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Petering out. Over the weekend, nothing much happened. We were already starting to get articles that contain no new NCAA-relevant information and don't stand up to even a cursory fact-check—see Friday's post on claims that TCU's brilliant scheme duped Michigan—and now, uh: Multiple sources from one Big Ten school told SI that a coach at a different school called them before playing Michigan to warn them about Wolverines ball boys on their sideline listening to play calls and c...

9/30/2023 – Michigan 45, Nebraska 7 – 5-0, 2-0 Big Ten This column is about being grateful but first a digression into obscure lexicography, as the readership demands. Despite an Atlantic article that accidentally implies that the noun "fantods" was a neologism sprouted from David Foster Wallace's mother, Merriam Webster asserts that Charles Fredrick Briggs deployed in 1839; indeed, it actually found its way in to Huckleberry Finn: "They was all nice pictures, I reckon, b...

9/30/2023 – Michigan 45, Nebraska 7 – 5-0, 2-0 Big Ten This column is about being grateful but first a digression into obscure lexicography, as the readership demands. Despite an Atlantic article that accidentally implies that the noun "fantods" was a neologism sprouted from David Foster Wallace's mother, Merriam Webster asserts that Charles Fredrick Briggs deployed in 1839; indeed, it actually found its way in to Huckleberry Finn: "They was all nice pictures, I reckon, b...

Readers react to the California senator’s death. Also: Fixing what ails college sports; cherishing being single; preserving Buddhism.

Why the University of Michigan regent is going scorched earth on the NCAA with the Pac-12 being decimated.

A regent at the University of Michigan unloaded on recent conference realignment Sunday, taking to social media to aim criticism at the NCAA for its perceived unwillingness to prevent the

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Harbaugh gonna Harbaugh. I'd be more surprised if this story ended up involving anyone else: To the surprise of Ofc Cooper, the good Samaritan was @CoachJim4UM who wanted to help clear the road. Ofc Cooper then gave Coach a pair of work gloves and the two of them went to work. (2/3) — Ann Arbor Police (@A2Police) February 23, 2023 I went to Home Depot once and the first person I saw was Harbaugh, wandering around looking for something like he was just a person, a normal person. Your new p...

On the field, its hard to argue with the job Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh and AD Warde Manuel are doing. Off the field is a different story.

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