Ypsilanti native and Memphis Tigers transfer Emoni Bates is coming home, as multiple sources have reported that he will be taking his talents to Eastern Michigan.

Western Michigan men’s basketball head coach Clayton Bates is stepping down after two seasons with the program.

DETROIT – Two cousins and Detroit natives are going head-to-head in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship game at Ford Field on Friday night. Jalen McGaughy and Rich Miller went their separate ways to play at Buffalo and Ball State. Though competitors now, the pair got especially close when they both played for Detroit King and won two state titles together. Spent every single day together,” Miller said. Ahead of the game on Friday night, both teams have won their last five games -- and both men want to win a title.

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) will return with a 6-game football season, meaning all 10 major conferences will play this fall. The MAC was the first of the NCAA division one conferences to postpone their football season due to the coronavirus pandemic. “There are simply too many unknowns for us to put our student athletes in situations that are not clearly understood,” said MAC Commissioner John Steinbrecher at the time. After the Big Ten Conference reversed its decision to postpone the season, pressure built on the rest of the conferences to do the same. Read more: Big Ten reinstates fall football season, with games scheduled to begin Oct. 23-24

d FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2019, file photo, members of the Miami of Ohio team hold the champion trophy after the Mid-American Conference championship NCAA college football game against Central Michigan in Detroit. The Mid-American Conference announced Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, that it will have a 6-game football season, meaning all 10 major conferences will play this fall. Just like the other conferences returning to fall ball, the MAC cited advancements in COVID-19 antigen testing as key to the change of direction. Even independent Massachusetts said earlier this week it would attempt to play a small schedule of games this fall. If all goes well, by the first weekend of November, all the FBS conferences will be playing football.

The Mid-American Conference (MAC) could be returning to the football field this year following a key vote expected Friday. UPDATE: Mid-American Conference football to return with 6-game seasonThe MAC was the first of the NCAA division one conferences to postpone their football season due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s expected they’ll vote on whether to have a fall season. Of course, the state of Michigan has a big stake in this with three of the 12 schools in state -- Central Michigan University, Western Michigan University, and Eastern Michigan University. Read more: Big Ten reinstates fall football season, with games scheduled to begin Oct. 23-24

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2019, file photo, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott speaks to reporters during the Pac-12 Conference women's NCAA college basketball media day in San Francisco. The Mountain West is trying to do the same and there even is some movement in the Mid-American Conference toward reconsidering a fall season. “The board has asked for a plan,” Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson said. The San Jose Mercury News reported, citing unidentified sources, that the Pac-12’s athletic directors were targeting Oct. 31 to start football season. But some MAC players have followed the lead of their peers in Power Five conferences by pushing for a fall season on social media.

Meanwhile, college football players took to social media Sunday to push for the season to go on, led by Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence with a series of tweets. We are ready to play and we want to play.Other players tweeted with the hashtag #WeWantToPlay. The parents of Ohio State football players weighed in, too, posting a letter saying they were confident in the university's plan to keep their sons safe. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said he has heard the same from Fighting Irish football players. They are going to want to know why.___Follow Ralph D. Russo at https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP and listen at http://www.westwoodonepodcasts.com/pods/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/___More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25

DETROIT A big announcement in college sports Saturday -- the Mid-American Conference (MAC) has canceled its 2020 football season due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic -- impacting multiple Michigan universities and their athletes. WATCH Local 4 News at 11Metro Detroit weather: Ready for the sauna? First and foremost, our evening weather will be spectacular -- take advantage of this! Overnight, skies will be mostly clear to the south, and mostly cloudy north with a possible shower or thunderstorm there -- the farther north you are, the better the chance. 4 Fast FactsFriday, Aug. 7, 2020 -- Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020

Security footage captured the moment a 23-year-old woman was shot and killed inside Detroit One Coney Island on Saturday. Police say an argument broke out among three men at the restaurant, with two of them firing weapons. The Mid-American Conference has canceled its 2020 football season due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic -- meaning no games for Central, Eastern and Western Michigan universities this fall. Michigan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases up to 86,889; Death toll now at 6,250The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Michigan has risen to 86,889 as of Saturday, including 6,250 deaths, state officials report. Saturdays update represents 698 new cases and 3 additional deaths -- although, 2 deaths are from Vital Records reviews, meaning only 1 death occurred since Fridays update.

Sources say the Mid-American Conference (MAC) has canceled its 2020 football season due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic -- affecting multiple Michigan universities and their athletes. According to a report from the Stadiums Brett McMurphy, on Saturday the leagues presidents voted to to cancel the fall season. Huge news: Mid-American cancels fall football season because of COVID player health & safety concerns, sources told @Stadium. This will not be a straight line this year.Big Ten member schools University of Michigan and Michigan State University also recently announced their fall football schedules. Outbreaks forced the shutdown of voluntary workouts at Ohio State, Michigan State, Rutgers and Northwestern.

The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first league competing at college footballs highest level to cancel its fall season because of COVID-19 concerns. MAC schools rely heavily on revenue from playing road games against power conference teams. Most of those games were canceled when the Power Five went to exclusively or mostly conference games. Nine of 13 conferences at Division Is second-tier of football, the Championship Subdivision, have already postponed their fall football seasons with an eye toward making them up in the spring. A meeting of its presidents earlier in the week was expected to produce an agreement on how to go about a fall season, but instead some schools pushed to not play.

A big announcement in college sports Saturday -- the Mid-American Conference (MAC) has canceled its 2020 football season due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic -- impacting multiple Michigan universities and their athletes. ORIGINAL STORY: Fall football canceled for Central, Eastern, Western Michigan universities amid coronavirus pandemic, sources sayIts the first first league at college footballs highest level to make that move because of the pandemic. Aug. 8, 2020: Michigan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases up to 86,889; Death toll now at 6,250All of the league presidents came together Saturday morning to vote and it was a unanimous decision to cancel fall sports. There are too many unknowns to asks athletes to play, Steinbrecher said. Eastern Michigan University athletic director Scott Wetherbee said his student athletes are disappointed and they want to compete, but some are relieved.

NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Notre Dame hopes to get a breather after splitting a pair of games against top 20 teams, as the 10th-ranked Fighting Irish host Bowling Green from the Mid-American Conference on Saturday afternoon in their first-ever meeting. Notre Dame senior DE Daelin Hayes suffered a torn labrum last week and has been lost for the season. Bowling Green last won a game against a ranked opponent when it topped Northern Illinois in the 2013 MAC Championship Game. PREDICTION: Notre Dame 55, Bowling Green 7More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.