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Michigan National Guard Event: First Off The Bus Team
There’s extra to soccer than top, weight, velocity and power, however a whole lot of instances, the fellows who’ve the rarest mixture of these traits, shine on the sphere. At a spot like Michigan, the roster is affected by spectacular wanting athletes, however typically some prospects stand out even amongst their fellow Wolverines. We acquired an opportunity to see these guys up shut and private through the Michigan Military Nationwide Guard occasion on Saturday, and the next 5 gamers made the “First Off The Bus Staff” forward of the 2022 season.
1. Junior Colson
As a real sophomore, there won’t be a extra spectacular wanting prospect on Michigan’s roster. The second-year backer seems to be bulkier than his listed 225 kilos and at 6-2, he is put collectively from head to toe. As you’ll be able to see within the pic above, he is positively acquired a linebacker’s neck and in 12 months two, the pinnacle on high of it ought to be crammed with data and knowledge that can permit him to interrupt out in a serious means.
Colson is coping with some kind of damage on what seems to be his proper thumb as evidenced by a small, barely light solid. Hopefully, the scale and situation of the solid means it is going to come off quickly because the gamers gear up for fall camp. Colson goes to be instrumental in a Michigan protection that should change extremely productive gamers like Aidan Hutchinson, David Ojabo and Josh Ross. Throw in the truth that Jesse Minter is in 12 months one as Michigan’s defensive coordinator and Colson’s significance goes up one other notch.
2. Mazi Smith
Now a senior, Smith has formed his physique in a means that ought to permit him to play a ton of snaps this fall. He is able to be a pacesetter, and, for a similar causes listed above when referencing Colson, he must be. He is been on the sphere loads for Michigan already and can most likely set profession highs in snaps in 2022. Now listed at 326 kilos, Smith’s arms barely match into what was seemingly a minimum of a 2X Nationwide Guard shirt.
3. Mike Morris
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Additionally coming into his senior season, Morris is an imposing determine at 6-6, 280 kilos. At one level through the day’s festivities, he tried to squeeze into the cockpit of a helicopter. It was fairly troublesome for the massive fella, which was made much more troublesome by his hair, which really acquired caught in some cords. Ultimately he made it into the seat, however after watching him wrestle to get in there after 5-10, 185-pound Mike Sainristil did so with ease, it actually put into perspective simply how massive Morris is.
4. Zak Zinter
As soon as described as the perfect general participant on the crew by former offensive coordinator Josh Gattis, Zinter seems to be like he is simply shopping for his time earlier than he performs within the NFL for about 15 years. Now coming into his junior season, Zinter has been enjoying vital snaps since he was a real freshman. Listed at 6-6, 320 kilos, Zinter is clearly a heavy dude, however he is acquired nice proportions and a really athletic decrease construct, which permits him to do all the things a guard must do in a run-heavy offense. He was a serious a part of Michigan’s Joe Moore Award successful offensive line final 12 months and ought to be much more vital in 2022.
5. Jaylen Harrell
It isn’t on a regular basis you see a 6-4, 242-pound linebacker in a working again quantity, however that is precisely what Harrell is in his No. 32 jersey. He performed in all 14 video games final 12 months with 4 begins as a real sophomore and appears poised to have a monstrous 2022 marketing campaign. As my decide to be Michigan’s sack chief through the upcoming season, I anticipate Harrell to play how he seems to be — like a beast.
Honorable Point out: Erick All
At 6-4, 245 kilos, All is not at the same time as massive as fellow tight finish Luke Schoonmaker, who’s listed at 6-5, 250 kilos, however as a former outsized extensive receiver, No. 83 seems to be incredible as he prepares for his senior 12 months. I would be prepared to guess he is heavier than his listed weight, and now that the bodily has utterly caught up with the aggressive mentality that is at all times been there, All might get away in 2022 as a go catcher and blocker. Even on a bum ankle we noticed the athleticism and velocity in opposition to Penn State final 12 months, so of us ought to be very optimistic concerning the 2022 model of Erick All.
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Why many Arab voters in Michigan are flocking to Trump ahead of US election
Dearborn, Michigan – Samraa Luqman wants Arab Americans to be blamed if Democratic candidate Kamala Harris loses to her Republican rival Donald Trump in the United States election.
For too long, Democrats have taken the Arab vote for granted, and it is time for them to pay the price for the United States-backed Israeli war on Gaza and Lebanon, Luqman said.
“I will show up the next day if Harris loses, I will say: It’s because of this community, it is because of Gaza and because of the genocide, that you lost,” Luqman told Al Jazeera in her office in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn.
“Take the credit for your power. I’m all for it.”
The Yemeni American activist is part of a growing electoral bloc that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: Arab Americans for Trump.
President Joe Biden’s unconditional support for Israel amid the horrific atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon has left many community advocates like Luqman so distraught that they are forging an alliance with Trump in the hope of change – any change.
Despite his history of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric, Trump has extended an arm to such disaffected voters – an outreach campaign that culminated in a visit to Dearborn, where he met with dozens of Arab Americans on Friday.
With a pendant depicting the map of historic Palestine and the Dome of the Rock and a Palestinian flag dangling from her necklace, Luqman argued that voting for Trump is a gamble but supporting Harris is a guaranteed loss when it comes to Israel-Palestine.
“Even if he will continue this genocide at a 99 percent chance, I’m going to take that 1 percent chance that he’s going to stop it, as opposed to the 100 percent chance that it’s going to continue under Harris,” she told Al Jazeera.
Trump in turn has promised “peace” in the Middle East with few details on how he would achieve it and even fewer details on whether he would alter the staunchly pro-Israel approach he pursued in his first term.
But for Luqman, supporting Trump is not entirely about the former president, but about holding the current vice president accountable for the Biden-Harris administration’s unprecedented military support for Israel.
“I do not believe that a genocide can ever go unpunished. And for me, it should never, ever be rewarded with a second term,” she said.
“My message to Washington, to Democrats and Republicans, after this election is that if you do what Biden has done, you will not be rewarded.”
While some Harris supporters insist that she will not be a continuation of Biden, she has done little to distance herself from his pro-Israel policies and has promised to keep the flow of American weapons to Israel uninterrupted.
Trump in Dearborn
That chasm between Arab Americans and the Democratic Party has created a space for Trump to exploit.
In a close race, the tens of thousands of Arab voters can be decisive in Michigan, one of a handful of swing states that will decide who the next president is.
Trump made a brief campaign stop in Dearborn, an Arab-majority city that has come to symbolise the Arab and Muslim American experience, on Friday.
For years, Trump’s far-right allies demonised Dearborn with false accounts about the city adopting Islamic law and no-go zones that are inaccessible to the authorities.
And so, the warm welcome he received from voters, businesspersons and activists was as much a shift by him as it was by them.
Albert Abbas, a business owner, read out a statement with Trump standing next to him decrying the “betrayal of those in power”.
While Trump has released a letter promising to “stop the suffering and destruction in Lebanon”, Abbas also demanded action on Gaza.
“I can’t stand in silence when Palestine is being erased,” Abbas said. “Please help us stop the bloodshed. No amount of money or power should be prioritised over human life.”
Dozens of Trump supporters and detractors gathered outside the event.
Holding a Trump flag featuring an expletive about not caring about what others think, Dearborn resident Hassan Hussein Abdullah said “Everybody was happy” when Trump was president.
“If he said he’s going to stop the war, he’s going to stop the war,” Abdullah said. “I believe that Trump is a good man. I believe he’s going to stop the war.”
Protesters with Palestinian flags showed up at the impromptu gathering. Fawzi Mohamad, an Egyptian American dressed in a white thobe, chanted “free Palestine” as Trump’s convoy drove by.
Mohamad expressed bewilderment at the community’s embrace of Trump, quoting his anti-Palestinian policies and rhetoric, including using “Palestinian” as a slur.
“Anyone who votes for Trump or Kamala Harris is ignoring the blood of our children who are being killed in Gaza and Lebanon,” he told Al Jazeera.
At the local Harris campaign office – blocks away from the Trump event – Sami Khaldi, head of the Dearborn Democratic Club, said Republicans have not cared about Arab American issues in previous elections, but Trump is focusing on the community because he is “desperate” for votes.
“He’s the one who moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. He’s the one [who] gave Golan Heights to be part of Israel. At the same time, more illegal settlements were founded when he was president,” Khaldi told Al Jazeera.
“He has been tested, and we know what he stands for.”
Hedging in Hamtramck
Before visiting Dearborn, Trump made a campaign stop last month in Hamtramck, the country’s first Muslim-majority city.
Many supporters have credited Hamtramck’s Yemeni American Mayor Amer Ghalib with opening the channel between Trump and the Arab community.
While the war in Gaza and Lebanon appears to be dominating the political choices of the community in the election, Ghalib had been forging ties with Republicans before the conflict broke out.
The mayor pursued a conservative approach that brought him closer to Republicans amid debates over LGBTQ-themed books in school libraries.
Under his leadership, the city also passed last year a flag neutrality resolution that effectively banned flying the LGBTQ pride flag on city property.
The move caused a backlash from many Democrats and put Ghalib in the same camp as socially conservative Republicans.
It all coincided with the largely socially conservative Arab community across the state raising concerns about the introduction of gender identity topics in public schools and accessibility to books that some deemed as sexually explicit.
Ghalib acknowledged that these issues were a “catalyst” for his shift to the Republican Party, slamming what he called the “aggressive behaviour by the radical left wing” in response to the flag resolution.
“It wasn’t an instant decision that we took in one day,” Ghalib said of his endorsement of Trump during a town hall with Al Jazeera Arabic earlier this week.
“It was a combination of disappointment at the current administration for the past four years [and] since the war started on Gaza.”
Critics of Ghalib, however, have stressed that the president has no say over what goes on at school libraries or municipal decisions.
Layla Elabed, a leader of the Uncommitted Movement that aimed to pressure Biden and Harris to end their unconditional support for Israel, said the controversies about LGBTQ-themed books were instigated by far-right activists.
“I am concerned about the things that my children are learning, but it happens at the very community level,” she said at the town hall.
Ghalib’s endorsement of Trump appears to have rippled through the Yemeni community.
The facade of Sheeba, a Yemeni restaurant in Dearborn, has been covered with Trump signs, including ones that say in Arabic: “For peace, vote Trump.”
Ali Aljahmi, a member of the family that owns the restaurant, said the two main issues driving his support for Trump are the violence in the Middle East and the economy.
There is a strong perception by Trump’s supporters that the economy was far better under the former president partly because of low inflation, although the current unemployment rate is also low at 4.1 percent.
“We believe that Donald Trump is the only one that can bring the peace that we are striving for,” Aljahmi said.
‘Trump wants peace’
In neighbouring Dearborn Heights, Mayor Bill Bazzi – who was born in south Lebanon – has also endorsed Trump.
Bazzi took the stage alongside the Republican candidate at a rally in the Detroit suburb of Novi earlier this month, where an imam from Hamtramck also spoke.
The Dearborn Heights mayor told Al Jazeera that he decided to go “full force” with his backing of Trump after Harris campaigned with Liz Cheney – the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the architects of the so-called “war on terror” – in Michigan.
“Trump wants peace. He doesn’t want wars,” Bazzi, a Marine veteran, told Al Jazeera.
“And I believe his message is correct because when he was president, there were no new wars, and he was trying to withdraw our troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan.”
But Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of the city with the largest Arab American community in the state, Dearborn, has refused to back the former president.
“The architect of the Muslim Ban is making a campaign stop in Dearborn,” Hammoud wrote in a social media post on Friday.
“People in this community know what Trump stands for – we suffered through it for years. I’ve refused a sit down with him although the requests keep pouring in.”
Still, the Dearborn mayor faulted the Democrats’ support for Israeli atrocities for creating “the space for Trump to infiltrate our communities”.
Trump’s record
While many Trump supporters told Al Jazeera that the Trump presidency was a peace era, the facts do not entirely back that assertion.
Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal and ordered the assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, bringing the two countries to the verge of an all-out conflict.
Iran responded to the killing of Soleimani with a rocket attack against bases hosting US troops in Iraq – a historically rare direct assault by a foreign nation against the American military.
Israel also killed more than 220 Palestinians who peacefully protested near the Gaza fence in 2018 and 2019.
Under Trump, the war in Yemen – described by the United Nations as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis at that time – also intensified.
When it comes to Palestine, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often called Trump the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House.
Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, declaring the holy city as Israel’s undivided capital.
He cut funding to the UN agency for the Palestinian refugees, recognised Israel’s claimed sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights and closed down the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, DC.
Biden did not reverse any of these policies, except for temporarily resuming funding for the UNRWA before cutting it during the ongoing war on Gaza.
Moreover, Trump pushed to forge relationships between Arab states and Israel without resolving the Palestinian issue – an approach that was also pursued by Biden, albeit unsuccessfully.
And while Trump often slams the Cheneys as warmongers, over the years, he surrounded himself by neoconservative hawks, including his former National Security Advisor John Bolton and close ally Senator Lindsey Graham.
On the domestic front, Trump imposed a travel ban on visitors from several Muslim-majority countries. He also has a history of anti-Muslim statements, including saying that the Quran, Islam’s holy book, teaches a “very negative vibe” and proclaiming that “Islam hates us”.
When confronted with Trump’s record, his Arab American supporters’ response varies.
Some point out that Biden has had a similar approach to the Middle East. Others dismiss Trump’s comments as mere words.
Some have pointed out that hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims have risen over the past year, with a six-year-old Palestinian child fatally stabbed in the Chicago area and three students wearing keffiyehs shot in Vermont.
Bazzi, the Dearborn Heights mayor, played down Trump’s previous statements about Muslims, saying that the former president “has no filter”, but he is trying to build a coalition that includes the community.
“He says things, but I can tell you that he wants to bring this country back together,” Bazzi told Al Jazeera.
Walid Fidama, a lifelong Yemeni American Democrat now backing Trump, said that the former president’s rhetoric has shifted on Arab and Muslim communities, and that’s a welcome development.
At the rally in Novi, Trump described Arab and Muslim Americans as “great people”.
“Bringing Arab leaders and imams to the stage to speak is a hugely positive step that will change how we are viewed as a community,” Fidama told Al Jazeera.
Some activists like Luqman, however, do not try to sugarcoat Trump’s record. Instead, they view their plan to vote for him as a calculated political decision.
She argued that as a term-limited president, Trump is more likely to break the norms in Washington, including unconditional support for Israel.
And even if Trump does not put pressure on Israel to end the war, Luqman said, he is more likely to face opposition in Washington.
She noted that while Republicans have been staunchly pro-Israel, Democrats have failed to pressure Biden – a president from their own party – to change course in his backing of the war.
And there is the long-term game – breaking away from the Democratic Party to prove that the community could be a swing vote in future elections, Luqman said.
“If we exert our political muscle, and we show that we have an impact that will cause reverberations in the elections, it will show that we have the strength and the voter bloc to make a change, and that – in and of itself – is going to have both parties trying to appease us,” Luqman told Al Jazeera.
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Michigan high school football scores from first round of MHSAA playoffs
Michigan high school football playoffs: Clarkston RB Griffin Boman
Michigan high school football playoffs: Clarkston RB Griffin Boman on rout of Lake Orion on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.
November is here, which means we finally have Michigan high school football playoffs! Welcome to the first round of the MHSAA state tournament, with 128 games on the schedule, including 10 on Saturday.
As always, we broke down all eight divisions, picked each region’s final four and predicted state champions.
Check freep.com/sports/high-schools for game coverage, and on Saturday night, we’ll have the playoff schedule for next week’s second-round matchups. Then come back next Friday to see predictions for each game.
Congratulations to Detroit Free Press Prep Athlete of the Week for Oct. 20-26: Howell’s Justin Jones.
Send in your nominees this weekend across any sport for Oct. 27-Nov. 2, and voting will open Tuesday.
Here are the MHSAA football scores and results from the first round of the playoffs.
Michigan high school football scores today in playoffs
Friday’s scores from MHSAA first round
Adams 44, Stoney Creek 14
Alcona 52, Atlanta 0
Armada 37, Richmond 10
Au Gres-Sims 70, Mio-Au Sable 42
Avondale 43, Thurston 6
Beal City 47, Frankfort 0
Belding 52, Swan Valley 30
Belleville 68, Pioneer 0
Berrien Springs 14, Dowagiac 6
Big Rapids 28, Ludington 21
Boyne City 23, Negaunee 16
Brighton 53, Grand Ledge 28
Britton Deerfield 58, Lenawee Christian 15
Byron Center 38, Northview 17
Carlson 42, Bedford 21
Cass City 50, Valley Lutheran 15
Cass Tech 41, Stevenson 0
Catholic Central 28, Hopkins 0
Central 34, Edison 16
Central Montcalm 36, Kent City 12
Chelsea 24, Pinckney 20
Clarkston 34, Lake Orion 16
Clinton 38, Whiteford 32
Constantine 39, Parchment 14
Coopersville 39, Kenowa Hills 13
Corunna 35, Flint Hamady 8
Croswell-Lexington 31, Marysville 6
Dakota 31, Utica 0
De La Salle 49, Port Huron Northern 0
DeWitt 42, St Johns 7
Dearborn 30, Fordson 0
Decatur 34, Centreville 6
Deckerville 54, All Saints 34
Detroit Catholic Central 33, Stevenson 0
Dexter 42, South Lyon East 14
Divine Child 42, Lamphere 6
East Jordan 34, Bark River-Harris 14
East Lansing 43, Milford 22
Edwardsburg 29, Harper Creek 8
Eisenhower 44, Romeo 21
Everest Collegiate 51, Bentley 0
Farmington 39, Lakeland 13
Father Gabriel Richard 51, Whitmore Lake 20
Flat Rock 40, Denby 22
Forest Hills Central 7, East Grand Rapids 0
Fowler 48, Reese 12
Frankenmuth 62, Tri-County 6
Franklin 21, Allen Park 14
Freeland 51, Lake Fenton 21
Gabriel Richard 48, Cabrini 0
Glen Lake 38, Mancelona 14
Goodrich 49, Brandon 7
Grand Blanc 42, Lapeer 14
Grandville 24, Rockford 14
Grosse Pointe South 27, Roseville 26
Groves 49, Ferndale 14
Harbor Beach 35, Ubly 0
Haslett 42, Parma Western 21
Hastings 35, Ionia 0
Hazel Park 41, South Lake 22
Heritage 52, Dow 20
Howell 35, Kalamazoo Central 12
Hudson 38, Napoleon 6
Hudsonville 25, East Kentwood 23
Ida 56, Advanced Tech 8
Inland Lakes 46, Montabella 8
Iron Mountain 49, Manistique 12
Ithaca 42, Saranac 7
Kalamazoo United 33, South Haven 7
King 41, Fitzgerald 0
Kingston 16, Fulton 14
Lansing Catholic 36, Chesaning 29
Lawton 42, Coloma 6
Leslie 49, Atherton 7
Linden 42, Fenton 14
Lowell 27, Cedar Springs 7
Loyola 28, Mt Clemens 8
Lumen Christi 42, Robichaud 8
Lutheran North 48, St Clair 30
Lutheran Northwest 40, Cardinal Mooney 14
Manchester 20, Summerfield 17
Marine City 50, Clintondale 30
Martin 52, Gobles 22
Mason 59, Jackson 18
Mattawan 27, Everett 21
McBain 49, Harrison 6
Mendon 58, Climax-Scotts 50
Michigan Lutheran Seminary 21, Nouvel 20
Midland 34, Flushing 7
Millington 42, Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port 14
Mona Shores 28, Traverse City West 0
Morrice 28, St Patrick 22
Mt Pleasant 36, Cadillac 22
Newaygo 30, Montague 17
Niles 42, Paw Paw 14
North Muskegon 56, Evart 7
Notre Dame 49, Williamston 19
Ogemaw Heights 21, Clare 13
Old Redford 28, Pershing 6
Olivet 49, Buchanan 15
Onekama 22, Marion 20
Ovid-Elsie 44, Almont 21
Oxford 21, Davison 14
Petoskey 61, Glenn 21
Pewamo-Westphalia 42, Montrose 12
Pickford 67, Munising 12
Pittsford 52, Burr Oak 22
Portage Central 28, Portage Northern 12
Portland 42, Sexton 8
Reading 36, Sand Creek 0
Reed City 41, Manistee 20
River Rouge 13, Southgate Anderson 7
Riverview 22, Trenton 21
Romulus 26, Lincoln-King 24
Saline 37, Northville 7
Saugatuck 24, White Pigeon 22
Schoolcraft 28, Bronson 14
Seaholm 59, Warren Mott 29
South Christian 35, Holland Christian 7
Springport 38, Addison 14
St Francis 26, Charlevoix 16
St Joseph 41, Lakeshore 21
St Mary Catholic Central 41, Blissfield 6
St Mary’s 42, North Farmington 7
Standish-Sterling 50, Mason County Central 32
Summit 17, Voyageur 10
Union City 42, Hanover-Horton 13
Unity Christian 63, Hamilton 20
Walled Lake Western 49, Garden City 7
West Bloomfield 49, Novi 15
West Catholic 32, Oakridge 14
Whitehall 28, Forest Hills Eastern 21
Zeeland West 32, Zeeland East 6
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Michigan reveals classic uniform combination for matchup with Oregon
Fans will be in for a visual treat on Saturday when Michigan clashes with No. 1 Oregon in the Big House. Not only will it feature two of the most recognizable brands in college athletics, but the matchup will also feature two elite uniform combinations.
For the Wolverines, it will be the traditional blue top with maize pants and blue accessories – a classic look.
For Oregon, it will be the all-white “Warp Speed” alternate for the road matchup in Ann Arbor.
This will be the sixth meeting all-time between the two programs, and the first meeting with both programs being part of the Big Ten conference. The Wolverines currently hold a 3-2 advantage all-time, but the Ducks have won the last two consecutive meetings. Here’s a quick look:
Michigan and No. 1 Oregon will kick off LIVE from the Big House at 3:40 pm ET on CBS.
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