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A Motown Welcome to the Final Four - Now One!

03:13 PM ET 03.24

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Congratulations to the North Carolina Tar Heels. They demonstrated all season long and throughout the playoffs that they are national champions. And while the Michigan State Spartans didn't win their last game of the season, they have nothing to be ashamed of for their performance this year.Thanks are due to all those who made this year's Final Four such a resounding success. Thousands of people from southeast Michigan and southern Ontario put in hours and hours of work - much of it volunteer - to give college basketball its best chance to shine. And shine it did!But…

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An Open Letter to RichRod at Michigan

09:59 AM ET 03.11

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Note: This is independent of the other
RichRod at Michigan posts so it is not necessary to read those in
order to understand this one. Those who desire a fuller sense of
continuity may want to read How
to Fire a Head Coach, Journey
Into the Abyss, Westward
Ho!, Circling
the Wagons, and Shootout
at the Big House.

Dear Coach Rodriguez,

You have now been the Wolverines coach
for a little over a year. Your apologists have asked that we wait
one or two more years before assessing your effectiveness at
Michigan. It will take that long, they say, to know whether you will
be successful. …

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Shootout at the Big House - RichRod at Michigan

01:43 PM ET 02.10

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Note that this post does not depend on the previous posts in the RichRod at Michigan series: How to Fire a Head Coach, Journey Into the Abyss, Westward Ho!, and Circling the Wagons. Reading one or more of those might provide an additional sense of continuity for those who wish to make the effort. On November 15, 2008 the Michigan Wolverines hosted the Northwestern Wildcats at the Big House in Ann Arbor. Northwestern was not considered a collegiate powerhouse, and demonstrated it by beating the once mighty Wolverines by only 21 - 14. But for Michigan, it was only another nail in the…

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Seabird 56 | 5 months ago

Oh no, keep it by all means. Been unavoidably called away but more soon on the bird front.

goody's mom | 5 months ago

Jack, this is the first visit to you profile this season! Where have I been!? Love the poems and the new avatar is fabulous! Missing time on the boards but I'm definitely there in spirit!-Michelle

Chuckles, you weren't supposed to use that unless you won......Ah well.......

My favorite Gordon Lightfoot song. And I think I saw those pics on PBS. Or maybe it was a different expedition. One of the divers left a bottle of beer in the pilot house as a tribute. What struck me also was that the ship went down in water that's not as deep as the ship is long. Both the Pens and Wings look solid to me, what's not to like? And Malkin has been hot. But if he reverts to last year's form in the finals, the Wings will prevail. The Pens need both of their stars to be firing on all cylinders for them to win. It certainly has the makings to be one of the great all-time Finals.

Is the Calypso sailing through the straits of Mackinaw? Yes, I saw most of all the weekend games, poor officiating and all ( maybe the NHL should institute a mandatory video review for match penalties ) but I'm still picking the Pens. Suicidal I may be but I'm going with my gut feeling. I've been known to be wrong before. On many counts :)