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Tigers Salvage One from Indians Drew Smyly held the Indians to just four hits over seven innings, and the Tigers snapped their three-game losing streak with a 5-1 victory yesterday. The Tigers opened the scoring early with two runs in the first inning. Torii Hunter added a two-run homer in …

Tigers Lose Twice to Indians Drew VerHagen pitched four shutout innings in his major league debut… but the Cleveland batters figured him out in the fifth, and beat the Tigers 6-2 in the first of two games yesterday. VerHagen struck out four of the first six batters he faced. Cleveland …

Andrew Lund of Calumet won the half-marathon at the Portage Canal Run Saturday, with a time of 1:26:02.7. Daisuke Minakata of Houghton placed second… more than two-and-a-half minutes off the pace. Matt Wong from Houghton came in two seconds later to clinch third place. Christina Carradine from Marquette was the …

Tigers Blow Lead, Fall to Indians For six innings, the Indians could do nothing against Anibal Sanchez. In the seventh, they erupted for seven runs, and went on to beat the Tigers 9-3. Sanchez was charged with four of those seven inning runs. Ian Kroll gave up an rbi double …

Tigers, Brewers Resume Play Tonight The Tigers return to action tonight at home against Cleveland. Anibal Sanchez will start against Trevor Bauer. Hear the first pitch at 7:08 on WM 1400, WCCY. The Tigers have a six-and-a-half-game lead over the Royals in the American League Central Division. Pitching prospect Drew …

Tigers, Brewers Resume Play Tomorrow The Tigers return to action tomorrow at home against Cleveland. Anibal Sanchez will start against Trevor Bauer. Hear the first pitch at 7:08 on AM 1400, WCCY. Tigers’ outfielder Andy Dirks has been pulled from his minor league rehab assignment at Lakeland because of inflammation …

From MTU Athletics Former Michigan Tech basketball player Austin Armga (Waupun, Wis./Waupun), and former Grand Valley State track and field athlete Kristen Hixson (Remus, Mich./Chippewa Hills) were named the GLIAC 2013-14 male and female “Scholar-Athletes of the Year,” respectively, as voted by the league’s faculty athletics representatives. Armga posted a …

American League Wins All-Star Game Miguel Cabrera’s two-run homer powered the American League to a 5-3 victory in the All-Star Game last night. The evening belonged to Derek Jeter, the longtime captain of the New York Yankees… who singled and doubled in his final summer classic. Jeter received a standing …

Baseball All-Star Game Tonight The Major League All-Star game will be played tonight at Minnesota. Miguel Cabrera, Max Scherzer and Ian Kinsler are on the American League roster. Victor Martinez was named to the team, and will be at the game… but will not play, because of his sore back. …

From Finlandia University Athletics Finlandia University head football coach Tim Driscoll has hired Gwinn, Michigan native Dan Mettlach as Finlandia’s offensive coordinator. Mettlach will begin his duties immediately. Mettlach has been coaching collegiate football since 2007, including 3 seasons (2007-2010) at Northern Michigan University.  In 2011, Mettlach served as quarterbacks …