College football conference play is (mostly) underway and the stakes will be raised accordingly. The sport dips its toes this weekend with ranked matchups in the Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC featuring College Football Playoff favorites and some remaining question marks. Let’s rank the top 10 games of Week 4, starting with a few…
Editor’s note: The University of Michigan announced Friday afternoon that Juwan Howard will not return as head basketball coach next season. Crisler Center was mostly empty the night of March 4, 2021, but Michigan basketball brought the place to life. A win over rival Michigan State secured a conference title in a season shaped by…
Thirty years later, Christian Laettner isn’t sure he knew it was coming. In 1994, he was in the NBA, his second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Maybe someone had informed his agent but he doesn’t think so. The former Duke star just one day remembers seeing the commercial on ESPN. Chris Farley, then at the…
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Warde Manuel is a patient man. Patient to a fault, some would say. The job of an athletic director, as Manuel sees it, is to avoid knee-jerk reactions. Sports fans are fickle. They want what they want, and they want it now. When public pressure is at its highest, Manuel believes…
By Daniel Popper, Austin Meek and Jeff Howe Los Angeles Chargers owner Dean Spanos vowed in December he would be “reimagining” how his organization approaches “building and maintaining a championship-caliber program.” Consider that process reimagined. The Chargers are hiring Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh as their coach, the team announced Wednesday. The 60-year-old agreed to a five-year…
Jim Harbaugh did everything Michigan fans could’ve hoped the former Wolverines star quarterback would do when he returned to Ann Arbor to take over his alma mater’s football program. He ended hated arch-rival Ohio State’s dominance in their series and flipped it around; he turned Michigan into the bully of the Big Ten; and then…
HOUSTON — There are two stories to tell about this Michigan team, and they’re really the same. One is the story of a program that bent the rules, a coach who got suspended, a university that went to war with its conference, and a championship many will view with disdain. The other is about a…
By Lauren Merola, Max Olson, Austin Meek, Jim Trotter and Nicole Auerbach It’s been 26 years, but finally, no one has it better than Michigan. The Wolverines, who ranked second in passing yards allowed per game with 150.0 heading into title town, faced their toughest task yet in taming the flamethrower that is Washington quarterback…
Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson and Georgia’s run of dominance in college football’s signature event might not be over, but it is on hiatus this year. Instead, there’s new blood after Michigan and Washington advanced to the national title game. Since the BCS began in 1998, neither team has played for a national title. “This is…
PASADENA, Calif. — Kris Jenkins has heard all about the big, bad Southeastern Conference. He’s heard far too much about it, actually. “We’re not big enough,” Michigan’s star defensive lineman said, voice rising as he spoke Monday night in a postgame locker room littered with rose petals. “We’re not strong enough. We’re not fast enough….
