Archive for the 'Editorial' Category

Smokin’

08Nov11
by dex

  If you open the list of current World Champions on Wikipedia, you’ll find about 50 names, spread across 17 divisions, recognized by 4 major organizations and one magazine that’s the most honest in a liar’s game. There’s another half dozen minor organizations recognizing a variety of wanderers and unknowns. A person who truly follows [...]

A Love Letter to Detroit

05Oct11
by dex

Hi Detroit, People ask me how I can be a hardcore fan of a pro sports team. They can’t process the devotion of a professional sports fan, because we’re just cheering for laundry, right? Not some tradition-steeped money-printing golden pyramid of virtuousness like a big time university. It’s hard to explain to them, but I can tell [...]

Today’s special guest post is by two writers familiar to all Michigan fans, Stu Douglass and Zack Novak. Much to their dismay. Yesterday news broke that Michigan received a commitment from Derrick Walton, a top 100 recruit for the class of 2013. This came just 24 hours after John Beilein and company had gotten a [...]

Witness to the Fall

13Jun11
by imafreak

Over the last a week or so the Michigan blogosphere has exploded with angst; first over the rumored design of the throwback jerseys for next season and then the actual design of the jerseys (which was the same as rumored making AD BranDUM the biggest liar since Jim Tressel) and then was briefly mollified when [...]

Re-Thinking A Pryor Conviction

09Jun11
by chitownblue

There are a number of definitions for the word “journalism” in the dictionary, some more satisfactory than others. These days, the most applicable is most likely the first: the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media In other words, say any god-damn thing you want, call it “news”, and if it appears [...]

Wolverine Liberation Army