Genuinely Sarcastic

Eighteen years ago, I watched Drew Henson bootleg into the endzone in Ohio Stadium and clinch a Michigan victory. Had I known then that that would basically be the final hurrah for Michigan in th...

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(MLive) VILLANOVA 79, MICHIGAN 62 When your only tool - or even your primary tool - is a hammer, all you see are nails, and your only solution is to hit them. Outside of the unicorn game a...

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OHIO STATE 30, MICHIGAN 27 (2 OT) There's an old political adage that goes something along the lines of: In certain places, you not only have to win, you have to win outside the margin of...

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A wise old political science professor once taught me that there are eight stages to a revolution: The existence of preconditions Fall of the old order The honeymoon phase Rule of the moderates ...

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There is a likely apocryphal quote attributed to Otto von Bismarck. As far as I can tell, there is no sourced evidence that he ever actually said it, but it's attributed to him nevertheless becau...

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(Photo courtesy of MICHIGAN ATHLETICS AND EXPOSURE ) 10/10/2015: MICHIGAN 38, NORTHWESTERN 0 JANUARY 12, 2011: > "All that glitters is not gold when it comes to some coac...

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In 2011, Brady Hoke declared "this is Michigan, fergodsake", and thought referring to Ohio State as "Ohio" while refusing to wear the color red was some sort of high and mighty insult. It was...

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On January 3, 2011, I sat down to watch a game that was entirely uninteresting to vast swaths of the country. There was very little buzz to the Orange Bowl between Stanford and Virginia Tech; two...

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Shane Morris had no business being in the game to be illegally destroyed like that. And he CERTAINLY had no business being in the game AFTER being illegally destroyed like that. It was in ...

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ON OCTOBER 16, 2010, I sat (stood) in the Michigan Stadium student section for the first time, quite literally right behind the band. It was, naturally, an experience quite different from sitt...

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Usually not much of anything happens in sports during the dog days of summer. Baseball's usually the only gig in town, and I can't figure out this year's Tigers squad for the life of me. These ...

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(Photo by Dave Reginek/NHLI via Getty Images) BRUINS 3, RED WINGS 2 (OT); EASTERN QUARTERFINALS, 1-3     Anyone who has spent more than five minutes reading a post on this blog-type t...

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MARCH 20, 2011, ROUND OF 32: #1 DUKE 73, #8 MICHIGAN 71   MARCH 29, 2013, SWEET 16: #4 MICHIGAN 87, #1 KANSAS 85 MARCH 30, 2014, ELITE 8: #8 KENTUCKY 75, #2 MICHIGAN 72 In thr...

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"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies ...

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(HT: Ace of MGoBlog ) MICHIGAN STATE 29, MICHIGAN 6; 6-2, 2-2   Breaking Bad fans already know what "Ozymandias" is. You didn't watch the show without looking it up and reading the so...

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I know there is a large segment of Michigan fans who look down upon fellow Michigan fans who pay any sort of attention to the antics of Michigan State, but highlighting lunacy, and particularly l...

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DENARD ROBINSON  Quarterback, 5'10, 196 Deerfield Beach, FL; Deerfield Beach HS  RIVALS: 4 stars, #14 athlete, #188 overall  SCOUT: 4 stars, #16 cornerback, #159 overall  ESPN:...

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NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP: LOUISVILLE 82, MICHIGAN 76 Explosions in the Sky - So Long, Lonesome .mp3 Found at bee mp3 search engine There's a reason storybook endings are confined to the pa...

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Found at Beemp3.com Do you know why South Vietnam was never able to beat North Vietnam, even with the backing of the most powerful country in the world? It wasn't because the North had super...

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"First they ignore you. Then they mock you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Mahatma Ghandi Since June 10, 2011, basically 14 months, Brady Hoke has landed eight (8) players from the st...

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly .mp3 Found at bee mp3 search engine In early 1942, as the Japanese flexed their military muscles and ran roughshod over southeast Asia, thei...

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Rilo Kiley - Jenny, You're Bar - Rilo Kiley - Jenny .mp3 Found at bee mp3 search engine Sports are funny. If you ever have the ability to step back and look at this thing called fandom and...

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1986: Youngstown State, trying to boost morale to the economically devastated region of northeast Ohio, hires Ohio State offensive assistant Jim Tressel as head coach. November 17, 1987: Ohio ...

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Welcome to Part 5. Part 1: The Numbers. Part 2: The War of Perception. Part 3: The PSL. Part 4: 2011 and 2012. There's a Latin saying I like to use a lot, mainly because it makes me look muc...

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Sharks 4, Red Wings 3 (OT); Western Semifinals, 0-3 A.A. Bondy - A Slow Parade .mp3 Found at bee mp3 search engine I suppose I could just link to this post from exactly one year ago. ...

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