Weekend Roundup, This is Just the Beginning Edition: 2/4/13

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Here's what happened this weekend while you helped put Denard on the cover of the next NCAA Football video game.

• Big lights.  Big stage.  Big pooping of the pants.  Oh well, there's more games ahead.  Big ones.  Bigger ones.  And we're gonna win some of them.  We're still growing.  Still learning.  Kids.  And we've still got Trey.  There's time, a lot of it.  6 weeks...9 regular season games followed by the most competitive conference tournament in America.  Then it starts for realzies.   ESPN recap here.   UMHoops initial reaction.  Detroit News recap.

• These internets were a buzz with DB's announcement that we hired a group to catfish our own players.  Then there was some blowback.  Then we denied that it actually happened.  The whole thing came off as weird, but I gotta tell you, I'll take that kind of weird over this kind of weird any day.

• Signing day (February 6th)  is approaching, so if you are into that kind of thing, here's a ESPN-centric schedule.  We have the makings of a pretty good class, which sometimes means a lot, and sometimes means very little.

• AnnArbor.com covered Denard's signing appearance at the MDen, which had a pretty big crowd.  

• Hockey had it's first weekend sweep of the season, and it came against Michigan State, which is nice.  Friday night was a 3-2 victory, and Saturday's matinee was 5-2.

What's Up This Weekend? Groundhog Day Edition

Tonight:

• Michigan Hockey (8-16-2 overall) vs. Michigan State (7-16-3):  When Michigan and Michigan State meet up, you can throw out the records...and both of these teams wish they could.  This is a battle for last place in the CCHA, and there's a rematch tomorrow at the JLA.  I'm guessing they're giving tickets away on all accounts.  Puck drops at 6:35pm at Yost, and this shitfest will be televised.  TV: BTN  |   Internet Radio: Here.  Head to Yost Built for some solid Michigan Hockey coverage

Groundhog Day:

• Michigan Hockey vs. Michigan State (see above).  Puck drops at 4:05pm.  TV: FSD  |  Internet Radio: Here
• Michigan Basketball (20-1) at Indiana (19-2).  IT'S THE BIGGEST MICHIGAN BASKETBALL GAME OF ALL TIME until you check the schedule and see that we play both Ohio State, at Wisconsin, and at MSU in the next 11 days.  Regardless, the ESPN hype machine is running with this one, so it will be a good test on a very national stage.  #1 vs. #3 nationally, tied at the top of the conference standings, gameday is there, etc, etc.  Tipoff at 9:00pm.  TV: ESPN  |  Internet Radio: Here.  UMHoops will make you smarter in the interim.

Super Bowl Sunday:

• San Francisco vs. Baltimore:  Good number of former friends of the (Michigan) program will be on or near the field.  Touch the Banner has a nice concise roundup.  Moeller alert!  ESPN's Big Ten Blog covers all the Big Ten ties.  It's on TV, coverage starts at like 8am, game is supposed to start at 6:30pm, but I've set the over-under at 7pm.  The official Super Bowl blog is here.

Remeber When We Didn't Score in the Entire Second Half?

...and they honored Tressel during halftime?

Fresh gamepage lives here.

Way Back When-sday Pic of the Week

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"When We Were Young" - November 11, 2000

Michigan 33 - Penn State 11

Did You Know We Beat Iowa by 25 Points in Football?

I get depressed when we lose.  So why I didn't get fired up about Devin Gardner and the boys when we beat the crap out of Iowa 42-17 last November is beyond me.  No post.  No pics.  Sad.  Sorry.  We had a hell of a tailgate that day.  Smoked, fried, and smoked-and-fried turkeys....filet mignon, tailgater awards, lots of great stuff.  So here are those pictures, submitted respectfully over two months late...

And the new game page is here.