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Mike Weber: Class Rankings ImpactAfter securing a commitment from four-star Cass Tech RB Mike Weber on Wednesday night, Michigan is at or near the top of the board on the recruiting services when it...
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Full Uniformz For Penn State Released
At 8:15 on a Friday, so unless they're trying to bury their publicity stunt—not likely—they were blindsided by the catalogs for like the third straight time and released them early because the cat was...
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Fall Camp Presser 8-8-14: Brady Hoke
fileNews bullets and other important items: Blake Countess (groin) and Mario Ojemudia (ankle) were held out of practice but should return by Monday Drake Harris injured his other hamstring and has been...
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Five-Star Back Enjoys Visit2016 five-star NJ RB Kareem Walker visited Michigan last Wednesday; he told 247's Steve Lorenz afterward that he enjoyed the trip ($):"It was a great day," Walker said....
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It's BTN Practice Scrimmage Day
Cole and Clark impressed [Bryan Fuller]Our annual attempt to glean useful things from the Big Ten's visit to fall camp is here. BTN analysts have a slight bias towards the positive, as Gerry DiNardo...
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Media Day Interviews: Dennis Norfleet, Jake Ryan, Wyatt Shallman
Bryan Fuller/MGoBlogIn the half-hour we spent on the field talking to players at Sunday's Media Day, the theme of this offseason and fall camp was clear: change is here. For the offense, that means a...
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Media Day Interviews: The Technicians
"Now everything's just slowed down for me, and it's just me, I can just play ball." — Jourdan Lewis [Photo: Bryan Fuller/MGoBlog]Michigan's 2014 roster includes six proud graduates of Detroit's Cass...
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Hokepoints Reps Zone Stretch
FullerThis is a companion piece to last week's refresher on inside zone, Michigan's new base play. Outside Zone, also known as the Zone Stretch, is one of two very common complementary plays to IZ,...
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No Second MSU Game At Yost This Year
We found out why the first Michigan State hockey series was "TBA" yesterday, when it was announced that the two teams would play an outdoor game in Chicago. There are about 50,000 reasons that's a...
View ArticleUnverified Voracity Is In Lip Trance
Hype video.Practice video. From Maize and Blue News:Jane previews Michigan! Oh man this is just so dead on:We long for a past that we hated while it was happening, in which Michigan would go 9-3 or...
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The Beginning Of The End
The O'Bannon decision came down at six o'clock on a Friday, irritating all the journalists who suddenly had 1/3 less weekend… and sort of obliterating the NCAA.The "sort of" part: the injunction the...
View ArticleCsont'e York Video Released, Very Bad
Police have released a video of the Csont'e York incident, and it is bad:That is a straight-up sucker punch that broke a guy's jaw in three places. I don't see how he doesn't get dismissed for that....
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Media Day Presser 8-10-14: Greg Mattison
fileWe’ve heard you’re going to be a tougher defense. How will we see that on the field in the fall?“Hopefully you see the aggressiveness in base defense as well as when we do pressure. And I think the...
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2014 Recruiting: Ian Bunting
Previously: Last year's profiles, CB Brandon Watson, CB Jabrill Peppers, LB Jared Wangler, LB Chase Winovich, LB Noah Furbush, LB Michael Ferns, DL Brady Pallante, DL Bryan Mone, DL Lawrence Marshall,...
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Media Day Presser 8-10-14: Doug Nussmeier
Not to compare it to last year, but what is a Doug Nussmeier offense? What is this offense going to look like?“We want to play physical. We want to establish an identity as a physical and explosive...
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Michigan In The NFL: Who's Making The Cut?
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeThe NFL preseason is officially underway, and with mandatory roster cuts (down to 75) set for August 26th, now is a good time to check in with the former Wolverines currently...
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Fall Camp Presser 8-12-14: Brady Hoke
fileNews bullets and other items: The team scrimmages in Michigan Stadium on Wednesday Mason Cole really, truly might play. Really. Funchess was held out of practice but Hoke didn't even call it a...
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Draftageddon: It Ends!
The goal of Draftageddon is to draft a team of Big Ten players that seems generally more impressive than that of your competitors. Along the way, we'll learn a lot of alarming things, like maybe...
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Best and Worst: Pre-Season
[ed: bump.]Seeing as we just had the annual heights and weights delivered to our doorstep with nary an emotion beyond “these large men either got slightly larger or slightly smaller, and that is good”,...
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Draftageddon 2014: Left Behind - Offense
This is an actual movie. See? There are worse things than DraftageddonDraftageddon is complete, to the relief of many of you and the heartbreak of… well, some of you. Maybe. But there are still some...
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