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Softball splits with Purdue: Wolverines fall to 1-2 without injured Grifn in lineup

The Michigan softball team needed to sweep yesterday's doubleheader with Purdue. It didn't. After winning the first game of the twinbill, 7-3, the Wolverines (4-3 Big Ten, 31-11-1 overall) dropped the second game, 3-1, and now find themselves in a hole.

Conference season challenges Blue netters

The Michigan men's tennis team is in the middle of something very important. Its Big Ten season. Having struggled through their first six games, the Wolverines (3-3 Big Ten, 5-10 overall) have only five matches remaining in their defense of last season's Big Ten championship. In the midst of a crucial five-game road trip, the Wolverines may be searching for some inspiration.

Blue baseball hopes to move Wright along against Raiders

Most people don't know where Wright State is. Perhaps that's why the Michigan baseball team is hosting the Raiders, and not the other way around. Whatever the reason might be, the Raiders (11-18) will visit Ray L. Fisher Stadium this afternoon to square off against the Wolverines (7-3 Big Ten, 17-12 overall) at 3 p.m.

Former Pistons accused of point shaving

NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA yesterday denounced as "baseless" a book's claim that heavy gambling losses by Isiah Thomas and James Edwards raised questions about point shaving during two Detroit Pistons games in 1989. Jeffrey Mishkin, the league's chief legal officer, called "absolutely false" the contention in the book "Money Players" that the NBA recently reopened an investigation into point-shaving in the late 1980s.

04-09-97

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