Bill Martin filled an open date on the ’08 schedule with MAC powerhouse Toledo. More. This leaves one more spot to be filled open the schedule for 2008, either August 30th or September 20th. So far the home portion of the schedule is pretty light other than Michigan State and Wisconsin, so here’s to hoping Martin steps it up a notch to give the fans something exciting.
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Carr’s Wash Yields $ and Info
Saturday marked the latest edition of the “Carr’s Wash for Kids” as the Michigan football team assembled at Michigan stadium to clean the cars of the good people of Ann Arbor. All told the gang polished 536 automobiles and raised over $175,000. Added to the total from the Takeover of WTKA 1050AM, the team’s efforts on Thursday and Saturday raised around $300,000 for the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Here’s more on the hospital and how you can still support this cause. The Ann Arbor News dispatched a few folks out there including Jim Carty who confirmed a few interesting items: Arrington’s Steps Back: Not a big surprise, but Carty caught up with talented receiver Adrian Arrington who was at the Wash and confirmed he’s back on the team. His penance? 60 Straight days of running the steps of Michigan stadium. The stink eye for Harbaugh: Don’t know the specifics, Carty reported that Coach Carr didn’t have any kind words for Jim Harbaugh given his recent comments reflecting negative on the program. Carty wrote “Carr had no comment [on Harbaugh]..but made it clear he’s not happy…”. Oh, to have seen the look on his face as he grumbled “no comment”. Mallett’s Misery: Cocky freshman QB Ryan Mallett was quite the center of attention on Thursday and Saturday, as folks from…
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MVictors to Sponsor JDRF Golf
Ah yes, MVictors.com will be a distinguished beverage sponsor at this year’s Golf Classic supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). It’s a great event held on Monday June 11 at the beautiful Franklin Hills Country Club. Detroit Lion back Kevin Jones will be the honorary guest. Interested in helping out with JDRF? Email the MVictors.com webmaster, or contact JDRF Detroit or find a local chapter in your area. Here’s more about JDRF and its mission: JDRF is the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. Type 1 diabetes is a disease which strikes children suddenly and requires multiple injections of insulin daily or a continuous infusion of insulin through a pump. Insulin, however, is not a cure for diabetes, nor does it prevent its eventual and devastating complications which may include kidney failure, blindness, heart disease, stroke, and amputation. Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $1 billion to diabetes research, including more than $122 million in FY2006. In FY2006, the Foundation funded 500 centers, grants and fellowships in 20 countries.
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Griese, Huge Propel Takeover
Props to Brian Griese and Bill ‘Huge’ Simonson who helped the Michigan football team and WTKA raise over $117,000 for the new Mott Children’s hospital. Here’s more from mgoblue.com. The former national champion QB called in the last hour of the telethon and offered to match dollar for dollar each pledge made in the final 52 minutes. Simonson broadcast his show from the Ann Arbor studio and helped expand the reach of the telethon to stations around the state. In those final minutes callers donated over $31,000 and with Griese’s match put the total way over the $80,000 goal. This site has been critical of WTKA in recent posts but this is certainly worthy of praise. The final hour also featured the conclusion of Lloyd Carr’s turn at the microphone (he went for about 2 hours) and Mike Hart. Hart was joined by Saline native and freshman tailback Vince Helmuth of whom Hart referred to as “my fullback”.
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Where the Money’s At
We showed some early bowl projections compliments of collegefootballnews.com last week. Now here’s some early Vegas futures on the Big Ten champion and for the BCS. Here you go: What does this mean? Pretty much nothing. Certainly Michigan is considered as a contender but I think a lot of the money is based on schedule.
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2008-09 BCS Bowl Projections? Here you go…
for all bowl projections, visit this site.
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The World has enough Smartasses
In the latest chat wrap, smart arsed college football analyst Ivan Maisel revealed his sharp tongue. Of course he’s probably right: ——————————————————————————– Brett (Grand Rapids, MI): Any word on Michigan’s WR Adrian Arrington and his suspension from the team? Ivan Maisel: It would be easier to learn of North Korea’s nuclear plans than to get any word out of Lloyd Car about his in-big-house discipline. I think it’s safe to say, based on history, that the suspension will mysteriously finish up right before August.
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Time served in Columbus
By some stroke of irony the MVictors.com webmaster has been working in the outskirts of the snake pit for over a month now. It’s about as you’d expect. I’m at a sizeable customer headquarters and Buckeye gear, photos, helmets, etc. are everywhere. Local sports talk radio [which is pretty weak] is riddled with Buckeye talk. I’ve seen the occasional guy with some quasi-Michigan gear but it’s been pretty scarce. I write this post because of what happened this week. I was using the gym at the corporate site and I spotted a guy in a yellow “Maize Rage” tank top. I’m not one to come up to strangers and strike up conversations but I practically hugged the guy. I didn’t get into the whole question of what it is like to be a Michigan fan in Buckeye land, I just exchanged pleasantries and talked a little Michigan hoops. You have to wonder if the guy just has balls, or if it really isn’t that much of a taboo to wear M gear in Columbus. Probably a little of both: this dude was a strapping lad who stood a good 6′ 5″. The lesson? Don’t have one. But of course half my T-shirts are M-related and I’ll be breaking one out soon thanks to the Maize Rager.