Weekend Roundup, Renal Calculi Edition: Monday, March 8, 2010

• Michigan lost to Michigan State giving the Spartans a piece of the three way tie for the Big Ten title.  I give you two choices: 1) Sucks to be us! (from AnnArbor.com).  2) Must be nice! (from The Only Colors).  Glutton for punishment?  Michigan and Iowa tip off in the Big Ten tournament on Thursday at 2:30pm.  Winner plays OSU on Friday.


• Jon Runyan...for congress.  Change you actually can believe in. (from The Weekly Standard...HT:Stephy)


• Hey!  Good news!  Softball won a game! (from Big Ten Network)


• Mark Snyder covers the top 5 issues for incoming AD Dave Brandon.  Issue number 6 is what to do about the pile of shit that is the Free Press.


• AnnArbor.com says goodbye to Bill Martin.


• Three websites you should visit... MichiganStateRejects.com, OhioStateRejects.com, and UniversityofMichiganRejects.com.  We control these internets. (HT:Baby Beth)

Weekend Roundup, Et tu Angel? Edition: March 1,2010

Here's what happened this weekend around the internets just 15 years after they thought the internets were just a fad.

I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.

Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

That's funny.

• I'm just a wee bit surprised at this, but it seems Angel wasn't down with the Victors Rally.  She thinks it made Rodriguez out to be bigger than Michigan Football...and took umbrage with this February event.  I just don't think it was that big of a deal.  Why not have a rally?  Hell, if they rented out the Michigan Theater once a month to show old Michigan games, I'd be there.  Anything to get me through this off season.


• How do we fix this?  Let the Sporting News via MSNBC be the next to make the brilliant suggestion to WIN GAMES.


• Just couldn't resist linking the Royal Oak Daily Tribune, which says that all of the accountability lies at the feet of Rich Rodriguez.


• Tomorrow is the last game in Crisler Arena for...OK officially it's the last regular season home game for Zack Gibson, Anthony Wright, and DeShawn Sims.  They be replaced by people from this list, from UMHoops Recruiting Roundup.


• An update on Phil Brabbs's battle with cancer from our favorite embedded tailgate reporter James Dickson on AnnArbor.com.


• Hey!  Remember a few days ago when I talked about that great matchup that those bastards down south secured with Navy in Baltimore where the Ravens play.  Well, the gauntlet has been laid down, and Michigan has answered with.....wait for it.....Florida.  Nope, not that Florida.  Florida Atlantic.  The Owls.  Coming to a Big House near you in 2012.  FML.


• I've done this.


• Rittenburg, who has been writing a series on gameday traditions in the Big Ten,finally gets to the Wolverines.

Weekend Roundup, NIT-ology Edition: February 22, 2010

​Here's what you may have missed around the internets while you fantasized about working for Sterling-Cooper (yes, I'm now on a Mad Men kick).

• There's a website called NIT-ology, and it prognosticates the NIT field.  Michigan isn't in it.


• Athlon has the recruiting class rankings, and Michigan comes in 13th in the country, 2nd in the Big Ten.


• More on the victors rally from our old friend Mark Snyder.


• Very cool article in USA Today profiles our new AD Dave Brandon.  Dude took a $1.8 million per year pay cut!


• I like the underdog role.  I like "playing with a chip on our shoulders," like Coach Rodriguez says we will.  I like under-promising and over-delivering.


• ESPN says Michigan is still #1, but overall attendance at college football games fell by 1%.  I blame the handicapped.


• The Tigers signed Johnny Damon for $8 million for one season....and I want Curtis Granderson back.


• JoePa had eye surgery and no longer needed his signature coke bottle glasses, so they were sold at auction for $9000.


• Some JT Turner fluff that I hope is all true from AnnArbor.com.  This secondary is going to be very young and very raw.


• Start looking to the future ('cause the present sucks) with a basketball recruiting roundup from UMHoops.com.

40 Days and 40 Nights Begins With A Roundup

• Tyrone Wheatley ditched former defensive coordinator Ron English and the Eastern Michigan Eagles and joined former defensive coordinator Scott Shafer in upstate New York.


• MGoBlog offers up position battles for the coming Spring.  Last week: offense.  This week: defense.  Commence studying, there will be a test on April 17th.


• Feel good story in the Michigan Daily profiles Antonio Bass.  I can't believe he called Lloyd on signing day and said he was going to State before he committed to Michigan.  I wonder if he ever got him back?


• Vincent Smith is frustrated that he can't join the rest of the team for regular workouts until the fall after his recent surgery to repair a torn ACL says AnnArbor.com.


• Club seats and suites still available...but not too many says Rivals.


• The Michigan Daily covers a converted Buckeye that plays women's hoops for the maize and blue.  Carmen Reynolds apparently gets a Christmas card every year from Sweatervest that is signed "Go Blue,  Go Bucks."

Mid-Week Roundup, Miracle Edition: 10/22/2009

• MVictors wrote the article that I had already written in my head when Stevie Brown said the Wolverines still had hope for the Rose Bowl.  The only way I think it's feasible is if we win out, and Iowa and Michigan State find a way to both lose this Saturday...which would be tough since they play each other.


• SI says that the Big Ten doesn't suck, it's parity in the league that makes us all look so bad.  Just wondering why it is that no one but Michigan can beat any team in the SEC.


• Fun fluff from the York Daily Record on Tate Forcier, who is a "feisty, fun-loving true Freshman."


• Ahhh yes, dissent in Buckeye-land, as one of his receivers says "he can't do much worse."  Which, taken out of context as it is, is sweet music to my Wolverine ears.


• Rittenburg: RichRod talks about the Bill Martin retirement, and confirms that Molk is starting.


• Death.  Another reason to stop running, and start tailgating.


• AnnArbor.com says Minor is probable for Saturday and says he bowed out of the DSU game because it was "a stats game."


• The Wolverine Blog covers the intricacies of punting statistics, and how Zoltan is the shit.


• The Bearcats are talking trash in Ohio.  I reserve the right to talk trash on November 21st...not before.


• Rittenburg reports that Pryor's high school coach thinks sweatervest needs to release the reins...like we do with Tate?


• AnnArbor.com reports that Lloyd Carr is not putting his hat in the ring for AD.