• Wire Photo Wednesday : Illini Stew & a Trashed Yost

    Edition number 3 of #WPW gets emotional: Maybe this is why Illini fans really hate us?  From 1948, a homecoming display on campus featuring the recipe for a little Illinois Stew.  Well done.  Bennie Oosterbaan’s #1 ranked Wolverines got a battle from the unranked Illini on October 30, 1948 but prevailed 28-20.     Above you’ve got Michigan head hoops coach Bill Perigo checking out the damage in Yost Field House from the storm that ripped through the athletic campus back in 1959.   The damage amounted to $100,000 according to the wire caption which, coincidentally, is exactly the revenue from Twizzler sales at the Wisconsin game on Friday night.  2412  Below, from a 2010 post, a great shot above Yost from the same storm:     That’s head hoops coach Dave Strack, who succeeded Perigo, a bit distraught on the sidelines.  Strack, the man who coached the great hoops teams of the mid-1960s, passed away in January at age 90.      Previous editions: Wire Photo Wednesday : Smooth Swing, Smooth Ride Wire Photo Wednesday – The inaugural

  • Iowa! (Pregame Photos)

    Just a few on another wildly beautiful day in Ann Arbor—let’s hope it ends that way. From the field, center David Molk warming up.  He looked fine, perhaps favoring his taped left ankle just a tad.  [ed. I published these just before the game started and obviously jinxed Molk big time, my bad]   Some of the pink accessories the players are wearing today.  Also saw pink wrist bands and tape: Many recruits in for the game today.  Here are two stand-outs from Fort Myers, FL, Sammy Watkins and Dallas Crawford:   The alumni band in full effect on this Homecoming: