Join me in scouring the Ann Arbor memorabilia black market for the missing piece of Michigan Stadium turf.  It’ll surely lead right to the culprit. I noticed this mildly suspicious auction on eBay last night, but it has since been pulled: (I must say that shipping price was a steal!)

On Monday, May 11, 1959, the Midwest was hit with a raging windstorm and Ann Arbor was drilled.  One person in the Burns Park area was killed by a downed power line and at least two houses were set ablaze.  The city was declared a disaster area and the Red Cross was deployed to lend a hand. Yost Field House was nearly destroyed:

A few random notes from last night’s game, still groggy after getting home at around 3am: Game: I haven’t seen the replay of the overtime no-goal and it was almost instantly clear Michigan got jobbed.  We sat near a bunch of Miami fans, the most rabid of which were these three guys on the glass behind the RedHawk bench.  When the ref initially waved it off (and you could clearly hear the whistle and it looked like everything happened afterward) those guys looked over and just shook their heads, practically apologizing. I don’t know what happened in the third period but Miami just dominated and I thought it was just a matter of time.  But in the overtime Michigan found another gear and were bouncing shots off that beast goalie Knapp who couldn’t seem to cleanly cover anything. There was a great moment midway through the game when Wohlberg chase a puck near Miami’s bench.  Several RedHawks were leaning over the boards and Wohlberg swung and caught three of them up high, sending their coaching staff into a rage. Speaking of the Miami bench, one of their assistant coaches caught a deflected puck in the jaw and it came through pretty hot.  The tough SOB just shook his head a bunch of times, seemingly pissed that he didn’t get out…

Just a follow-up on my post from this weekend concerning the discovery that the Michigan and Minnesota tennis teams play for a Little Brown Jug.  Good news, Ann Arbor is now the home to all known traveling Little Brown Jug’s: Above are Michigan standouts Chris Madden (junior) and George Navas (senior) holding the precious pot, shortly after their 5-2 win over the Gophers.   Unconfirmed whether they spent the night taking long pulls off of it. Thanks again to Brad Rudner of U-M Media Relations for the info and the photo.

I just sat down to look at the photos I took from last night.  That’s the unedited image on my Lumix camera right now, snapped at 11:01PM EDT.

I’ll be heading to Fort Wayne tonight to see the big rematch, you should too.   We’ll need all the help we can get, especially if they roll out this guy again.  Follow MVictors on Twitter and be cool.

Yes.  I have various Google Alerts set and as you can guess my home security alarm goes off if there are any breaking news stories about Michigan and The Little Brown Jug.  This came over the wire yesterday, excerpt: Michigan returns to the court this weekend with a pair of matches at the Varsity Tennis Center. The Wolverines host Minnesota in the two teams’ second meeting of the season this Saturday (March 27) and then Iowa on Sunday (March 28). The match against Minnesota will be for the Little Brown Jug, which the Golden Gophers currently own. Both matches will start at noon. What? I contacted Brad Rudner from U-M Media Relations to get the skinny: The Jug has been contested since the 2006 season. Each team has two wins. Today’s match will be the fifth meeting for the Jug. The complete series is below: 2006: 5-2, Minnesota 2007: 5-2, Michigan 2008: 5-2, Michigan 2009: 4-3, Minnesota Rudner also noted that while Michigan defeated the Gophers earlier this season, they kept the crock, “because the match did not count towards the Big Ten records for each team.” So is there an actual jug?  Of course.  Photo courtesy of Rudner via his iPhone: You can watch the hardcourt battle for the jug Live here! Related: The Little Brown Jug lore series:…