Unhealthy Addictions
I can’t stop playing NCAA 2003 for the X-Box. It has become a serious problem. In anticipation of the coming season, and because I can’t bear to watch the Colorado game on ESPN Classic anymore, I have actually watched the computer play itself on several occasions. The realism is ridiculous, and JJ (soon to [...]

9 vs. 10 Matchup Starts Season
Ah, the dawg days of summer. The Michigan Wolverines are ranked #10 in the pre-season ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. Analyzing what it means to be number 10 is mind boggling. Granted, it is only the preseason poll. Much of the polling can be attributed to school prestige, and moreover, not [...]

UMTailgate.com Version 2.0
Hello again everyone. I hope you enjoy the new format. Bear with me as I go back and update previous pages to fit into the new format. I have attempted to go back and change the links so that everyting works in the interim, but I am sure I made some mistakes. If [...]

Practice Makes Perfect for Team, Tailgaters
On Saturday, April 13th, the Wolverines took the field against the Wolverines in the annual Spring Game. An estimated 25,000 maize and blue faithfull showed up to watch. They didn’t paint the endzones, they didn’t keep score, and each unit’s jerseys didn’t even always match… but nobody seemed to care. [...]

Wolverines Advance
You can take the ‘M’ off the ice, you can take away our home lockeroom, but you can’t take away our fans. On Saturday night, in front of a raucous crowd at a neutral looking Yost Ice arena, the Wolverines showed everyone what they’re made of. Jed Ortmeyer’s goal with 1:21 left to play [...]

Where the Players Play: The Arrival
The 2002 NCAA Tournament came to a close in Atlanta, Georgia. Three games in three days with an amazing run of bars in between. We arrived Firday and after a lengthy stay at the Atlanta airport, we embarked to our hotel in Buckhead, a burb-like area of Atlanta filled with [...]

WE BEAT STATE!
Well, it’s about damn time. The University of Michigan defeated the Michigan State Spartans Sunday 3-2 to capture the CCHA Tournament Championship. This Championship Trophy will sit next to the CCHA Regular Season Championship trophy, and earned Michigan an automatic bid to 2002 NCAA Tournament. As luck would have it, the NCAA Tournament [...]

In what is sure to become a yearly tradition, the fans, friends, and mainstays of UMTailgate.com came together for the first time since late November. We discussed the impending NCAA tournament, talked about The Godfather’s daily activities, watched the Michigan vs. Lake Superior State hockey game, and drank a lot of beer. However, we couldn’t [...]

It started over seven years ago in South Quad, a college dorm at the University of Michigan. A group of friends from the class of ‘94 at Riverview, Michigan, came to Ann Arbor for the high quality of education, and football and basketball tickets. After our first year in the dorms, we split up for [...]