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freep.com - 9/2/2007
MITCH ALBOM: How can Michigan's opener turn into a season-ender?
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September 2, 2007 BY MITCH ALBOM FREE PRESS COLUMNIST Can a season end the day it begins? It just did. The ant tripped the elephant. The skinny guy kicked sand in the bully's face, grabbed his girlfriend and stole his car. Some kids from Appalachian State came down from the Blue Ridge Mountains and delivered a sermon in Michigan Stadium, before 109,000 non-believers. Goliath falls. End of ...

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