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Cover Michigan football and hoops for @freep . Graduate of @michiganstateu and @NorthwesternU . Once, Tom Izzo told me I had a good basketball mind.
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U-M won the natty in Jan., but not before probes into its football program by both the NCAA and FBI. Now on probation, did U-M give up its moral high ground for a ring?
“We didn't compromise our image about who we are.”
Part 2 w/ AD Warde Manuel.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Michigan State has played in exactly 100 NCAA tournament games and won 69 of them.
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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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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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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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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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Geiger postgame on Spartan Radio: "It was the biggest kick of my life, and I fucking nailed it."
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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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Juwan Howard hugs his former Fab 5 teammates as he exits the court at halftime.
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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 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.
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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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Tom Izzo’s worst team in a quarter century and he bears two top five teams in one week.
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I think they miss Trey Burke in Ann Arbor.
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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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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
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Let’s do it!!
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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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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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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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Little Friday night news dump: Hearing that Michigan State football should be getting some welcomed recruiting news early next week.
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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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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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Mel Tucker just bought himself a decade in East Lansing.
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FINAL: Oakland 80, Kentucky 76.
Greg Kampe pulls off one of the biggest upsets in March madness history.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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@DjStephens31
jokes about how he will be different than his mentor, Tom Izzo. "We will have a zone."
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The storyline Josh Langford just wrote for his career with that shot. Amazing.
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It’s honestly good that Gabe Brown missed that dunk, because you get arrested for murder.
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Ballgame: Michigan 27, Alabama 20 (OT)
Michigan is going to the national championship.
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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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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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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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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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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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Just had a good talk with 4-star Cass Tech defensive end
@__4jalen
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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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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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President Santa Ono with a message to Michigan nation.
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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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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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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.
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That moment when you're graduating with Connor Cook. We made it!
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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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Drake tried to break the curse and wear a sweater with all four teams on it: both games go to overtime.
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Warde Manuel and Zak Zinter embrace.
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Michigan team plane is confirmed not small.
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Bonnie Tholl: “I’m not here to fill the shoes of Carol Hutchins. I’m here to be a steward of the program.”
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The Detroit Lions are on a Super Bowl graphic.
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I went to MSU from 2011-2015 — the glory years of Spartan athletics. I moved back to Lansing last weekend and MSU hoops is 2-0 since then.
Many are saying I’m responsible for the winning. I’m not saying it, but people are.
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A.J Hinch on his initial conversations with Riley Greene: “I asked him if he had moved in with Tork yet.”
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Who was the last team to beat Kansas? MSU. Who was the last team to beat Oklahoma? Also, MSU.
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