Today on Segment 16, Joe learns that Mr. Basketball isn't coincidentally the name of a few different people who happened to also be good at basketball, but is an actual title given to some players in Michigan. Oh, and that one of them might be in a lot of trouble.
With their fourth upset win of the tournament, Grand Valley State University Women's Basketball has advanced to the Final Four.
Last night, the Lakers beat 2-seed, #19 Pittsburg State, 59-56.
Last weekend's most impressive buzzer beater and celebration was in Grand Rapids.
17-year-old Special Olympics athlete Walter Alvesteffer hit a buzzer beater then did a flip to pump up the crowd.
Detroit Piston Andre Drummond and former Piston Rick Mahorn have both tweeted about the play and celebration.
Michigan State suffered a shocking 90-81 loss to Middle Tennessee today.
The second-seed Spartans became only the eighth team in the NCAA men's tournament to lose to a fifteen-seed.
It brings to mind the Michigan Wolverines football team's shocking loss to Appalachian State in 2007.
Which loss was more shocking, the Spartans loss to Middle Tennessee or Michigan's loss to Appalachian State?
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The bracket talk has already gotten underway, and there's so much weirdness going on with college basketball, that Free Beer and Hot Wings have a lot to talk about on Segment 16. Joe, unfortunately, is lost. So, of course, Free Beer asks Joe some sports questions to bring him into the conversation.
For the third time in five years, and the fifth time overall, the Michigan State Spartans won the Big Ten tournament, defeating Purdue 66-62 in Sunday's championship game in Indianapolis.
I had parents who encouraged me to play sports when I was a kid, which was great, as long it was a sport I liked. When I insisted I did not like softball and did not want to play, my parents pulled this old mind trick on me: "How do you know you don't like it if you haven't tried it?"
So, when I was eight, I suffered through an entire softball season. It was hot, dirty, boring-- and to n
Austin Gregory, a senior who is the all-time scoring leader for Ionia High School's boys' basketball team, has been named Meijer-97.9 WGRD High School Athlete of the Week.