Must give credit where credit is due, as Johnny Cleveland broke this story from the open vault that is Downriver back on Wednesday, just hours after the bust occurred in Monroe County. I had neither the balls nor the inclination to take down my current favorite Wolverine player right here on UMTailgate.com without first [...]

What you (and I) might of missed while staring at that community chest card:

This kid will never have a chance. Especially since it is highly likely that his parents are at least cousins. By the way, my first born: “Fielding Lloyd.”
Around the Oval debates Florida becoming the new Michigan, and reminds us [...]

With 23 days between posts, I imagine our resident jester Goody is about half-way through a two-sentence post titled “the webmaster is lazy” that has a load of spelling mistakes and at least one misuse each of “too/two/to” and “your/you’re.” Alas, I do apologize for the long absence. For those unaware, I have [...]

I can’t believe they gave Ohio State a rematch! Didn’t these two teams just play 100 days ago?!?!? Who would want to see a rematch?!?!? The Buckeyes had their chance. Why do they get to play each other again?!?!? Hmmm. I guess that argument only works for football.
Q: How [...]

In a world where it is nearly impossible to keep a secret, the negotiation and offer of the Michigan Basketball coaching job to John Beilein has been fairly well hidden. Oh, and Andy Katz pronounced it “Bee-line,” so that must be right (confirmed: Wikipedia). While we all know there is something going on, [...]

Ohio State is in the National Championship game…again.
A feeling of sickness grows in my stomach at Ohio State’s dominance in the two major college sports. There is only one remedy for this horrible situation, and that is for Ohio State to lose…in embarrassing fashion…to the same school that embarrassed them in the BCS championship [...]

An otherwise subdued afternoon at Fraser’s Pub turned raucous as the UMTailgate.com crew arrived in droves to eat, drink, and reminisce. The winter meetings were held, and after inebriated deliberation, the 2007 themes were decided. A brief recap follows…