It's just a couple more days until the sporting event that Oxford and Lake Orion have been waiting nearly three decades for. Finally, the teams will renew the old M-24 rivalry when they meet in football for the first time in 26 years.
Back in the day, the teams played for a trophy, and believe it or not, that same trophy will likely be presented to the winner on Friday.
After all these years, the "Double O Trophy" is still in existence. The trophy is a bronze shoe with a football and kicking tee with results of previous meetings between the schools on it.
Kosmo can't imagine many people have seen it in many years, so it'll be good for the old-timers who knew what the rivalry was like to see it again and for the younger generation who will experience the rivalry for the first time to see it.
— Word has come down to Kosmo that Troy senior soccer player Sean Cunningham, one of the nation's best in his age group, has decided not to play in Germany this season. He'll finish his senior year at Troy. Cunningham was mulling an offer to play professionally for a team in Germany.