Weekend Roundup: 4-To-Go Edition: 10/23/2007

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​Sometimes you have to stop and look at the big picture, right? The Wolverines have won six straight. There are four games to go. Win those four games, and there is only one team that can talk shit to you about App State....and that's Oregon. Hell, you might even get the chance to rematch those Ducks in the Rose Bowl and fix it all. Interesting scenarios abound...but at the center of it all? Winning the four games. Brown Jug. At Sparty. At Wisconsin. Buckeyes. A partial recovery from the worst start in the history of college football...so much more to go.

Is it really a weekend roundup when you don't do it until Tuesday night? Oh well, here's what you missed while you pondered who will play Sloth in the most anticipated sequel ever.

The Weekend Roundup: Fab Five Edition 10/16/07

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​Timeless? Yes, timeless. Some of us are old enough to remember the Fab Five. Our own Bubba and Sister Kristen were there for their arrival on campus. Countless others attended Michigan because of them. Their baggy shorts, their swagger, their demeanor...it was, for lack of a better word, the coolest thing ever to happen at the University of Michigan. Unfortunately, it all ended badly back in the early 90's. No National Championships in two Final Four appearances, an untimely time out, and only a skeleton crew of Ray Jackson and Jimmy King hanging around for the duration.

More unfortunately, it didn't actually end with the exit of the Fab Five. Marred by cash payouts, money laundering, and grand jury testimonies, the Fab Five left a mark on Michigan Basketball that was as black as their socks. Their legacy endured, with a continuing history of paid players like Louis Bullock and Robert Traylor. They made this team uncoachable. They made this team unfollowable. They were the scissors that cut down the banners, when they should have been cutting down the nets. They, for lack of a better term, ruined Michigan Basketball. 

Timeless Jalen? Absolutely.

We digress to the rest of the computer server generated news from the weekend...

Weekend Roundup: Inelligible Player Edition: 10/1/07

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​First of all, Happy Birthday to UMTailgate.com's own Johnny Cleveland, who turns [age redacted] today!

And now the possible bad news...

During the post game tailgate on Saturday we were listening to ESPN Radio and the announcers said something about Michigan losing a player "off the field" in some weird way. Of course, the satellite radio crapped out on us before we heard what the situation was. And during the long ride home, we were unable to find out. Now the news has hit. Artis Chambers, who played special teams in our first four games, has been ruled ineligible for Big Ten play. From what I've gathered, Bill Martin screwed up on some logistics, and while he can't actually tell us what the problem actually was, it seems (according to the experts) to be academically related. Then came the scary possible outcome...Michigan may be forced to forfeit the Big Ten game in which Chambers participated. That would be the Penn State game. Most pundits are now reporting it's more likely to be a "slap on the wrist" situation, and we won't lose that game. What is really odd is that he was elligible by NCAA rules...just not by Big Ten rules. Ya, um, what? Let me say this: If we somehow bow down and give up a game for this mistake...I'm going to drive to Big Ten headquarters and attempt to fist fight teach a lesson to Jim Delaney. Then I am going to return to Ann Arbor and fist fight teach a lesson to Bill Martin. For good measure, I will fist fight get someone to teach a lesson to Artis as well. Why? Because I can think of two instances in which an ineligible player (by NCAA rules!) was used in a game, and forfeiture was never even mentioned:

1. Troy Smith

2. Maurice Clarett

This is bullshit. On to the rest of the weekend that occurred while you were busy becoming a genius...

Hart for Heisman: The Weekend Roundup 9/25/07

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​In between games of Halo 3, enjoy a round up of the weekend that was around the internets:

The Fashionably Late Weekend Roundup, Strength and Honor Edition: 9/18/07

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​No time to rest. Led by your grandpa, a top ten team is coming into the Big House on Saturday. What would have been billed as the first test for this edition of the Wolverines has turned into just another test. It's a stepping stone in a season that will be filled with questions until the very end. For now, we look back at the weekend (+Monday) that included the biggest upset of the millennium...the French threatening to wage war: