Although there likely isn’t another perch that large swimming in Lake Independence today, it still supports great perch, pike, walleye, and smallmouth bass fisheries.

FOX Sports college basketball bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy offers up his latest NCAA Tournament projections, with North Carolina on the bubble.

There was change at the top of this week's USA TODAY Sports Bracketology with Alabama rising to a No. 1 seed at the expense of SEC rival Tennessee.

The giant ore dock, which stretches out into the waters, is a potent symbol of a region and city founded on extraction. Nearby, a new sculpture, the Seven Grandfather Teachings, is testament to the Anishinaabe peoples’ cultural and ancestral ties to the lands they have inhabited since time immemorial.

Stevie Mitchell scored 10 of his career-high 22 points during a key five-minute stretch in the second half as No. 9 Marquette overcame Kam Jones’ foul trouble to rally past Butler 78-69

Bad River Tribal Elder Joe Bates is traveling to showings of the film 'Bad River' in Toronto and Montreal, Canada. He’s hauling a 60-foot banner with him to raise awareness along the way and collect signatures to show how much support there is to end Line 5.

The Huskies have lost three times since the first meeting with the Blue Demons, an 81-68 road victory. UConn is coming off a 76-72 loss to Xavier and have alternated wins and losses for their last six games since the first meeting with DePaul. The squad sits at 14-6 and is 6-3 in the conference, two games behind Marquette and St. John’s at the top.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes and Presque Isle Park in Michigan are ranked among the best U.S. locations for witnessing a winter sunrise, according to a Mixbook survey.

Army at Colgate, 6 p.m. George Washington at UMass, 6 p.m. La Salle at St. Bonaventure, 6 p.m. Maryland at Penn St., 6 p.m. Rhode Island at Fordham, 6:30 p.m. Bucknell at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m. Butler at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.

St. John's at Georgetown, 6:30 p.m. Cent. Michigan at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Providence at Seton Hall, 7 p.m. Dayton at St. Bonaventure, 8 p.m. North Carolina at Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.

Northern Michigan University alumnus John Berry Jr. and his wife Shirley Berry have become leading lifetime givers to NMU, surpassing $10 million in total donations in their time. Their most recent gifts of $3.