MICHIGAN RUMORS & GOSSIP
Michigan football seniors train with Navy SEALS
While a part of the Michigan Wolverines’ coaching staff spent few days meeting with UofM alumni clubs in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the U-M football seniors spent time in California getting once-in-a-lifetime leadership training. 22 seniors spent time with the United States Navy SEALS going through the rigors that men and women of the Navy go through on a regular...
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Scouting: Best Buy Classic & Memorial Day Super 60
Photo: N.D. Kendrick
UM Hoops was on hand for a pair of AAU tournaments across the Midwest throughout Memorial Day weekend. The Best Buy Classic in Chicago drew over 300 teams including all three Michigan commitments, Derrick Walton, Zak Irvin and Mark Donnal. A number of other Wolverine targets were in action in Chicago as well as at the Super 60 Classic in Merrillville, Indiana...
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Michigan Recruit Tweets Picture of Burning Ohio State Recruiting Letter
Michigan Wolverines football recruit Logan Tillman has brainstormed a new idea to show Urban Meyer and his staff that he isn’t the least bit interested in the Buckeyes– to a rather hilarious end.
Tillman took to Twitter yesterday to post the following picture of a recruiting letter sent to him by Ohio State in the early stages of combustion:
Welp, if nothing else, it...
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Phil Steele's Preseason All-Big Ten Team
If you're as passionate about college football as I am, you love the preseason rags that make their way onto newsstands around early June every year. It's an early sign that college football is just around the corner. One of the best mags out there, if not the best, is Phil Steele's College Football Preview. There is more info packed onto each page than one could possibly...
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Alabama vs. Michigan at Cowboys Stadium will be prime time
The Michigan Wolverines, in conjunction with ABC, announced today kickoff times for the Sept. 1 Cowboys Classic contest against the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Nov. 24 contest at Ohio State.
The Wolverines will face the defending national champions at 7 pm CDT in the season opener at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, while U-M will play the Buckeyes at 11 central in Columbus...
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Michigan Wolverines, Big 10 announce 2015, 2016 conference schedules
The University of Michigan football team in conjunction with the Big Ten Conference announced today (Monday, May 21) the conference schedules for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.
The Wolverines will open the 2015 and 2016 conference slate with in-state rival and Legends Division foe Michigan State. U-M will travel to East Lansing on Oct. 3, 2015 and host the Spartans on Oct. 1, 2016...
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Michigan’s recruiting success recognized by national media
Michigan’s 2012 and 2013 classes have been well regarded around Ann Arbor for quite some time. As the summer wears on the buzz about both Michigan’s incoming class of 2012 and next class of 2013 continues to grow. Several national media outlets have noted the promise of John Beilein’s recruiting efforts in recent days.
ESPN updated its class of 2012 team rankings...
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NFL Draft Profile: The curious case of Denard Robinson
(Editor’s Note: Eric Galko is the Director of Scouting for the website OptimumScouting.com and has been nice enough to offer his services to Crystal Ball Run, profiling a 2013 NFL Draft hopeful in this space every week.
In his first profile, Galko will look at one of the most intriguing, controversial and fascinating players in the class: Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson. Robinson...
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Beilein addresses transfers, restrictions
When Evan Smotrycz, Colton Christian and Carlton Brundidge left the Michigan basketball program in March, Michigan coach John Beilein was, admittedly, a little caught off guard.
But don’t say he was surprised.
“The word surprised, I don’t like to use it,” Beilein said in a roundtable discussion with the media on Thursday afternoon. “We didn’t expect all those transfers...
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Tate Forcier signs with CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats
As you go down what you think is the last turn on this bumpy roller coaster ride, this story I’m sure is not over. Yet.
Forcier left his college eligibility, and his LOI’s and commitments to like 4 different colleges. I was starting to wonder when we would hear this story again, since we heard over the past few years that he was not happy in Ann Arbor with the Wolverines...
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Tate Forcier is headed to the CFL.
"O, Canada..."
It's been a while since we've heard from Tate Forcier. That's about to change as former the Michigan quarterback has signed to play with the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
"I'm so excited and happy to have this chance after everything I've gone through," said Forcier, 21.
Forcier will...
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Former Michigan QB Tate Forcier signs with CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats
In 2009, Tate Forcier became just the third true freshman starting quarterback at the University of Michigan. That was then. During his freshman year, Forcier was Mr. September leading Michigan to a 4-0 record with wins over powerhouses Eastern and Central Michigan, Indiana and lowly Notre Dame. Amongst the Wolvie faithful, Forcier was a legit Heisman candidate.
And then Tator...
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Zack Novak nails 56-yard field goal at Big House
Zack Novak had a propensity for hitting from behind the 3-point arc during his Michigan basketball career.
But this is like swishing a shot from the other end of the court -- especially for somebody out of his element.
With a friend there to record it, Novak, who just completed his senior season, booted a 56-yard field goal at Michigan Stadium.
The evidence, a 44-second video...
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Spring practice picks up for Wolverines
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In a year with no winter, it isn't surprising that March is giving us perfect football weather.
That's good news for the Michigan Wolverines, who are facing their toughest stretch of the spring schedule.
While it is nothing like the workouts they will face in preseason practice this fall, they are on the field for three straight days due to a high-school...
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March 29, 2012
Back to work for Denard, Wolverines
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Denard Robinson has spent the last couple months enjoying every moment of his college experience.
This week he goes back from student-athlete to athlete-student.
After a winter when he met President Obama and showed up at dozens of Michigan sporting events, Robinson and his teammates are back at Schembechler Hall for spring practice. As a senior and coming off...
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