The Climb: Part XII: The GOAT
[Ed-Seth: This being the 20th anniversary of the 1997 National Championship, Michigan historian Dr. Sap is taking us game-by-game through it. Previously: Those Who Stayed (Colorado); The Hit (Baylor);...
View ArticleThe Climb: Part XI: No Flags
[Ed-Seth: This being the 20th anniversary of the 1997 National Championship, Michigan historian Dr. Sap is taking us game-by-game through it. Previously: Those Who Stayed (Colorado); The Hit (Baylor);...
View ArticleThe Climb, Part II: The Hit
[Ed-Seth: This being the 20th anniversary of the 1997 National Championship, Michigan historian Dr. Sap offered to revisit a game a week so you can re-live it all in real time. These articles are...
View ArticleMGoExclusive: One-on-One with Charles Woodson
[Fuller/MGoBlog]Don't tell the SEC, but Charles Woodson has been on something of a satellite camp tour of his own lately, crossing the country to meet fans and talk wine. Woodson's the proprietor of...
View ArticleOne Frame At A Time: Charles Woodson
As always, click the links/stills to open each GIF in a lightbox. I attended my first Michigan game in 1994, at the tender age of six. One year later, Charles Woodson made his debut in Maize and Blue....
View ArticleMedia Day Interviews: Jabrill Peppers
Previously:Jim Harbaugh, Kyle Kalis, Brian Cole, Chase Winovich, Drake Harris[Eric Upchurch/MGoBlog]Jabrill Peppers was constantly surrounded by cameras and sound recorders, but he answered every...
View ArticleThis Week's Obsession: Draft Men
We didn't see Mundy coming either"People tell you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be." --Don Draper-------------------------------The Question:Ace: Which...
View ArticleUnverified Voracity Is Tested Regularly
Not literally a comic book. 28 minutes of Charles Woodson highlights from high school do not quite feature him bounding over a tall building: Full go minus one decision. John Beilein doesn't see...
View ArticleDear Diary Know It
So that happened. This was a spoof off of Michael Irvin and Warren Sapp's "U Know It"—the U meaning what you think it means. Relevant information to recruits:They also point out that Ohio State has...
View ArticleDear Diary Has a Day
…more day till the scrimmage that's a week till football [SI]21 versus 1. Three weeks before the season is when I start getting amped. Three weeks is that it-doesn't-feel-that-far spot when you realize...
View ArticleMichigan In The NFL: Who's Making The Cut?
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeThe NFL preseason is officially underway, and with mandatory roster cuts (down to 75) set for August 26th, now is a good time to check in with the former Wolverines currently...
View ArticleOne Frame At A Time: MSU Past
"...he has no idea Charles Woodson can jump 15 feet in the air." — actual call, not really hyperbole.When I posted the above GIF on Twitter today, someone pointed out that the icing on the cake was...
View ArticleOne Frame At A Time: Indiana Past
Six seconds left in a tie game, no timeouts remaining, and Anthony Carter runs an in-cutting route 20 yards short of the end zone for the game-winning catch-and-run. This is something that only Anthony...
View ArticleOne Frame At A Time: Minnesota Past
When we last met, Jeremy Gallon had rocket boots......and Devin Gardner made that "run around forever until somebody gets open" thing work out pretty, pretty well:Also, Jake Ryan single-handedly...
View ArticleHokepoints: What's a Little Peppers?
via MLiveOmigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod—YOU GUYS!We got a recruit. Like a GOOD recruit. Like the best recruit we've ever got, in the if-he-stays-ranked-as-high-as-he-is-in-May...
View ArticleOFAAT: Northwestern Past
[Note on these posts: Yes, gifs are very bandwith-heavy, which is why we put all but one below the jump. There's not really a way around this that doesn't involve people having to click through to a...
View ArticleQ&A: The Hit, 15 Years Later
On November 8th, 1997, Michigan traveled to Happy Valley to take on Penn State in a battle of unbeaten squads. The Wolverines pulled the upset, 34-8, led by Chris Howard's 120 rushing yards and the...
View ArticleMailbag: Height As Destiny, Woodson v Floyd, OSU v M "Bronies"
Hey Brian, Sometimes I make my girlfriend read me MGoblog articles while I'm doing something else. That way, she learns a little more about football, and I get to multitask.Today when she was reading...
View ArticleDear Diary Gets Back Up
I'm back. To all three of you who missed the weekly user content post thank you for your patience as we got HTTV shipped, and then I unplugged and spent five days in the Canadian wilderness. There were...
View ArticleMichigan Museday and the Next Next-Woodson
Beginning my freshman year (1998), we started referring to highly touted young cornerbacks for Michigan as the "Next Woodson." The first was James Whitley, a freshman who played semi-extensively in...
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