Happy 4th to everyone. Enjoy this photo from Onekama, Michigan, looking out over Lake Michigan:
-
-
JDRF Detroit Golf Outing a Huge Success
MVictors once again was a distinguished beverage sponsor at this year’s Golf Classic benefiting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). The event, held at the incredible Franklin Hills Country Club, raised a bunch of money that will be used to cure this disease. Channel 7’s sports director Don Shane was the celebrity chair, here he is with JDRF Detroit president Ron Dooley about to kick-off the event: Quick take on Shane: outstanding guy and he did a great job as MC before and after the event. You can learn more about JDRF and Type 1 diabetes here. Thanks for all the readers who support this site and its sponsors.
-
Their Long Journey to the Middle
The Quad Blog over at the New York Times is running through its preseason college football capsules in what it calls The Quad Countdown. It’s worth checking out. Monday #60 Northwestern was featured with a few interesting factoids that I’ll pass along – enjoy these as you watch the clock crawl toward Thursday: Tidbit: Northwestern and Penn State have the same Big Ten record over the last five years (19-21). This is the sixth-best mark in conference play since 2003, ahead of Minnesota and Michigan State (15-25), Indiana (9-31) and Illinois (8-32). Tidbit (who knew edition): Only four Big Ten programs have had winning records against Northwestern since 1995: Ohio State (1-8), Michigan (3-8), Penn State (3-7) and Purdue (4-8). The Wildcats are at or above .500 against the rest of the conference: Indiana (7-2), Illinois (8-5), Iowa (6-5), Michigan State and Minnesota (5-4) and Wisconsin (5-5) Tidbit (overtime edition): Northwestern is one of the best in the nation in overtime, tying Missouri for the most O.T. wins (8) in the F.B.S. since the division began playing the extra-session in 1996. The Wildcats are 7-0 at home and 4-0 in conference play when playing in overtime. Michigan is also undefeated in overtime games since they added the rule, I actually witnessed the first four in person: 1. Alabama in the…
-
R.I.P Michigan Replay: Fine by me
Michigan Replay is dead. Rich Rodriguez killed it. And I'm actually ok with this.
-
Band….Take the Field!
A very well done video of the Michigan Marching Band, with more camera angles than you can shake a baton at so dig it:
-
M Practice Facility Construction Photos
There’s many changes going on around the athletic campus, with much of the focus for obvious reasons on the Michigan Stadium renovation. MLive.com‘s doing a nice job of publishing frequent updates on the project, here a nice photo from last week: Just down the road another major project is going on that hasn’t got much attention: the new football practice facility. Those in Ann Arbor know of this because you can’t miss it. The frame of the enormous structure, which is built on the site of the old outdoor practice field and the varsity soccer pitch, now dominates the skyline along State Street and it towers over Schembechler Hall. For those out of town I thought you might enjoy of few shots, click to see enlarge: Here’s a few details on the $26.1 million project from mgoblue.com: The new football facility, approximately 104,000 gross square feet to be built on an existing outdoor practice field, is expected to include a full-size football field, lobby, restrooms and storage space. Approximately 3,000 gross square feet of space in Schembechler Hall will be renovated as part of the project. Whoa! That’s a lot of gross square feet (I think). I don’t think the soccer pitch was a big loss. I used to occasionally walk by that thing after football games and always felt…
-
A little thing called Style
As part of their NBA draft coverage, SI.com took a look back at some of the highlights and lowlights of draftee fashion. Unquestionably the freshest, Jalen in 1994 in his candy stripes: SI also signaled out Maurice Taylor’s icey blue suit in 1997.
-
Did Dumars fall for DJ White in Ann Arbor?
When I spotted Detroit Pistons GM Joe Dumars at the Indiana game in Ann Arbor this season I figured he was checking out the ridiculous Eric Gordon..this guy: He probably was, but it looks like someone else in the Crimson and Cream impressed Joe D as he sat courtside: Yep, Dumars ended up selecting Hoosier forward D.J. White last night in the NBA draft and it was that night that probably sold him. In just 31 minutes of action, White tallied the first 20-20 night for an IU player in a decade, racking up 21 points and 22 rebounds right in front of Dumars. UPDATE: As noted in the comment, Dumars didn’t fall too far in love, as he traded him away!
