[ad_1] Editor’s note: The University of Michigan announced Friday afternoon that Juwan Howard will not return as head basketball coach next season. Crisler Center was mostly empty the night of March 4, 2021, but Michigan basketball brought the place to life. A win over rival Michigan State secured a conference title in a season shaped […]
[ad_1] Thirty years later, Christian Laettner isn’t sure he knew it was coming. In 1994, he was in the NBA, his second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Maybe someone had informed his agent but he doesn’t think so. The former Duke star just one day remembers seeing the commercial on ESPN. Chris Farley, then at […]
[ad_1] Jim Harbaugh did everything Michigan fans could’ve hoped the former Wolverines star quarterback would do when he returned to Ann Arbor to take over his alma mater’s football program. He ended hated arch-rival Ohio State’s dominance in their series and flipped it around; he turned Michigan into the bully of the Big Ten; and […]
[ad_1] HOUSTON — There are two stories to tell about this Michigan team, and they’re really the same. One is the story of a program that bent the rules, a coach who got suspended, a university that went to war with its conference, and a championship many will view with disdain. The other is about […]
[ad_1] By Lauren Merola, Max Olson, Austin Meek, Jim Trotter and Nicole Auerbach It’s been 26 years, but finally, no one has it better than Michigan. The Wolverines, who ranked second in passing yards allowed per game with 150.0 heading into title town, faced their toughest task yet in taming the flamethrower that is Washington […]
[ad_1] Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson and Georgia’s run of dominance in college football’s signature event might not be over, but it is on hiatus this year. Instead, there’s new blood after Michigan and Washington advanced to the national title game. Since the BCS began in 1998, neither team has played for a national title. “This […]
[ad_1] PASADENA, Calif. — Kris Jenkins has heard all about the big, bad Southeastern Conference. He’s heard far too much about it, actually. “We’re not big enough,” Michigan’s star defensive lineman said, voice rising as he spoke Monday night in a postgame locker room littered with rose petals. “We’re not strong enough. We’re not fast […]
[ad_1] It’s been nine years in the making, but Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines will finally get to stand on college football’s biggest stage. After a hard-nosed Rose Bowl battle ended without a regulation winner, Michigan running back Blake Corum scored the winning touchdown in overtime, rushing 17 yards for the 27-20 victory and […]
[ad_1] Despite a dramatic regular season punctuated by an investigation over alleged sign-stealing, No. 1 Michigan rolled to a 13-0 record heading into the College Football Playoff matchup in the Rose Bowl against No. 4 Alabama. But college football coaches The Athletic spoke to for this scouting report are convinced Michigan hasn’t been the same […]
[ad_1] This sport’s identity crisis has existed since the inception of the College Football Playoff a decade ago, but never before have we had to come to terms with it the way we did on Sunday. That identity crisis? Whether the teams that play for the national championship should be the best or the most […]