Stories by Tim Rohan
SportsMonday Column: I want to go back to Michigan
- Photo courtesy of Christine Rohan
BY TIM ROHAN
It seems easier now to live like the wheels in a clock, constantly moving forward while witnessing and living in the present and smiling at the past.
SportsMonday Column: The Tale of Taylor Lewan's Twosie
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BY TIM ROHAN
It took more than five decades of living, but Joel Hakken — who had navigated his way from wildly successful business owner to comfortably retired to sports photographer, while in and out of love, and back in love again — decided his friend had been right: “If you tandem before you get married, then you know what the marriage is going to be like.”
Tim Rohan: Devin Gardner's spring fling
- Marissa McClain/Daily
BY TIM ROHAN
It’s either the worst-kept secret or the biggest non-story of the Michigan football team's spring practics: Devin Gardner is taking snaps at wide receiver.
SportsMonday Column: Just one of the guys
- Alden Reiss/Daily
BY TIM ROHAN
It was early February, and Mike Szymusiak crammed into the right side of the bleachers where he had always cheered on the Michigan basketball team.
SportsMonday Column: Trey Burke, born cool
- Todd Needle/Daily
BY TIM ROHAN
INDIANAPOLIS — Watching Trey Burke play the game, you wonder if he was born dribbling a basketball, born smoothly attacking the basket with either hand — floating, gliding, powering, however he wanted. You wonder if he was born so cool.
SportsMonday Column: A humble beginning
- Adam Schnitzer/Daily
BY TIM ROHAN
PONTIAC, Mich. — February 12, 2012 was a Sunday. The sky was a beautiful light blue, and in the morning, the sun hid behind clouds that appeared white and spindly or gray and heavy, depending on how you looked at them.
Kalis leads Funk's career-best haul on offensive line, but class lacks a center
- Erin Kirkland/Daily
BY TIM ROHAN
Short-handed but not discouraged, Darrell Funk found that the hardest part of his job in 2011 was logistics. With just eight offensive lineman on scholarship — most programs have about 14 — Funk’s graduate assistant, Roy Manning, would joke with Funk that it took him a half hour every day just to figure out the rotations for practice.
SportsMonday Column: Five sons return to Barwis for NFL preparation
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BY TIM ROHAN
PLYMOUTH, Mich. — In a nondescript building 20 minutes outside Ann Arbor, Mike Barwis found a new home for his sons. He’s training them now, for the NFL Combine, for the violent game they love and for life.
women's water polo
Aggressive defense propels Water Polo's split in season-opening "Michigan Kick-off" tournament
BY TIM ROHAN
For how new and young his team seemed, for how disappointing its play was in a season-opening loss against an archrival, and for how lazy it played, Michigan water polo coach Matt Anderson knew what to say.
Kiper projects Robinson as one of top wide receiver prospects for 2013 draft
- Erin Kirkland/Daily
BY TIM ROHAN
ESPN draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. scoffed at the pundits who thought Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III would be better suited playing wide receiver in the NFL.
