Hail to the Victors: The Book Has a Sponsor! Comment Count

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You won't see it in the Kickstarter but we just got a big pledge today toward making this year's Hail to the Victors season preview and feature mag.

Draft Street, you ROCK!

Our online fantasy sports partner must know a good bet when they see one, cause they're doubling down on us hitting our goal, and covering the difference between 3rd and 1st class shipping so you'll get your books sooner and in better condition.

Our gratitude is immense; if you want to show yours, I think they'd just like you to keep playing. They have games for all sports—college/NFL/NBA/NHL/PGA/etc.; check out the MLB games going on now. They're also offering to cover a free MGoShirt from our store to one new person who signs up this week.

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Did he leave a message? Here's what the sponsor wrote us when he offered to do this:

"Hey guys, it's Larry from the DraftStreet team. We are really excited to team up with you guys to be a part of the MGoBlog annual. We look forward to this magazine every season and even pass it around the office during the year to help our scouting of the Michigan players and the guys they're facing.

If your readers haven't signed up for DraftStreet yet I would highly recommend they check us out. They can sign up for a free MLB draft right now and pick 8 players from 8 tiers. If anyone has any questions please feel free to contact me directly at [email protected]. GO BLUE!"

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What's This Then? HTTV is MGoBlog's annual 128-page print magazine, now in its third year of us publishing it on our own. About 30 of those are dedicated to a positional preview of Michigan's 2014 team, and another 20 are team-by-team breakdowns of all the scheduled opponents, with special attention paid to ND/PSU/MSU/OSU. Most of those were Ace, but PSU was done by Mike Pettigano, the Brian of the PSU blogosphere, and BiSB did ND and OSU.

The rest are features. Brian wrote his ode to Gallon, I wrote the decline and fall of the Big Ten Empire, Space Coyote introduces the Nussmeier's offense like so…

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…and Mathlete has promised the his study on highly touted prospects will be in today. Dooley's annual article is on the 1964 team (he scored an interview with Bump!) and Kryk's is on Bo's last. There's a couple more features I'm forgetting at the moment. Oh: Craig Ross takes us from the origins of the game to Bennie Friedman. And a former Daily writer investigated where the Wave came from (actually not Michigan but a Michigan game). Anyhoo it ends with our regular roundtable.

Why Kickstarter? We fund each one through Kickstarter so we'll have the capital upfront. No loans = lower cost to make it.

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Why do I care about your sponsor? Because we have to pre-pay for the shipping. Last year we had a lot of issues with mailing because the new printer sent them 3rd class bulk, which saved a lot of money but also got some books out reeeeeealllly slow-like, sometimes damaged. We HAVE to go 1st class, but that takes a bit chunk out of us that we didn't really calculate into the initial overhead. Problem solved.

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