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Jack Gohlke leads Oakland basketball to upset over Kentucky in near record-breaking performance
Read full article: Jack Gohlke leads Oakland basketball to upset over Kentucky in near record-breaking performanceThe No. 14-ranked Oakland Golden Grizzlies get their first win ever in the round of 64 after pulling off the ultimate upset by taking down the No. 3-ranked Kentucky Wildcats 80-76 to advance to the round of 32.
Oakland basketball coach Greg Kampe calls for Michigan high school sports to be reinstated immediately
Read full article: Oakland basketball coach Greg Kampe calls for Michigan high school sports to be reinstated immediately(Photo by Dave Reginek/Getty Images)ROCHESTER, Mich. – Oakland University basketball coach Greg Kampe is the latest prominent figure to call for Michigan high school sports to resume. “I ask that the latest order be reconsidered and high school athletics (be) reinstated immediately,” Kampe wrote. Michigan high school contact sports ban: What Whitmer said about possibility of resumingKampe, 65, has been a constant in the state’s basketball scene for decades. “They lose the year and the benefits of sport -- team building, memories, physical activity, learning how to win and lose,” Kampe wrote. “Please take a step back and remember that radical statements and radical ideas at a time of crisis never turn out well,” Kampe wrote.
Here are the 3 players with Metro Detroit ties playing in the NBA Finals
Read full article: Here are the 3 players with Metro Detroit ties playing in the NBA FinalsDETROIT – If you’re a professional basketball fan, it can be fun or frustrating to see a former member of the Detroit Pistons playing in the NBA finals. Michigan and Oakland basketball fans already know Duncan Robinson and Kendrick Nunn. Now, thanks to the NBA Finals, so does the rest of the world. “When your’e a basketball player or grew up playing, you laid in bed at night dreaming of playing in the NBA Finals,” Kampe said. That was the gist of the tests.”Former Detroit Pistons first-round pick Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is also playing in the Finals, for the Los Angeles Lakers.