Right there! via Yost Built (via mgoblog) Strange days. Beilein bested Izzo, the Vest is up Crap Creek sans paddle & we didn’t get screwed in the hockey playoffs. As the minutes turned to hours on the replay review, I was thinking the refs knew the puck probably crossed the line but couldn’t make a definitive call. I was at Fort Fun last year. Good on them for growing a collective pair, talking it out and making the right call. HAGOAL, Go Blue. If you ask any fanbase I’m guessing they’ll tell you their team is screwed by the refs more often than not. Wolverine fans have a little list of the most egregious in our heads and this is always at the top (another hat tip to my pal Steve Sap for passing it along): This is of course a wire photo of Charles White’s phantom touchdown against the Wolverines in the 1979 Rose Bowl. The back official is calling Michigan first down while numbnuts is signaling a USC touchdown. The LA Times described how that ref discussion played went: Referee Paul Kamanski cast the tiebreaking vote, saying that the line judge, Gilbert Marchman, was in charge of forward progress of the ball. Since the line judge was emphatic that the ball had broken the plane of the goal…
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Blue Blooded (Michigan 75, Tennessee 45)
If you peeked into the M Twitterverse in the waning moments of the dismantling of the Volunteers early Friday afternoon, you got a tiny taste of how it will feel if once we tip over the Buckeyes on a future Saturday in November. Tiger Blood. ESPN captured this sign in the crowd: And apparently Zack Novak spotted it, loved it, and found Kevin Pollack after the game a retrieved the sign. Rothstein: The fan who made the sign happily obliged, and it sat in his locker after the game. “I just wanted the sign,” Novak said. “I think Charlie Sheen’s hilarious. “That’s an awesome sign, that’s my favorite sign.” The sign will go back with Novak to Ann Arbor, where he said it will hang in his room — likely right over his bed. It’s unknown whether Novak ask for the number of the gal doing the hair flip, or where the dude behind Pollack got his Jalen-Chris-Juwan-Jimmy-Ray shirt. I’d check here. Drawing Blood. You’ve probably heard several dozen times that Michigan didn’t make a free throw in the game, but to reverse paraphrase Patrick Ewing, we didn’t make a lot of free throws because we didn’t shoot a lot of free throws. No one’s complaining, but maybe Smotrycz should have headed to the stripe after this?: Cold-Blooded. What was…
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Hardcore Michigan Hoops (Spartan Nation Radio)
I was back on Spartan Nation radio with host Hondo Carpenter this week talking Hardcore Pawn, Michigan Hoops, NCAA tourney expectations for the Wolverines and the Big Ten, and whether I’d be rooting for the Buckeyes in the tournament*. Dig it: [display_podcast] * No.
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Audio from the Fab Five Premiere
A few audio clips from the Q&A in the aftermath of Jalen Rose’s Ann Arbor premiere of tonight’s ESPN Fab Five documentary. More commentary, photos, etc. here. In order: 1. Jalen On Chris Webber, why he hasn’t seen documentary and the time he still needs. He says there’s no beef with the team or whatever. Jalen just says that Chris isn’t ready to talk about it, says he’s still carrying a lot with him especially after to the two finals losses at the timeout. Jalen hoping he finds some way to “release” all that weight. 2. Jalen on the trip to Europe right after the 1991 Finals and how he feels they were exploited. 3. Jalen on how ESPN feels about the Duke/Uncle Tom comments and his message to the Duke guys he works with. He told ESPN, “Ya’ll better not fire me on Monday..” 4. Jalen on the content he wishes they could have fit into the film but didn’t make it. Jalen says there are a lot of things, but he definitely wanted to point out how life was in the early 1990s (pre-internet, how people felt about the music.) 5. For fun, someone asking Jalen if he would have called the timeout if he were in the same situation as Webber. Basically Jalen won’t answer but Jimmy…
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Sweeps Week (Spartan Nation audio)
Last night I spent a few minutes on enemy airwaves discussing the sweep and more with Hondo Carpenter of Spartan Nation on SN Radio. If you missed it, here’s the audio: [display_podcast] Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Broom! (Goes the Dynamite) Michigan 70, MSU 63
What a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, don’t you think? Bullets: It has been amazing to witness the young guys, especially Morgan, Hardaway & Morris, maturing and improving since the start of the season. It’s tangible progress before our eyes so hats off to the entire coaching staff and of course the team. I actually give some credit to the M fans for the Maize out. As I like to say, Wolverine fans are really good at “Wear Whatever You Want-Outs” but horrible at Maize-outs. I thought the place was about 75-ish percent maize which is about as good as you are going to get. I was a student during the Fab Five era when we used to wait out hours to pile into Crisler and pack the place It had that feel yesterday. Speaking of the Maize-out: the always sharp-dressed M assistant Bacari Alexander looked sharp in his brown suit, but what do we need to do to get Coach Tweet outfitted in an all-Maize ensemble?? Sharp! Those on Twitter might have seen a barrage of “HALOL!”. I’ve been asked by a few folks what it refers to. It’s a common tag on Coach Alexander’s tweets which I presumed to simply be an emphatic version of “LOL!”. Sunday morning Bacari confirmed this: I expected the students…
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President Gerald Ford Snaps the Pigskin! (1974)
Check out this shot of President Ford at a Portland, Oregon charity event
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Let Him Pass
I just returned from a nice vacation in much warmer climates. On the way home from DTW (after enduring a power outage that locked me and many others inside the airport parking structure for 45 minutes—yes, they held us hostage while they figured out how to charge us for parking given cc’s wouldn’t process) I caught the end of the excellent Minnesota hoops game on WTKA. Catching up on reading, I got a big chuckle out of this line from Brian in the aftermath of the Wisconsin bank robbery: Not to dwell on a small monkey on a Caribbean island throwing a banana that turns into a tsunami because of chaos theory and wham(!) there’s a coconut in Crisler.. While I’m not going to make you suffer through all the photos from my family vacation, I thought I better post this shot of this small Caribbean monkey that walked by me last Sunday just before 9am, on his way to find a banana to chuck: I let regrettably let him pass. One more photo – here’s my pal Giles in front of Wayne Rooney’s getaway house Barbados: Rooney wasn’t there of course, he was busy doing this.
