In the Directors Cup standings. Pretty sure the spring sports will help move that up!
I understand it's goals, but this award is so lopsided that it is nearly impossible for anyone else to win.
I have long since given up on Michigan, or anyone else, winning this.
Stanford is in terrible straits financially. So, it's not completely hopeless. They have a roughly $5 million shortfall in athletics alone.
That'll just make it that much sweeter when we bust through and win it! :)
I was wondering when you were going to start posting stuff like this. Between you and OC, you guys get in way more non-revenue than I can.
...sports a ton, especially as they give me the best chance to see Michigan play in person without a long haul trip.
Unfortunately I missed my chance to attend some doable events this year because of various family/work responsibilities (baseball tourneys in NC, T&F relay at Duke, rowing matches at UVA, water polo eastern championships at College Park).
I'll try to do better next year.
I hear you. The 900 mile commute to Champaign and U of Indiana (closest campuses to me) keeps me from seeing much in the way of Big Ten action. Being 200 miles from any school we would conceivably even compete against in the non-Big Ten events is only slightly better.
But I'm better for color commentary. So much of my attention is distracted by the burning question of "I see Evan and Zach -- can I go sit with them?" "Can I have some money to buy Sour Patch? I promise to share with Evan and Zach!" etc. Or being asked to look up stuff on my iPhone to win the trivia contest.
So, larger questions -- how's attendance, how's the strike zone -- I'm good. Any individual play is 50/50 whether I saw it.
...rocks, especially when you can combine it with watching M sports. Your kids are lucky to be exposed to so much.
...received the No. 4 seed for the 2010 NCAA Division I Championship and will host an NCAA Regional Championship for the first time in school history, the NCAA announced as part of its selection show on Tuesday (May 4). U-M (22-4) will face Illinois-Chicago (20-3) in the first round, with No. 30 DePaul (18-5) and No. 34 Ohio State (19-9) rounding out the regional field. The first and second rounds of the NCAA Championship will take place at the Varsity Tennis Center next Friday and Saturday (May 14-15).
I was going to post a diary about Women's tennis. I guess now I'll have to step it up and actually provide some extra insight. :)
...Jeff. I assume you thought about doing it because you do have some extra insights that could be shared here.
Diaries are great places to put out information on things other than football, MBB and ice hockey and if you know Women's Tennis, you have the opportunity to get people interested and engaged.
Look back at the threads surrounding the Men's Gymnastics NCAA Championship run. People love to get behind a winner and since the Women's Tennis team has the chance to make a deep run in their tournament, the chance that people will get engaged exists.
Someone chronicling that run provides us with additional information beyond that available at MGoBlue.com and BTN.com and may have the added benefit of letting the team know that the fanbase supports them and appreciates them.
So, get to it!
...received an at-large bid to the 2010 NCAA Championships on Tuesday (May 4), the program's fifth consecutive trip to the postseason tournament. The Wolverines (13-10, 8-2 Big Ten) travel to the Ohio State regional at the Stickney Tennis Center in Columbus, Ohio, for the second straight postseason and third time in five years, where they will face off against No. 36 Denver (19-4) in the first round next Saturday (May 15). Match times have not yet been announced.
With a victory over Denver, Michigan would face Big Ten Conference champion and No. 4 seed Ohio State (32-1, 10-0 Big Ten) or Mid-American Conference champion Western Michigan (21-10) on Sunday (May 16).
The Big Ten Conference announced today (Tuesday, May 4) that University of Michigan freshman Jack Schultz (Whitefish Bay, Wis./Whitefish Bay) of the men's golf team was the unanimous selection as the Big Ten's Freshman of the Year, while sophomore Matt Thompson (Battle Creek, Mich./Lakeview) and junior Lion Kim (Lake Mary, Fla./Lake Mary Prep School) were All-Big Ten second team selections. Thompson was also named the Big Ten Sportsmanship honoree for U-M.
Schultz becomes only the second U-M player to be named Big Ten Freshman of the Year, following Andy Matthews' (1999-2002) selection in 1999.
...from mgoblue.com...
Junior Denise Muresan (Lincolnshire, Ill./Adlai E. Stevenson) and the doubles team of juniors Whitney Taney (Edina, Minn./Edina) and Rika Tatsuno (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif./Rancho Palos Peninsula) of the No. 4-ranked University of Michigan women's tennis team received invitations to the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships as announced by the NCAA on Wednesday (May 5). The Championships are slated for May 25-31 at the University of Georgia's Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga
...from mgoblue.com...
Junior Jason Jung (Torrance, Calif./West Torrance) and freshman Evan King (Chicago, Ill./Kaplan) have been selected to represent the University of Michigan men's tennis team at the NCAA Individual Championships, to be held Wednesday through Monday, May 26-31, at Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga.
Jung received one of the 48 at-large selections in singles and will team with King as one of the 21 at-large doubles selections. Jung and King are the first Michigan players to compete in the event since former Wolverines Brian Hung and Matko Maravic in 2007.
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