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Co-player Of The Week

Reese Moore, Iowa

So. — C/Dh — Van Meter, Iowa — Van Meter Hs

Led Big Ten players with four home runs, nine Rbi, a 1.487 slugging percentage and a 2.078 Ops, helping Iowa to a 4-0 record on the week Led an Iowa offense that generated 46 runs in a three-game sweep of Ohio State Hit .455 with runners on and .429 with runners in scoring position The Academic All-Big Ten recipients earns his first conference weekly honor Last Hawkeye named Big Ten Player of the Week: Keaton Anthony on Feb. 27, 2023

Co-player Of The Week

Ryan McKay, Michigan State

So. — 2B — Clarkson, Mich. — Orchard Lake St. Mary’s Hs

Batted .722 (13-for-18), highlighted by a 5-for-5 effort on Friday, as Michigan State captured its first series at Penn...

My dad loved football, and my mom boxing. I enjoyed neither, preferring a life devoted to X-Men comic books and Little Debbie snack cakes. But she convinced me to watch a match: Buster Douglas’ underdog surprise knockout of undefeated heavyweight champ Mike Tyson in 1990. I was right-hooked.

She was a devout Muhammad Ali fan, the sparkling poet-slash-prizefighter whose dramatic 1974 rope-a-dope comeback against George Foreman in Zaire was a story she told over and over — Ali, the graceful strategist versus Foreman, the cocky powerhouse.

So when Foreman came out of retirement...