Wolverine Liberation Army

February 27 – 14 minutes, 0/1 shooting, 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists.

By now we’ve tried our best, dear reader, to let you know that Laval Lucas-Perry exists.  Really, he does.  He’s always been there, living life just below the water level.  Subtle.  Undetected.  Impalpable.

But did you know that Laval has been extending his mere presence to other sports besides basketball?  It’s true.  Of course, you would never have noticed even if it was staring you right in the face.  He’s that good.

As recently reported by WLA Commandant and King of MGoBlog, chitownblue, U-M Athletic Director in waiting, David Brandon, has petitioned the NCAA to make ice dancing a Division I sport.  Despite speculation to the contrary, it wasn’t merely a last-ditch, shot-in-the-dark attempt to salvage any semblance of athletic success for the school in the face of its football, basketball and hockey programs.  It’s a carefully calculated plan.  Brandon already has his all-star team in place and they’ve been training for years, as evidenced by this archived photograph from the Athletic Department.

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When Rich Rodriguez left West Virginia University in December of 2007 chaos ensued.  Rodriguez spurned his alma-mater for greener pastures and left behind a jilted school and community that obviously was and is too sensitive to handle the departure.

We are now over 2 years past that sloppy divorce, and since then things haven’t gotten any better for Rodriguez.  He’s gone 8-16 over 2 seasons and is now facing an NCAA investigation to boot.  The media in Detroit has been merciless in their dedication to pound whatever is left of Rodriguez’s will and desire to build his program, and there are questions abound about whether or not figures within the Athletic Department at Michigan even support him fully.

Needless to say he’s got to wonder where his friends are and just what, if anything, he did to turn so many against him.

Meanwhile, West Virginia hired Rodriguez assistant Corch Stew as the head man and have largely fared well on the field without the man who was responsible for a near-decade long domination of the Big East and a pair of rousing BCS Bowl Game victories.  You’d think that at this point the fans and media figures around West Virginia would be over the controversial end to the Rodriguez era.

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We have failed in our infiltration of the great google, unfixed the app engine, and could not shut down your secret meetings.

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It’s a cliche to say “everything on the internet is forever,” but only because it’s true. There is no marginal cost to permanently preserving the words uttered and written yesterday, and so it is done.

Most people would think this is a good thing. For certain groups, however- politicians and newspaper columnists come to mind- the ability to instantly reproduce what someone said yesterday is a form of unwanted accountability. If you uttered a statement yesterday that we find out was false today, then you might be asked lots of questions along the lines of “were you stupid or were you lying?” And if your career relies almost exclusively on your personal credibility, neither stupid nor lying is good for you. The internet can be very dangerous to you.

Almost six months after the Free Press broke the “OMG Michigan Committed Major Violations” story, we now have some more definitive information on exactly what went on with M’s practices. And because everything on the internet is forever, we can retrospectively judge the work of Rosenberg and Snyder.

It is my contention that authors Michael Rosenberg and Mark Snyder lied to readers about the Michigan football practice regime. Lying is different than just being wrong. A lie requires the person to state a falsehood, and know that it is false at the time. So I must show that A) their article was significantly wrong or false, and B) they knew it was wrong.

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