Michigan beat UConn 69-63 to claim the 2026 NCAA men’s basketball championship, and it was not pretty. The Wolverines made exactly two three-pointers all night. Two. Against a defense-first UConn team, they won on grit, muscle, and the refusal to fall apart when their shooting abandoned them.

UConn came in with a reputation for suffocating opponents on defense and grinding games into slow, ugly possessions. Michigan matched that energy and then outlasted it.

When the only abortion provider in Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula closed, a local urgent care clinic decided to fill the gap. It is now offering early abortion services — and other clinics across Michigan are considering similar moves as brick-and-mortar reproductive health facilities continue to close even in blue states where abortion remains legal.

The shift is partly logistical and partly ideological. Urgent care facilities have the clinical capacity for medication abortion and some procedural services. They are already embedded in communities that lack specialty providers. And they are, in many areas, the only medical option within reasonable distance.