The annual clash between Michigan and Michigan State has produced an awful lot of villains (or heroes, depending on whether you're a fan of the Maize and Blue or the Green and White).
INDIANAPOLIS — John Beilein saw his players' faces and slumped shoulders and voiced his own frustration. He told his players, who looked emotionally dead in his opinion, they were exactly that: Dead. From the death came life. Darius Morris started clapping his hands. Players started jumping up and down. Beilein wanted his team to search for their "Yes" faces — as in, yes, you can win. The Michigan basketball team translated the pep talk into a come-from-behind, 60-55 win over Illinois in a Big Ten tournament quarterfinal on Friday.
Darius Morris couldn’t help but crack a smile through the pain. He helped lead the Michigan basketball team to this point, to a 70-63 win over Michigan State on Saturday, to a season sweep of the Spartans. For a moment, those things made his flu-like symptoms go away. He fought ...
Before the Michigan basketball team played Wisconsin last week, the Wolverines sat down, as they always do, to watch film. Part of what the coaching staff showed the players that day doubled as a horror picture and comedy. When the Wolverines saw themselves against Wisconsin in Madison on Jan. 5, ...
Charges were dismissed against three college students who were arrested in February during a federal probe into fake IDs, federal court records show. University of Michigan students Barak D. Leibovitz, 20, and Samuel D. Hamburger, 19, and Michigan State University student Zachary J. Firestone, 18, were charged in a criminal ...
Michigan State will play one game for a share of the Big Ten championship after preserving control over its own conference destiny Thursday. But just barely. The No. 11 Spartans held off a late rally by Penn State, one year after losing to the Nittany Lions at Breslin Center, for ...
In one second, DeShawn Sims said he didn’t wonder why Michigan could play so well against Minnesota when the Wolverines vanished in so many other games this season. Then, just as quickly he admitted, yeah, he thought about it.
Two University of Michigan students and a Michigan State University student have been arrested in connection with a federal probe into fake IDs, court documents say. The three were arrested after investigators say one of them signed for a package delivered to an Ann Arbor apartment Wednesday that contained 48 ...
Michigan State junior Aaron Bates is a self-taught punter, and that's fine with coach Mark Dantonio, reporter Steve Grinczel writes. For the complete story, click here.
Big Ten media days haven't even started yet and already, the Players of the Year and top three teams are out. Ohio State was voted the top team in the conference in the preseason, followed by Penn State and Michigan State.
Phil Steele, who puts out one of the most consistently accurate preseason magazines annually, talked with AnnArbor.com about the Big Ten race and Michigan’s chances of a turnaround in the 2009 season.
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