Golf Digest has a cool regular feature called ‘What’s in My Bag’ where they run down what a pro carries in his golf bag each week. During a recent visit in March in the basement of the U-M Clubhouse, Lion Kim was kind enough to spend a few minutes running through the equipment he’s bringing to Augusta in April
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College Football’s Centennial (1969)
The back recognizes Bo’s 1969 team highlighted by the great 24-12 victory of Ohio State. At first glance, it looks like a major screw-up as the centennial of Michigan football would be in 1979, a decade later (when they would really screw things up.)
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Bacon on The Fab Five and Fishman’s Motion
John Bacon’s Blog is required reading each week & he recently posted a few thoughts on the Fab Five documentary and the legacy of the controversial quintet. Bacon broke the M-14 roll-over story a decade and a half ago (which sparked the investigation) and he ties that story to Fisher’s culpability: But I had to wonder: If the press could figure all this out in about 24 hours, why couldn’t Steve Fisher connect the dots right under his nose over several years? They say he wasn’t part of the payola plan, and that’s probably true. But you’d have to be willfully blind not to see its effects by 1996. When Fisher was fired, he said they’d built an elite program, which was true, and they’d “done it the right way,” which wasn’t – and by the time he was fired, he had to know it. Bacon added this: To this day, Fisher has never accepted any responsibility for what happened on his watch, and Chris Webber has never apologized for taking over a quarter-million dollars from a booster. There’s always interesting commentary on his site & Bacon usually joins in to respond. This time Bacs’ post elicited a comment Steve Fishman, the man who represented Webber in the federal criminal investigation: …there is one thing in the story that still…
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We Won’t Get Screwed Again
Right there! via Yost Built (via mgoblog) Strange days. Beilein bested Izzo, the Vest is up Crap Creek sans paddle & we didn’t get screwed in the hockey playoffs. As the minutes turned to hours on the replay review, I was thinking the refs knew the puck probably crossed the line but couldn’t make a definitive call. I was at Fort Fun last year. Good on them for growing a collective pair, talking it out and making the right call. HAGOAL, Go Blue. If you ask any fanbase I’m guessing they’ll tell you their team is screwed by the refs more often than not. Wolverine fans have a little list of the most egregious in our heads and this is always at the top (another hat tip to my pal Steve Sap for passing it along): This is of course a wire photo of Charles White’s phantom touchdown against the Wolverines in the 1979 Rose Bowl. The back official is calling Michigan first down while numbnuts is signaling a USC touchdown. The LA Times described how that ref discussion played went: Referee Paul Kamanski cast the tiebreaking vote, saying that the line judge, Gilbert Marchman, was in charge of forward progress of the ball. Since the line judge was emphatic that the ball had broken the plane of the goal…
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Coach Beilein joins WTKA (Mar-22 audio)
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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Bo says, “Hey Mouse, Look Me in the Eye like a Man!”
Here we’ve got Bo Schembechler flanked by the great Jim Mandich and Rose Queen Pamela Tedesco, shaking hands with Mickey Mouse at Disneyland before the 1970 Rose Bowl: Bo’s certainly thinking, “Look me in the eye, MOUSE!”
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Welcome Back (Spring Practice Video)
Via MGoBlueVideo, some excellent practice clips from today: Welcome Back Kotter:
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Blue Blooded (Michigan 75, Tennessee 45)
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…
