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Preview: Minnesota
May 08, 2009 by
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Minnesota enters this series in second place in the BigTen, just one half game behind Illinois. The Gophers are 13-4 in conference play, 31-13 overall. They currently lead the conference in ERA at 4.38, good for #41 in the nation. Their hitting isn't too bad either. Minnesota is...
Michigan on ESPN
May 08, 2009 by
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This is not going to be exactly as the title implies (i.e. game schedules, or even an in-depth discussion of the Wolverines on College Football Live), but rather a couple quick notes that have appeared on ESPN of late. This is deserving of its own post because the offseason sucks....
Recruiting Update 5-7-09
May 07, 2009 by
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2010 Michigan Recruiting Board.
OK QB/Ath DeMarco Cobbs has a top 10 list which includes Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Southern Cal. Most schools are recruiting him as a receiver, rather than a QB. Michigan appears to be on...
Swept WMU, Tournament Number is 7
May 06, 2009 by
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Congrats. We swept the second worst D1 Baseball team in the state of Michigan. Final score today was 6-0. Three game winnings streak! Haven’t had one of those since we swept IPFW (4 games including the EMU game before it).
Brandon Sinnery got the start in the game and he...
Not the Playoff We Want
May 06, 2009 by
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It’s the offseason, which means it’s time to complain about the lack of a playoff in college football, right? Thought so.
I won’t say an overwhelming majority of college football fans are strongly in favor of moving to a larger playoff structure (since the current...
Baseball Recruiting: Ben Ballantine
May 06, 2009 by
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For those of you that don’t know, I’m not much into recruiting of any sort. Baseball recruiting isn’t really OMGZ FRONT PAGE OF RIVALS! either, therefore these type of posts will probably be few and far between. So, the article…
The Napa Valley Register...
Behind Some Woodshed In Kalamazoo
May 05, 2009 by
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There was finally a situation where I didn’t feel so scared about Jeff DeCarlo pitching for Michigan. That situation you may ask? That would be an 18-0 lead in the 7th inning of today’s game at Western Michigan. DeCarlo did give up a run in his one inning of work, but it [...]
The Spread Offense, Wide Receivers, and the NFL
May 05, 2009 by
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Ah, the tired maxim of the spread offense’s alleged inability to get high school prospects into the NFL strikes again:
Speaking of recruiting — in this case the negative variety — check out this quote in the Palm Beach Post from Pahokee receiver De’Joshua Johnson.
“I...
Recruiting Update 5-4-09
May 04, 2009 by
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2010 Michigan Recruiting Board
Moved LA Slot/RB/Ath Drew Dileo to committed. Also, it is kinda a sad snapshot of SEC recruiting when the following sentence has to be included in the commit article in the local paper for a Louisiana player:
A Class of 2010 commitment who projects as...
Michigan Takes One At Ohio State
May 04, 2009 by
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But it loses 3?
After dropping the first two games of the series on Saturday, Michigan managed to salvage a victory on Sunday. Eric Katzman got the win with 5 innings of sketchy work, and Alan Oaks got the ridiculous 4 inning save. I say ridiculous because save rules allow there to be saves [...]
Michigan: CCLA Champs
May 04, 2009 by
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With a win over the Buffalo Bulls yesterday, the Michigan men’s lacrosse team has won the CCLA for the third year running, and completed its second consecutive undefeated season, as they head into the national tournament.
Buffalo
The Wolverines got off to a slow start offensively...
Big Ten Recruiting Class Rankings 5-3-09
May 03, 2009 by
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Compare to the previous edition of the recruiting class rankings.
4-26-09 Iowa gains commitment from Jim Poggi.
4-30-09 Michigan gains commitment from Drew Dileo. Penn State gains commitment from Adrian Coxson.
#1 Michigan - 10 commits
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Rivals
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ESPN
Ricardo...
Men’s Lacrosse Advances to CCLA Finals
May 03, 2009 by
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With a 20-6 victory over the Central Michigan Chippewas at Saline High School yesterday, the Michigan Lacrosse team has fought their way into the Championship Game in the CCLA conference tournament against Buffalo, to be played today at Saline High School’s East Stadium at 3PM...
Swept in Doubleheader
May 02, 2009 by
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Michigan was swept in two games of the doubleheader at Ohio State today. Game one was an Alex Wimmers no hitter, the first 9-inning no hitter in the school’s history. Chris Fetter pitched well, but things fell apart late after Chris Berset lost a pop up behind the plate with 2 outs. The [...]
Baseball Side News
May 02, 2009 by
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Catching up with some of the stories from the week I’ve been away.
Uniform Start Date gets nixed after only one season. The NCAA voted today to undo the scheduling mess of the Uniform Start Date just imposed this year. The rule was created to give Northern schools like Michigan...
Friday Washed Out
May 01, 2009 by
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For those of you not watching the @VarsityBlue twitter feed and may be cursing BTN for not showing the baseball game, it’s because it was rained out. The tentative schedule is to play two tomorrow starting at 1pm. The first game will be televised live on BTN, the second supposedly...
Q&A with The Buckeye Nine
May 01, 2009 by
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Continuing the Q&A this week for the Buckeye series. This time we’ve got Chris from The Buckeye Nine. Both of us were left scrambling with exams this week, so I don’t have anything on his site, but he was good enough to answer a few of my questions. He has somewhat...
Hiatus Ending, Hate Beginning
May 01, 2009 by
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HATE OHIO STATE
First off, all apologies to the baseball crowd out there. It’s the last week of classes and the requisite workload accompanying the end of classes. Nothing says great week like 2 exams, a final presentation, and a final paper all on a Wednesday. I wrote...
Gotta offer ‘em all
May 01, 2009 by
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This recruiting cycle, it’s become particularly evident that there are different recruiting methods regarding how many offers to hand out. Jim Stefani has mentioned this several times already this year. Ohio State has given very few offers to 2010 high school prospects, whereas...
Drew Dileo Goes Blue
April 30, 2009 by
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Scout is reporting that LA Slot/Ath Drew Dileo has committed to Michigan for the class of 2010. Of course, they cite that “The Baton Rouge Newspaper” broke the news, without linking to said newspaper. Commitment article on the 5-11, 175-lber from Parkview Baptist School...
Recruiting Update 4-30-09
April 30, 2009 by
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2010 Michigan Recruiting Board goes here. There’ll be another substantive recruiting update on Monday, because I couldn’t fit all the information into this one.
The Wolverines are among the favorites for TX QB Jeremy Johnson. The same article is also posted on other schools...
2009 Schedule: First Glance
April 29, 2009 by
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With the 2009 football season looming a mere 4+ months away, it’s as good a time as any to take a first look at Michigan’s upcoming schedule, and determine whether the teams the Wolverines will face this year should get better or worse (or remain the same) from last year...
Michigan v. IU Photo Gallery
April 28, 2009 by
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From Sunday’s game. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this slideshow is worth about half a normal Formerly Anonymous post.
Ex-Wolverine News
April 28, 2009 by
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The NFL Draft has come and gone, which means I don’t have to worry about the NFL for another year. Only Terrance Taylor (4th round to the Colts) and Morgan Trent (6th round to Cincinnati) were drafted, but 7 other ex-Wolverines signed rookie free agent deals. Here’s where...
Recruiting Update 4-27-09
April 27, 2009 by
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Bow before the 2010 Recruiting Board.
ESPN posi-fluff on LA QB Munchie LeGaux. They say his stock is likely to rise, though it’s unclear whether that might result in more offers for the dual-threat passer. He performed well at an Elite 11 camp.
An update on SC RB Marcus Lattimore...
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