Once the easy team on Purdue's schedule and the purple creampuff the Big Ten's better teams used to beat up on, Northwestern has turned its program around.
In the process of winning or sharing the conference title each of the past two years, the Wildcats have become something even more unthinkable than Big Ten champions: the Wolverines' nemesis.
Third time a charm?: Declawed 'Cats still 'M' nemesis
After seven months of intense investigation and rampant speculation, the mess that is the Michigan basketball program has fallen into the lap of one man: Tom Goss.
The decisions sure to face him in coming days are why, we must assume, University President Lee Bollinger selected Goss as the man ultimately responsible for leading the much-maligned Athletic Department to higher moral ground. This is why Goss was hired to be Michigan's Athletic Director.
Goss has to take reigns of Fisher's future
When the Michigan hockey team takes the ice tonight at the Target Center in Minneapolis for the Hall of Fame Game, it should see something rather familiar.
No. 4 Minnesota - No. 9 Michigan's first opponent in the young season - is in a similar state of affairs as the Wolverines. Both teams are entering the season after the departure of marquee players, and both have rosters with an abundance of youth.
Minnesota shares Blue's inexperience
After finishing a disappointing ninth place last weekend at the Wolverine Invitational, the Michigan women's golf team will try to finish its fall season on an upbeat note this weekend, at the Lady Kat Invitational in Lexington, Ky. 
Struggles continue for 'M' women's golf
In the early 1960s, when Michigan coach Red Berenson was playing for the Wolverines, the Michigan-Minnesota rivalry was one of the most heated in college hockey.
"I remember playing in Minnesota, where it was nearly a riot," Berenson said. "It was a big thing. (John) Mariucci was the coach, and he really had his team playing hard against Michigan."Michigan-Minnesota hockey rivalry rolls on
STATE COLLEGE (U-WIRE) - College football is propelled by the rivalries.
Michigan vs. Ohio State.
Penn State vs. - who?
The Nittany Lions were once part of one of the greatest rivalries in football. From 1935 to 1992, Penn State played Pittsburgh each season while bragging rights within the state hung in the balance. Penn State struggles to develop rivalries in fifth year in Big Ten
The first time, it was the law of averages manifesting itself. The second time, it was just a stroke of luck.
What would it be called then, if mighty Michigan lost to questionably clad Northwestern for the third year in a row?Uncouth 'Cats don't have winning look
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - He said he lost his enthusiasm for a game he has loved a lifetime, and loves still.
And in explaining it all, he lost his composure.
Legendary coach hangs it up
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