Stories by Stephen J. Nesbitt
SportsMonday Column: An overdue story for Papa
- Courtesy of Nesbitt Family
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
This was always Papa’s dream, this sportswriting.
2013 Schefters: A look back at the year that was at Michigan
- Adam Schnitzer/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
What began with the Cowboys Classic on Sept. 1 ended a week ago, when the Michigan men’s basketball fell, 82-76, to Louisville in the national championship game in Atlanta.
SportsMonday Column: Good night, and good luck
- Adam Glanzman/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
And now, somehow, with one more win over Louisville, we can finally say good night to the Fab Five as the face of Michigan basketball, and wish good luck to this revived program.
SportsMonday Column: At Cowboys Stadium, the ending that didn't come
- Todd Needle/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
It was supposed to end here.
SportsMonday Column: Clouds break, but Sunday spells end of impossible run
- Paul Sherman/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
DETROIT — Far too often, clouds hover low over the sports world. Injury and scandal and defeat cast heavy shadows across our immaculately constructed tapestry. Then, finally, if even for just a day or two, the sun breaks through and splashes its rays across the blue backdrop.
SportsMonday Column: Night and day
- Paul Sherman/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
KALAMAZOO — It’s on to Detroit. With the NCAA men’s basketball bracket announced, the Michigan fan base will descend en masse on the Motor City this week to watch both the men’s basketball and hockey teams duel in their respective last-chance, single-elimination games.
SportsMonday Column: Heartbreak at home
- Terra Molengraff/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
It was always supposed to come down to this: Michigan and Indiana for the Big Ten championship. And what a heartbreaker it was.
SportsMonday Column: Life beyond the Olympic rings
- Allison Farrand/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
With their eyes firmly on that prize, the trio paused for just a day last week to relive its journey from student-athlete to Olympian and back again last summer.
SportsMonday Column: Trey Burke, the unfaltering king of Crisler
- Todd Needle/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
That’s not how that Michigan gameplan was written up; Michigan was supposed to mop the Crisler Center floor with the Nittany Lions. But Burke had to bail Michigan out from a monumental upset. Somehow, despite the embarrassment of riches surrounding him, that’s still Burke’s job.
SportsMonday Column: For Michigan hockey, time to wake up and smell the coffee
- Adam Schnitzer/Daily
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
SOUTH BEND — Red Berenson’s favorite coffee mug, the clear one he cradles each time he sits down with reporters outside his office on the second floor of Yost Ice Arena, always offers him the same, pleasant reminder. Black font shadowed against black coffee: Start every day with a smile.
