MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart's revised employment agreement addressed the Mountaineers' current NCAA infractions case.

Stewart signed the agreement in November, setting the stage for Athletic Director Oliver Luck to hire Dana Holgorsen, who was introduced last month.

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Holgorsen will be the Mountaineers' offensive coordinator for the 2011 season and replace Stewart as head coach after the season ends.

The Athletic Communications Coordinator serves as the communications specialist for the football program and works directly with the U-M administrators, coaches, and student-athletes. This person promotes and maintains a revenue producing sports program and the U-M athletic department brand to a wide variety of external media and stakeholders

Looking at Michigan's past three seasons, it's not hard to divine dozens of management lessons. But none of them would resolve college football's central conflict: It's a billion-dollar business with revenue that can fund entire athletic departments and passions that can fuel endowment drives, but it's all built on the backs of stressed-out coaches and amateur athletes.

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Future Athletic Director David Brandon announced the notice of allegations from the NCAA. Brandon said the NCAA brought allegations of wrongdoing in the number of hours student-athletes spent practicing and violated rules governing what activities could be attended by quality control staff.

Ann Arbor-- University of Michigan regents met with school President Mary Sue Coleman in a closed session Wednesday to discuss investigations of the football team and allegations by some former players that time limits on practices, which are established by the NCAA, were exceeded.


From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100203/SPORTS0201/2030413/U-M-regents-meet-to-discuss-investigations-of-football-program#ixzz0eWeRtizO

The Free Press obtained the police report through a Freedom of Information Act request, first filed Nov. 30 and refiled Jan. 21. However, MSU redacted so much of the report with a marker — the majority of pages are little more than black blobs — that it sheds almost no light on the video’s contents, nor the 911 calls, time line of events, interviews with witnesses and suspects, search warrant and polygraph test contained within.

The kind of people who are affected by The Ann Arbor News becoming annarbor.com are generally less hardcore about their sports coverage.

But with the transition to the web, they are promising to link out a lot, so having more of a two-way relationship with the local news sites would help, probably just in terms of Google ranking and maybe some traffic. Right now I link to them and The Free Press fairly often, and I don’t think I’ve ever received a link from any of those sources. That seems a little unbalanced.

Here’s one of his latest posts at The Wayne Fontes Experience, about Dave Birkett leaving the Oakland Press’s Detroit Lions beat for a gig covering the Michigan Wolverines at the new AnnArbor.com. It's a big loss for Lions coverage, and it's troubling to see good reporters (Danny Knobler, Jon Paul Morosi) move on. Detroit sports fans are losing out.

Bob UferThe name Bob Ufer is woven deep into the fabric of University of Michigan athletics. Enthusiastic, optimistic, loyal and hardworking are adjectives that quickly come to mind when describing the legendary Bob Ufer -- a stellar U of M athlete and much loved broadcaster who worked tirelessly to promote academic and athletic achievement during his life.

An account of Michigan and Ohio State’s football rivalry during the the Vietnam years.

To put it simply, Cook’s website has become the place for Michigan football coverage. In just a few years, he has overthrown the ranks of professional journalists who cover the team, representing a drastic change in the culture of news coverage (in this case, the coverage of Michigan football), a change that most major newspapers have yet to adapt to. Traditional sports coverage is vulnerable to new competition in its own way. As Cook has shown, a guy in the stands can have an edge over the big-name columnists in the press box.

Saturday should be fun and the thought of watching the Gophers (in their gold pants) sprinting accross the field and hoisting the Jug in celebration is really exciting. Let's not feel sorry for Michigan, there have been dozens of beat downs at the hands of the Wolverines, this is no time to take it easy on them. Let's beat them, beat them soundly and get the Jug back.

No account of the day can be complete without a word of praise for the fashion in which the extraordinary traffic -some, 20,000 visiting cars-was handled by the State police. Long before noon Ann Arbor held so many of the trim figures in dark gray uniforms that it looked like a military occupation. At every busy corner there was one of these men; at super-busy corners there were two. And they did the job. They kept traffic moving, both while the city was filling and later as it emptied, 'so that there were no accidents and no really serious congestion. They performed their duty as efficiently as though they too had been trained by the Michigan coaching staff.

fabi goes to a football game and is impressed by the marching band - a short clip shows the new view of the construction underway

One lane of northbound traffic on Main Street (closest to Michigan Stadium) will be shut down from Stadium Boulevard to Keech Street on football game days from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. in order to help with the pedestrian flow around Michigan Stadium. Please plan your trip accordingly.

For Utah to leave Ann Arbor with a victory, things will need to happen and they will probably need a little luck on their side. I say this because Michigan is going to be fired up for this game. Not because they lost to Appalachian State last year, not because they have something to prove, but because it's a new era for Michigan football. As they transition from Lloyd Carr to Rich Rodriguez, the anticipation and excitement following this team is pretty massive. These players are going to be invested and pumped to start anew. They want to write a new chapter of tradition in the vast book known as Michigan football. This day, this new era, unfortunately, begins against Utah.

a small subset of football blogs, plus the schedule for the year

Here’s a great moment of Michigan Football lore. Were you aware of the showdown between Wolverine legend and Heisman trophy winner Tom Harmon and a drunken fan during Michigan’s game at Cal back in 1940? I recently purchased this page out of Life magazine on eBay for $6.50. It depicts the scene. Additional research yielded some great quotes from the fan, enjoy:

1906 Graham Postcard The next item is a post card featuring Michigan’s lineman Walter ‘Octy’ Graham. The Chicago-born lineman played for Fielding Yost from 1904-06 during the point-a-minute reign of terror. Looks like the portly Graham conducted a few personal reigns of terror at the local bakery. Here’s the postcard, a tad weathered but still pretty cool:

The past few weeks have yielded a few cool auctions (and an idiot selling his allegiance to Michigan) highlighted by this beauty: a football ‘program’ from the Michigan vs. Marquette game held on October 23, 1909. Other than a missing cover page, this thing is pretty cool. Apparantly I wasn’t the only one that found this pretty cool as it fetched $258. As for the game itself the Bentley Museum site revealed that Michigan won a 6-5 squeaker on the road. You’ve got to love some of the old ads especially the Hippodrome Roller Rink and the Ziegler Chocolates and Bon Bons. The scorecard is pretty wild: you can track Touchdowns, “Goals”, Field Goals and Safeties.

1950 was a special season in Michigan football history. Many M historians know this is the year that the Wolverines defeated Ohio State 9-3 in the epic Snow Bowl. That classic win earned the Blue a trip to Pasadena where they defeated Cal 14-6 on two late touchdowns.
All’s well that ends well, but things didn’t start well and included a trip to New York. The next edition of eBay Watch features this ticket stub from the Army-Michigan game held October 14, 1950 at Yankee Stadium:

end of game game-winning catch by anthony carter

The 1904 squad faced off with the team that every college football fan would love to see visit Ann Arbor in the next few years…the West Virginia Mountaineers. On October 22 coach Fielding Yost took on the team from his home state and beat them like they just sued him for $4 million. Make that $5 million. The Wolverines won 130-0 in front a sparse home crowd.

Michigan had an exceptional season in 1896 as Michigan’s win against Lehigh continued an undefeated run. The week later the Wolverines edged Minnesota (pre-Little Brown Jug) 6-4. Home wins over Oberlin and Wittenberg set up a showdown with the University of Chicago. I may have more on that game later, but unfortunately the Wolverines fell 7-6 in what was the first major college football played indoors, inside “The Coliseum”.

A quick edition of eBay Watch, this time featuring a century old postcard depicting the faces of each member of Fielding Yost’s 1907 Michigan football squad. Here’s the full auction; it’s listed for a take it over leave it price of $325. What just might make this worth it? The original owner scribbled this note on the front, “10/25/07 These are the boys who will make O.S.U. look sick on Saturday.”

"UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FOOTBALL NEWS, COMMENTARY, AND ANALYSIS"

Comprehensive collection of football stadium construction photos. Lots of work done, lots of work to do; the discussion on the playground today was how every single day counts in them being ready for the season to open (no room at all left in the schedule for slippage).

Rodriguez, a leading proponent of the spread offense, met with U-M president Mary Sue Coleman and athletic director Bill Martin in Toledo on Friday to discuss the open position, two people at U-M confirmed to the Free Press.

As the head of the Access and Reference Division at the Bentley, Karen Jania often is the one who receives these calls.

nice football clips.

The Big Ten Conference and ESPN have confirmed the time and television network for the annual "Big Game" between the University of Michigan football team and Ohio State on Saturday, Nov. 17, at Michigan Stadium. The annual battle between the Wolverines an

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awesome michigan football blog

Today I met a man named Marty Gillespie on Potter St., about a half-block from Michigan Stadium. Marty was tailgating outside a pretty little house where he just happened to park his car decades ago. He has parked there for every home game going on foreve

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When head coach Lloyd Carr named Ryan Mallett as the starter for Saturday, his teammates were justifiably quick to dismiss last week’s appearance and acknowledge this week’s game against Notre Dame as his first real test.

McWeeney's 1899 team posted a 6-3-1 record, including losses to Chicago and Michigan. He became South Bend police chief in 1902 after two years on the force. He died at age 74 from complications after an automobile accident in 1940.

. After the embarrassing loss last week and the dismal performance in the first half of this week's game against Oregon, it is imperative that you relieve Bill Martin and Lloyd Carr of their duties immediately. Last week, Lloyd Carr admitted that his team

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Jim Sinclair shares the following comments about the University of Michigan home football games and the Ann Arbor Railroad's role in getting fans to and from the Stadium. The UM Stadium "the big house", is located adjacent to the Ann Arbor Railroad's Ferry Field

Staubach is representing Pfizer in marketing the Ann Arbor campus; here's Roger's blog (not updated since Jan 2007 but interesting nonetheless, dig into the archives)

madden is so realistic that kids are learning the game by playing the game.

Looking at the post accident photographs that have been made available, it appears that Roethlisberger was pretty well nailed by the left-turning vehicle, and that little could have been done to avoid the collision.

from Mark EJ Newman

American college football faces a conflict created by the desire to stage national championship games between the best teams of a season when there is no conventional playoff system to decide which those teams are. Instead, ranking of teams is based on their record of wins and losses during the season, but each team plays only a small fraction of eligible opponents, making the system underdetermined or contradictory or both. It is an interesting challenge to create a ranking system that at once is mathematically well-founded, gives results in general accord with received wisdom concerning the relative strengths of the teams, and is based upon intuitive principles, allowing it to be accepted readily by fans and experts alike. Here we introduce a one-parameter ranking method that satisfies all of these requirements and is based on a network representation of college football schedules.

obituary for Canham, age 87