The giant ore dock, which stretches out into the waters, is a potent symbol of a region and city founded on extraction. Nearby, a new sculpture, the Seven Grandfather Teachings, is testament to the Anishinaabe peoples’ cultural and ancestral ties to the lands they have inhabited since time immemorial.

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Michigan State moved up one spot to No. 7 and was followed by the Vols, who balanced out their close loss to Auburn by beating No. 14 Mississippi State. Marquette and Purdue — which beat then-No. 21 Michigan — rounded out the top 10.

No. 13 Texas A&M (15-4) at Texas (13-6), 2:30 p.m. No. 14 Mississippi St. (15-4) at South Carolina (10-9), 1 p.m. No. 15 Oregon (16-3) at Minnesota (10-9), 4 p.m. No. 16 Mississippi (15-4) at No. 22 Missouri (15-4), 6 p.m. No. 19 UConn (14-5) at Xavier (12-8), 8 p.m.

St. John's at Georgetown, 6:30 p.m. Cent. Michigan at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Providence at Seton Hall, 7 p.m. Dayton at St. Bonaventure, 8 p.m. North Carolina at Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.

An Alabama man was convicted Wednesday of conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of a sextortion scheme that caused the death of a U.P. teenager.

No. 2 Duke (17-2) beat Wake Forest 63-56. No. 3 Iowa St. (17-2) beat UCF 108-83; beat Arizona St. 76-61. No. 4 Alabama (17-3) beat Vanderbilt 103-87; beat LSU 80-73. No. 5 Florida (18-2) beat South Carolina 70-69; beat Georgia 89-59.

No. 10 Marquette (17-3) beat Villanova 87-74. Next: at Butler, Tuesday. No. 11 Purdue (16-5) beat No. 21 Michigan 91-64. Next: vs. Indiana, Friday. No. 12 Kansas (14-4) did not play. Next: vs. No. 7 Houston, Saturday.

New week, new and improved spot in the Associated Press top 25 rankings for Marquette men’s basketball. Eight ranked teams dropped down from last week’s spot in the rankings, but your Golden Eagles are not one of them.

The UConn women's basketball tem pushed its winning streak to nine and remained perfect in the Big East, and could rise in the AP Top 25 poll.

Tennessee basketball got some huge news on the status of guard Jordan Gainey ahead of the team's visit to No. 1 Auburn