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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 …

MLB: Tigers Fall to Royals Justin Verlander shut out the Royals through six innings… but unraveled in the seventh, and Detroit lost to Kansas City 5-2 yesterday. Verlander had allowed just two hits over those six innings… but gave up four straight singles to open the seventh. The rest of …

MLB: Tigers Win Fifth Straight Rick Porcello won his 12th game of the season yesterday, as the Tigers beat the Royals 5-1. Porcello left at the end of the seventh inning with a slim 2-1 lead. Joba Chamberlain pitched a perfect eighth… and J.D. Martinez and Alex Avila homered in …

MLB: Tigers Edge Royals The Tigers won their fourth in a row last night… slipping past the Royals 2-1. Anibal Sanchez earned the win… giving up eight hits over seven innings, but allowing just a single run in the first. Both Jaba Chamberlain and Joe Nathan faces scoring threats in …

Morning Sports for Friday, July 11th: MLB: Tigers Rout Royals The Tigers scored eight runs in the fifth inning, and pounded the Royals 16-4 last night. Torii Hunter homered, and 11 Detroit batters collected hits. Drew Smyly earned the win. He gave up single runs in the second and fourth …