Marlowe Alter

4 days ago | sports.yahoo.com | Marlowe Alter

Michigan softball took home the Big Ten Tournament championship May 10 for a second straight season with a 2-0 win over UCLA at Bittinger Stadium on the campus of Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana. With Hall of Fame coach Carol Hutchins watching from the stands, the eighth-seeded Wolverines (38-19, 11-11 Big Ten) earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with their first repeat tourney title since 2005-06 and the program's 12th overall. Minnesota is the next closest with five titles.

1 week ago | usatoday.com | Marlowe Alter

For the ninth straight season, the Detroit Red Wings missed the playoffs and thus find themselves in the NHL draft lottery for 2025. The club enters Year 7 under general manager Steve Yzerman, with the pressure building to at least break the franchise-record playoff drought. The Wings, famously, have not had much luck in the lottery, and this year, they can't even win the No. 1 pick. But they have a chance to jump 10 spots to No. 2.

1 week ago | freep.com | Marlowe Alter

Jalen Brunson, named the NBA's Clutch Player of the Year, showed Ausar Thompson and the Detroit Pistons why one final time in the 2025 NBA playoffs. Brunson, whose 40 points carried the Knicks to a 116-113 victory in a wild Game 6 over the pesky Pistons on May 1, was asked postgame about his winning 3-point shot over the defense of Thompson after finally ending an extremely competitive series.

2 weeks ago | freep.com | Marlowe Alter

Tim Hardaway Jr. missed a 3-pointer in the left corner just before the buzzer, ending Game 4 and giving the New York Knicks a 94-93 comeback win Sunday over the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena. Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff, players and fans went berserk at the lack of no foul being called against the Knicks on the play as NYK celebrated around Jalen Brunson (32 points, 15 in the fourth). Cade Cunningham missed a pull-up jumper with 7 seconds left and the loose ball went to Hardaway.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Marlowe Alter

Tim Hardaway Jr. missed a 3-pointer in the left corner just before the buzzer, ending Game 4 and giving the New York Knicks a 94-93 comeback win Sunday over the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena. Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff, players and fans went berserk at the lack of a foul called against the Knicks on the play as the Knicks celebrated around Jalen Brunson (32 points, 15 in the fourth).