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6 weeks 8 hours ago	Florida	Never forget. http://mgoblog.com/content/death-above-florida
6 weeks 5 days ago	67-64 Blue	67-64 Blue
7 weeks 5 days ago	68 - 65 Blue	68 - 65 Blue
10 weeks 5 days ago	Michigan 79, Purdue	Michigan 79, Purdue 75 Michigan 72, Indiana 70
12 weeks 5 days ago	82-76 Blue. I'm probably not	82-76 Blue. I'm probably not going to enjoy watching this one.
14 weeks 4 days ago	78-72 blue	78-72 blue
16 weeks 5 days ago	76 - 59 Blue	76 - 59 Blue
17 weeks 5 days ago	84-75 Blue	84-75 Blue
19 weeks 4 days ago	80 - 69 Michigan	80 - 69 Michigan
21 weeks 5 days ago	82 - 48 Blue	82 - 48 Blue
22 weeks 5 days ago	78-68 Blue	78-68 Blue
23 weeks 57 min ago	I hate when people I detest	I hate when people I detest say something I agree with. What am I supposed to do with that?
23 weeks 5 days ago	Michigan 77-68	Michigan 77-68
24 weeks 5 days ago	Michigan 69-62	Final 5 minutes of victory cigar squad yields some last minute points for Bradley making the score look deceptively close.
24 weeks 6 days ago	Where is the hope?	10 years ago, we hoped for better players, since it didn't seem like Carr was being outschemed, just outmatched, by better players at USC, Texas, or OSU. 7 years ago, we hoped Carr would soon retire, and with that retirement would see the end of DeBordian incompetence and risk-aversion induced face-palming. Under Rodriguez we hoped he'd find a sentient defensive coordinator capable of fielding even a mediocre devense. We hoped that the FreePress jihad would die out and that recruiting would pick up as a result.  Now, as you've mentioned in writing and in your podcasts, we're coached by bafflingly stubborn dinosaurs who insist on drinking from a lake long after it's dried up simply because that's the lake they've always drunk from. With the state of college football changing all around them, where is the hope for the future? That they suddenly adapt? In what world does Urban Meyer not out-scheme them year in and year out? Even if our recruiting stays steadily awesome, we're still just keeping pace with OSU. So talent being equal, do we just have to wait for Mattison to produce insanely elite defenses? Should we give up on the hope that our offense will ever be remotely threatening? Should we expect that our ceiling is 11-2 from now until the end of the Borges era?
51 weeks 4 days ago	Living in the Shadows	I'm a little curious why an outstanding player would want to wear a number already dedicated to a previous legend. For instance, Ace, you wondered at the end of your article how Denard would feel about wearing 27, but by keeping the 16, who knows? Maybe his number might one day be honored as a "Michigan Football Legend" and wouldn't that be preferable?  Don't players want to make their own mark on the program, rather than exist in the shadow of their predecessors?
1 year 6 days ago	Novak	The idea isn't to reward good high school players who choose to go to Michigan. It's to award players for what they meant to the program while they were here. Furthermore, the suggestion that Novak would be out of place on this or any list of Michigan greats is absurd. In collegiate athletics, talent alone doesn't define greatness. More often than not, such accolades are bestowed by the students and the fans and the teammates who rallied around and for that player, and followed that player to places beyond their own expectations.  Greatness in college sports has to do with leadership and the ability to mold a program in one's own image. Not only is Novak the paragon of such criteria, none other than Cazzie Russel said he'd want Novak by his side in a foxhole.  When was the last time a single player has meant as much to his program as Novak has meant to the MBB team these past four years? I'd string that ZERO up next to Russell's in the rafters in a heartbeat if I could.
1 year 11 weeks ago	Years at Michigan	I feel like the years a player spends in a Michigan uniform needs to be taken into consideration. I loved Morris last year, but he had a lousy to average Freshman season followed by a transcendent Sophomore season before bailing for the NBA.  Is one great season in a basketball uniform worthy of the HoF? Similarly, if McGary averages 20 and 10 next season and helps us get to the Final Four, but leaves right away to the draft, should he get honors? Players like that are great for the program, but ultimately flashes in the pan and don't carry with them the same history and legacy that a Novak, Molk, Martin, or Hunwick do. I think there ought to be a minimum years in uniform threshold to be considered for the HoF. 3 years seems good.
1 year 13 weeks ago	Quintuple!	Quintuple!  Welcome Chris Fox! Go Blue! What a day!
1 year 14 weeks ago	Even love. Just ask Robert	Even love. Just ask Robert Palmer. Dude knows.
1 year 25 weeks ago	umhoops	5 key plays on umhoops.com
1 year 26 weeks ago	Thoughts	Examining free throws made and missed as a quotient of a player's contribution seems like it would be useful. Driving to the lane and getting fouled is great, but if you can't make a free throw, it's tantamount to a turnover. And this team is obviously going to have trouble making free throws. Also, it would be good to account for "hustle plays" like diving for loose balls, tipping out rebounds, taking charges, and general harassment, especially on the defensive end. Someone needs to keep track of all the charges Novak takes. I feel like the most useful thing you can work on is devising a concise and vivid way to account for individual defensive contribution beyond blocks and steals. I know Stu is our best defender, in part because he's tasked with defending the opposing team's best player every night, but I don't really know why he's so good, what makes him good. If you can somehow put numbers on that, I would really appreciate it. Ideas for UFR Titles: Basketball 20/20 (as in "hindsight is ____") Notes From The Block The Intangibles Inquiry The Back Screen The Backdoor Cut The Posterization of Zack Novak Distributing the Rock
1 year 41 weeks ago	McGary's likely a one and	McGary's likely a one and done in the 2012 class. And not many people see THJ sticking around past his Junior year. Though his dad did four at UTEP and it's not like THJ needs the money, so maybe we cross our fingers and hope for an awkward 2013!
1 year 42 weeks ago	firstrowsports.eu is usually	firstrowsports.eu is usually pretty reliable for all your sports streaming needs.
1 year 45 weeks ago	Broken Watch	Hey, even my broken watch is right twice a day. Amirite? Amirite? Thank you.
1 year 49 weeks ago	HAIL	http://goo.gl/doodle/3IFq
1 year 49 weeks ago	If this were in play last	If this were in play last year, Michigan's offense never would have seen the field.
1 year 51 weeks ago	The Toledo War 1835	The Michigan/Ohio rivalry started truly in 1835 over Toledo when Ohio was a state and Michigan was still a Territory.  Based on the NorthWest Ordinance of 1787 that outlined the protocol for dividing and eventually creating states from the territory East of the Mississippi and North of the Ohio River, Michigan's border should be about 8 miles South of where it is. Ohio, having the power of state hood and congressional representation in the early 1800s, decided that it wanted to annex Toledo and the mouth of the Maumee River in order to build a canal there and reap the rewards. So they just moved the border north into Michigan territory and claimed that stretch of land as its own. Michigan and Ohio then went to war - really! - though both sides were so incompetent that no one was killed. In fact the only recorded injury was when Two Stickney, not to be confused with his older brother One, stabbed a sheriff in the leg. In the end, congress gave Ohio Toledo just like the Big Ten sent OSU to the Rose Bowl in 1973 because injustice is Michigan. Of course, a few years after the war, the railroad business took off and everybody stopped using canals! Ha! Suck it Ohio! Also, we got the Upper Peninsula from Wisconsin out of the deal (sucks to be you, Wisconsin), which proved immensely more lucrative than Toledo. So in the end, as always, Ohio's a bunch of jerks and we came out better off anyway. You can also read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War
2 years 3 days ago	Darius to OKC	Hey, guys - first time caller, long time fan. I don't think OKC can win it this year. Dallas, Chicago, and Miami (barely) have the edge in a seven game series. What they need is a true, distributing point guard. In the same way Iverson needed to be moved off the point to see his productivity really improve, Westbrook needs to move to the 2 and Durant to the 3. And since OKC will be picking late in the first round, what better pick than a 6'4" assist assassin like Darius to distribute between Westbrook, Durant, and Ibaka who will be there waiting for them!? Morris's biggest knock against him is his lack of an outside shot, but who needs it when you're playing with prolific scorers like Durant and Westbrook!? All you have to do is pass, baby! nbadraft.net has him going literally one spot ahead of OKC to the Rockets. This could happen, folks. Imagine a Morris, Westbrook, Durant, Ibaka, Perkins starting five for the Zombie Sonics. Sam Presti has to realize this is a perfect move. When are we sending the petition? Thanks for your time.