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I Guess This Is Goodbye
Back in February 2006, I started Michigan Sports Center as nothing more than a hobby. Quickly it became something much bigger than a hobby, however, and ever since it has led to numerous awesome opportunities, including running Pride of Detroit, a Lions blog on SB Nation. The newest opportunity that has come my way is [...]
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June 07, 2010
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One Final Quick Hits
Jon Bills, Mark Moundros, and former Michigan player Kirk Moundros were in a car accident yesterday, and Bills is going to have surgery today because his injury is apparently pretty serious. My thoughts go out to both him and the Moundroses.
Smoking will be banned in all of Michigan Stadium starting this coming season.
Michigan got a [...]
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June 07, 2010
Friday Quick Hits: Michigan Loses to Tennessee 5-0
The Michigan softball team lost its first home game since 2008 last night. Pitcher Jordan Taylor only gave up one earned run during the game, but Tennessee capitalized on a few Michigan mistakes and ended up winning 5-0. The Wolverines only managed one hit during the game, breaking up the near no-hitter in the seventh [...]
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May 28, 2010
Thursday Quick Hits: Michigan Softball Opens Super Regional Tonight
Michigan opens its Super Regional series against Tennessee tonight at Alumni Field in Ann Arbor. Tonight’s game begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be shown on ESPN. Tomorrow’s first game begins at 4:30 p.m., and if a third game is necessary it will start at 7 p.m. Friday’s first game will be shown on ESPNU, [...]
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May 27, 2010
Wednesday Quick Hits: Game Times for UConn, UMass Games Announced
For the third straight year, Michigan’s season-0pener in football will be broadcast nationally and start in the afternoon. Just like the Utah game in 2008 and the Western Michigan game a year ago, the UConn game on September 4 will start at 3:30 p.m. and be shown on ABC/ESPN2 (depending on where you live). Also, [...]
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May 26, 2010
Michigan Announces Self-Imposed Sanctions
Michigan made its NCAA response public this morning, announcing the specifics of its self-imposed sanctions:
The quality control staff has shrunk by 40% (five to three), and the remaining three staff members will be prohibited from “attending practices, games and coaches’ meetings for the remainder of 2010.” A new NCAA bylaw actually now gives the [...]
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May 25, 2010
Monday Quick Hits: Michigan Softball Advances to Super Regional
The Michigan softball team rolled through its regional, beating Wright State once and Notre Dame twice in dominating fashion over the weekend. Michigan will now host Tennessee, the No. 15 seed in the tournament, in a super regional in Ann Arbor. Thursday’s game starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN. Friday’s first [...]
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May 24, 2010
Tuesday Quick Hits: Michigan to Submit Response to Allegations Next Week
Michigan’s response to the NCAA’s allegations of rules violations will be submitted next Monday and made public on Tuesday, May 25. The response will include self-imposed sanctions, which Michigan hopes will satisfy the NCAA Committee on Infractions, who Michigan has to meet with in August. During that meeting the committee will determine whether more sanctions [...]
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May 18, 2010
Michigan Announces Full 2011 Schedule
Michigan’s 2011 football schedule was made public earlier today, revealing that in addition to Notre Dame, the Wolverines’ non-conference opponents will be Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, and San Diego State. The full schedule can be found below or here:
9/3 – vs. Western Michigan
9/10 – vs. Notre Dame (8 p.m.)
9/17 – vs. Eastern Michigan
9/24 – vs. [...]
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May 18, 2010
Monday Quick Hits: Michigan Wins Third-Straight Club Lacrosse Title
The Michigan club lacrosse team won its third straight MCLA title on Saturday, downing Arizona State 12-11 in the championship game. It certainly seems like it’s only a matter of time until lacrosse gets bumped up to the varsity level, but I just hope it happens sooner rather than later.
Michigan was trailing Northwestern in baseball [...]
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May 17, 2010
Tuesday Quick Hits: Colton Christian Commits to Michigan
Lloyd Carr spoke to Angelique Chengelis about the whole Morgan Trent/Rich Rodriguez draft book fiasco that developed over the weekend, clearing up exactly what his involvement in the situation was.
“That paragraph is completely a distortion of my conversation with Morgan,” Carr said. “That is a complete distortion, and it is not accurate. I [...]
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May 11, 2010
Monday Quick Hits: Germany Breaks Cold War Attendance Record
The hockey attendance record set by the Cold War at Spartan Stadium in 2001 is no more. That is because Germany broke the record last week when 77,803 fans came out to watch the United States and Germany play in the opening game of the IIHF World Championships. The record Michigan and Michigan State set [...]
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May 10, 2010
Friday Quick Hits: The Big Chill Eclipses 100,000 Tickets Sold
Over 100,000 tickets to The Big Chill have now been sold, causing a ticket freeze so incoming students have a chance to purchase seats with their football or hockey season-ticket packages. By the time those sales happen, chances are the total number of tickets sold will close to or at a sellout, which is pretty [...]
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May 07, 2010
Thursday Quick Hits: Start Time Announced for Iowa Game
Michigan’s homecoming game against Iowa on October 16 is going to kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET and be broadcast nationally on ABC. So far three game times have been announced for the 2010 season (you can check them all out here).
There is a new video of Brock Mealer training on BarwisMethods.com. The goal is [...]
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May 06, 2010
Wednesday Quick Hits: Michigan’s Entrance Comes to NCAA Football 11
NCAA Football 11 is going to have team entrances, and Michigan’s is one of them (watch the video in the link). What’s more, the video reveals that Michigan’s renovation appears to be in the game as well. There was some doubt over whether the renovation would make it in since it won’t technically be finished [...]
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May 05, 2010
Tuesday Quick Hits: Idea of Notre Dame Ultimatum Nothing New
Maize n Brew found that talk of the Big East giving Notre Dame an ultimatum isn’t a new concept. In fact, Rich Rodriguez brought up the idea back in 2002.
“I know this agreement was made earlier,” Rodriguez said. “I’m just a football coach and our players are just players, but we don’t understand [...]
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May 04, 2010
Monday Quick Hits: More Big Chill News
Close to 96,000 tickets have now been sold to The Big Chill. It’s only a matter of time until the ticket counter goes over 100,000.
Michigan is going to wear throwback jerseys from the 1940s in The Big Chill game against Michigan State. (Lots more about the game can be found in a great article at [...]
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May 03, 2010
Friday Quick Hits: NCAA Tournament Expansion Approved
Jalen Rose wants to become a college basketball coach at some point in the future.
NCAA tournament expansion to 68 teams was approved on Thursday.
The USA Today put together a great story on DeShawn Sims.
The Utah basketball game at Crisler Arena is going to be the weekend of The Big Chill, meaning it will probably be [...]
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April 30, 2010
Football Quick Hits: Catching Up on Everything
Michigan’s game at Penn State on October 30 is going to be at night.
Brandon Graham was selected with the 13th pick of the 2010 NFL Draft last week by the Philadelphia Eagles, which traded up to get him. Zoltan Mesko was picked by the Patriots in the fifth round and Stevie Brown went to [...]
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April 28, 2010
Hockey Quick Hits: Big Chill Eclipses 90,000 Tickets Sold Mark
The official website of The Big Chill at the Big House launched last week, and one of its features is to keep track of how many tickets have been sold to the event. Before tickets went on sale to the public a week ago today, more than 60,000 tickets had already been sold. Now, just [...]
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April 28, 2010
Basketball Quick Hits: Michigan Hires Bacari Alexander
Michigan has hired Bacari Alexander to be one of the basketball program’s assistant coaches. Alexander was previously an assistant at Western Michigan, and John Beilein made it pretty clear why he made this hire:
“He has strong roots in Michigan and significant recruiting experience both here and in neighboring states,” added Beilein. “He is a [...]
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April 28, 2010
Miscellaneous Quick Hits: Men’s Gymnastics Wins National Title
Michigan’s men’s gymnastics team won a national title back on April 16. This was the athletic department’s first varsity national title since the softball team won one back in 2005, and it was the men’s gymnastics team’s fourth in their history.
Michigan’s women’s tennis team clinched a Big Ten title this past weekend by finishing off [...]
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April 28, 2010
Big Ten Expansion Quick Hits: Talk of 14 or 16 Teams Heats Up
Big Ten expansion talk has been heating up in the last couple of weeks on blogs and message boards because there was a report of an “accelerated timetable.” That turned out to not be true and was refuted by Jim Delaney, but Big Ten expansion is still a hot topic because it looks certain that [...]
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April 28, 2010
Quick Programming Note
Between finals and covering the NFL Draft for Pride of Detroit, I’ve been absolutely swamped for the last week or so and haven’t had time for MSC. Well, the good news is I’m done with finals and I’m on the verge of escaping the draft bubble, meaning new content is coming. My plan to get [...]
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April 27, 2010
2010 Spring Game Recap
Going into this year’s spring game, my opinion on the rumblings about how Denard Robinson was legitimately challenging Tate Forcier for the starting quarterback job was that it was nothing more than coach speak intended to push Forcier. Based on what happened in the spring game, though, those rumblings are not only accurate in saying [...]
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April 19, 2010
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