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A few weeks ago, I visited Cape Town, South Africa. It’s a famously beautiful city, right on the ocean – but that’s not what I took away from this trip.…
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While I was writing “Three and Out,” the Michigan football players challenged me to join their workouts in the weight room.I did – and soon discovered it…
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One of the most unlikely careers in the history of University of Michigan sports ended last weekend, in overtime.Two years ago, Michigan’s hockey team was…
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The Big Ten basketball experts knew exactly what was going to happen this season before it even started. Michigan State would battle for another title,…
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When Ann Arbor's own George Jewett, an African-American, made Michigan’s football team in 1890, he would not have predicted it would take more than four…
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I’ve coached high school boy’s hockey teams for almost a decade. But a few years ago, I spent two years helping out the Michigan women’s hockey team – and…
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It’s been five days since the Super Bowl, just enough time to give us a little perspective. Was it a football game? A concert? A competition for the Clio…
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The most important day of the year for a college football coach is not the home opener, the big rivalry game or even a bowl game. It’s national signing…
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When an 85-year old man dies, you cannot call it a tragedy. Sad, yes, but tragic, no. But Joe Paterno’s passing might be an exception. Born in Brooklyn in…
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The rivalry between Michigan and Ohio State in football is one of the best in the country. But it obscures the fact that, in just about every other sport,…