Ice and snow have left their mark on the Kalamazoo-area high school basketball scene this year, but they weren’t able to cool off Samantha Verburg, of the Galesburg-Augusta girls team. In her squad’s only game between last week, the senior guard scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to power the Rams to overtime against Delton Kellogg on Jan. 18, before falling 52-46.

Published: January 25, 2019

See local live sports in person. The next two weeks of home games feature a synchronized skating championship, a roller derby triple-header, six college basketball games, four college and Wings hockey games, plus college gymnastics and tennis. Full details and links below.

Published: January 25, 2019

Building on hometown pride and Kalamazoo’s strong hockey culture, the Kalamazoo Wings and Western Michigan University have announced the first ever WMU Day with the K-Wings this Sunday, January 27. The first 1,200 fans who purchase a special game ticket package will receive a limited edition K-Wings hat co-branded in brown and gold. In addition, $2 from each ticket purchase will benefit the WMU Legacy Scholarship.

Published: January 24, 2019

For the first time since the calendar turned over, the Western Michigan hockey team will have its full complement of skaters for the upcoming series against Denver. Among the most recent returnees are forward’s Wade Allison, who missed the last four games as part of his recovery from offseason knee surgery, and Ethen Frank, who missed last weekend’s two losses to top-ranked St. Cloud State.

Published: January 24, 2019

Jack Moss, a staple of the Kalamazoo sports scene for more than 50 years, died Tuesday after a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 91 years old. Moss was the sports editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette from 1967 until his retirement in 2002.

Published: January 22, 2019

Steve Kulczyk's Schoolcraft Eagles off to a 9-1 start, with that lone setback a 2-point road loss to undefeated Centreville. Schoolcraft now 53-8 overall the last three seasons.

Published: January 22, 2019

Last week featured a handful of marquee matchups in the Kalamazoo-area high school basketball scene, with undefeated Gobles and Centreville picking up wins over previously unbeaten teams, and Kalamazoo Central scoring a dominant win over No. 2 Detroit Cass Tech.

Published: January 22, 2019

On a night where the pregame was headlined by the retirement of former K-Wing goaltender Georges Gagnon’s number one jersey, it was current goaltender Jake Hildebrand who headlined the game stopping a career high 52 of 55 shots, as the K-Wings topped the Walleye 4-3 in the shootout.

Published: January 21, 2019

Mitch Zajac spent four years saving touchdowns as a linebacker on the Western Michigan football team. Last month, the former Broncos star helped save a life on an icy stretch of I-96. Driving to work at 5 a.m. on the eastbound highway near Howell, the Holt native came across a two-car crash that left a midsize SUV flipped on its roof and straddling the shoulder and the left lane.

Published: January 21, 2019

The #10 WMU Broncos hockey team fell in the finale of the weekend series against #2 St. Cloud St. Huskies The Broncos fell in a 3-5 effort. This makes the second loss in a row for the Broncos after having not lost in their previous ten.

Published: January 20, 2019

The first part of the 2018-19 high school basketball season filtered some of the Kalamazoo-area's best teams to the top, but the real action starts when conference title races and postseason expectations start heating up. From mid-January to early March, Tuesday and Friday nights will be filled with high-stakes hoops.

Published: January 19, 2019

Kalamazoo, MI.- Kyle Blaney got on the board in the middle frame, but it wasn’t enough as the K-Wings fall 4-1 to the Cyclones on Friday night. Reid Gardiner and Tanner Sorenson saw their career-long point streaks snapped in the loss.

Published: January 18, 2019

A valiant effort against nationally ranked USC ended with a lifelong lesson for the 2017 Western Michigan football team. Trailing 48-31 in the final minutes, WMU head coach Tim Lester instructed his team to hold back on the extra point following USC’s final touchdown, so Jake Olson, a blind long snapper for the Trojans, could make his college football dream a reality.

Published: January 17, 2019

The KVCC Women's basketball team back on the court this season after being forced to shut down last season after just 13 games. The Cougars forfeited the remainder of their games after losing the majority of their roster to injuries, transfers and academic issues.

Published: January 17, 2019