• High Street Blues (1982 Michigan Daily arrests, Part II)

    November 20, 2012 /

    If you haven’t, take a look at the first post on the events & aftermath of the 1982 jailing of then-Michigan Daily editor Bob ‘Wojo’ Wojnowski and photographer Brian Masck in Columbus, the night before The Game that season.  Bob’s 1983 opinion piece on all of this is one for the books. You may have heard Wojo comment recall that night over the years, but I’m not sure how many people have heard from Masck—the guy who first stepped in to question (and photograph) the police before he was arrested. Recently we swapped a few emails about those events and he shared some great stuff.  Other than to ask him about any lingering memories or collateral, I was generally curious why he had a camera with him after 1 AM on High Street the night before the game.  Of course you couldn’t fit a decent camera in your pocket in 1982. “I learned as a freshman that it was important to have a camera ready to shoot because, on April 18, 1981, I was the only photographer to capture the arrest of student/gunman Leo Kelly being led to a squad car in front of my dorm, Bursley Hall,” Masck shared via email.   “Kelly was convicted in the murder of students Edward Siwik and Douglas McGreaham.  The photograph was published around…

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  • Coach Beilein joins WTKA (Mar-22 audio)

    March 22, 2011 /

    A great interview with John Beilein on WTKA 1050AM this morning in the aftermath of the Duke game and of course the season.  He breaks down in detail a few situations in the final minutes of the game and of course talks to the future and how he thinks these guys will respond.  Enjoy: [display_podcast] As always – check out all of the WTKA podcasts here!

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  • Blue Blooded (Michigan 75, Tennessee 45)

    March 19, 2011 /

    If you peeked into the M Twitterverse in the waning moments of the dismantling of the Volunteers early Friday afternoon, you got a tiny taste of how it will feel if once we tip over the Buckeyes on a future Saturday in November.  Tiger Blood.  ESPN captured this sign in the crowd: And apparently Zack Novak spotted it, loved it, and found Kevin Pollack after the game a retrieved the sign.  Rothstein: The fan who made the sign happily obliged, and it sat in his locker after the game. “I just wanted the sign,” Novak said. “I think Charlie Sheen’s hilarious. “That’s an awesome sign, that’s my favorite sign.” The sign will go back with Novak to Ann Arbor, where he said it will hang in his room — likely right over his bed. It’s unknown whether Novak ask for the number of the gal doing the hair flip, or where the dude behind Pollack got his Jalen-Chris-Juwan-Jimmy-Ray shirt.  I’d check here. Drawing Blood.  You’ve probably heard several dozen times that Michigan didn’t make a free throw in the game, but to reverse paraphrase Patrick Ewing, we didn’t make a lot of free throws because we didn’t shoot a lot of free throws.  No one’s complaining, but maybe Smotrycz should have headed to the stripe after this?: Cold-Blooded.  What was…

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