BLOOMINGTON - All it took was a little patience. And that's been characteristic of the slow-starting Michigan team this season, just a little time to warm up before laying it on its opposition.
After a sluggish first quarter, the heavily favored Wolverines proved the oddsmakers right, dumping 28 points on Indiana in the game's second 15 minutes en route to a 37-0 blowout and leaving a sour gift for the Hoosier faithful at their Homecoming. 
Second nature: Griese, offense spark Wolverines to 37-0 blowout
It's called the State Pride Match, and the Michigan volleyball team is proud of how well it dominated No. 16 Michigan State. The Wolverines defeated the Spartans, 3-1, on Friday night at Cliff Keen Arena.
After starting out slow, Michigan (4-0 Big Ten, 12-4 overall) lost a tight first game, 13-15. From then on, it was all Michigan. The Wolverines came out in the second game to take a quick 2-0 lead. Despite trailing the Spartans, 3-5, at one point, the Wolverines rebounded to take a 6-5 lead and never looked back on their way to a 15-9 victory.
Giovanazzi's troops rock the house, defeat Michigan State behind Ebert, Mendoza
The Michigan hockey team killed itself Saturday night at Yost Ice Arena - but what else would you expect from the annual Blue/White game?
Michigan's Blue team slammed the door on its White counterpart, 6-3, in the only full scrimmage in front of fans before next week's road opener against Minnesota.
Intrasquad game first action for 'M' icers
BLOOMINGTON - The Indiana band playing on the field at the end of Saturday's game couldn't mask the disaster that had occurred that afternoon, even with its peppy little fight song. The scoreboard still read Michigan 37, Indiana 0, it still was Indiana's homecoming, the alumni and students had yet another bad football game experience and everyone wearing red and white was feeling a little blue.
'M' defensive dominance gaining steam
The Michigan men's cross country team took a course in wilderness survival Saturday at the Mountain West Classic in Missoula, Mont.
The Wolverines passed with flying colors.
Blue harriers capture third straight invitational title
Nothing seems to be going right these days for the Michigan women's golf team. This weekend, the Wolverines finished ninth out of 13 teams at the Wolverine Invitational.
The two-day, three-round event was played at the par-73 Michigan Golf Course. Michigan shot a combined score of 1,009, 89 shots behind champion Indiana.
'M' women's golf finishes ninth at Wolverine Invitational: Condence a concern but Baumann's performance a highlight
because the Tigers had an unprecedented successful September, but because of the scheduling of the Michigan football season. You see, the McHale household usually roots for the maize and blue, but this season the Wolverines faced both Colorado and Notre Dame, the alma maters of Sally and John, respectively.
McHale: Tigers president discusses the team and Ann Arbor
This space is usually reserved for the defense and the acknowledgment of students and athletes in the University community who otherwise would not be heard.
Not today. Instead of admonishing the University for unfair labor practices or advocating athletes' rights to hold jobs during the school year, today's column will lambaste the student body.
Empty Crisler will be pathetic without students
BLOOMINGTON - Overlooked in Michigan's ascent toward the nation's elite teams, behind the magnificent play of Brian Griese and the stifling defense had been the Wolverines' good health. With the exception of Scott Dreisbach's injured wrist and backup linebacker Grady Brooks's shoulder, Michigan had been virtually injury-free thus far.Michigan awaits results of Mayes' MRI; third down becoming first priority
BLOOMINGTON - A similar thing happened against Colorado.
Michigan quarterback Brian Griese and tight end Jerame Tuman ran the play-action across the middle of the field that burned the Buffaloes' defense, which couldn't adjust, four times.Blue backeld gets into 'swing' of things against Hoosiers
COLUMBUS - As Ohio State's defense swarmed around Ohio Stadium and smothered Iowa Saturday, all the gaudy statistics the Hawkeyes had accumulated earlier in the season suddenly seemed meaningless.
The seventh-ranked Buckeyes dominated the nation's top offense, thrashing the 11th-ranked Hawkeyes, 23-7, before 92,536 in the first of a series of Big Ten showdowns. Buckeyes shut down Banks, Iowa in Big Ten's first big battle
While Michigan's two Big Ten football teams are undefeated, Illinois' are just in a sad state.
No. 11 Michigan State got by Minnesota, 31-10, Saturday while No. 2 Penn State humbled Illinois, 41-6, and Wisconsin edged Northwestern, 26-25. Northwestern loses third straight; Nittany Lions remain unbeaten going into tilt with Ohio State
They had been to Michigan hockey games before. They had even experienced the fanaticism of the obnoxious crowd at Yost Ice Arena. They had seen the excitement, felt the emotion as spectators.
But Saturday night's Blue/White game was the first chance for Michigan's 10 freshmen to be an active part of the Michigan hockey phenomenon. To not only observe the experience but to be the experience as players.Rookie icers in awe of the Yost experience, overcome nerves
If you build it, they will come.
Michigan volleyball coach Greg Giovanazzi has spent the last five years building his team into an upper-echelon Big Ten program. And Friday, they - the fans - came.Record crowd 'Rocks' spikers to victory
You win some and you lose some.
The Michigan field hockey team came to that conclusion this weekend after defeating St. Louis, 6-0, on Saturday and falling to Michigan State in East Lansing on Sunday, 3-2.
Spartans snap 'M' stickers win streak
In what was supposed to be a weekend of self-evaluation, the Michigan crew team beat Cornell for the first time in the program's two- year history.
Finishing second in the Open Eight - the most important crew race at the Head of Ohio in Pittsburgh - the Wolverines also came close to knocking off Brown's squad.
Crew takes pride in second place
Big things were supposed to happen this weekend for the Michigan soccer team.
With road games against fellow conference powerhouses Minnesota and Penn State, the upstart Wolverines hoped to dislodge the bottleneck atop the Big Ten standings and assert themselves as the frontrunner for the conference title. 
'M' soccer takes it on the chin, returning home winless
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