Sometimes a killer attitude is all it takes to separate the winners from the losers.
Last night, in the first match of the State Pride series, the Michigan State volleyball team delivered a crushing blow to Michigan's hopes of retaining the glory.
Wounded Pride
The young Michigan men's golf team finished 15th in subpar weather at this week's Legends of Indiana Intercollegiate held at the Legends of Indiana Golf Course in Franklin, Ind.
Michigan's 15th-place finish, with 910 strokes left, the Wolverines 61 strokes behind champion Toledo.
Tough wind blows men's golf to 15th
Jake Frysinger thought he'd be playing linebacker for Michigan.
In high school, he pretty much did it all - from linebacker to running back - but then, in high school, he "had some speed." And he was about 225 pounds.
College life, fast food make a defensive lineman of Frysinger
The names read like a Chicago Bears Hall of Fame honor roll call: Dick Butkus, George Halas, Red Grange.
Before donning the blue and orange for the Monsters of the Midway and before they galloped into the annals of professional football history, they donned the blue and orange for another team, further south of Chicago.Fighting Illini hope the future is Rocky
There will be a new presence around Yost Ice Arena this season. It will see plenty of ice time this season, but won't be in action until next weekend's two-game series with Niagara.
It's not a new defenseman. Michigan doesn't need any more than the nine that it has on the roster already.
New Zamboni to join 'M' lineup at Yost
Steve Fisher, who has been unemployed for more than a year now, will be getting back to work - eventually.
The former Michigan basketball coach was hired as an assistant yesterday by the NBA's Sacramento Kings, but will have to wait until the NBA owners and Player's Association settle their squabble and end the NBA lockout before Fisher can start patrolling the sidelines again.
After a year of unemployment, Fisher now King of assistants
Brian Ellerbe and his coaching staff have already been operating at full speed, and the first exhibition game is still more than three weeks away.
But as soon as school starts, Ellerbe's program goes "a hundred miles an hour," he said. 'M' coaches, players working hard
Home sweet home? Time will tell
The Michigan field hockey team is approaching its toughest weekend yet, and it seems to be ready for the challenge.
The Wolverines (3-0 Big Ten, 10-2 overall) will spend their first home weekend of the Big Ten season playing the top two teams in the conference. No. 8 Ohio State comes into town tomorrow at 3 p.m., followed by No. 6 Penn State on Sunday at 1 p.m.
The freshmen have already put on a good performance. Now its time for the rest of the team to follow their lead.
Last weekend, the Michigan men's tennis team sent three freshmen, Henry Beam, Dan McCain and Ben Cox, to the Western Michigan Invitational, where they each won first-round matches. This weekend, the team is off to Baltimore for the ITA All-American tournament.
'M' Tennis prepares for ITA Grand Slam
(U-WIRE) CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Life after Reasoner. When college hockey's leading scorer signed a million-dollar contract with the St. Louis Blues in July, many thought the forward's departure spelled disaster for the Eagles, but it doesn't. Although Marty Reasoner cannot and will not be replaced, Boston College returns a frighteningly talented team with hardly any weaknesses.Boston College icers look to reload
The sixth-ranked Michigan men's cross country team will head east this weekend to run in the Murray Keatinge Invitational in Orono, Maine.
The Wolverines are out to keep the title for themselves after winning the tournament last season. 
Men's cross country runs to Maine to retain championship
One month into the women's cross country season, Katie McGregor has yet to lose. Her stellar performances in the first three meets led to first-place finishes for both herself and the Wolverines. After she shattered the course record by 17 seconds at the Sundodger Invitational Sept.McGregor, women's cross country travel to Kalamazoo
'M' soccer hopes to thwart Hoosier charge
After dropping its first home contest of the season last Sunday, the Michigan women's soccer team will be back in action tomorrow to host Indiana.
Perhaps the hottest team in the Big Ten right now, Indiana enters tomorrow's contest with a 7-3 mark (3-1 Big Ten). Despite their current fourth-place standing in the Big Ten, the Hoosiers, in one weekend, successfully staked their claim as the team to beat in the conference with back-to-back wins over Big Ten leaders Northwestern and Wisconsin.
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