You love these lists, you hate these lists, but since this one mentions Fielding H. Yost it landed safely in my feed reader.  ESPN’s Page 2’s writer David Schoenfield assessed the “the greatest perfect seasons across all sports”, and here’s where Yost’s quintessential Point-a-Minute team of 1901 was slotted: 28. 1901 Michigan football (11-0) Under the legendary Fielding Yost, Michigan outscored its opponents 555-0, including a 49-0 thrashing of Stanford in the first Rose Bowl, to win the mythical national championship. (Back then, sportswriters referred to it as the “voluminous altercation over the determination of the unequaled college football champion in all the country.” Harvard went 12-0 that year and argued it was the national champion. See, college football hasn’t changed in 107 years; in fact, if Michigan and Harvard played today, we wouldn’t know who would win. Be prepared for defeat, Michigan, be prepared. No, I’m not going to react other than to say I’m happy they at least recognized something that happened before 1981.  Speaking of lists, I’m going to leave this silly list ranking Big Ten coaches alone where it belongs.

Perhaps you’ve already viewed the video of quarterback David Cone’s rap, with former Michigan receiver Toney Clemons producing, on mgoblog here.  Here’s  a tightened-down, .mp3 version compliments of DC, Mr. Dave and D Cone for your ringtones, iPods, and parking lot mixtapes: [display_podcast]

Audio of Rich Rodriguez on Bill Simonson’s ‘Huge Show’ yesterday, thanks to the MLive’s Grand Rapids Press. A lot talk about quarterbacks, competition, and the spring game: [display_podcast]

[Ed.  File this under “had to be there” to appreciate this but so be it.] Photo: Terrible Pass One of my pet peeves during games are the fans the choose to scream out their special messages to the coaches and players the entire game.  Especially annoying are those that do this despite being ridiculously out of earshot of anyone actually participating in the game.  This isn’t cheering or chanting or singing—it’s a dude trying to draw attention to himself.  I’ve pointed out a few of these incidents on these pages; it happens all the time and it drives me nuts. I was up at Ford Field for the hoops final on Monday night and once I sat down it was clear I had one of these guys behind me.   From what I overhead, I believe he was from North Carolina and I think he went to N.C. State (although my brother says he was wearing a Duke shirt).  I’m confident he came up here with the sole purpose of taunting the Tar Heels. As soon as UNC comes out the locker room he’s belts out a massive “BOOOOOO!!”.   When Tyler Hansbrough gets a foul or misses a shot he screams, “TYLER GIRL!!!”.   Each time Hansbrough touches the ball he yells, “HE’S TRAVELING!!”.    The game was out of hand after five…

Released tonight from State Street.  Full roster from alumni flag football game: Per the release, “The teams will be announced during WTKA’s broadcast from Michigan football practice this Thursday, April 9 (3-6 p.m.).” One comment.  Certainly the agenda is more than full, but one of the nice things they did at last year’s spring event in Saline was announce the winners of the spring team awards, like the Meyer Morton Award which has been given out since 1925 and went to Will Johnson last year.  Past winners include Jamie Morris, Stan & Braylon Edwards, Desmond Howard, Jim Harbaugh, and Gerald Ford in 1932.   The little ceremony took maybe 10 minutes last year if I recall; I’d like to see them do that again especially given all these former players will be around.  [Update 4/8:  Dave Ablauf at media relations confirmed that the awards will be announced at the spring event again this year.  Good news.] Other stuff: –  Members of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Super Bowl XLIII winning team, including linebackers Larry Foote and LaMarr Woodley, safety Ryan Mundy and assistant offensive line coach Harold Goodwin, will be recognized during the game. – In addition, three U-M national champions from this season, Tyler Clary (men’s swimming and diving), Steve Luke (wrestling) and Tiffany Ofili (women’s track & field), will be honored…

From an mgoblue.com press release from this evening, a full listing of the available twitter feeds to get your U-M tweet on: Below is a list of Michigan’s official Twitter pages: Teams Football – twitter.com/michigan_fball Men’s Basketball – twitter.com/michigan_mbball Women’s Basketball – twitter.com/michigan_wbball Baseball – twitter.com/michigan_baseb Softball – twitter.com/michigan_softb Golf – twitter.com/michigan_golf Men’s Gymnastics – twitter.com/michigan_mgym Rowing – twitter.com/michigan_rowing Tennis – twitter.com/michigan_tennis Track & Field/Cross Country – twitter.com/michigan_track Water Polo – twitter.com/michigan_wpolo Women’s Gymnastics – twitter.com/michigan_wgym Wrestling – twitter.com/michigan_wrestl Coaches Rich Rodriguez, Football – twitter.com/UM_CoachRod   And one unofficial Twitter page: MVictors.com:  http://www.twitter.com/mvictors

Thanks to Joel Rippel of the MN Star Tribune for forwarding this to me last night.    From the St. Paul Pioneer Press, a story by Rubén Rosario on the family of former Michigan outfielder Mike Watters.    The piece explains how one of the Watters’  five kids was stricken with cancer.   Through the process of treating their young daughter, they met another young patient named Victor [what’s not to like?] who was without parents.  Check it out, and prepare to be choked up.

I made it into Detroit yesterday to enjoy some of the pregame festivities and managed to get decent seats to the big game.   Viva miscellanea: Dick Vitale watched the game on TVs inside the media room but made it out after the Spartan win for a few photos and to yuck it up with the green faithful:   One of my spies was nearby when Vitale was preparing to get his media credential and badge for the weekend.  Per my source, Vitale approached the kids manning the media booth and gave his name.  The kids asked for some ID.  Vitale didn’t have it and said something like, “Come on, I’m Dickie V.!”, which got blank stares back from the people behind the desk.  Thankfully an NCAA official was nearby and resolved the issue.   The debate continues in the M community over whether a true Michigan man can root for the Spartans and I guess it’s an interesting discussion.  I understand if you, the individual fan, are passionate one way or another.  I understand the history, I understand how many Michigan State fans treat Michigan, I understand that many of you work next to some annoying MSU fan and get some pleasure out of watching him suffer.  That’s all fine.  But there is no hard fast rule, and for anyone to…