Next week, Michigan high school football players, including those in Brandon and Goodrich, will be doing what Ryan Owens was doing the morning of Wednesday, July 19. However, Michigan’s high school football coaches will no doubt be doing everything they can to avoid what happened to Owens after he practiced for Henderson County (Ky.) High […]
Brandon alumnus Joel Pappas will be heading down south to continue his college baseball career. Pappas, 20, who played the past two seasons at Mott Community College in Flint, has signed with the University of the Cumberlands (formerly Cumberland College) in Williamsburg, Ky. to play baseball with that program for the 2006-07 school year. Pappas, […]
Last year, Kirk Elsworth got his first taste of college football as a freshman running back at Western Michigan. This year, he’s hoping to play a bigger role on the Broncos, and perhaps even claim the first-string running back spot. Elsworth will be part of a retooled offense that lost two starters to the National […]
David Garrard is living proof that someone with Crohn’s disease can still achieve their life goals. Garrard, 28, a quarterback for the National Football League’s Jacksonville Jaguars, spoke to an audience of about 120 campers and camp counselors at the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s (CCFA) Camp Oasis Thursday, July 20 at Camp Tamarack […]
Like other high school football teams throughout Michigan, the Brandon Blackhawks are preparing to take the field for the first day of practice Monday, Aug. 7. However, the Blackhawks also have a couple other activities in the next two weeks to give local fans a closer look at the 2006 team. The first of these […]
Having gained professional dancing experience with one Detroit pro basketball team, Chelsey Buhler is ready to take that experience to the next level. Buhler, 18, an Ortonville resident and recent Brandon High School graduate, made the final cut for the Detroit Pistons? Automotion dance team during tryouts July 20-21. She said she is the youngest […]
All Tony Dettore needed was for actor James Earl Jones to say the famous movie line, ‘If you build it, they will come.? While Dettore may not have played baseball with Hall of Fame players like Kevin Costner’s character, Ray Kinsella, did in the movie ‘Field of Dreams,? he did have a chance to meet […]
Despite ‘uncomfortably hot? conditions, Groveland Township resident Keith Blakely and his team stayed in the running to the end at the Buick Open Pro-Am. Blakely, vice president of Country Folk Art Shows, Inc. in Holly, took part in the tournament, which took place Wednesday, Aug. 2 at Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club, G-9057 S. […]
Despite the hot weather Sunday, July 30, there were plenty of fish for the taking on Lake St. Clair. On that day, Jan’s Sport Shop, 2285 State Road (M-15), Goodrich, sponsored their eighth annual Customer Appreciation Team Bass Tournament. Stephanie Hempton, finance manager at Jan’s, helped organize the tournament along with tournament manager, Jerry Doucette. […]
It’s a fresh start for the Goodrich varsity football team. The Martians hit the practice field Monday, Aug. 7, looking to bounce back from a 1-8 campaign in 2005 to contend once again in the Genesee Area Conference Red Division. Goodrich coach Tom Alward said the Martians, who number about 34 players this year, have […]