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Michigan AD Rips Fans Who Mocked Fumbling Punter In Open Letter
After Michigan lost yesterday to Michigan State on a wild, fumbled snap, punter Blake O’Neill was the subject of death threats. This is both depressing and unsurprising, the sort of standard nonsense all athletes are subject to on social media after high profile errors....

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Local News Delivers Entire Report On Michigan Beating MSU, Live From The Big House
If you tuned in to Grand Rapids ABC station WZZM for the news this evening, we’ll forgive you for not knowing that Michigan State beat Michigan with a miracle final play. That’s because the reporter on the scene, Jamal Spencer, delivered a complete live shot describing joyous Wolverines fans streami...
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MSU's Miracle Win Over Michigan, As Called By Each Team's Home Radio Announcers [UPDATE]
Michigan simply had to execute a punt—any punt—to beat Michigan State. They couldn’t, and the immediate and inexplicable reversal of fortune left Michigan State’s radio announcers on WJR (above) in ecstasy; it left the Wolverines’ announcers on WTKA (below) despondent....
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Michigan Blown Snap On Final Play Of Game Hands Win To Michigan State [UPDATE]
Michigan State found victory in the most unlikely of circumstances when the Spartans returned a botched long snap on the final play of the game to turn what the world assumed would be a 23-21 Michigan win into a 27-23 loss. This is absoutely bonkers....

Ultimate Tom Brady Fan Has Fierce & Foul Words
Ahh, a Michigan Man. Is there anything he can’t accomplish through a flourish of words and a commanding gesture? This is excellent broadcast work by ESPN, here. ...

Michigan Punter Uncorks 80-Yarder
Michigan punter Blake O’Neill hails from Australia, and his rugby-style punt started from inside his own five yard line and finished just shy of Michigan State’s goal line. Consider this your punting highlight of the day; it’s the longest punt so far this season....

Thank You Jed York: Your Ann Arbor <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
ESPN’s College GameDay headed to Ann Arbor today for the big Michigan-MSU matchup. Here are some of the highlights. ...

Some Michigan Vandals Defaced Michigan State's Terrible Magic Johnson Statue
The Michigan State-Michigan football game is this weekend, which means it’s time for fans of the rival schools to get up to some pregame shenanigans. Michigan fans struck first, by sneaking onto the MSU campus and defacing several landmarks, including a statue of Magic Johnson....

Amara Darboh Celebrates U.S. Citizenship With One-Handed Circus Catch
Amara Darboh and his family fled the civil war in Sierra Leone when he was two years old, and after four years of moving across West Africa, he was eventually taken in by a family in Iowa. Both of his parents were killed in the fighting, and The Ann Arbor News has the definitive profile on him, whic...

Syracuse QB Eric Dungey Leaves Game After CMU Linebacker's Nasty Hit
Syracuse beat Central Michigan 30-27 in overtime Saturday, but the Orange lost starting freshman quarterback Eric Dungey after he was injured by a hit from Chippewas linebacker Mitch Stanitzek. Dungey didn’t return to the game, and Stanitzek was ejected for targeting....

Aaron Burbridge Circus Catch So Good Officials Initially Called It Incomplete
Michigan State is having its way with Air Force today, and the Spartans’ Aaron Burbridge helped his team advance that lead with a phenomenal catch that needed video review to rightfully earn the six points. But, hey! The officials got it right eventually....

Enjoy Several Minutes Of Zeke The Wonder Dog Performing At The Oregon-MSU Game
Zeke The Wonder Dog is a Michigan State tradition, with some iteration of the frisbee dog performing at Spartans games since the 1970s. Here’s your most modern Zeke getting some action during halftime of tonight’s big game against Oregon. Good dog!...

"I'm White": Your East Lansing <i>College GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
Here is your always-amusing, often-disturbing College GameDay sign roundup, with our usual special guest appearance from SEC Nation....

Deadspin 25: Michigan State Will Spend Another Season In Ohio State's Shadow
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Surprise Scholarship Stunt Doesn't Go Quite As Smoothly As Planned
Western Michigan surprised walk-on junior RB/special teamer Trevor Sweeney with a scholarship during practice this week. The offer was strapped to a football that Sweeney was supposed to discover during an onside-kick drill. Except:...

Deadspin 25: Michigan Will Suck, Because Even Jim Harbaugh Needs Time To Work A Miracle
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Michigan Sports' Facebook Pages Hacked, Overloaded With Butts
Fans of the Michigan football and men’s basketball teams hoping to find some recruiting or offseason workout news on the teams’ Facebook pages have been instead been greeted with softcore porn. A hacker has apparently taken over the accounts, and is posting wild, sexually-suggestive links....

Plaxico Burress Blasts Nick Saban, His College Coach
Alabama lost to Ohio State 42-35 in the Sugar Bowl, and at SEC Media Days yesterday Nick Saban advanced a bizarre theory to explain that loss. He says that team chemistry was harmed by players learning about their NFL Draft grade in the days leading up to the game, and that somehow hurt preparation....

Jim Harbaugh, Colin Cowherd Combine For A Disastrous Interview
Jim Harbaugh called into drive-time ratfuck Colin Cowherd’s radio show this morning for an interview, and it was spectacularly awful. Cowherd was throwing every possible question at the Michigan football coach, and Harbaugh couldn’t generate any semblance of dialogue. Cowherd ended up cutting the in...