IT’S COOL AND IT’S TRUE — ‘NEW BLUE’ WILL PREVAIL
SEATTLE — I comb my hair until it is just right. I pull on my Reeboks. I carry my speakers to the window and turn up the music, real loud, so the whole dorm can hear it.I am collegiate.Go Blue.”Wait a minute,” says a voice from the past. “Go...
U-M Soars: Final Four!Wolverines Steamroll Virginia
LEXINGTON, Ky. — They cut down the net, one player at a time, each taking a souvenir piece for himself. Finally, it hung by a single strand, until the Wolverines found their coach, gave him the scissors, and marched him up the ladder to the rim.
“FISH! FISH! FISH!” they screamed.
Snip.
Finally, Four.
IT’S TRUE!THE HIGH FIVES, GLORY GO TO MEN IN THE DARK BLUE
LEXINGTON, Ky. — At the buzzer, finally, it was the dark blue that did the celebrating, the dark blue that did the high fives and the glory dance. Rumeal Robinson had his fists waving, and Glen Rice did a little jump step and Steve Fisher was standing there,...
Bread With Peanut Butter And Jelly Just Can’T Cut It
ATLANTA — He has the eyes of an eagle and the touch of a card shark. And with his collegiate career on the line Sunday afternoon, he left the floor in three-point territory, bent the forearm, flicked the wrist, waved good-bye with the fingers — somebody get a video camera, this is beautiful — and the ball arched in glorious perfection, dropping through the net the way a pearl might drop through water.
Swish!
We’re outta here.
SWISH! U-M’S FUTURE RIDES WITH RICE
ATLANTA — He has the eyes of an eagle and the touch of a card shark. And with his collegiate career on the line Sunday afternoon, he left the floor in three-point territory, raised the forearm, flicked the wrist, waved good-bye with the fingers — somebody...
Usa Sandwich On U-M’S Menu Today
ATLANTA — One of their guards is called Peanut Butter. The other is called Jelly. The forward, who comes from Venezuela, is called Bread. There’s gotta be a Knife in here somewhere.
“We are explosive,” says one.
“We are a dynasty,” says the other.
Well. It’s nice to see a school with its own publicity department.
BO REACTS TO VICTORY AS IF IT WERE . . . FOOTBALL
ATLANTA — The Michigan game was just minutes away. He was psyched, he was pumped, he was ready to go charging out of the tunnel. Except there was no tunnel. There was no field. For pete’s sake, the whole thing was . . . indoors!Bo Schembechler, the...
BO REACTS TO VICTORY AS IF IT WERE . . . FOOTBALL
ATLANTA — The Michigan game was just minutes away. He was psyched, he was pumped, he was ready to go charging out of the tunnel. Except there was no tunnel. There was no field. For pete’s sake, the whole thing was . . . indoors! Bo Schembechler, the...
With U-M Career Over, Frieder Starts Anewhey, Coach! What About The Team You Left Behind
The Michigan basketball players walked slowly to the airport gate, some talking, some joking, some, like Rumeal Robinson, wearing headphones to tune out the world. If you expected anger, grief — well, there was none. They had lost their coach to a better offer, they had been stiffed two days before the NCAA tournament, but if they had learned anything from Bill Frieder, Papa Hoops, who kissed them good-bye on the late night news Tuesday, it was take care of yourself first, baby.
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