After Friday tie, Broncos go quietly: Morrison leads Blue to 3-point weekend
With three points in a home-and-home series against Western Michigan this weekend, the consenus No. 1 Michigan hockey team has finally made it back to the top of the CCHA.
After settling for a 5-5 tie in Kalamazoo on Friday, Michigan came out strong on its home ice Saturday, outlasting the Broncos, 8-5.
Dethroned!: Michigan brings Iowa back to reality
History does not always repeat itself, as the Iowa men's basketball team found out Sunday.
The Hawkeyes employed the same zone defense game plan as a year ago, but this time there was a different outcome.
Hand it to Hughes, he deserves the credit
It's perhaps the most cliched expression in all of sports: "Pressure situations bring out the best in me."
What makes it so trite is that too many athletes apply it to themselves when only the game's greats are allowed to say it, if that.
The greats ... and Brandun Hughes.
Brawl breaks out at end of track meet
The windchill dipped well below zero outside Saturday, but inside the track building, things were hot. The end of the Michigan men's track meet ended in a spontaneous mob, a small version of a Riddick Bowe-Andrew Gulotta boxing match.
Wolverines seeing Green after weekend sweep
EAST LANSING - So close. So very close.
The Michigan women's basketball team now owns a 3-4 record in the Big Ten. The Wolverines could just as easily be 4-3.
Guevara the only choice for Michigan basketball: SPORTSTuesday Column
On Friday night, a frustrated Catherine DiGiacinto sat in the Crisler Arena pressroom. "We did not expect to lose," the Michigan forward said after Indiana had defeated Michigan, 72-59. "Not in our house. At all."
What??!! She was joking, right? Didn't she mean to say, "Gee, I'm glad we only lost by 13?"
Windy City gusts too bitter for men tumblers
Bittersweet moments littered the Michigan men's gymnastics squad's first intercollegiate meet of the season. Last week's Windy City Invitational in Chicago hosted nine Big Ten schools. Michigan came in eighth.
Senior Timothy DeGraw, a Western Michigan transfer student, fulfilled his promise to "kick ass and take names" by dominating the floor exercises, earning a 9.75 and soundly grasping first place in that event.
Gophers nearly dig their way out of deep hole
Coach Bev Plocki was forced to stand on the sidelines and sweat out the final apparatus against Minnesota on Saturday night, as the womens' gymnastics team almost blew an insurmountable lead of 2.2 points during the meet's second half.
Despite 'M' rhetoric, icers climb into first
What more can be asked of the Michigan hockey team?
With the best record in the nation (an eye-opening 21-1-3), Michigan has dominated college hockey this season.
Morrison on Hobey track
Brendan Morrison just sent the Hobey Baker race in to full swing.
The Michigan center staked his claim to the prize awarded to college hockey's best player at the end of the season with arguably his most impressive weekend of the season so far.
All-Michigan balloting marks 75th anniversary
It's not quite the NHL All-Star balloting, but it'll have to do.
In honor of Michigan hockey's 75th anniversary, the program is conducting a search to name the best players to don a Wolverine uniform. And fans can help in the voting.
Miami falls short in comeback, loses sole hold on first
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BIG RAPIDS - Brett Severson scored the game-winner with 1:34 remaining as Ferris State blew a late three-goal lead but survived to upset No. 4 Miami, 6-4. Severson, Brett Colborne and Todd Steinmetz all scored as the Bulldogs held a 4-1 lead midway through the final period.
Blue gets running game going: Michigan conquers Iowa's patented press, scores in transition
Dr. Tom Davis received his moniker for a reason.
Besides being perhaps the only college basketball coach with a doctorate (from Maryland), the man is a basketball genius.
Never mind the final score, Andre is a giant
Heading into this season, Iowa coach Tom Davis had two team leaders in mind for his squad. Senior forward Jess Settles, who had declared himself eligible for the NBA draft after his junior season, reversed his decision and decided to return for his senior season.
Hoosiers fall to unranked Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE (AP) - It didn't matter who guarded Brad Miller Saturday night.
The Purdue center matched his career high with 25 points, all from either under the basket or at the free throw line, as the Boilermakers beat No. 17 Indiana 70-53.
All smiles? Richardson is, even after loss to Georgia
When a team gets blown out in its home swimming pool, you don't expect to find its coach smiling. But after Georgia did just that to the Michigan women's swimming team, winning 172-130, on Saturday, Michigan coach Jim Richardson was beaming, with a grin stretching from ear to ear.
Regular season just a warmup, Blue trains right through despite losses
What's wrong with the Michigan women's swimming team?
After a strong start to the season, the fifth-ranked Wolverines have lost successive meets to No. 1 Stanford, No. 15 California and No. 3 Georgia.
Men beat 3 of 5 top opponents at Classic
This weekend's Dallas Morning News Classic brought together the best of the best in men's swimming and diving. And once again, Michigan proved that it belongs in the elite of the NCAA.
The sixth-ranked Wolverines swam well enough to capture third place in the Classic, bested only by No. 2 Tennessee and No. 1 Stanford. The two-day event was attended by the top six teams from the 1996 NCAA championships. The Wolverines finished ahead of No.
Forrester flying high at Simmons
The Michigan women's track team understands the risks that an individual-oriented sport like track can pose to team unity.
Distance runners, sprinters and jumpers all have personal events and personal agendas, but they must achieve a cohesive chemistry if they are to succeed on the team level.
Wolverines lose battle to health, Big 12
Things didn't go exactly as planned for the Michigan wrestling team during its trip to Nebraska over the weekend.
At the Cliff Keen National Duals in Lincoln, Neb., the Wolverines beat Wartburg, a Division III school from Iowa, 31-10, but then lost to No. 3 Iowa State, 26-14, and Oklahoma, 19-16.
Consistency is the key to more 'M' women's basketball victories
EAST LANSING - In its back-to-back losses this past weekend, the Michigan women's basketball team looked like the team that won only one game in the Big Ten last season.
If you make that statement to anyone who has watched the Wolverines play this season, chances are you'll get laughed out of the room.
New and improved Blue heats up rivalry
EAST LANSING - "What a great game it was - wasn't it?"
These were the first words out of Michigan women's basketball coach Sue Guevara's smiling mouth following Sunday's 76-67 loss to Michigan State.
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