It would be beyond stupid to let the BBQ at the Big House die—can’t imagine Moore would let that happen.
As for the food, there are places in A2 and the Detroit area that serve good quality BBQ—with the budget that the athletic department has, there’s no excuse for serving lousy food.
Like many others here, I've been a daily user of the internet since its early days, and the amount of time I've spent on stock photo & illustration websites, news & political websites, commercial sales sites, blogs, and social media platforms for both business and pleasure would probably horrify me if I were able to total it all up.
In all that time, I've never encountered a website with as many weird basic functionality problems as MGoBlog. I'm not a tech guy, but having had some experience in working on the design of a website programmed in Drupal—which was a clunky, clumsy platform to design for—I wonder if that's part of the problem.
Michigan's overall record over the past 30+ years is 14 Frozen Four appearances with just 2 national championships. Brian just said on the Roundtable that Michigan is the least talented team in the FF. Not a recipe for optimism.
Eventually the Wolverine Den morphed into a regular greasy spoon diner not far down the block from the Brown Jug, and I ate at the Den frequently in the 1970s.
The wikipedia entry on that draft lists Riggins as a "RB" but I know that's not necessarily an accurate description of how he was regarded when he was drafted.
I would normally call Riggins a fullback as well, but the old-school definition of a fullback was the guy who would line up closer to the LOS than the halfback, and was frequently a blocker for the halfback.
At Kansas, Riggins was frequently lined up in a standard fullback spot, but he was hardly the stereotype lumbering FB—he was a state champion sprinter in high school, and he broke Gale Sayers's career rushing record at Kansas.
In the pro highlights of Riggins I've watched, he sometimes has a lead blocker in front of him, but the highlights never show the formation before the snap so it's hard to see whether he was lined up in the classic formation in front of the halfback or not. In many of the other highlights I've watched, he doesn't appear to have anybody blocking for him other than linemen or maybe a TE.
“Judge Roy Moore is the real deal: He’s tough, tested, and has a spine of steel.
“The Washington establishment knows they won’t be able to count on him, but Alabama voters can. Judge Moore has never backed down from standing for what is right, and that’s exactly what he’ll do in the U.S Senate.
“That’s why the Washington establishment is spending millions trying to defeat Judge Moore.”
“Alabama needs Judge Moore there doing what he’s always done: fighting to protect our constitutional rights to life, religious liberty, and the freedom to protect ourselves and our families. And he will always put principle over politics.” — Chuck Norris
“I couldn’t be more thrilled and honored to have the great Chuck Norris endorse our campaign for U.S. Senate!” — Roy Moore
For me, it was mostly boring radical speechifying interspersed with some great live music from people like Seger, Cody, Wonder, Archie Shepp, and Teegarden & Van Winkle.
Musically speaking, "Free John Now" was the worst music of the evening, but then anything with Yoko Ono participating sucked.
XM, this may not be what you're looking for in a vehicle, but I drive an '07 4Runner with a V8. It's got just short of 200K on it so it's sort of a beater, but it's perfect for my uses.
The interesting thing about the 4Runner V8s of that vintage is that they are full-time 4WD. As you can imagine, the gas mileage isn't great, but I don't drive all that much so it's not really a concern. I bought mine with 167K seven years ago so I haven't been putting hard mileage on it.
The 4.7L V8 is generally regarded as one of Toyota's most reliable engines, and it's not uncommon at all to see them running for well over 200K miles.
It's not as big as the behemoth SUVs commonly driven these days, but with the rear seats folded down you can put a decent quantity of stuff back there. Plus it has a dashboard-operable power rear window, so you that can put lumber, Xmas trees, or whatever long stuff you have inside the car and have it project out through the open window, with the rear door still being shut.
Watched the game with a good friend at the old Banfield's on the west side of A2. The entire bar was watching the game and the place erupted in a frenzy when the fisticuffs started, especially when Vernon and Roy went at it. Without a doubt the craziest thing I've ever watched in sports.
Manuel isn't beyond criticism for other things—no AD is—but you'd have to be pretty churlish to think he didn't do exactly what we'd all ideally want to see an AD do in this situation.
With big assists from Ramsey and Beilein, of course—it's tremendously valuable to have a network of trusted confidants.
There can’t be another program in the country that has lost as many big games in OT as Michigan has, going back to 1977. The ways we’ve lost are various and sundry, but It’s fucking painful nevertheless.
It's terrible for anyone to have cancer and I hope she beats it, but I've always been puzzled why any American cares about the British Royal Family beyond the occasional random thought.
Woodson only won the Heisman because he had significant snaps on offense in addition to his ST play. If he had played *only* on defense Manning would have won the Heisman.
Hard to envision Graham getting any time on offense or returning punts.
I’m not saying this makes sense—excluding purely defensive players from the Heisman is dumb—but it’s reality.
I'm always puzzled why anybody cares about the outcome of these meaningless internet polls. If Michigan wins this one, will their day be brighter? If Michigan doesn't win, will they be sad?
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“The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and temps in the mid-50s at noon next Saturday”
Lies. The weather at Michigan spring games is always cloudy, low 40s, with blustery winds.
So Lew Alcindor (Kareem), Garnett, and now Bryant were possibly Wolverines?
I guess we needed our own version of Sam Gilbert. Ed Martin just wasn’t up to the job.
It would be beyond stupid to let the BBQ at the Big House die—can’t imagine Moore would let that happen.
As for the food, there are places in A2 and the Detroit area that serve good quality BBQ—with the budget that the athletic department has, there’s no excuse for serving lousy food.
“we will lose battles with players we have superior relationships with”
The superior relationships these days are with money.
Mohler?
Across all sports since 1960, I’d bet no other school in the country has had as many close-but-no-cigar seasons as Michigan.
Why the hell would the NFL actively try to prevent that? JFC, can he be any worse than Dan Snyder or Haslam or York or McCaskey?
Translation: I'm bored to death being retired and I don't have anything else in my life that really interests me full-time.
Or several years.
Like many others here, I've been a daily user of the internet since its early days, and the amount of time I've spent on stock photo & illustration websites, news & political websites, commercial sales sites, blogs, and social media platforms for both business and pleasure would probably horrify me if I were able to total it all up.
In all that time, I've never encountered a website with as many weird basic functionality problems as MGoBlog. I'm not a tech guy, but having had some experience in working on the design of a website programmed in Drupal—which was a clunky, clumsy platform to design for—I wonder if that's part of the problem.
Michigan's overall record over the past 30+ years is 14 Frozen Four appearances with just 2 national championships. Brian just said on the Roundtable that Michigan is the least talented team in the FF. Not a recipe for optimism.
I'm old but not ancient.
The Daily article celebrating the NC victory over Dartmouth... "Third Period Fireworks"
https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071756238/249
The Wolverine Den was originally a restaurant/night spot on South U, not a clothing store.
This page in that same day's Daily (March 19, 1948) shows their opening night ad:
https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071756238/240
Eventually the Wolverine Den morphed into a regular greasy spoon diner not far down the block from the Brown Jug, and I ate at the Den frequently in the 1970s.
I think the NHL should go back to the Original Six.
My favorite uncle is a Purdue grad, plus my cousin (his son) is a Boilermaker, plus my brother was a prof at Purdue, so Boiler up.
Rooting for Iowa and Purdue, but
UConn over Cackalacky in women's
UConn over Purdue in men's
I'm puzzled why would anybody care enough about meaningless points for Seth to even bother to mention it in the first place.
The wikipedia entry on that draft lists Riggins as a "RB" but I know that's not necessarily an accurate description of how he was regarded when he was drafted.
I would normally call Riggins a fullback as well, but the old-school definition of a fullback was the guy who would line up closer to the LOS than the halfback, and was frequently a blocker for the halfback.
At Kansas, Riggins was frequently lined up in a standard fullback spot, but he was hardly the stereotype lumbering FB—he was a state champion sprinter in high school, and he broke Gale Sayers's career rushing record at Kansas.
In the pro highlights of Riggins I've watched, he sometimes has a lead blocker in front of him, but the highlights never show the formation before the snap so it's hard to see whether he was lined up in the classic formation in front of the halfback or not. In many of the other highlights I've watched, he doesn't appear to have anybody blocking for him other than linemen or maybe a TE.
Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, and Franco Harris were all drafted in the first round as fullbacks.
Might depend on his dad's opinion of Warde Manuel and U-M. I'd be surprised if that's very positive right now.
One.
Eh, we’ve gone way beyond cylinders—we’re in scramjet mode now.
Speaking of sexual assault-ignoring fuckwads:
I was there, also as a freshman.
For me, it was mostly boring radical speechifying interspersed with some great live music from people like Seger, Cody, Wonder, Archie Shepp, and Teegarden & Van Winkle.
Musically speaking, "Free John Now" was the worst music of the evening, but then anything with Yoko Ono participating sucked.
The wife of my best friend is an Illinois grad, and she’s awesome. Sorry, I can’t work up the enmity against the Biting Illini right now.
“a reporter jokingly called him "Kenny G"
Musical character assassination
Never forget.
XM, this may not be what you're looking for in a vehicle, but I drive an '07 4Runner with a V8. It's got just short of 200K on it so it's sort of a beater, but it's perfect for my uses.
The interesting thing about the 4Runner V8s of that vintage is that they are full-time 4WD. As you can imagine, the gas mileage isn't great, but I don't drive all that much so it's not really a concern. I bought mine with 167K seven years ago so I haven't been putting hard mileage on it.
The 4.7L V8 is generally regarded as one of Toyota's most reliable engines, and it's not uncommon at all to see them running for well over 200K miles.
It's not as big as the behemoth SUVs commonly driven these days, but with the rear seats folded down you can put a decent quantity of stuff back there. Plus it has a dashboard-operable power rear window, so you that can put lumber, Xmas trees, or whatever long stuff you have inside the car and have it project out through the open window, with the rear door still being shut.
From the Toronto Globe and Mail obit about Lindsay:
Here's the article in full (paywalled):
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/article-brutal-but-gracious-terrible-ted-lindsay-was-a-tether-to-another/
Watched the game with a good friend at the old Banfield's on the west side of A2. The entire bar was watching the game and the place erupted in a frenzy when the fisticuffs started, especially when Vernon and Roy went at it. Without a doubt the craziest thing I've ever watched in sports.
Both geographical pedantry and a sly reference to a past President: the MGoBlog Difference.
Manuel isn't beyond criticism for other things—no AD is—but you'd have to be pretty churlish to think he didn't do exactly what we'd all ideally want to see an AD do in this situation.
With big assists from Ramsey and Beilein, of course—it's tremendously valuable to have a network of trusted confidants.
I know this isn’t an original observation, but the people at the NCAA who run hockey are fucking shit for brains morons.
There can’t be another program in the country that has lost as many big games in OT as Michigan has, going back to 1977. The ways we’ve lost are various and sundry, but It’s fucking painful nevertheless.
It's terrible for anyone to have cancer and I hope she beats it, but I've always been puzzled why any American cares about the British Royal Family beyond the occasional random thought.
Big Ten getting it done in wrestling.
Nice that the weather cooperated.
All…
All that "Senator Tressel" nonsense...
If you give Grant the ball, you're as likely to get Will Carr against Purdue as you are the Fridge in the Super Bowl.
His BAC was twice the legal limit. He's fortunate he didn't injure or kill somebody.
As long as we're putting up stuff from Angelique, there's this from her:
"Michigan, Jim Harbaugh file responses to NCAA Notice of Allegations"
https://x.com/chengelis/status/1770537432598933604?s=20
(Her twitter post links to the paywalled article at the Detroit News)
Woodson only won the Heisman because he had significant snaps on offense in addition to his ST play. If he had played *only* on defense Manning would have won the Heisman.
Hard to envision Graham getting any time on offense or returning punts.
I’m not saying this makes sense—excluding purely defensive players from the Heisman is dumb—but it’s reality.
I'm always puzzled why anybody cares about the outcome of these meaningless internet polls. If Michigan wins this one, will their day be brighter? If Michigan doesn't win, will they be sad?
I gotta admit that when I saw this I just laughed. Barely two weeks in town and he's already getting pinched for something really dumb.
“the defending national champions”
I still have to pinch myself.
cOrgi—not a human.