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The Miracle of 1995: When the Northwestern Mildcats became Wildcats
Michigan plays Northwestern in Evanston tomorrow for the first time since 2007. The undefeated, 11th ranked Wolverines are favorites, but beating the Wildcats is no longer the easy game it used to be. Whatever happens this weekend, it can’t match what happened back...
Lions and Tigers and Red Wings — Oh My!
Once in a while something happens that is so unusual, even those who don't normally pay attention have to stop and take notice. Haley's Comet, for example, only comes along once every 75 years. Man has landed on the moon just six times in the entire history of the...
The College Football Carousel
College conferences are going through a major upheaval – perhaps the biggest in the history of college sports. In the past year, we’ve seen Nebraska join the Big Ten, Colorado and Utah...
A Night To Remember
LISTEN TO: A Night To Remember Last weekend, for the first time in the history of Michigan football, they scheduled a night game, and invited Notre Dame to join the party. But what if you had a night game, and nobody came? Well, that wasn’t the problem. The game...
Letter To Loyal Readers
Dear Loyal Readers, Well, today is the day! After putting it off and getting halfway there and putting it aside again and again to finish that pesky book, the new website is here! (Thank you, Brandi Scharrer!) More good news: We now have an incredible 132,245 RSS...
College Football Foreign To All But Us
>Listen George Will recently wrote that when archeologists excavate American ruins centuries from now, they may be mystified by the Big House in Ann Arbor. “How did this huge football emporium come to be connected to an institution of higher education? Or was the...
From Victim to Champion
September 2, 2011Steve Kempfer grew up in Jackson, and learned to play hockey well enough to earn a scholarship to the University of Michigan. He was a good student and a good player on some very good days, but few expected Kampfer to make it to the NHL. I...
Hello Loyal Readers!
Hello Loyal Readers! We’re back for the fall – in full force! And, in addition to the upcoming book, Three and Our: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football, I have some more news: A new website host, starting...
No column this week — sorry!
8-19-11Dear Loyal Readers, No column this week -- sorry! -- as I train to Chicago, plane to LA, plane back to Chicago then train back home by Thursday. But the other and more important reason is, we are re-tooling the site -- or, more accurately, building a...
Goodbye to a Store Like no Other
August 12, 2011Press Play to Listen It’s tough for any sports writer to get a book published – but it was a lot easier with a friendly bookstore on your side, from start to finish. It wasn’t that long ago that if you wanted to buy a book,...
