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Why Michigan’s quarterback competition between Bryce Underwood and Mikey Keene is legitimate
Michigan’s quarterback situation in 2024 was abysmal at best, ranking No. 129 in passing offense. However, better days are ahead at QB for Michigan. The Wolverines added 2025 No. 1 overall prospect and No. 1 quarterback Bryce Underwood to the equation as well as Fresno State transfer quarterback Mikey Keene.
Underwood’s an early enrollee and practiced with the Michigan team during their ReliaQuest Bowl prep against Alabama, and both he and Keene will be with the team for offseason conditioning and spring practices. While many assume that Underwood will be the starter in 2025 due to being the cream of the crop in his recruiting class, that is far from being decided — a legitimate competition between him and Keene will unfold.
“It’s open competition,” Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore said this week. “Nobody is promised a certain spot. Everybody has got to earn it, and he really understands that, even with the guys we’ve brought in. So he’s really excited to push the whole room.”
Keene has plenty of experience, and will be entering his fifth collegiate season after stops at Central Florida and Fresno State. Keene had a 70.5 completion percentage in 2024 at Fresno State with 2,892 yards with 18 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. Keene has passed 8,245 passing yards in his career with 65 touchdowns and 28 interceptions with a 67.8 completion percentage.
Moore noted that Keene’s familiarity with new Michigan offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey’s scheme was “huge.” Lindsey was Central Florida’s offensive coordinator in 2022 while Keene was at UCF — Keene threw for 647 yards, six touchdowns and one interception with a 72.3 completion rate that season.
“Heard great things and tactical things about him as a leader,” Moore said. “Really excited for him to push that room and give us an experienced guy that we feel that he can win us games, and that was the most important piece of it.”
Bringing Keene into Michigan is the type of addition that Michigan needed and Underwood wanted. Underwood realizes that the only way he’s going to get better is by having good competition day in and day out in Ann Arbor.
“You just want to make sure you have enough guys in the room who can push each other,” Moore said. “A big thing when we recruited Bryce was ‘who’s going to push me, who’s going to make me better?’ All his life he’s been pushed to be made better, he doesn’t want to be given anything.”
Underwood has the highest of ceilings, and Keene has tons of experience and familiarity in Michigan’s new offensive scheme — who winds up starting is currently anyone’s guess. The fact we don’t know should serve both Underwood and Keene well in the months to come.
Powerball, Mega Millions jackpots: What to know in case you win
Here’s what to know in case you win the Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot.
Just the FAQs, USA TODAY
The Michigan Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at Feb. 15, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Daily 3 numbers from Feb. 15 drawing
Midday: 0-8-2
Evening: 1-1-2
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Winning Daily 4 numbers from Feb. 15 drawing
Midday: 7-3-6-0
Evening: 9-9-5-1
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Winning Lucky For Life numbers from Feb. 15 drawing
18-25-30-33-35, Lucky Ball: 06
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Winning Poker Lotto numbers from Feb. 15 drawing
2C-4C-10C-8H-8S
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Winning Fantasy 5 numbers from Feb. 15 drawing
01-05-06-28-34
09-10-22-23-24
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Winning Daily Keno numbers from Feb. 15 drawing
01-03-04-08-10-14-17-23-24-34-36-37-40-43-44-46-47-48-50-57-60-79
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
All Michigan Lottery retailers can redeem prizes up to $600. For prizes up to $99,999.99, winners have the option to submit their claim by mail or in person at one of Michigan Lottery’s Regional Offices.
To claim by mail, complete a ticket receipt form, sign your winning ticket, and send it along with original copies of your government-issued photo ID and Social Security card to the address below. Ensure the names on your ID and Social Security card match exactly. Claims should be mailed to:
Michigan Lottery
Attn: Claim Center
101 E. Hillsdale
P.O. Box 30023
Lansing, MI 48909
For prizes over $100,000, winners must claim their prize in person at the Michigan Lottery Headquarters in Lansing located at 101 E. Hillsdale in downtown Lansing. Each winner must present original versions of a valid government-issued photo ID (typically a driver’s license or state ID) and a Social Security card, ensuring that the names on both documents match exactly. To schedule an appointment, please call the Lottery Player Relations office at 844-887-6836, option 2.
If you prefer to claim in person at one of the Michigan Lottery Regional Offices for prizes under $100,000, appointments are required. Until further notice, please call 1-844-917-6325 to schedule an appointment. Regional office locations are as follows:
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For additional information, downloadable forms, and instructions, visit the Michigan Lottery’s prize claim page.
When are Michigan Lottery drawings held?
- Daily 3 & Daily 4: Midday at 12:59 p.m., Evening at 7:29 p.m.
- Fantasy 5: 7:29 p.m. daily
- Poker Lotto: 7:29 p.m. daily
- Lotto 47: 7:29 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday
- Lucky for Life: 10:38 p.m. daily
- Daily Keno: 7:29 p.m. daily
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The UCLA men’s basketball team’s quest for a second top-five win this season fell short on Saturday, by a long shot.
The Bruins went into Ann Arbor to face the No. 2-ranked Michigan Wolverines and got run out of the building, losing by 30 points. UCLA knew it was going to be a tough game, and the Bruins are far from the only team to suffer that kind of loss against Michigan this season. Still, head coach Mick Cronin was bothered by the way his team responded.
“I’m searching and begging for guys who will play for the team and not for stats,” Cronin told the media postgame. “I thought we took some horrendous, horrendous shots today, and the whole game plan was, ‘Do not take a bad shot, but do not turn the ball over.’”
Stalling Offense
The Bruins did not execute very well on that game plan. They shot just 38% from the field overall and were six-for-21 on three-point attempts. Those stats alone should tell you that they weren’t taking good shots, and while there certainly could’ve been more than 13 UCLA turnovers, that number is still too high, especially for facing this particular opponent.
It’s hard to beat a top-five team on the road at any time, but that lack of execution makes it even harder. UCLA executed well enough in the first half to only trail by two points at halftime, but it all fell apart in the second half.
“We were awful in the second half. We were God awful,” Cronin said. “We missed eight unguarded threes. UNGUARDED. If you’re going to come in here and win, you’ve got to score.”
Defensive Collapse
The Wolverines outscored the Bruins 46-18 after halftime to cruise to another easy win. Often, that’s a product of execution for both teams, and UCLA clearly didn’t deliver. The Bruins started missing shots, and Michigan took advantage of their moments of weakness to gain full control of the game, making 62% of its shots in the game overall and scoring 42 points inside the paint.
“It’s the worst second-half defensive shooting percentage of my career,” Cronin said. “Twenty-three years. They shot 78-percent, worst of my career, and I don’t need to look it up. And it’s not like I forgot how to coach defense now. They’re really good, but I would be really good, too, if I was shooting layups.”
No matter what shots Michigan was getting, it all came back to UCLA’s lack of executing the game plan. If they had better shot selection , they likely would’ve made more of them, limiting the easy chances Michigan had.
“When we went bad offensively, we weren’t tough enough to continue to defend or good enough defensively to stop them, to keep us in the game until we could make a shot.”
Instead, it’s another loss and a lesson for UCLA.
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Washington — Experts warn air quality will worsen because of the Trump administration’s repeal of the legal basis for federal climate rules, despite a top federal regulator saying the move “does not change regulations on traditional air pollutants and air toxics.”
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin made that statement Thursday in the Oval Office as he and President Donald Trump touted the major deregulatory action. They both suggested the change would boost the U.S. auto industry.
“This EPA is committed to providing clean air for all Americans,” Zeldin said. “Powering the great American comeback is based on the singular focus of providing clean air, land and water for all Americans, while harnessing the greatness of the American economy.”
It is true that repealing the Obama-era EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” will leave intact federal rules meant to limit harmful emissions of criteria air pollutants identified more than 50 years ago in the Clean Air Act. Those pollutants include noxious gases like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide that cause asthma, lung issues and neurological damage.
The mass introduction of catalytic converters on new motor vehicles in the 1970s helped drastically curtail emissions of those gases over the next two decades, and the devices will surely remain on gas-powered cars and trucks to ensure they continue meeting federal standards. (Electric vehicles, notably, do not have converters because they have no tailpipe emissions.)
Experts disagreed, however, with Zeldin’s suggestion that there would not be “clean air” implications from the move to wipe out a generation of climate-focused regulations.
“Carbon dioxide pollution and other greenhouse gases are correlated with the production of other air pollutants like particulate matter and nitrogen oxides,” said Erik Nordman, director of the Institute for Public Utilities at Michigan State University.
“Measures that reduce carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases often reduce those other pollutants. That’s a co-benefit of these greenhouse gas regulations. So by removing or lowering standards for greenhouse gases, we would expect those other pollutants that are tightly correlated with greenhouse gases to increase,” he said in a phone interview.
Catalytic converters are one example of the link between what Zeldin called “traditional” pollutants and greenhouse gases.
The devices work by causing chemical reactions that transform highly toxic criteria pollutants into less harmful — or in some cases harmless — gases and substances. One byproduct is harmless water vapor. Another primary one is carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes climate change in the long term but is not instantly poisonous to humans at low ambient levels.
But even as converters have become more effective over time, academic research shows, they still do not block all of the most air-quality-harming pollutants. And because vehicles that use more fuel have higher emissions, the risk for worsened air quality is greater.
Nordman said the Trump administration’s endangerment finding repeal “kind of locks in a lower standard, so that will result in cars that are less fuel efficient than they might have been otherwise. That will result in greater pollution than we would have seen otherwise.”
The environmental policy expert added that those impacts will play out most over the longer term because “energy and transportation infrastructure that we’re building today will be more polluting than it otherwise could be, and we’re going to lock in that pollution for decades.”
He said other Trump administration actions — like the order to keep a coal plant open in Michigan — will have more immediate impacts on air quality.
Jeff Holmstead, who was an EPA official under former President George W. Bush, said Thursday he expected little near-term impact in air quality from the federal policy change, noting that automakers “have very long planning cycles.”
But Tom Luben, a senior research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and former air pollution researcher at the EPA for almost 20 years, was blunt in condemning the Trump administration’s repeal of the endangerment finding.
The action, Luben wrote ahead of the announcement, “would threaten the health of millions of Americans.”
“An increase in ground-level ozone concentrations has been linked to respiratory health problems ranging from decreased lung function and asthma exacerbations to increased emergency department visits and hospital admissions,” he added, similarly raising air quality concerns.
Luben continued: “Certain parts of the population are especially vulnerable to these effects, including children, older adults, pregnant people, and individuals with pre-existing health conditions.”
Beyond air quality, the research scientist also lamented climate-related impacts of the policy change.
“In addition to increased air pollution, the proliferation of extremely hot days, floods, storms, droughts, and fires linked to a changing climate will impact the health of the American people.”
In announcing the repeal move, however, Trump dismissed climate-change concerns: “… this has nothing to do with public health. This was all a scam.”
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