Œ
COLUMBUS - After the final horn of the season sounds and the crowds have emptied their stadiums for the last time until leaves and grass re-emerge, the details of most of the football games are forgotten.
Boston massacre: This season's edition: 'The Boston Game'
At one point earlier in the season, Michigan coach Red Berenson called his team 'average.' He also believed that this year's squad needed to find itself, stop living in last year's Cinderella season and move on.
And then No. 4 Michigan State and No. 5 Notre Dame came to Yost Ice Arena.
Victories vault icers into first-place tie
One of the most consistent phenomenons in the 1998 Michigan volleyball campaign has been the Wolverines' inability to beat a ranked team. Saturday night was not an exception as they were swept by No. 2 Penn State in front of a season-high attendance of 936 fans at Cliff Keen Arena.
Wolverines drop sixth straight match:
'M' volleyball swept by Nittany Lions, Buckeyes in final homestand
The No. 6 Michigan men's cross country team will attempt this weekend to accomplish its final goal of the year: a top four finish at the NCAA Championships on Monday.
The team will head out to Lawrence, Kan., to run on Kansas' Rim Rock Farm. The course is a farm owned by former Kansas coach Bob Timmins. Timmins created the course and named parts of it after former runners he coached. 
Men looking for top-four finish at NCAAs
COLUMBUS - This might not be a very popular opinion back in Ann Arbor, but it nonetheless needs to be said after recent developments here: Ohio State deserves a bid to the Rose Bowl more than any other team. This whole Wisconsin-goes-to-the-Rose-Bowl-because-Ohio-State-went-two-years-ago thing is pretty ridiculous - and it will hurt the conference come bowl season.Ohio State should be going to Pasadena - not Wisconsin:
Today, Katie McGregor is attempting to become the best women's collegiate cross country runner in the nation.
It is certainly not your ordinary Monday morning.Michigan's McGregor could win it all:
Villanova, Brigham Young both have good chance at winning team team title
COLUMBUS - Consider David Boston avenged.
Last year, the Ohio State receiver took his lumps after he struggled to back up some pregame trash-talk about Michigan. Boston dominates, taunts weak Michigan secondary
COLUMBUS - John Cooper had beaten Michigan before - twice.
In fact, Cooper beat Michigan to win the Rose Bowl. Cooper finally gains some respect after home victory
COLUMBUS - Jon Jansen, Michigan left tackle and co-captain, sat down after Saturday's game with red eyes and spoke with concentrated effort.
The game had long been over - long enough for Jansen to have shed his uniform in place of a jacket and tie. But still, a pain still lingered for the senior.Jansen fights through injury, pursues record
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tee Martin passed for one touchdown and ran for another and Shawn Bryson ran for two scores, including a 58-yarder in a 24-point second period, as No. 1 Tennessee overwhelmed emotionally-drained Kentucky 59-21 at Neyland Stadium.Tennessee dismantles Kentucky; Kansas State, UCLA keep pace
MADISON (AP) - So much for a cupcake schedule. So much for losing at Michigan and not playing Ohio State.
The Wisconsin Badgers are making travel plans for the Rose Bowl.Wisconsin smelling roses; 'Noles rumble past Gators
WEST LAFAYETTE (AP) - Drew Brees claimed three more Big Ten records on Saturday and became the most prolific passer in one season in conference history.
The Purdue sophomore passed for 237 yards and four touchdowns as the Boilermakers finished the regular season with a 52-7 victory over Indiana.Brees breaks three conference records as Boilers crush Indiana: Northwestern travels to islands, rocks winless Hawaii
This weekend, pads were cracking, sweat was pouring and trash talk was flowing as Michigan fought for conference supremacy.
But this weekend's action didn't just take place in Columbus. Sure there was a football game, but some of the most intense action took place on the Yost Arena ice.Forget Columbus, Yost has plenty of action, and some winning, too
By most standards, the Michigan hockey team would consider the weekend of Nov. 13 and 14 to be quite impressive, as the Wolverines picked up a win over Alaska-Fairbanks and salvaged a tie on the road at Notre Dame.
But the three-point weekend wasn't enough to satisfy Dale Rominski. The assistant captain left the Joyce Center in South Bend that Saturday disappointed in his play.Rominski caps solid all-around weekend
The Michigan women's basketball team can no longer blame inexperience for their mistakes. Saturday in a 84-78 win over Colorado, this team seemed to know exactly what they were doing.
Prior to tipoff, the 1990 and 1998 NCAA tournament teams were honored in a banner raising ceremony. 
Key players return, propel Michigan to victory over Buffs
The Michigan women's swimming and diving team could not have asked for a better meet before the Thanksgiving break.
In their meet at Penn State, the Wolverines captured 12 out of 16 events to win, 164-136. Michigan upped its season record to 3-1 in the Big Ten, 4-2 overall.
Women's swimming swamps Penn State
Saturday was a homecoming of sorts for the Michigan women's basketball team. As the NCAA tournament banner from 1990 and 1998 was unfurled from the rafters, former Wolverines from the two golden seasons of women's basketball witnessed this year's team narrowly pull out a victory over Colorado.Banner ceremony celebrates past seasons:
But Wolverines looking to future, especially El Torneo Cancun de Basquetbol
The Michigan men's basketball team just might get leied this week.
But the Wolverines (1-2 overall), playing a three-day stint in the island state at the Maui Classic, have more things on their minds than flowered necklaces. Like Tigers.Tigers kick off Maui Classic for Michigan
11-23-98
should be sent to: daily.letters@umich.edu | should be sent to: online.daily@umich.edu |