Yes, I enjoyed my unannounced UMTailgate vacation, thanks.
The phrase “these are the times that try men’s souls” is probably a bit dramatic when used to describe feelings about a football program.  I’m not worried about how much more of this that I can take.  I AM worried about how much more of it YOU can [...]

The NCAA has released a statement (HT: Freep).  See what we’ve gotten ourselves into?  Stop this madness…
If a student-athlete wants to transfer and immediately compete as a graduate student, the college or university they are transferring to would need to seek a waiver, because in most cases they would have to sit out a year [...]

We’ve offered.  However, I am a bit confused by this…
Since Paulus did not redshirt for the basketball team, he has one year of eligibility remaining in another sport. And since he will complete his degree in four years, he can go to graduate school elsewhere and compete immediately.
I thought that grad school thing was a [...]

Just when you thought we were done with football until Freshman arrival, Michigan made the news by having a point guard visit football practice.  Greg Paulus wants to play football, and after visiting with the Green Bay Packers, he set his sights higher and knocked on RichRod’s door.  Listen, this ain’t gonna happen.  I’m really [...]

What you missed around the internets while incorporating bacon into your personal life:

Ollie from Hoosiers once said that progress is “electricity, school consolidation, school remodeling, second farm tractors, second farm cars, hay bailers, corn pickers, grain combines, field choppers, and indoor plumbing.”  Dave Curtis from the Sporting News says that progress is found in “can’t-get-any-worse [...]

Down.  Dead.  That’s the story that sells the papers, the magazines, or has them clicking stories on the internets.  Michigan’s fall from grace is a happy tale for those outside of the fanbase.  Many have been waiting a lifetime for this moment, pining for a chance to throw back into the face of a Michigan [...]

Congratulations to this year’s winners!
1st – Jeff Edwards- coworker…though he does very little work
2nd – Aaron Shemon – coworker and regular UMTailgater…he’s the guy with the beer pong table
3rd – David DeMaggio – long lost cousin who has been in the winner’s circle before!
Final report package here.
Thanks to everyone for their participation, and we’ll see [...]

My biggest concern is what the State of Michigan will do now that Michigan State choked like a bitch in the championship game.  Poverty, homelessness, joblessness…they were all coming to an end.  The bad economy was to be carried out on the shoulders of Tom Izzo and some dude from Bosnia, but now our woes [...]

Report package is here.
Standings here.
If Sparty over NC
If NC over Sparty
This sucks.

Freep gave us a flashback to an article that I see and read often as it hangs proudly next to my bathroom mirror.  Mitch Album (back when he was cool and not writing in the Life section) eloquently captures a great moment in Michigan history…
Nobody believed us,” said Higgins, clutching his little brown box with [...]