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2 months

Kenneth Grant had to bring his birth certificate to youth football. Mason Graham wouldn’t eat for 24 hours so he could make weight in. Before they were All-Americans, they were kids with a dream. This is how two ‘gifts from the football gods’ came to be.

Gifts from the football gods: How Michigan became home to best DT duo in the sport

Michigan football d-linemen Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant weren't always All-Americans. This is how their paths intersected at the perfect moment.

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Harbaugh: “This guy made a game-saving fumble recovery” Thaw: “I’m never gonna be able to look at it like that.” Harbaugh: “Jake, if you don’t pick that ball up and have the presence of mind to stay out of the end zone…you don’t secure the ball, we lose that game.”

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Greg Kampe: “Our university website crashed… and honest to God, we sold $8,000 in t-shirts to Louisville fans.”

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It is absolutely criminal that America will not get to root on the Detroit Lions in the playoffs.

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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh and select players have made a special visit today to Mott Children’s Hospital with the National Championship trophy.

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BREAKING: The University of Michigan Police has been partnered with the Federal Bureau of Investigations “for months” to investigate computer crimes committed by former OC Matt Weiss. I'm told the victims are "extensive," cross state lines.

FBI joined U-M police's investigation on ex-Michigan football OC Matt Weiss months ago

U-M Police said Thursday that it has been working with the FBI "for months" to investigate ex-Michigan football co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss.

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3 years

When was the last time a Tigers game looked like this? People who have never been to Detroit will tell you things about this city. Don’t listen to them.

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Greg Kampe: “I’m glad I brought clothes.”

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2 years

Amon-Ra St. Brown is now the first player in NFL history to have six consecutive games with at least eight receptions and a touchdown.

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2 years

BREAKING: Charges have been filed against 7 MSU football players for their involvement in the tunnel melee against Michigan players on Oct. 29 Khary Crump being charged with felonious assault, Jacoby Windon assault & battery, 5 others with aggravated assault.

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Mr. Brightside.

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10 months

Jim Harbaugh puts the buffs on.

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28 days

Something that will get lost in the fray, how about Jake Rogers and Trey Sweeney with back to back hits off of Clase to set the stage for Kerry? It takes a village.

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4 years

Mel Tucker just had a better win in his fifth game than Jim Harbaugh has had in his six year tenure. And beat him head-to-head last month. Woof.

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10 months

Alabama WR Isaiah Bond tells me Tide players are NOT watching film on their individual tablets at recommendation of coaches because of U-M’s sign stealing scandal. “The app we record film off…I guess they were looking at other peoples play calls, hand signals stuff like that.”

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Jim Harbaugh with a lengthy statement. Says an apology won’t cut it and that he can’t imagine this won’t “result in criminal charges.”

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Riley Greene: “We’re going to start winning baseball games. That’s all I got to say.”

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Michigan State basketball in the house at the spring game with AJ Hoggard, Tyson Walker and Jaden Akins all on the sideline today.

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@BleacherReport Imagine not having any accolades and then saying something like this about a 4x NBA champion, 4x All Star and former Defensive Player of the Year.

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What does this Final Four win mean to Purdue? Robbie Hummel is crying courtside, a Boilermakers staffer just hugged him. 44 years of demons finally exercised.

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5 months

Tarik Skubal is entering that Justin Verlander territory for how you feel when he’s on the mound. Not only does a win feel likely, but runs against are almost strange. Even when runners get on, you just expect him to get out of it. A true ace. You don’t trade that.

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Wait, a head coach for a Big Ten football team got caught committing a Level II violation and actually took accountability for it? He didn’t have to make it a dog and pony show? Now it will not get dragged on for years? I, for one, am shocked. Didn’t know that was possible.

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Statement from Iowa related to Kirk Ferentz’s one-game suspension

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6 years

Michigan State has played in exactly 100 NCAA tournament games and won 69 of them.

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2 years

Been to a lot of big events at MSU. Never seen a more emotional moment than Adrien Payne’s silent dunk in honor of Lacey Holsworth. Wasn’t a dry eye in the arena. Payne, 31, has died. He was always understated, but a very good man. A gut wrenching loss.

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I'm 29-years-old -- I'm pretty sure that's the best half of Lions football since I've been alive. Lions 22, Commanders 0.

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2 years

Detroit sports General Managers: Troy Weaver, Steve Yzerman, Brad Holmes and Al Avila. One of these is not like the others.

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10 months

This will be framed many places.

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3 years

Remember, Kenneth Walker wasn’t a Heisman finalist. If you had a ballot and he wasn’t top 3 on it, I won’t ever listen to your opinion about football. Just needed to make sure that was in writing.

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10 months

Jim Harbaugh gives his first remarks since landing in Houston. Said he’s been emphasizing rest, avoiding getting a big head.

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9 years

Geiger postgame on Spartan Radio: "It was the biggest kick of my life, and I fucking nailed it."

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16 days

Illinois trolls Michigan as it plays Mr. Brightside at the 2-minute timeout here in the fourth quarter.

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1 year

Never know what you’ll see in Ann Arbor. Was driving down the road, turned left and Denard Robinson Jr. was on a run down State Street.

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I have never in my life needed to see a baseball game between two approximately .500 teams in the middle of June this badly.

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10 months

Juwan Howard hugs his former Fab 5 teammates as he exits the court at halftime.

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The Free Press has learned that Mazi Smith is facing felony gun charges from an incident in early October. A call to a UM spokesman was not immediately returned. Smith, a key piece on the defensive line, has played in all 12 games this year.

Michigan football's Mazi Smith facing felony weapon charge, court records show

Michigan football defensive lineman Mazi Smith is facing a felony weapons charge stemming from an Oct. 7 incident, Washtenaw County court records show

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1 year

Jim Harbaugh: “You want a bold statement, I’ll give you a bold statement — every single one of our coaches will be a head coach some day. Maybe even four of them even next year.”

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The introduction is official: Dwayne Stephens is the @WMUMBB basketball coach. Tom Izzo about halfway through looking like the proudest father.

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For the first time since their playing days, the Fab 5 is all under the Crisler Center roof. “It’s really cool to be here, but it’s better to be here as family,” Chris Webber said. “If it took 100 years, I’d wait that long to be here, sincerely. So it feels great.”

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Jim Harbaugh the first off the plane for Michigan here in Arizona.

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4 years

Tom Izzo’s worst team in a quarter century and he bears two top five teams in one week.

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1 year

Martelli shared this story after his son's Bryant hoops team beat Top 10 FAU. "Matt Painter & Tom Izzo reached out to my son, so for anybody out there who wants to say they're these awful -- uhuh, those are real dudes... to take the time to reach out ...I'll never forget that."

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2 years

I think they miss Trey Burke in Ann Arbor.

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3 years

More (personal) news: I am truly honored and blessed to say that starting Monday, I will be the new sports reporter at the Detroit Free Press. I’ve been working every day my entire adult life toward this and I hope to live up to the incredible standards at @freep . Let’s do it!!

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7 years

Former 2-star recruit Darqueze Dennard just talckled former 2-star recruit LeVeon Bell on Monday Night Football. Remember, stars matter.

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Tom Izzo: "I'm excited for what will be the greatest non-conference schedule in Michigan State history."

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10 months

Just spoke with Cornelius Johnson, who tells me he does not know what J.J. McCarthy’s future decision will be, but he does have a guess. “I mean if he was coming back, I think he would’ve said it just now, right?”

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8 years

Not the Jackson they had in mind, but ironic how this will likely be MSU's starting lineup in 2017-18.

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The craziest ending you will ever see. Powers North Central wins Class D state semifinal 84-83 in double overtime at the the buzzer.

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2 years

Little Friday night news dump: Hearing that Michigan State football should be getting some welcomed recruiting news early next week.

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2 years

Mazi Smith getting dialed in.

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This just in: Michigan State's Tom Izzo and Mel Tucker will serve as Co-Grand Marshals for NASCAR Cup Series FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway next Sunday.

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Michigan PG Dug McDaniel was hospitalized prior to the Michigan State game for dehydration. He did not practice for three days leading up to it, was discharged the morning of the game and went directly to meet with his team to play.

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This just in: Defensive backs coach and Steve Clinkscale is leaving Michigan to join Jim Harbaugh’s staff on the Chargers, sources with knowledge of the situation tell the Free Press. Another major blow to the coaching staff, this one in particular on the recruiting trail.

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4 years

Mel Tucker just bought himself a decade in East Lansing.

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8 months

FINAL: Oakland 80, Kentucky 76. Greg Kampe pulls off one of the biggest upsets in March madness history.

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2 years

Gemon Green’s attorney Tom Mars tells me his client has a concussion after getting hit with a helmet in the tunnel following the UM vs. MSU game. His full statement below:

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Mel Tucker on his pass defense going into 2022: "Well it can't be any worse."

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7 months

Not sure if @Twins has officially announced this yet, but Simeon Woods Richardson will get the call up from the St. Paul Twins, presumably as the 27th man for tomorrow’s double header vs. the @tigers . How do I know? He’s on my Delta flight home to Detroit right now.

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Mel Tucker, if you could make one change across college football, what would that be? "I'd like them to figure out what holding is." That got a big laugh. Mel chuckles then says, "I'm dead serious, what is holding?"

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4 years

Alright, everybody check off ‘Jim Harbaugh celebrating Rutgers missing a field goal in overtime to keep his job alive’ off of your 2020 bingo card.

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3 years

Main question for Tom Izzo: What part of MSU’s program does he hope Stephens brings with him to WMU? In a word.. Winning.

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10 months

Blake Corum enters wearing a Barry Sanders jersey

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Trevor Keegan just spoke more bluntly about the team’s statement win over MSU than anyone else I’d heard yet: “Everything that happened in the tunnel last year…we said we were over it, we weren’t over it. We wanted to go there, really beat down on them. So it was nice.”

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Michigan State was wearing its Big Ten Championship shirts before the game was over. If that’s not Big March Energy, I don’t know what is.

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10 months

Here come the Wolverines.

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2 years

Sitting here thinking about how Troy Weaver became the Pistons GM just more than two years ago. It took 735 days (through a pandemic) to flip Stan Van Gundy's mess of a team that had been stuck in purgatory for 10+ years into perhaps the brightest young team in the NBA. Unreal.

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Bo Boroski just called two fouls on Jalen Suggs in the first three minutes of the championship game. Why does he have to ruin everything?

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3 years

At work listening to the police scanner where Michigan State University/East Lansing police at their second couch/mattress fire in 15 minutes, this time on 'Albert and Bailey'. Good to see nature is healing.

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@AKATheMaskedMan @WojVerticalNBA Tom Izzo has never finished under .500 in the conference in past 20 seasons. 0/10 on this troll job.

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Michigan has touched down in Phoenix for its College Football Playoff matchup with TCU in the Fiesta Bowl.

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‘The Rocket’ Roger Clemens holding court today in the Tigers press box. His son, Kody, will make his MLB debut for the Tigers in a few hours.

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3 years

@FieldYates Some of us support the Detroit Lions, Field.

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. @DjStephens31 jokes about how he will be different than his mentor, Tom Izzo. "We will have a zone."

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10 months

For the final time, The Victors.

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10 months

Blake Corum is speechless

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5 years

It’s honestly good that Gabe Brown missed that dunk, because you get arrested for murder.

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4 years

The storyline Josh Langford just wrote for his career with that shot. Amazing.

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10 months

Ballgame: Michigan 27, Alabama 20 (OT) Michigan is going to the national championship.

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4 months

We all know the programs are in wildly different spots, but this might be the biggest statement toward U/M and indictment of current state of things at MSU. Son of a legacy OL and current color commentator for the Spartans and yet Kaden is headed to Ann Arbor. Says a lot.

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Woke up a wolverine and man it feels good! #GoBlue 〽️

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2 years

Pretty awesome. Tigers surprise Miguel Cabrera by bringing back Victor Martinez to present him with the 3,000th hit ball. The two share a long embrace to a thunderous applause.

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9 years

Just realized with that win, MSU moved to a combined 4-0 in football and basketball against UM and OSU this year. All on the road.

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2 years

Hunter Dickinson hits a dagger 3-pointer and his barstool boys are loving it, Michigan leads MSU 78-72 with 1:05 to play.

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2 years

At Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin where Jett Howard is wearing a “Free Juwan” t-shirt in warmups. His father & coach got into an altercation with a Wisconsin staffer in the postgame handshake line last year. Tonight’s the meeting between the teams since. Love is in the air.

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6 months

Riley Greene has hit two home runs today. Riley Greene leads the MLB in walks. Riley Greene is 23 years old.

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2 years

Just had a good talk with 4-star Cass Tech defensive end @__4jalen . Tells me he’s planning to announce a top 5 shortly, then set up his remaining OVs. Going to Pitt this weekend, Cincinnati next. MSU and UM both made his top 10. Already has a college build, 6-4, 230 lbs.

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Once again i will remind everyone this game is always a referendum on where MSU is, has little to do with Michigan. 4 times in the Dantonio Era, MSU has lost 6+ games. UM 4-0 in those years. All other years, when MSU has a winning season and is halfway decent, MSU is 8-0.

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Mel Tucker on Pat Narduzzi's comments: I'd prefer not to get into hypotheticals. Especially with games that were in the past and were decided on the field.

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J.J. McCarthy postgame after what he called the greatest game of his life.

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@diegopeaches @BleacherReport I guess I missed where Steph Curry’s range helped him become the best defensive player in the NBA for a 3-5 year stretch.

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2 years

Senior Day, er, Joey Baker day here at Crisler Center for the Michigan hoops 2022-23 home finale. Juwan Howard was posing for a picture with Baker’s family and framed jersey when the team came running over from the bench and dove in the shot.

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Detroit sports teams are 70-171-1 since the Tigers season began on March 28, 219. That’s 242 games in 275 days and they’re combined to be more than 100 games below .500. We all know the numbers, but this level of futility will likely never be reached by a single city again.

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10 months

President Santa Ono with a message to Michigan nation.

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2 years

@BenVerlander Alfonso Soriano looks like he ate Alfonso Soriano. My man is a unit.

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Transparency. Consistency. Accountability. It’s what we all expect from our public institutions. It’s also what we’re not getting from Michigan football (and athletics as a whole) right now amidst an off-season of with investigations.

Michigan football's offseason demands accountability from Jim Harbaugh, Warde Manuel

On the field, it's hard to argue with the job Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh and AD Warde Manuel are doing. Off the field is a different story.

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9 years

That moment when you're graduating with Connor Cook. We made it!

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2 years

Michigan State receives a standing ovation from the Maize Rage as it takes the court for tonight’s game at Michigan.

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BREAKING: Alex Orji will start at QB for Michigan this week against USC.

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10 months

Warde Manuel and Zak Zinter embrace.

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2 years

For the crowd debating if the Lions game Sunday is a must-win vs. Commanders, the answer is yes. 27 teams have started 0-2 in the NFL the past 3 years -- all 27 teams have missed the playoffs. Since '07, just 12 of 125 teams have made the playoffs after 0-2 start. That's 9.6%.

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