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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Michigan Football

Coleman admits hiring Rich Rodriguez was a mistake

BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT

During a discussion with the Rotary Club of Flint, Mich. on Friday, University president Mary Sue Coleman verbalized the obvious — bringing Rich Rodriguez to Michigan was a mistake.

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Brandon, Boerma ‘optimistic,’ working toward solution to send Michigan Marching Band to Dallas

BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT

After a Monday press conference announcing the hiring of new Michigan women’s basketball coach Kim Barnes Arico, Brandon spoke at length to explain the issue and discuss his stance on whether the band still might receive funding to travel to Dallas.

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SportsMonday Column: I want to go back to Michigan

Photo courtesy of Christine Rohan

BY TIM ROHAN

It seems easier now to live like the wheels in a clock, constantly moving forward while witnessing and living in the present and smiling at the past.

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Defense must work to improve up the middle

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BY LUKE PASCH

At a glance, the Michigan football team’s defense appears to have successfully stymied the offense throughout Saturday’s Spring Game. The offense scored just a pair of touchdowns, both on scampers by sophomore tailback Thomas Rawls.

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In his hands, Roundtree develops a negative into a positive

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BY ZACH HELFAND

There is a photograph on the wall of Roy Roundtree’s bedroom. A reminder, he calls it, of the greatest moment of his career.
The photograph shows an airborne Roundtree, then a redshirt junior, catching the game-winning pass with just four seconds left on the clock against Notre Dame last September.

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Backup quarterbacks flash potential, inexperience in Spring Game

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BY BEN ESTES

Denard Robinson played one series and then rode the bench of the rest of the afternoon. That’s how you knew it was the Spring Game.

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Rawls powers into the spotlight with two touchdowns in Spring Game

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BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT

It’s not easy to slow down Thomas Rawls. It’s even harder to stop him.

• ANALYSIS: Backup quarterbacks flash potential, inexperience in Spring Game

• ROUNDTREE: In his hands, Roundtree develops a negative into a positive

• DEFENSE: Defense must work to improve up the middle

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Michigan enters Spring Game with sense of stability

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BY BEN ESTES

As Michigan football coach Brady Hoke prepares for his second Spring Game at the helm, there are more answers than questions for the first time in quite a while for the Wolverines.

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Spring Game breakdown: Defense and special teams

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BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT

With the Michigan football team taking the field for the annual Spring Game at Michigan Stadium on Saturday, the Daily takes a look at “Team 133” in a position-by-position preview. Let’s talk defense and sprinkle in special teams.

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Spring Game breakdown: Offense

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BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT

Michigan coach Brady Hoke said that Michigan won’t have a formal Spring Game that isn’t run in simply a practice format until he can bolster the number of options he has on the offensive and defensive lines.

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The Strongest Muscle: The backstory that built Dave Molk into Michigan's mainstay

BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT

LEMONT, Ill. — With the early strains of The Star-Spangled Banner hanging in the brisk autumn air, Dave Molk glanced over his shoulder.

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Family First: Marell Evans's journey from the Big House to the warehouse and back

BY KEVIN RAFTERY

“Marell Evans is what college football should be all about.”

It’s a proclamation about as powerful as the 6-foot-3, 237-pound linebacker. Yet, in a college football world where headlines are littered with scandal and crime, his story sounds nothing like college football at all.

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The question that made Brady Hoke: 'What does your name mean to you?'

BY TIM ROHAN

YORKTOWN, Ind. — Dave Tanner drove his light blue Volkswagen Bug just down the road, past the corn stalks and past the homes of all his players and boosters. Past the big white water tower with “YORKTOWN” in green lettering, with a tiger painted on the side.

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Coach J and Co.: Why Fred Jackson has stayed Michigan's running backs coach for the past two decades

BY MICHAEL FLOREK

“Do you want to be the next Michigan running back?”
It wasn’t so much a question as a recruiting pitch.
Fred Jackson was in Double Oak, Texas. Tall, with a mustache fading into his cheeks, at 61 the wrinkles are there, but only if you look for them. In his deep, booming voice he asked this question to 17-year old Stephen Hopkins.

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Out of the Corridor: How Cass Tech is using football to save young men from inner-city dangers

BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT

DETROIT — It is 5 p.m. on August 29. The heat is just starting to subside and the shoulder pads are cracking a little harder than usual.

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The Loneliest Number: How five men made a jersey a tradition

BY TIM ROHAN

Former Michigan linebacker Jarret Irons said it best: “When great players play with certain numbers they want to give it to someone who has that type of potential.”

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