Here’s a quick news item to inform you that, well, there is no new news about the potential Michigan vs. Ohio State outdoor hockey game at Progressive Field in Cleveland.

Michigan coach Red Berenson was planning a trip to Progressive Field on June 17 for a press conference announcing the game. That announcement was canceled, however, and all parties involved have been quiet ever since.

The silence continues this week.

The Big Chill at the Big House was the Michigan hockey team's last foray outdoors. Discussions continue about a possible game against Ohio State at Progressive Field in Cleveland.

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Ohio State spokesperson Leann Parker deferred questions about the game to the Cleveland Indians.

Curtis Danburg, the Indians’ director of communications, would say only that conversations between the Indians and Ohio State are ongoing.

Both Michigan and Ohio State have the location of their Jan. 14 game against each other listed as “TBA.”

“If they can’t agree, if all the different people that want to get their fingers in the pie, if they can’t agree, then it’ll just go back on campus,” Berenson said after the June announcement was canceled. “But right now, we’ve agreed to play wherever they want to play.

“I hope it works out that we play an outdoor game, but it’s too bad. (June 17) was supposed to be a grand announcement.”

If the game is played, it would be Michigan’s fourth foray outdoors. The Wolverines beat Michigan State in the "Big Chill at the Big House" last December and lost to Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison in February 2010. Michigan and Michigan State played to a 3-3 tie at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing in 2001.

Rich Rezler is a sports producer at AnnArbor.com. Contact him at 734-623-2553 or richrezler@annarbor.com.