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After dodging rainout, Jacks dominate DL to open Section 8AA playoffs

Oct. 3—BEMIDJI — The Bemidji High School girls tennis team nearly had Mother Nature rain out its parade. Tuesday afternoon at the BHS courts, a light rainstorm soaked the pavement and put the Lumberjacks’ opening match of the Section 8AA Tournament in limbo. But after a half-hour rain delay and some maintenance work to ready …

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Lapel doesn’t look the part of a 2nd-year program. ‘There’s so much talent on this team’

You wouldn’t guess Lapel is a second-year program. Certainly not after watching them over the final 40 minutes of Tuesday’s 6-2 victory over Scecina Memorial in the Class A Sectional 43 quarterfinals. But talk with the players, and they’ll tell you that after spending the summer focused on fundamentals, they just “kind of winged it” …

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Jackson area high school fall sports top performers for Week 8 of the 2023 season

Here’s the list of Jackson area high school fall sports top performers for Week 8 of the 2023 season. Tuesday GIRLS SOCCER Mary Kinsley Nye and Ximena Acosta, Madison: Nye and Acosta scored three goals each in a 10-1 victory over Lexington. Lola Greenway, Madison: Greenway had two goals and an assist in a 10-1 …

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The Fire hoping to use the “Messi effect” to their advantage

The Fire hoping to use the “Messi effect” to their advantage originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Fire’s match against Inter Miami on Wednesday at Soldier Field could have ramifications on whether either team makes the MLS playoffs. While that’s all well and good, the possibility of getting to see Lionel Messi, arguably the …

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Firebrand Gattuso charged with restoring order to Marseille

Gennaro Gattuso’s first game in charge of Marseille ended in defeat against Monaco (Valery HACHE) Life is rarely dull at Marseille but even by the standards of France‘s most passionately followed football club the weeks leading up to this Thursday’s Europa League clash with Brighton and Hove Albion have been remarkable. A team that had …

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Tennis player disqualified on brink of win after slamming ball into chair umpire’s face

Marc Polmans was up a set, then out of the Shangai Masters. (Photo by Andy Cheung/Getty Images) (Andy Cheung via Getty Images) There are a number of ways for tennis players to react to missing a volley on match point. Marc Polmans landed on one that got him disqualified from the match. The Australian national …

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Erik ten Hag and Man United fall deeper into a desperate, dismal mess of their very own making

Three decades ago, when Manchester United were about to face Galatasaray, they were greeted with banners declaring: “Welcome to Hell”. Thirty years on, United may have found hell: not in Istanbul, but in Manchester. A second home defeat in four days has sent them spiralling into crisis. So much for Raphael Varane’s assertion that they …

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Erik ten Hag and Man United fall deeper into a desperate, dismal mess of their very own making

Three decades ago, when Manchester United were about to face Galatasaray, they were greeted with banners declaring: “Welcome to Hell”. Thirty years on, United may have found hell: not in Istanbul, but in Manchester. A second home defeat in four days has sent them spiralling into crisis. So much for Raphael Varane’s assertion that they …

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