notqualifiedtocomment.blogspot.com - 1/27/2009
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The Big Ten Conference was the subject to ridicule around the time of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Then the Big Ten came within a few points of winning the challenge and people thought the conference might be stronger than it was first believed to be. Then people realized that Michigan beat Duke ...
spartyandfriends.com - 1/27/2009
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spartyandfriends.com —
The last couple years it has been popular
to bash the quality and depth of Big Ten
basketball. It would be tough to argue otherwise, as they did fail to do well against out of conference competition, unless it was Michigan State playing Texas.
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Love those Objective Big Ten Hater(s)
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mgoblog —
Former Michigan coach Carr keeps tabs on ex-players
"I remember [Jumbo Elliot] saying, ‘My head is a bullet and my goal is to put it through an defensive player’s chest.’"
Alan Branch is Super Bowl's dancing king
may as well go home, everybody, the real hardware's been handed out
That was Quick
Big Ten basketball already getting ill-founded declaration of overrated-ness. Can we get rated first?
Postmortem: Illinois' strangely stagnant roller coaster
ain't nothing changing ...
Nitt Picks Is Officially Lame
Black Shoe Diaries —
... in our general direction, though, adding along the way: "Forget Penn State" and their chances of dancing. NQTC says not so fast my friend, and points us to ...
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aceofsports.blogspot.com 1/27/2009 — Photo by Zachary Meisner of The Michigan Daily
I thought after a couple days my rage about this whole thing would simmer down to a mere seething anger. Not quite. I just got off the phone with my mom (I know, cute, right?) and had to explain the ...
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aceofsports.blogspot.com 1/26/2009 — (video via The Diag)
However, I would consider it assault. At the end of Michigan's 5-3 victory over Michigan State last night (giving Michigan the season series sweep), Spartan Andrew Conboy sucker-punched Wolverine defenseman Steve Kampfer from ...
Kampfer Should Be Fine (Update)
mgoblog.com 1/26/2009 — The grammar in this Daily article is a little confusing but it does state that Kampfer has been released from the hospital and that the trip there was more out of caution than any immediate threat to his health:
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Big Ten Basketball Week in Review: January 25, 2009
blog.spartymsu.com 1/26/2009 — Michigan State: (16-3, 6-1) Lost a heart breaker at home to Northwestern…. Cobel and Thompson for the wild cats played out of their skulls. .. And the Spartans were lack luster.. didn’t seemed focused.. and that manifested itself in a bazillion turnovers. It was reported that the Flu bug is ...
Conboy And Tropp Should Be Gone, Period
mgoblog.com 1/26/2009 —
Back on the Kampfer thing: we should set an expectation for punishments. I've obsessively read every comment on every message board and every article on the incident and it appears the general consensus is that both players should ...
Duked! [College Basketball]
deadspin.com 2/5/2009 — Clemson didn't just defeat Duke last night. They didn't merely end a 12-year home-losing streak and hand them their second ACC loss. They gave the Blue Devils a humiliating, soul-searching, certifiable beatdown . Let's add it up, shall we? The ...