COLUMBUS - It's something the Michigan players and coaches do at every game: stand by their seats from the opening tipoff until the Wolverines score.
On Saturday, Michigan stood for a mere 25 seconds before its main man, Robert Traylor, got whacked and broke his nose, and painfully walked to the bench. And this was on Michigan's first possession.
Easy Street: Wolverines bop Bucks from outside
COLUMBUS - Some days, you just watch them play and you say to yourself, "Man, how do they ever lose?"
Saturday was one of those days. The Wolverines were in rare form, dismantling a hapless Ohio State team with incredible ease and looking, dare it be said, like a team capable of making a serious run for a Big Ten title.Ohio State next victim in Michigan's roll to tourney
In 1867, Secretary of State William Seward bought the entire territory of Alaska from the Russians for a little more than $7 million. Americans, thinking Alaska to be nothing but a frozen wasteland, named the deal "Seward's Folly."
After Saturday's game against the Wolverines (14-2-1 CCHA, 20-4-1 overall), the Alaska-Fairbanks hockey team was probably cursing the sale for another reason.
'M' icers bake Alaska, 5-1
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) - As far as Maryland defensive end Eric Ogbogu and Michigan running back Chris Howard were concerned, the Hula Bowl was not a relaxing All-Star game.
Ogbogu had four sacks to lead a South defense that held on during the final North drive to preserve a 20-19 victory in the 52nd annual Hula Bowl on Sunday.
Howard nabs MVP honors in 52nd annual Hula Bowl
It was a weekend of records and monkeys for the Michigan women's basketball team. The Wolverines managed to break the former, while getting the latter off their collective backs. To begin with, Michigan beat Indiana, 78-73, at Assembly Hall for the first time in 11 years and in front of a record crowd of 3,213.Blue women's hoops sweeps Big Ten games
Saturday's meet at Indiana demonstrated the leadership and strength of the Michigan men's distance squad and the inexperience of the sprint team.
The men's track team came up short this weekend in its attempt to defeat the Hoosiers. Indiana outscored Michigan, 77.50-72.50, in an emotional and close meet.
Men's track edged by Hoosiers
When Jim Brandstatter was growing up in East Lansing, it seemed all roads led to one day wearing the green and white. In fact, his older brother played football at Michigan State, the same school where his father was on the faculty. But when he grew up and was a senior in high school, he made a decision that changed the rest of his life. He chose to go to school in Ann Arbor. 
Brandstatter: Michigan announcer speaks on 'M' legacy
If there is one circumstance for which standard protocol should be bypassed, then death would certainly fit that bill. Take your rules, regulations and procedures, and throw them in the gutter. Death creates its own margins and even goes outside of them occasionally. The dream Reese died for shouldn't die with him
With Matt Herr serving a one-game suspension and Bill Muckalt failing to put the puck in the net for the second straight game, the Wolverines needed someone else to provide an offensive spark.
As he has all season, Bobby Hayes responded - this time with a career-high four-point effort that included his 13th and 14th goals of the season.Hayes provides unexpected offensive punch
Michigan forward Justin Clark got a little help from his friends Saturday night against Alaska-Fairbanks. After scoring Michigan's first goal of the season against Minnesota more than three months ago, Clark had struggled to find his scoring touch.Clark goes full circle, scores goal
For most of the hockey season, two typed signs have been sitting along the glass at Yost Ice Arena. Each one reads "Beat 'em in Boston."
Although those signs haven't really stood out before, people are now starting to take notice - of both the signs and the Wolverines. Tougher foes lie ahead for Wolverines
BIG RAPIDS (AP) - Chad Alban turned away 14 shots for Michigan State to shut out Ferris State, 7-0, on Saturday.
Mike York had a hat trick for the Spartans (12-3-2 CCHA, 20-3-3 overall). Michigan State scored seven goals on 25 shots on goal and converted on two-of-five power plays.Spartans blank Ferris State; Miami edges Lakers
COLUMBUS - There certainly is no rest for the weary in the Big Ten, much less the injured or the banged-up, as Michigan will find out tonight. The Wolverines, after pounding Ohio State on Saturday, get back into action against Minnesota tonight at 7:30 in Crisler Arena.Traylor, Wolverines put noses back to grindstone
COLUMBUS - Michigan guard Louis Bullock gets most of his points outside the lines. Either he is draining 3-pointers from all angles and depths beyond the arc or he is calmly gracing the nets at the free throw line.
Whether it's off the dribble, off a screen or stationary at the charity stripe, his silky-smooth stroke rarely changes.Bullock stellar in shooting clinic
Mateen Cleaves scored a career-high 27 points, including 17 of the Spartans' first 19 in the second half at East Lansing, as Michigan State went on to defeat Illinois, 68-64
The Spartans (4-1, 11-4) have won seven of their last eight games and retained a share of the lead in the Big Ten with the victory over the Fighting Illini (3-2, 11-7).Spartans overcome Illini; Hoosiers win state battle
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Second-ranked Duke led by 24 points in the second half but had to hang on in the final seconds, edging Clemson, 81-80, Saturday behind a season-high 23 points from Trajan Langdon.
The victory by the Blue Devils (6-0 ACC, 16-1 overall), coupled with No. 1 North Carolina's loss to Maryland earlier in the week, should give Duke the No. 1 ranking for the second time this season.Duke survives Clemson scare
YPSILANTI - In most sports, the regular season is just a precursor to the postseason. For swimming, this fact is not only true, but it's reinforced by the coaches at every possible moment.
Although the Michigan women's swimming team maintains that its dual meets are just a warmup to the Big Ten and NCAA meets, it would have a hard time convincing Eastern Michigan. 
Women's swimmers wound rival Eagles: Wolverines see 64-point victory over Eastern Michigan as an indicator for the future
Michigan women's track coach James Henry was searching for answers when he entered Saturday's dual meet at Indiana.
Thanks to a combination of steady veterans and explosive youth, he may have found some. Track uses balanced attack to beat Indiana
The Michigan coaches say the No. 10 Michigan wrestling team is not winning the matches it should be winning - and the team knows it.
Riding a four-match losing streak, the Wolverines traveled to Iowa City to compete in the National Team Dual Championships last weekend. They lost two out of three matches, making for a dismal 3-6 overall record on the season.Wrestlers short on team victories
There was no cry of pain. There was no crash on the floor.
But there she was. Pollyanna Johns, the star center on Michigan's women's basketball team, sitting on the sideline, watching her team beat Michigan State as she iced her left knee.Johns' knee injury prompts day-to-day status, no major damage
The thought of losing your best player to an injury is enough to make any team cringe.
But the dark cloud that formed Sunday at Crisler Arena had a silver lining for the Michigan women's basketball team.Blue guards step up in Johns' absence to help beat Spartans
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