• Michigan beats Ohio State, ends 7-game skid

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    Denard Robinson of the Michigan Wolverines celebrates with students after beating Ohio State at Michigan Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011.

    AP reports:

    ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Denard Robinson accounted for five touchdowns, helping No. 17 Michigan beat Ohio State 40-34 on Saturday and snap a school-record, seven-game losing streak in the rivalry.

    The Wolverines (10-2, 6-2 Big Ten) were forced to settle for a six-point lead with 1:59 left on Brendan Gibbons' career-long 43-yard field goal after two apparent TDs were negated by a video review and then penalties.

    The Buckeyes (6-6, 3-5) had a chance to win the game on their final drive, but freshman Braxton Miller sailed a pass over Deviser Posey's head on what could've been a 76-yard TD and threw a loss-sealing interception to Courtney Avery.

    Michigan finally beat its archrival because it had a better quarterback than Ohio State for a change.

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  • Carrier Classic under way on board USS Carl Vinson

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    North Carolina plays Michigan State in the first half of the Carrier Classic NCAA college basketball game on Friday night.

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    North Carolina forward John Henson fights for a rebound with Michigan State center Adreian Payne and forward Branden Dawson during the first half of the Carrier Classic NCAA college basketball game on Friday night.

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    President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walk through an honor guard on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego, Calif., Nov. 11, 2011.

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    President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama speak to the crowd on Friday night.

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    Former NBA star Earvin 'Magic' Johnson poses with U.S. sailors at the NCAA Carrier Classic men's college basketball game on Friday.

    AP reports:

    CORONADO, Calif. - President Barack Obama says every American should make a solemn pledge to find some way to support U.S. troops - not just on Veterans Day but every day.

    Obama made the comments to military personnel on board the USS Carl Vinson, where he was spending a memorable evening watching a college basketball game being played on the 95,000-ton Navy warship that buried Osama bin Laden's body at sea.

    Michigan State takes on North Carolina Friday night before an audience of 7,000, including President Obama on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports.

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  • Preparations underway for historic hoops game on board USS Carl Vinson

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    Workers prepare the Carrier Classic NCAA men's basketball court on board the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, Calif., Nov. 10, 2011.

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    Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels talks to his players during practice for the Carrier Classic NCAA college basketball game aboard the USS Carl Vinson on Nov. 10, 2011 in San Diego, Calif.

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    Members of North Carolina Tar Heels practice for the Carrier Classic NCAA college basketball game on board the USS Carl Vinson on Nov. 10, 2011 in San Diego, Calif.

    By James Cheng

    Wow, that is one big aircraft carrier.

    From AP: As long as the rain stays away from the Carrier Classic on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Friday afternoon, coaches Tom Izzo of Michigan State and Roy Williams of No. 1 North Carolina are confident their teams will put on a great Veterans Day show for the approximately 7,000 in the crowd, including the nation's basketball-fan-in-chief, President Barack Obama, plus a national TV audience.

    Izzo and Williams said they and their players were blown away when they boarded the nuclear-powered carrier, which stretches 1,092 feet, weighs 95,000 tons and has four steam catapults that can accelerate a jet fighter from 0 to 165 mph in just more than two seconds. 

    Read the full story here. Also, listed below are other stories from our site related to the ball game.

  • Al Goldis / AP

    Pyrotechnics illuminate the Breslin Center as Michigan State players are introduced before an NCAA college basketball Midnight Madness scrimmage, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in East Lansing, Mich.

    Midnight Madness tips things off in Michigan

    AP reports:

    Things were pretty normal for the opening night of practice for Division I men's basketball.

    Most of Friday night's events were called some form of madness, from Big Blue to Mountaineer to First Night. Most of them ended well before the midnight part of many of their names.

    There were also some coaches who let the fans know things were going to be serious this season.

    Read the full story here.

  • Antique tractor auction expected to draw crowd as family sells off late father's unique collection

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    Steve Mead, of Kent City, Mich., looks at tractors that belonged to the late Sherwood "Red" Casterline in Ensley, Mich. Arlene Culver beamed as she surveyed the farmyard lined with 72 antique tractors, old engines and other rusted farm equipment collected by her late father, Sherwood "Red" Casterline. On Saturday, hundreds of antique farm equipment buffs from as far away as Texas will gather for an auction to sell off the rare tractors and engines Culver's father dragged home one by one over 50 years of collecting.

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    By Rich Shulman

    Sherwood "Red" Casterline, right, died two years ago at age 92. His antique tractor collection goes on the auction block Saturday.

    As the Grand Rapids Press reports:

    For the parade of curiosity seekers and tractor buffs stopping by the farm at Algoma Avenue and 22 Mile Road, the collection offers a rare look into the world of farming whose time has passed.

    There's the rare 1934 Plymouth tractor, one of about 200 made before Chrysler Corp. sued and forced the company to change its name to Silver King. There are four Silver Kings on the yard, too.

    Cory Morse / AP

    An antique CoOp wide fry orchard tractor that is part of the late Sherwood "Red" Casterline's tractor collection is seen in Ensley, Mich.

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    Carolyn Forrest, 11, and her brother, Nicholas Forrest, 10, look at a 1947 Pontiac that belonged to the late Sherwood "Red" Casterline in Ensley, Mich.

     

  • Heat wave grips the nation's midsection

    By Rich Shulman

    What says heat to you? Full story.

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    Walter Gatewood, 87, sits on his front porch trying to beat the heat in Flint, Mich., Monday, July 18. With a heat index well over 100 in most places, a heat wave smothered the Midwest Monday.

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    Jazia Pratt, 8, fills a bucket with water from a fire hydrant in the afternoon summer heat Monday, July 18, in Philadelphia.

    From Texas to Michigan, 17 states have issued heat advisories and warnings. This month, heat records have already been tied or broken more than 1000 times. The heat is expected to hit the East Coast starting Wednesday. Kevin Tibbles reports.

     

  • Body of Betty Ford moved to final resting place in Michigan

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    A military honor guard places the casket of former first lady Betty Ford onto a lift for transfer to a US Air Force C-32 for a flight to Grand Rapids, Mich., at Palm Springs International Airport in Palm Sprngs, Calif., Wednesday, July 13.

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    The casket carrying former US first lady Betty Ford is loaded onto an United State Air Force plane as family members watch (L) at Palm Springs International Airport, California, July 13, where it will be flown to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Betty Ford, who was the wife of the late former US President Gerald Ford, started the Betty Ford Clinic for drug and alcohol rehabilitation. She died at the age of 93 and will be buried next to her husband in Michigan.

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    People check the runway for foreign objects as part of the FOD team (Foreign Object Detection) prior to the lift-off of the US Air Force carrying the casket of former US first lady Betty Ford, July 13.

    Read the full story here. 

  • Michigan residents play dirty in Westland

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    Kids run into the mud pit during the annual Mud Day in Westland, Mich. on July 12, 2011. Wayne County mixes more than 200 tons of topsoil and over 20,000 gallons of water to ensure that the mud is just right.

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    Children play during Wayne County's 2011 Mud Day event at Nankin Mills Park.

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  • Ryan Garza / AP

    Street signs peeled due to the heat at the corner of Lewis Street and Delaware Avenue in the east side of Flint, Mich., Tuesday, June 21, where an abandoned house burned during a rash of 11 suspicious fires that occurred overnight that left Flint Firefighters needing to call in mutual aid from surrounding communities to help.

    Crews in Flint battle 11 fires at vacant homes

    By Rich Shulman

    This is a fascinating way to show the impact of an arson fire.

    Last night's fires are the latest of several outbreaks of arson in recent years in Flint.

    As the Flint Journal reported, east side residents are glad to see the abandoned houses destroyed.

  • Ryan Garza / AP

    Brendan Earley, 10, of Davison, Mich. puts on his own car show while waiting for the start of the Back to the Bricks Mitten Promo Tour in the parking lot on Friday, June 17, 2011 in Flint, MI.

    Boy waits for car show to start in Flint

    By James Cheng

    To me this picture looks like an illustration by Norman Rockwell for the Saturday Evening Post.

    Find out more about the Bricks Mitten Promo Tour from here and Rockwell’s illustrations from here.

  • Sailor may be first U.S. service member killed by a Predator drone

    NBC's Jim Miklaszewski says: A U.S. Marine reservist and a Navy corpsman were killed in a drone airstrike in Afghanistan last week in an apparent case of friendly fire, U.S. military officials tell NBC News.

    Robert Franklin / South Bend Tribune via AP

    Sailors salute as seaman Benjamin Rast's flagged-draped coffin is removed from the airplane at South Bend Regional Airport in South Bend, Ind. The military says Rast a 23-year-old Navy medic of Niles, Mich., died April 6 while on patrol in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

    Marine Staff Sgt. Jeremy Smith and Navy Corpsman Benjamin Rast were reportedly killed Wednesday by a Hellfire missile fired from a U.S. Air Force Predator in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity, NBC reported. Smith and Rast were part of a Marine unit moving in to reinforce fellow Marines under heavy fire from enemy forces outside Sangin in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.

    Robert Franklin / South Bend Tribune via AP

    Robert Rast salutes as his son's flagged-draped coffin is removed from the airplane at South Bend Regional Airport in South Bend, Ind.

    The Marines under fire were watching streaming video of the battlefield being fed to them by an armed Predator overhead. They saw a number of "hot spots," or infrared images, moving in their direction. Apparently believing that those "hot spots" were the enemy, they called in a Hellfire missile strike from the Predator.

    Robert Franklin / South Bend Tribune via AP

    Members of the Patriot Guard escort the funeral procession for sailor Benjamin Rast from the South Bend Regional Airport in South Bend, Ind.

    It's believed that this is the first time that U.S. service members have been killed by a Predator in a friendly fire incident.

    Smith, 26, of Arlington, Texas, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division out of Houston. Rast, 23, was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division out of San Diego.

    Robert Franklin / South Bend Tribune via AP

    Students from nearby St. Bavo Elementary School line the street outside Hahn Funeral home to show their respect Rast.

    The U.S. military is investigating the incident. Military officials say the families of both service members have been informed of the possibility this was a friendly fire incident.

    Robert Franklin / South Bend Tribune via AP

    St. Bavo first grader and boy scout Nathan Watt salutes as the coffin carrying the body of sailor Benjamin Rast is transported inside Hahn Funeral home in Mishawaka.

     

  • Joseph Tobianski / The Flint Journal via AP

    Sandy Scott, left, of Lennon, and her children Abby and Adam become emotional while listening to their father Ken speak about his daughter Rachel during a press conference on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Vernon Township, Mich., following the arraignment of Laurencio L. Rodriguez for the murder of Rachel M. Scott almost 11 years after she was found dead in Vernon Township.

    After 11 years, Michigan family mourns as suspect is charged with their daughter's murder

    As reported by the Flint Journal: Ken Scott (father of the late Rachel M. Scott) called Rodriguez a "monster."

    "He now knows he will not be getting away with murder," he said. "Eleven years of waiting is now over." Read the full story here.

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