, and the Mountaineers passed the test with flying colors. Iron Mountain raced to a 21-0 lead over the Negaunee Miners and cruised to a 35-14 win in the season finale at Mountaineer Stadium. Click the above headline for details. (Iron Mountain Public Schools photo)
Brandon McMannus kicked a 45-yard field goal as time expired, and Josh Jacobs caught his first-ever receiving touchdown, as the Green Bay Packers beat the Houston Texans, 24-22, Sunday, at Lambeau Field. Click the above headline to see the coverage from RRN Sports.
The Northern Michigan football team had a chance to earn its first victory of the season on Saturday afternoon, but an overtime fumble proved costly as the Wildcats fell to Roosevelt 16-10. Click the above headline for details, and RRN highlights.
Fourth-ranked and GLIAC preseason favorite Ferris State used a 20-point first quarter and a 21-point second half to overwhelm Michigan Tech 51-13 at Top Taggart Field on Saturday. Click the above headine for details. (Michigan Tech Athletics photo, story)
The Gladstone High School football team missed out on multiple chances in the red zone Friday night, and lost to the Calumet Copper Kings, 19-6, at the Marble Athletic Field. Ben Anderson scored two touchdowns and rushed for 173 yards as Calumet stayed alive in the playoff race. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Stephenson Eagles rolled up more than 500 yards of offense and dominated in the trenches on both sides of the ball, beating the Rapid River Rockets, 52-12, Thursday night on Rockets Senior Night in Rapid River. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan University football team was downstate Saturday night to take on the nation's number two team, Grand Valley State. The Wildcats fell to the Lakers, 49-17. Click the above headline for details from both schools. (Grand Valley State photo)
The Michigan Tech football team saw its four-game unbeaten streak end in a back-and-forth battle ultimately seeing Davenport prevail 24-20 at Kearly Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Gladstone High School football team got off to a strong start Friday night in Houghton against the Gremlins, but things quickly from there as Houghton enjoyed a 42-17 win over the Braves on Parent's Night at Alumni Field. Click the above headline for details.
Tanner Theuerkauf threw two touchdwn passes and ran in two more scores as the top-ranked Menominee Maroons stayed undefeated with a 49-7 win over the Gladstone Braves on Braves Homecoming Friday night. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan football team fell to Saginaw Valley State on Saturday afternoon to begin conference play, 63-14. Click the above headline for details from both schools. Photos are courtesy of NMU and Saginaw Valley Athletics.
The Westwood Patriots football team beat the Gladstone Braves, 42-15, Friday night, in a game featuring two teams with short benches caused by injuries. Westwood got two touchdowns and a pair of two-point conversions from Karter Scherer, and the Patriots offense forced four second half turnovers. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan football team fell in a high-scoring affair to Alma College on Homecoming, 44-27. Click the above headline for details from both team's perspetives, and to hear NMU radio highlight from the game. (NMU Photo)
The Michigan Tech football team put together its most complete game of the season in a 44-7 thrashing of No. 13 UW-Oshkosh at Titan Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (Story, photo courtesy of Michigan Tech Athletics)
The Gladstone High School football team broke a three-game losing streak Friday night with a 36-20 win over the Hancock Bulldogs at Hancock's McAfee Field. Isaac Ketchum rushed for 181 yards and three touchdowns, and Casey Alworden scored on a long pass reception and an even longer punt return. Click the above headline to see photos taken by Brad Landis.
The Upper Peninsula Sports Writers and Sportscasters Association came out Tuesday with its first high school football polls of the season. A panel of five members of the media from across the U.P. votes every week on the best teams. Click the above headline for details.
