Both the NFL and NBA could face a labor strike next season if the two leagues don't reach a new collective bargaining agreement. If that takes place, it could have a huge affect on fans loyalty toward the two leagues.
The Oakland University men's basketball team beat Marygrove 112-55 Tuesday night in its only exhibition game before the regular season. The Golden Grizzlies travel to West Virginia for the official season opener on Friday.
Oakland capped off the regular season with an unbeaten record in the Summit League and enters the league tournament as the top seed. The Golden Grizzlies (12-5-2, 8-0-1 Summit League) will take on Western Illinois in the first round.
The Golden Grizzlies men's basketball team will begin its defense of the Summit League title on Nov. 12. The team is led by its senior trio of Will Hudson, Keith Benson and Larry Wright (pictured left to right).
The Summit League could find itself with just eight teams beginning in 2012 after its previous expansion plans fell through and Southern Utah opted to leave to join the Big Sky Conference.
As the fall season nears its conclusion, multiple Oakland University athletic teams are looking to make a final push toward the top of the Summit League standings.
Sports Editor Ross Maghielse looks at the potential changes that could come with pending sale of the Detroit Pistons to Detroit businessman and sports mogul Mike Ilitch. The sale could be finalized by the end of the month.
Summit League officials are visiting the University of North Dakota campus Nov. 1-2 to discuss the potential addition of the Fighting Sioux. The Summit League has already improved the addition of University of South Dakota, which will start competing in all sports in the fall of 2011.
Oakland University hosted the third running of the Brooksie Way Half Marathon and 5K Sunday, with the race starting off Walton Boulevard near Adams Road and finishing in front of Meadow Brook Hall. The race was started in 2008 by Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, in memory of his late son Brooks Stuart Patterson, or “Brooksie” as he was often called, who died in an accident in 2007. Oakland has hosted the race in all three years of its existence and saw the largest crowd in race history — nearly 5,000 people — pour onto campus for the event last weekend.
Oakland hosted the No. 1 ranked team in the country Wednesday at Pontiac Ultimate Soccer Arenas, but struggled to find any offense and ended up on the wrong side of a 5-0 outcome.
