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1:00 am
Fri February 22, 2013

An unqualified success: The story of Eddie Kahn

Credit U-M Bentley Historical Library
Eddie Kahn was a captain of the Michigan Hockey Team

In the Michigan hockey program’s 90-year history, some 600 players have scored more than 10,000 total goals.  But the man who scored the team’s very first goal 90 years ago, might still be the most impressive one of the bunch. 

This is the story of Eddie Kahn.

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Sports
12:38 am
Mon February 11, 2013

Michigan lawmakers look to regulate amateur Mixed Martial Arts fights

Credit Cosensmma.com
Mixed Martial Arts is growing in popularity in Michigan

A Michigan state house committee meeting this week is expected to draw dozens of Mixed Martial Arts fighters.

State Representative Harvey Santana says there are amateur Mixed Martial Arts events being staged in Michigan every weekend. And he says the way many bouts are staged puts fighters at serious risk.

Santana recalls recently watching an overmatched MMA fighter lose badly.

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