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Army-Navy Game never disappoints; three old Big Rapids friends at 2018 Philadelphia game

PHOTO: Rex Schuberg, Morgon Bolden, Seth Boldn, (Ret.) Col. Rick Steinke and Tom Shanahan By TOM SHANAHAN The Army-Navy Game never disappoints. That’s what two of us told the other as three old friends from Big Rapids, Michigan, gathered from our places in the world for the 119th Army-Navy Game Saturday in Philadelphia. One flew in from Germany, one drove from our Michigan hometown and I flew from Raleigh, N.C.  For me, it was my fourth Army-Navy Game but…

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Read more about the article Johnny Green and the NCAA night he met Adolph Rupp

Johnny Green and the NCAA night he met Adolph Rupp

Michigan State’s Johnny Green brought out the best in just about everyone during the 1956-57 basketball season. Upon joining the Spartans' 4-7 lineup in January, he sparked a 10-game winning streak that captured the school's first Big Ten hoop title. And “just about everyone” included Kentucky head coach Adolph Rupp, a man history has painted as a racist while he ruled his segregated state and Southeastern Conference basketball. Michigan State and Kentucky met in the 1957 NCAA Mideast…

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