Great post and audio from John U. Bacon today on his blog, here’s the audio for your pleasure and check out the written form and a note from JUB here. [display_podcast] Looking forward to his radio show on WTKA Monday, joining Bacs will be Jim Carty and Brian Cook. Really want to be cool? Follow MVictors on Twitter. Heck, even Bacon’s blasting out Tweets now as well, follow him here. It’s the best way to keep up with the action on the blogs. Related: MVictors hits the Big Show (WTKA audio)

Fellow Big Ten Blogger Spartans Weblog recently joined the SB Nation family of bloggers (the prolific Maize n Brew is Michigan’s representative in the group).  As part of the change, the webmaster retired the original brand and moved the domain over to the new digs at theonlycolors.com.  Non-Spartan fans may not know that the new site name is a salute to a line in the first verse of the M.S.U. Fight Song: “…fight for the only colors, green and white.”  The Spartan counter to Michigan’s ‘The Victors’ and ‘The Notre Dame Victory March’ had its origins around 1914 or 1915 when the school was still Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.).  Here’s more from the poorly written history of the song found on msu.edu [fitesong.htm?]: After the turn of the century, with the development of intra-school rivalries in football, schools found that they needed something beyond the available musical repertory for their partisans to sing and rally around. Out of this came a surge of original & distinctive school Fight Songs, most notably the Univeristy [sic] of Michigan’s and Notre Dame’s. Here at Michigan State College the Fighting Aggies (later to be rechristened The Spartans) settled upon a song written by Bay City engineering student Francis Irving Lankey, class of 1916. Mr. Lankey had the designation of Yellmaster, equivalent to today’s head…

98 headed right to the Yspi-Arbor bowl right after class This eBay Watch takes a look at a 1939 photo of Heisman winner Tom Harmon.  Old 98 is seated in history class flanked by a few lovely co-eds.   It’s not clear why someone scribbled the lines on the photo. The original owner saved the caption from somewhere the photo appeared on October 19, 1939.  The headline under the photo reads, “Higher Scorer, Good Scholar!” and offers that “Tommy knows all the answers on the football field and also does a pretty good job in the classroom.” Perhaps adjectives like great! and excellent! were offered sparingly in 1939 but either way the caption writer didn’t have a lot of enthusiasm for Harmon’s studies. That said, based on the gals flanked around him in history class, it looks like Harmon was more than “pretty good” with other activities around campus [wink, nudge].  Tommy’s luck with the ladies extended beyond Ann Arbor as years later he married actress Elyse Knox, a real knock-out of a dame: Knox and Harmon’s son Mark is of course well known for his role on CBS’ NCIS and his movie career.  The highlight?  Coincidently it was when the younger Harmon held court in the classroom like his old man….in 1987’s Summer School: Mr. Shoop, can I get your…

One of the nice things about following Michigan football history is that many of the biggest names in the history of the sport seem to cross paths with Wolverines at one point or another.  Consider Michigan’s battles against Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Archie Griffin, and more recently, Vince Young and Tim Tebow. This morning I learned that Doc Blanchard, Army football’s great back, died at home in Texas.  The 1945 Heisman trophy winner was 84.  From 1944 to 1946, Blanchard and Glenn Davis formed a nasty backfield that helped the Cadets roll to a 27-0-1 record. Fritz’s Crisler’s Michigan men squared off against the Army machine twice, in 1945 in New York and again in 1946 in Ann Arbor. The first battle was held at Yankee Stadium on October 13, 1945 and the Cadets rolled through Crisler’s men 28-7 in front of nearly 63,000 fans.  The next day the Chicago Tribune declared, ‘ARMY WHIPS MICHIGAN’ and started the game summary like this: Michigan sent its young football men on a man’s errand this afternoon in Yankee stadium..” It’s a man’s game.  And the two biggest men of all were Blanchard, who ran off tackle for a 69-yard touchdown in the second quarter, and Davis, who added a 70-yard score in the fourth.  Between them, they covered 370 yards on the…

Props to Ace over at the shiny new The Wolverine Blog who put together a nice compilation of Tate Forcier’s highlights from last Saturday’s spring game: Follow MVictors.com on Twitter

A look back at this special week in our lives.  A photo essay, if you will:

FEED ME! What?…..We’re done?  :( OK, assuming Sam Webb’s correct, the prospect of Greg Paulus coming to Ann Arbor is gone.  There’s not a whole lot to doubt Webb, who must have access to folks close to the program to get the info he needs, and recall that Webb was the main guy telling everyone to chill when Will Campbell said Michigan was off his list. What I still haven’t heard is who nixed Paulus’ plans to consider Michigan?  Was it Paulus or Rodriguez?  If Paulus, that’s one thing.  But if it was Michigan I guess I’d like to know what changed. Or should we just forget this ever happened? Fine.  Now I’m done. Can anyone tell me where I can get some of that Leopold Bros. gin?