3/7/2009 – Michigan 67, Minnesota 64 – 19-12, 9-9 Big Ten   One of the bizarre things I love is soccer, and one of the bizarre things about soccer I love is the weird British permutations of American sports lingo that get deployed during the course of same and the bizarre permutation I love...

Throughout the first half of last night's game, the familiar thought crept up in the minds of Michigan fans: "If the offense just gets going, we've got this game." As per the script throughout much of this year, the offense never picked up enough for the Wolverines to steal a game against the #1 tea...

1/7/2009 – Michigan 72, Indiana 66 – 12-3, 2-1 Big Ten  Maybe Assembly Hall does have some sort of weird voodoo hex power that it uses for evil whenever Michigan shows up. After all, the last time Michigan won at Indiana there were actual Fab Five members still on the floor. But it's more l...

1/4/2009 – Michigan 74, Illinois 64 – 11-3, 1-1 Big Ten With a couple minutes left in Saturday's game against Illinois the Illini brought the ball up down four. Even with the students absent, Crisler fairly buzzed with nervous anticipation at a critical juncture. Michigan went to man; Laval Luca...

Derrell Hand, left. Marques Slocum, right. This is the worst kept secret on the internet: Marques Slocum is not expected back this fall due to academic problems. It's not official, but both premium sites are dropping dark hints and Doug Karsch has broached the topic on the radio. It's pretty close. ...

I'm out for the fourth tomorrow. See you Monday. I get an email that starts like this about every week: Brian, So I'm searching for reasons to be optimistic about the upcoming football season. I got the first one ten seconds after Manningham, Mallett, and Arrington all lit out for the NFL or Arkansa...

A day after I trash the Free Press for focusing on things like Tae Bo instead of information, Mark Snyder puts out an interesting piece about the '97 championship and the ballboys that saved it. This is literally the headline: "How 2 ballboys stopped opponent's signal stealing, saved UM's 1997 title...

5/30/08 (and 5/31/08) - Michigan 7, Kentucky 55/31/08 - Michigan 3, Arizona 46/1/08 - Michigan 6, Kentucky 12 - eliminated photo by Samara Pearlstein Surely a college first baseman has to be amongst the least likely athletes in all of sports to be struck down with injury. You're somewhere between 18...

One of the safest bets in the sports opinion world is to take whatever the NCAA has just done and call it stupid. The AP could run a story like so... NCAA DOES SOMETHING OR OTHERSOMEWHERE (AP) -- The NCAA has decided to do something. No details are available....and fifty bloggers would link to it. T...

4/10/2008 - Michigan 4, Notre Dame 5 (OT) - end of season are we having fun yet? During Billy Sauer's period of extreme incompetence at the beginning of his sophomore season, I figured out which of the parents in the Michigan section was Sauer's mother. There were hints -- she always sat next to a w...