I caught this tidbit during the 4th quarter of the Purdue game. Looks like the University library is opening a special exhibit this week honoring Bo. A quick scan of umich.edu and mgoblue.com came away empty, but thankfully the Freep had a few details. Here’s more from the Detroit News.
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Jalen’s Billboard
The Free Press just ran a story on Jalen Rose and the Fab 5. I haven’t seen this before – check out this billboard that Jalen Rose posted at 7 mile and the Lodge: I love Jalen. There’s something about the guy that to me, all the negativity around Webber and the Fab 5 seems to not apply to Rose. While I’m still bitter toward Webber around the whole thing yet having been in school with these cats, I can’t say I regret the whole experience that these guys brought to Michigan. I was there for their first game together in Ann Arbor and I saw the last from about twenty rows behind the bench from where Webber called the timeout. It was an incredible time. For recent grads, picture for a minute huge lines of students waiting outside Crisler for general admission seats – hours before the game. As for why he didn’t put the billboard closer to campus Jalen told the Freep “I didn’t want to put it in Ann Arbor because I didn’t want people to think it’s me making a negative statement. Maybe it should be there, but it’s not.” Jalen did talk a little bit about the penalties put down on Michigan coming out of the investigation and he adds an interesting perspective: “Unfortunately, what…
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Alive and Clicking: Purdue Recap
What a performance on both sides by the Blue. Honestly, the first half was pretty shocking. Michigan beat Purdue down in the first 20 minutes like you expected M to lay it on EMU. With both Illinois and Wisconsin losing, Michigan is right back into the picture and Ohio State just might be #1 in the first BCS standings on Sunday. While the battle was won, and more impressively than anyone would have expected, we’ll have to check Hart’s status before anyone gets giddy. It didn’t look good when the M sideline put in the full-on KGB ‘Circle of Trust’ around 20 right after he went down. Check it out: On a good note, Hart did walk back to the locker room on his power and didn’t have to spend the second half in the tub or at the medical center. Here he is next to Ryan Mallett in sweats checking out the play calling in the second half: After losing Brandon Minor just minutes into the second half it lood pretty bad but Carlos Brown lost his fumble cast and looked great. I tell you, he seems to be a natural for the zone blocking scheme; it doesn’t seem to fit Minor. More takes on this homecoming game: – Officially Hart now has somewhere around 970 consecutive carries without…
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HBO will air ‘The Rivalry’ Nov. 13th
Crew from HBO photographing the best of the best As mentioned here after the Appalachian State game, HBO is putting together a documentary on the Ohio State vs. Michigan rivalry and had crews in Ann Arbor out getting footage for the opener. I just got an email from someone involved in the project advising that they got the green light. The documentary will air the week of the big game next month. Here’s the full presser: MICHIGAN VS. OHIO STATE : THE RIVALRY, HBO SPORTS’ FIRST COLLEGE FOOTBALL DOCUMENTARY, DEBUTS NOV. 13 HBO Sports will present its first college football documentary, chronicling the rivalry of the University of Michigan and Ohio State University , this fall. Steeped in a rich tradition dating back to their inaugural meeting in 1897, this rivalry extends beyond the pursuit of a Big Ten title, and is renewed each year through the pageantry and colliding cultures that distinguish the two schools. Presented four days before the Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Michigan Wolverines at Ann Arbor , MICHIGAN VS. OHIO STATE: THE RIVALRY debuts TUESDAY, NOV. 13 (10:30-11:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. Other HBO playdates: Nov. 15 (7:00 p.m.), 16 (6:00 p.m., 12:55 a.m.), 17 (10:00 a.m.), 20 (5:00 p.m.), 23 (9:30 a.m., 10:15 p.m.), 25 (11:00 a.m.) and 28 (9:30 a.m., 11:00…
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Purdue and the Homecoming Tradition
Factoids on this Saturday’s game: – The Boilermakers’ trip to Ann Arbor this Saturday will mark the 53rd meeting between the two schools. – This this will be the sixth time that Purdue will be the homecoming opponent. – Purdue was actually the first Homecoming opponent back in 1900. Prior to that Michigan held a game against an Alumni team on what they called Homecoming. Michigan won the 1900 test 12-6. – A quick Google search on homecoming led to the Wikipedia. According to the post there, while there are varying accounts of the first school to start a homecoming tradition, the roots seems to be much later than 1900. Check it out: Many schools lay claim to having the first Homecoming, but three seem to have the strongest claims. The NCAA, Trivial Pursuit, and Jeopardy! give the title to The University of Missouri’s 1911 football game during which alumni were encouraged to attend.[1] Baylor University and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign both claim to have held homecoming-like events in 1909 and 1910, respectively. All of these events had homecoming-like characteristics such as a football game, visiting alumni, and a parade. It’s likely that the traditions at these schools and others merged and spread nationwide. By the 1920s homecoming was widely celebrated across the nation. The Bentley museum is…
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Ann Arbor: Guide to the Bars for fans
Fellow Big Ten blogger NittanyWhiteOut sent an email recently asking for some advice on the local bar scene. While your Webmaster is essentially retired from that game I make it out enough to know the deal. When coming into Ann Arbor for a game I’d offer the following advice on what to do and where to go in Ann Arbor. For bars, Ann Arbor really has two major areas, although some locals would debate this and again, everything is basically within a mile or so so what’s the big deal? Campus refers to those bars directly around the Campus most frequented by the students. Main St. is the upscale area of Ann Arbor with some of the upper scale restaurants, thus an older crowd. Campus Bars: Rick’s American Cafe’ aka Rick’s – A below ground hole that is the cool hang out; at least it used to be. Older players may be seen here after the game. Will often end the night with a round of ‘The Victors’ after a big win. Cheap pitchers, pool, DJ – nothing special other than that the place is always packed. No food. Website. Good Time Charley’s aka ‘Charley’s – Like Rick’s been around for many years, great food, burgers, wings, etc. Long Island Ice teas a specialty, cheesy bread, Count Twist bread is…
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Updated Michigan Bowl Projections
Still pretty meaningless, here’s where some of your major sources have Michigan’s bowl game and opponent for 2007. Complete BCS bowl projections are tracked here. CollegeFootballNews (Scout.com): Michigan vs. South Carolina & the OBC, Outback Bowl CBS Sportsline: Florida State (& the O-est BC) vs. Michigan, Champs Sports Bowl ESPN (Bruce Feldman): Michigan vs. Kansas State, Alamo Bowl ESPN (Mark Schlabach): Michigan vs. Tennessee, Captial One Bowl By the way, two of the sources have your Ohio State Buckeyes returning to the big game, and I can’t say I see them losing a game up to that point.
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Is Hart Really #1? How about Willie Heston?
Art director: “Wolf. Wolverine. Close enough. Just print it.” Just about the only good to come out of Saturday’s brutal game was of course Hart’s record. During the EMU broadcast M radio play-by-play voice Frank Beckmann suggested that Mike Hart may have some work to do to truly catch the Michigan man with the most rushing yards. That man? Willie Heston, the 2 time All-American that Fielding Yost convinced to come with him to Michigan from California. There’s no doubt Heston put up ridiculous numbers during Yost’s Point-a-Minute reign of terror. While they didn’t keep detailed individual statistics back then, we do know he scored a jaw dropping 72 touchdowns. Beckmann offered that by some estimates Heston tallyed over 7,300 rushing yards. That’d leave Hart way out of reach of Heston if true. Of course it was a different game at the turn of the 20th century. Teams didn’t pass and a durable back like Heston ended up running the ball on just about every play. Was Heston the greatest back ever? Again, there’s really no way to know. Certainly Hart, Harmon and Heston are in the conversation. I found a quote from a Time magazine on Harmon where Yost reminded folks of his great runner’s place in Michigan history: Surging out of the stadium, a majority of the 54,000…