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Manningham, Michigan Men shine at Super Bowl XLVI
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BY ALEX LEVINE
Michigan was well-represented at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis on Sunday, and it was former Wolverine wide receiver Mario Manningham’s late-game heroics that helped the New York Giants seal their 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots.
Pipkins, Henry shore up interior defensive line corps
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BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
Ondre “Pee-Wee” Pipkins, a defensive tackle from Kansas City, joined Willie Henry to form Michigan’s two-man interior lineman haul on National Signing Day. The additions were crucial for a defensive line that graduated three starting seniors this month.
Hoke protects backyard, climbs rankings with 2012 recruiting class
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BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
Brady Hoke and the Michigan football coaching staff eased into their seats in the war room at Schembechler Hall and waited. It was 7 a.m. yesterday — National Signing Day across college football.
• O-LINE: Kalis headlines formidable front
• RECRUITING: Michigan announces 25-man class
Kalis leads Funk's career-best haul on offensive line, but class lacks a center
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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.
SportsMonday Column: The lasting legacy of Joe Paterno
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BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
Former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr met him. He remembers Paterno’s “competitive spirit, incredible generosity, his honesty, his integrity and his humanity.”
Kiper projects Robinson as one of top wide receiver prospects for 2013 draft
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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.
Out of second chances, Stonum dismissed from Michigan football team
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BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
Senior wide receiver Darryl Stonum has been dismissed from the Michigan football team for a violation of team rules, according to a statement released on Tuesday afternoon.
SportsTuesday Column: Hoke's success grounded in grooming future leaders
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BY TIM ROHAN
Simply telling the players how to lead wouldn’t be enough. Darrell Funk’s duty was to inspire organic confidence, an idea planted and prepared to sprout yet still originating within oneself.
Tim Rohan: Sugar Bowl performance prompts question, did Robinson learn anything at all?
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BY TIM ROHAN
Michigan’s season ended with the sight of Denard Robinson racing across the field, mouth completely agape, screaming at the top of his lungs.
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The Strongest Muscle: The backstory that built Dave Molk into Michigan's mainstay
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
LEMONT, Ill. — With the early strains of The Star-Spangled Banner hanging in the brisk autumn air, Dave Molk glanced over his shoulder.
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Family First: Marell Evans's journey from the Big House to the warehouse and back
BY KEVIN RAFTERY
“Marell Evans is what college football should be all about.”
It’s a proclamation about as powerful as the 6-foot-3, 237-pound linebacker. Yet, in a college football world where headlines are littered with scandal and crime, his story sounds nothing like college football at all.
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The question that made Brady Hoke: 'What does your name mean to you?'
BY TIM ROHAN
YORKTOWN, Ind. — Dave Tanner drove his light blue Volkswagen Bug just down the road, past the corn stalks and past the homes of all his players and boosters. Past the big white water tower with “YORKTOWN” in green lettering, with a tiger painted on the side.
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Coach J and Co.: Why Fred Jackson has stayed Michigan's running backs coach for the past two decades
BY MICHAEL FLOREK
“Do you want to be the next Michigan running back?”
It wasn’t so much a question as a recruiting pitch.
Fred Jackson was in Double Oak, Texas. Tall, with a mustache fading into his cheeks, at 61 the wrinkles are there, but only if you look for them. In his deep, booming voice he asked this question to 17-year old Stephen Hopkins.
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Out of the Corridor: How Cass Tech is using football to save young men from inner-city dangers
BY STEPHEN J. NESBITT
DETROIT — It is 5 p.m. on August 29. The heat is just starting to subside and the shoulder pads are cracking a little harder than usual.
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The Loneliest Number: How five men made a jersey a tradition
BY TIM ROHAN
Former Michigan linebacker Jarret Irons said it best: “When great players play with certain numbers they want to give it to someone who has that type of potential.”
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