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I Left Part Of Me Back There, In The Heat
3/30/2013 – Michigan 72, Kentucky 75 – 28-9, 15-3 Big Ten, season overDustin Johnston/UMHoopssame damn shotAbout three hours later, I realized I was on the same damn road, passing the same damn Indiana...
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Monday Recruitin' Has Different Sources
"Good Source" vs. Mom, or Just Another Day In RecruitingEven though Damien Harris stepped back from his Michigan commitment after the firing of Al Borges, the top 2015 running back has maintained that...
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Hokepoints: Beilein vs. All-Time, the Old Guys
Beilein by Fuller, Orr and Ooster via Bentley.I got this question from PeteM on the board: Where does John Beilein rank among Michigan's all-time basketball coaches?The question is subjective since...
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The Future, Basketball Edition
next upESPN just tweeted out something about how true freshman Mason Cole was looking very good and "competing for the starting left tackle spot," so you'll forgive me if I take one more day to think...
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Hokepoints: Beilein vs. All-Time (Recent Guys)
USATSI/Fuller/Opie OtterstadWhere does John Beilein rank among Michigan's all-time basketball coaches? This was a board question I began answering there until I realized I had written half a column and...
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This Week's Obsession: How to Watch a Spring Game
UpchurchIt is spring, the season with all the rebirth and egg-laying rabbits and such. In this pastel, paschal period of the year, everything is positive. Your baseball team could win the World Series,...
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Spring Stuff 2014
[Eric Upchurch]wait spring football is what againIt's this practice thing that we used to think was super super important because the basketball team was a wet cat and the spring game was in late...
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One Frame At A Time: Tennessee
I have a copy of the Kentucky game. I went so far as to open it in the program I use to make GIFs, because despite the outcome I thought Caris LeVert's block/tie-up of Julius Randle was worth GIFing...
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Michigan Offers Dre’Mont Jones
Name: Dre’Mont JonesPosition: Weakside Defensive EndHt/Wt: 6'4" / 250 lbs.Location: St. Ignatius – Cleveland, OH (2015)Offers: Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio StateRating:...
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The National Championship Secret Sauce, Part 2
In March, I posted Part 1, looking at the recruiting make-up of the last ten BCS Champion football teams. For those of you lost in the three week basketball coma, the key takeaways were: Defensive line...
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Unverified Voracity Reflects
Dustin Johnston/UMHoopsRounding up the exit. Further takes on the end of Michigan's season come from Genuinely Sarcastic:In three of the last four seasons, Michigan's season has come down to one final...
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Thursday Recruitin' Finally Signs
It's OverMalik McDowell will play for MSU after all. [Fuller]Finally, the book is closed on the 2014 recruiting class:The recruiting saga of Malik McDowell is over.The No. 5-rated defensive tackle in...
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Dear Diary is Playing in the Rain
O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come;On the morrow we shall be bath'd in sunlight and spring football, but today, my friends, is an opportunity nearly as great and many...
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Mailbag: The Fouling Question
to foul or not to foul this strokeFoul? An excessively long answer to an excessively long email.Brain & Staff -I'm a templar with high INT.Here is my question - Would it have been a better move for...
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A Trio Of New Offers
The coaching staff was very busy this weekend with all of the spring game festivities, a list of tasks that included handing out three new offers. Asmar Bilal and Darrin Kirkland Jr. are both...
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Spring Stuff: Defense
The spring game-type-substance maintained its downward importance trajectory, but as it's the last glimpse of one of the big three sports we'll have until fall we'll talk about it all the same. This...
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Three New OffersAfter seeing coveted four-star 2015 IN LB Josh Barajas make a surprise commitment to Penn State a couple weeks ago, Michigan didn't wait long to offer two more four-star Hoosier State...
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27 Tickets To Team 135: Post-Spring Edition
What is this? Folks who cover the USMNT drop lists like this projecting the 23 guys who end up on the next World Cup team. I have appropriated it. Regarding the number of tickets: 22 starters on...
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Spring Stuff: Offense
Hoke says Michigan really didn't find its top five offensive linemen this spring. And really isn't close to finding them either.— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) April 5, 2014WELP. In a word,...
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The BTN's Debacle Of A Spring Game Telecast
Unedited. Seriously.My stomach gave a decidedly strong vote against my attending Saturday's Spring Game, so in lieu of watching from the press box I took in the Big Ten Network's telecast. This may...
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