ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Michigan soccer staff is ranked No. 6 within the preseason Coaches Ballot after making its first Faculty Soccer Playoff look final yr.
Michigan is coming off a 12-2 season that included a dominant win over Ohio State and a blowout victory in its first Large Ten Championship Sport. The Wolverines earned the No. 2 seed within the playoff earlier than shedding handily to No. 3 Georgia within the Orange Bowl semifinal.
Jim Harbaugh’s staff misplaced a handful of key contributors from 2021, particularly on the defensive facet of the ball. Edge rushers Aidan Hutchinson and David Ojabo depart probably the most notable holes to fill, and Michigan will sorely miss dynamic security Daxton Hill.
Brad Hawkins, Vincent Grey, Josh Ross, and Christopher Hinton will even have to be changed.
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On offense, Michigan misplaced star operating again Hassan Haskins to the NFL. The one different vital loss on that facet of the ball was beginning lineman Andrew Stueber, who was additionally drafted.
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All eyes have turned to the beginning quarterback competitors, which options Cade McNamara and J.J. McCarthy. McNamara, the incumbent, threw for two,576 yards, 15 touchdowns, and 6 interceptions a yr in the past. McCarthy, the previous five-star recruit, confirmed flashes of elite potential when his quantity was referred to as.
By way of playmakers, Michigan’s offense should not have any scarcity, on paper. Ronnie Bell returns from harm and joins a large receiver room that features a number of younger abilities. Donovan Edwards and Blake Corum ought to make for a risks backfield tandem in Haskins’ wake.
Michigan’s season will seemingly hinge on quarterback play and the way new defensive coordinator Jesse Minter replaces final yr’s high contributors.
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The season begins Sept. 3, with Michigan internet hosting Colorado State.
Large Ten groups within the high 25:
2. Ohio State
6. Michigan
14. Michigan State
20. Wisconsin
Iowa (twenty sixth), Penn State (twenty seventh), Minnesota (forty third), and Purdue (T-Forty eighth) additionally acquired votes.
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Kamala Harris visits Harrisburg PA less than week before the election
Kamala Harris speaks to an enthusiastic rally at the Farm Show in Harrisburg less than a week before Election Day.
EAST LANSING — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Michigan State University’s campus Sunday to rally young voters two days before Election Day.
The Democrat is expected to deliver remarks around 6:30 p.m., according to the Harris-Walz campaign.
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“The rally builds upon Harris-Walz campaign’s youth organizing program in Michigan, which is the largest youth organizing program anywhere in the country,” the campaign said in a release.
No other details were available from the campaign early Friday morning but officials said the vice president’s stop is her second visit to the Lansing area and marks her 11th trip to Michigan.
Harris gave remarks Oct. 18 at UAW Local 652 hall in Lansing.
Former President Donald Trump, her opponent, also has been a frequent visitor in Michigan. He visited mid-Michigan in late August, speaking at Alro Steel in Potterville.
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A new poll of likely Michigan voters by Suffolk University/USA Today showed a tie race going into Tuesday’s presidential election
Students living in East Lansing could play a determining role in one of the most high-profile congressional races nationwide – Michigan’s 7th district.
Both of the men running for the seat, Charlotte Republican Tom Barrett and Lansing Democrat Curtis Hertel, have spent time and resources on campus educating students about their campaign platforms and hiring on-campus volunteers to get their messages out.
Contact editor Susan Vela at svela@lsj.com or 248-873-7044. Follow her on Twitter @susanvela.
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a church service in Detroit and rally young voters at Michigan State University as part of a campaign swing through Michigan on Sunday.
Two days before Tuesday’s presidential election, Harris is planning to make four stops in Michigan, according to a senior campaign official who declined to be identified in order to provide information on the yet-to-be-announced details of the trip.
The Democratic nominee will speak at a church and visit a restaurant in Detroit, a Democratic stronghold and the state’s largest city. Harris also will stop in Pontiac before the evening event in East Lansing, where MSU is located, the official said.
Harris held a large rally at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Monday night.
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Turning out college students in East Lansing and Ann Arbor could be key to Harris’ hopes of winning Michigan. Also, East Lansing is located in the hotly contested 7th Congressional District, where former state Sens. Curtis Hertel, an East Lansing Democrat, and Tom Barrett, a Charlotte Republican, are vying for an open seat in the U.S. House.
Harris is locked in a competitive race for Michigan’s 15 electoral votes with Republican former President Donald Trump. Michigan is one of seven battleground states that are expected to decide whether Harris or Trump leads the country for the next four years.
Trump is visiting Michigan on Friday and will hold a rally at Macomb Community College in Warren.
A late October poll of 600 likely Michigan voters, commissioned by The Detroit News and WDIV-TV (Channel 4), found Harris was beating Trump by 3 percentage points, 46.7%-43.7%, with 7.3% of the participants saying they planned to vote for a third-party candidate. Another 2.1% said they were undecided.
The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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Four years ago, Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump in Michigan by 154,188 votes or 3 percentage points, 51%-48%.
We desperately need rain in Michigan. By the end of the weekend we will get into a three-day rainy period.
We start the weekend very cold Saturday morning compared to these past few days. Many of us will drop to near freezing or below at sunrise.
Saturday will be a dry day with light winds and cool temperatures in the normal range.
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