Team USA downed Brazil to win the FIVB World Grand Prix of Volleyball which included 16 of the World’s top National teams. It was held from Aug 4 thru the 28th. Team USA, ranked no. 2, ended up playing Brazil, ranked no. 1, for a 26-26, 25-20, 25-21 over Brazil for the Championship match. Team USA defeated Serbia in the semifinal 25-22, 25-20, 25-21. Team USA had lost to both Brazil and Serbia earlier in Aug. but got it together to defeat both of them when it really counted—-Brazil was 13-0 going into the Championship Match. The matches were held in China, Hong Kong and Japan, with the semifinal and Championship matches being held in Macau, China. Through the month, a total of 90 matches were held leading up to the Title Match.

Alisha Glass and Lindsey Berg set for Team USA. Alisha, at 23, was the youngest player for Tean USA and Berg four year’s older and had prior Olypmic experience.

You can read more at www.fivb.org/EN/volleyball/competitions/WorldGrandPrix/2011/.

LPGA great Meg Mallon will be at Grand Traverse Resort & Spa on Tuesday August 30 to play The Bear, the first time she will play the legendary Jack Nicklaus golf course. Mallon will be at the Resort to play The Bear with three amateur golfers, who placed the winning bid on a Michigan Sports Hall of Fame fundraiser item to play with Mallon. Mallon was inducted in to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame as part of the 2010 class. During her professional career, Mallon won 18 LPGA tournaments from 1991 to 2004, and was a member of eight Solheim Cup Teams from 1992 to 2005. You can view Mallon’s career record and bio on the LPGA website. For more information about the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame, visit: www.michigansportshof.org.

At the PGA Professional National Championship in Hershey, PA, today Grand Traverse Resort & Spa’s Head Golf Professional Scott Hebert scored an eagle, a hole-in-one on the 215-yard, par-3, 16th hole.

Hebert finished the day with a score of one-under-par 70. Currently on the third day of play, he is at 4-under-par and tied for 15th place. There is one more round to be played at Hershey tomorrow.

The top 20 finishers in the PGA PNC receive exemptions to the PGA Championship, to be held this year August 18-14 in Atlanta, GA.

It was in 2008 that Hebert won the PGA PNC.

Click here to see his scorecard at this year’s PGA PNC.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The tour takes place on Sunday, September 19th, 2010 and starts at Glen Lake High School. Camping is available on Saturday night on the school grounds. The tour features 25, 45, 67 and 100 mile routes.

For cost, registration and more info, click the link below.

Leelanau Harvest Tour at Active.com

Tiger Woods is golfing like a man possessed — hitting ball after ball after ball at the golf course near his home in Isleworth … and TMZ has obtained the first unstaged photos of Woods back in action.

Woods hit the course yesterday with 2 male companions and practiced his ass off from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM — working on everything from drives to pitches and putts.

We’re told Tiger’s session was uninterrupted — and he seemed completely focused throughout the entire grueling workout.

As we previously reported, sources in Isleworth tell us Tiger is dead set on competing for the Tavistock Cup — which will be held at the same Isleworth golf course where he’s practicing.

And with that news … Phil Mickelson probably needs a fresh pair of undies.

The Bear was the first Nicklaus designed course in Michigan and helped pave the way for modern designed golf courses in northern Michigan.

The Golf Association of Michigan’s most recent review of The Bear measured it at 7,078 yards, and gave it a rating of 76.3 and slope of 148. In spite of its difficulty, it is fair. Landing areas are generous and it rewards good shots. And good golfers can score on it, as the Resort’s Head Golf Professional, Scott Hebert, who won six Michigan Open championships on The Bear, will attest.

“The Bear is the best golf course I’ve ever played and after 25 years it has not lost any of its bite! Every hole is different, which makes it unique, and to play it well, your game should be sharp,” stated Hebert.

Perhaps the best-known golfer to play The Bear was the winner of the 1990 Ameritech Senior Open, Chi Chi Rodriguez, who said, “(The Bear) is one of the great golf courses we play. The thing that makes this course so great is that it can be set up as tough as you want. This course challenges you on every shot. This is the way golf courses should be designed.”

For more information and details visit www.grandtraverseresort.com.

Photo of The Bear courtesy of Grand Traverse Resort & Spa

Max, Dantonio’s first commitment for 2010, is the grandson of former Spartans assistant coach and player Hank Bullough and the nephew of Chuck Bullough, a former second-team All-American linebacker at MSU who is a position coach at UCLA.

Shane Bullough, Chuck’s older brother, also played linebacker at MSU and was an All-American.

Max, listed by Rivals.com as 6-foot-3, 209 pounds, also considered scholarship offers from Notre Dame, UCLA, Stanford and Iowa.

As a Spartan fan, I have to say it’s very cool and MSU is getting one tough player!

Read Spartans lure familiar name in the Detroit News

The Record Eagle also has an article…

Read Bullough headed to MSU in the Record Eagle

One of their stories is about former Leland volleyball star Alisha Glass helping Penn State win the 2007 NCAA Volleyball Championship.

Updated!
Here is the Leelanau Enterprise’s 2007 Year in Review!

Read TC man aims to form men’s baseball team in the Record Eagle