No last-gasp, Hail Mary pass was needed Saturday. With Michigan playing vicious defense and methodical, mostly mistake-free football, Colorado hadn't a prayer to end the game like the previous two between these teams, and the 14th-ranked Wolverines rolled over the eighth-ranked Buffaloes, 27-3, before 106,474 at Michigan Stadium.
Buffs stuffed: Griese, defense give 'M' 27-3 win
Just a few words for Michigan coach Lloyd Carr: Brian Griese is your man.
Forget the quarterback controversy. Forget that he started just one game last season. Forget that he hit a plateau after the 1995 season and didn't do much in 1996. Forget all of it because it doesn't matter anymore.
Poised and experienced, Griese right for job
For the Michigan men's cross country team, nothing matters more than winning the Big Ten and NCAA championships at the end of the season.
The rest of the meets might as well be considered a tune-up for the all-important season culmination. There's no real reason a runner couldn't dog it during the regular season, saving his energy for a final all-or-nothing performance.
Mortimer sets mark, wins meet at Kansas: Wolverines defeat Kenyans for 1st place
In every country, excluding the United States, soccer is known as football. For a couple of hours yesterday at Michigan Soccer Field, the Michigan women's soccer team beat Eastern Michigan, 5-1, in a game that was nearly as physical as a typical American football game.
Blue soccer overcomes Eagles, rough methods in 5-1 victory
Following a 7-0 blowout over Southwest Missouri State on Sunday, Michigan field hockey coach Marcia Pankratz couldn't help but be excited.
"This team is head and shoulders above where (it was) last year at this time in the season," Pankratz said. 
Stickers sweep weekend competition: Friday's overtime struggle aids Sunday's success as Michigan rolls to 7-0 victory
Before Saturday's loss to Purdue, Notre Dame was ranked 12th by the Associated Press. This week, the Fighting Irish didn't even make the top 25. Colorado was No. 7 in the ESPN/USA Today poll. The Buffaloes lost to Michigan, a ranked team, and they tumbled to No. 16 (see Page 2B if you don't believe me).
Parity in college football provides new excitement
Last year, only two Michigan field hockey players scored six goals in the 18-game season. This past weekend, senior captain Julie Flachs scored six goals in two games.
Flachs recorded two hat tricks in three days, against Kent State on Friday and Southwest Missouri State on Sunday.Flachs records two hat tricks
Jason Vinson got to watch a lot of football games his freshman year. All of them were on TV.
Vinson nearly gave up on his college football aspirations during his first year at Michigan. He had to pester the Michigan coaching staff just to watch him kick.Three years later, Vinson proves he has the leg to kick for Blue
If Marcus Ray could have had it his way, the Wolverines would have shut out Colorado on Saturday. Instead, he had to settle for a 27-3 Michigan victory that wasn't even that close.
Michigan dominated the Buffaloes on both sides of the ball, but most impressive was the Wolverines' stingy defense. And Ray was so pleased with Michigan's defensive output, he couldn't help but get mushy after the game.More aggressive defense dominates, stuffs Buffs
This is why football teams have 10-member coaching staffs. This is why there are video cameras set up all over the field. This is why there is halftime.
So that teams, to borrow a phrase from The Who, don't get fooled again. And again. And again.Griese fools Colorado four times on play-action passes to Tuman
EAST LANSING (AP) - Michigan State is 2-0 for the first time since 1983. But in whacking weaker opponents by 62 points, the Spartans still haven't put their starters through a full game.
Now comes a trip to Notre Dame - '"the test of a lifetime," coach Nick Saban said.Michigan St. annihilates Memphis; Boilermakers take down Notre Dame
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The fans were streaming out by halftime. John Mackovic had to stay to the bitter end. Not since 1904, in only its seventh season of football, had Texas been humiliated as it was in a 66-3 thrashing by UCLA on Saturday. Arizona St., UCLA score upset win
First is the worst. Second is the best.
Okay, first is the best, but second is nothing to scoff at. Just ask the Michigan volleyball team. It has been the runner-up in its last three tournaments.
Michigan volleyball snags second at Tiger Invitational
The Michigan soccer team had yesterday's matchup with Eastern Michigan marked on its calendar for a long time.
Since many players on both teams played club soccer together, the game served as an opportunity to catch up on old times. No holds barred in physical soccer game: Wolverines, Eagles resort to unconventional tactics in crosstown slugfest
Consider the gauntlet thrown.
The duel is on, and the opening round of the season-long battle between Michigan cross country stars John Mortimer and Kevin Sullivan could hardly have had a more definitive outcome.Intense competition between teammates Mortimer and Sullivan pushes both men
A transition year.
That is precisely what the Michigan men's golf team faces. Only a few months after competing in the NCAA championships, the Wolverines are cutting their losses and moving on. Junior Mike Harris, the one returning starter from last year, leads the Wolverines, who will have to count on youth and veterans to contribute.
'M' golf rests in ninth with a day to play
When freshman golfer Trish Watkins stood at the tee in her first collegiate golf tournament last weekend, she noticed something slightly unusual to her at the par-72 Forest Akers West Golf Course in East Lansing. It didn't take long for Watkins, a Darien, Conn.Watkins leads golfers
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