• Sight & Sounds | Minnesota 1 Jug, Michigan None

    I don’t have to explain how I feel about the history of this rivalry and also needless to say, it is very rough for me to watch that jug head out of town.  Looking through the photos, it particularly stung seeing shots with that new section of the jug.  I stood inches away when Jil Gordon painted on the score last year.   You might call this the dong punch de resistance: Check out the kid holding a program.  Inside there is a story this week that I wrote, particularly about the different paint jobs the jug has had over the years leading off with a mention of Jil’s work (including the photo below) on the new section last year. Now that thing is hundreds of miles away and they are doing lord-knows-what to it.  Punch. Read on..(1964 team, Arena, Pomp, Mood, links and more…)

  • Domed – Sights & Sounds | (Notre Dame 31, Michigan 0 – 2014)

    Synopsis: They might be chicken but we’re the jive turkeys.   No, the season is not lost but what happened last night was worse than anything that has happened in recent years – seriously – including last year’s beat down in East Lansing.   Oh yes, it got ugly (ironically, mostly Chicken Little sky is falling) on WTKA on Sunday morning.  A reminder to callers, please recite your fandom credentials BEFORE your rant, please.  Oh, and the Twitterverse was less than kind to the current #1000SSS regime.   Hope is not a strategy but..that’s my strategy.  And bourbon. Peacock Trolls:  Nice to know NBC Sports is reading this site…did you see that photo and a brief mention of Yost’s dog?    I wonder where they got that?   Hey peacocks – how about a mention or a hat tip?  Just Cover – Jokes aside about the offensive production, memo to Coach Nuss—maybe slap a cover on the play card?   I don’t know if there’s anything on there we don’t want the opponents to see but you can do a lot in HD these days: Mood Update:  The Mood Index.  Break-in reported at Ann Arbor Torch & Pitchfork around 2am EDT Sunday morning.  Investigation pending. Uniform Update:  White socks – the best thing out there Saturday?  Also, note the away (white) Team 135 undershirts: And…