Michigan Jim Harbaugh Using New Defense To Defend Against Ohio State Streak Hot Seat Talk

Does Harbaugh, who continues to chase that elusive coaching victory over Ohio State and Michigan’s first Big Ten championship since 2004, hear the noise? “It’s almost like World War II propaganda machines,” Harbaugh said Thursday at Big Ten Media Days before lowering his voice to a whisper. “‘Stop! Quit! No need to try! You have no chance. Don’t go any further!’” BENDER: Big Ten, with limited options, right to avoid expansion talk Then he offered a 50 Cent piece of motivation....

January 7, 2023 · 5 min · 941 words · Paul Carol

Michigan Health Official Disputes Report Of 30 Percent More Nursing Home Covid Deaths

The report was requested by state Republican lawmaker Rep. Steve Johnson, who believes the increase of deaths is due to a COVID policy enacted by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The policy allows hospitalized virus patients to return to nursing homes, despite being in quarantine. “Michigan residents deserve to know the cost of Gov. Whitmer’s disastrous policy of placing COVID-positive patients into nursing homes,” Johnson said to WXYZ. The state general auditor’s office announced last July they were looking into reported and unreported COVID-19-related deaths in nursing homes and long-term care facilities per Johnson’s request....

January 7, 2023 · 2 min · 374 words · Joshua Lang

Michigan Man Gets 5 Years For Attacking Black Teen With Bike Lock In Hate Crime

Lee Mouat, 43, of Newport, Michigan pleaded guilty on March 4 to “willfully causing bodily injury to a Black teenager because of the teenager’s race.” Along with his five-year prison sentence, he also was given three years of supervised release. The incident took place in Monroe, Michigan in June of 2020. Mouat approached a group of Black teenagers while at Sterling State Park. Mouat then began to use racial slurs toward the group of teenagers, stating that they had no right to be at the public beach section of the park....

January 7, 2023 · 3 min · 431 words · Kelly Laplante

Michigan Must Address Students To Fix Growing Ticket Sales Problem

Michigan opens its 2014 Big Ten schedule against Minnesota on Saturday. There will be more than 100,000 in Ann Arbor for the game, but the number of Michigan students among them is an issue that could threaten that attendance record in the future. MORE: Hoke’s last stand means turning to Morris | If not Hoke, then this Harbaugh | Week 5 picks Michigan is finding it a challenge to sell tickets to its students, and that starts with cost....

January 7, 2023 · 3 min · 510 words · Harry Fleming

Michigan Refuses To Adopt Cdc S New Loosened Quarantine Rules As Covid Cases Break Record

In a statement issued Wednesday night, MDHHS said it “intends to review the supporting evidence behind this guidance, while awaiting additional information from the CDC, specifically for special populations and in high-risk settings.” “In the interim, MDHHS will retain current quarantine and isolation guidelines including guidelines for K-12 and congregate care settings,” the department announced. “MDHHS will update Michigan’s guidance when additional information becomes available from the CDC.” An MDHHS spokesperson told Newsweek that while the department doesn’t have an exact timeline for when more information will come from federal officials, it hopes more evidence will be published “very soon....

January 7, 2023 · 3 min · 512 words · Russell Nichols

Michigan S Jabrill Peppers Has Nfl Written All Over Him Somehow

Elsewhere, what do you do with Heisman contender and Michigan defender Jabrill Peppers in the NFL? Is he a safety, linebacker, returner, running back or all of the above? MORE: College football contenders and pretenders Also in this week’s NFL scouting spotlight, meet a redshirt sophomore who’s leaning towards entering the 2017 NFL Draft and has the first- and second-round buzz to merit the decision. Florida State’s defense makes the difference FSU’s defense, which before the Miami game inexplicably had allowed 34 points or more to every FBS team it faced and went through a coordinator switch, rose to the occasion against a top-10 team....

January 7, 2023 · 8 min · 1538 words · David Richter

Michigan Vs. Penn State Odds Prediction Betting Trends For Big Ten East Showdown

Kickoff is scheduled for 12 p.m. at Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pa. The game will be televised on ABC. Michigan (8-1) still has a path to the Big Ten championship game. The Wolverines bounced back from the loss at Michigan State with a convincing victory against Indiana. The Wolverines rank seventh in the FBS with a rushing attack that averages 234.1 yards per game and a top-10 scoring defense (16....

January 7, 2023 · 4 min · 736 words · Earl Watson

Mick Cronin The Less Than Ideal Solution To Ucla S Messy 100 Day Coaching Search

Former Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin was officially named the solution Tuesday months after the Dec. 31 firing of sixth-year UCLA coach Steve Alford. Rather than a celebration of the end of the hunt to find the new face of Bruins basketball, the hiring comes at a time when one of the blue-est of college basketball blue bloods has turned into the laughingstock of college basketball. MORE: Virginia’s dream season leaves behind past March Madness nightmares...

January 7, 2023 · 5 min · 998 words · Juliana Walker

Mick Cronin Angry That Ted Valentine Got In His Face Video

No wonder then, that Bearcats coach Mick Cronin was fired up about a questionable out-of-bounds call that went against his team midway through the second half. Cronin believed that the ball went off UConn’s Shabazz Napier on the play in question, and when official Ted Valentine ruled otherwise, Cronin fumed. Valentine, who has a reputation for being combative, got into the Cronin’s face to argue his point. The exchange got so heated that Justin Jackson stepped in to push his coach away....

January 7, 2023 · 2 min · 264 words · Dorothy Barnes

Mick Foley S Teeth Popped Out During Intense Raw Promo

The WWE legend and “Raw” general manager got into a heated argument with Sami Zayn in the ring Monday night. Foley ranted about how Zayn couldn’t possibly defeat Braun Strowman, a man Foley described as a “monster.” MORE: 10 greatest Hell in a Cell matches ever Foley continued to yell at Zayn until he had to briefly catch his teeth — yes, his teeth. The small group of false teeth jumped right out of Foley’s mouth, but it didn’t stop him from keeping the promo going....

January 7, 2023 · 1 min · 148 words · Reynaldo Arnold

Microvascular Coronary Artery Disease

During the disease process known as atherosclerosis, a coronary artery’s smooth, elastic lining becomes hardened, stiffened, and swollen with all sorts of “grunge”—including calcium deposits, fatty deposits, and abnormal inflammatory cells. Atherosclerosis is typically a relatively localized process that produces discrete and localized plaques. These plaques, which can be thought of as large “pimples” that protrude into the channel of an artery, most often cause localized blockages within the artery....

January 7, 2023 · 3 min · 630 words · George Mahoney

Mideast Can A Wall Stop A War

After a nearly yearlong uprising with no end in sight, growing numbers of Israelis believe that a negotiated peace with their Palestinian neighbors can never be reached. Their solution: “unilateral separation,” a proposal popularized by former prime minister Ehud Barak that is finding wide support across Israel’s political spectrum. According to a recent poll, 60 percent of Israelis now believe the government should withdraw its troops and settlers from the West Bank, build a high wall or fence along the Green Line and eliminate nearly all political and commercial ties with the Palestinians....

January 7, 2023 · 2 min · 366 words · Randall Harriott

Midterm Panic Drives Democrats To Weaponize Paul Pelosi Attack Opinion

You don’t remember that last part, because it never happened. Similarly, nothing like that happened in June of this year, when a would-be assassin turned himself in near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. As he was being charged with attempted murder, no one flipped over to Fox News to find a litany of pundits blaming every liberal in America who had vented about the Court and its constitutionalist justices....

January 7, 2023 · 4 min · 788 words · Bruce Reilly

Migrant Buses Compared To 1962 Reverse Freedom Rides Of Black Families

Since April, governors Greg Abbott of Texas, Doug Ducey of Arizona and Ron DeSantis of Florida have collectively ordered thousands of migrants to be dropped in Democratic-led areas like Washington D.C., New York, Chicago and Martha’s Vineyard. According to many of the migrants who arrived in the small Massachusetts island on Wednesday, those traveling didn’t exactly know their destination—but they were promised they would get jobs and housing upon their arrival....

January 7, 2023 · 5 min · 879 words · Jesus Morales

Mike Bloomberg Suspends 2020 Campaign After Poor Super Tuesday Endorses Joe Biden

The 78-year-old billionaire made the announcement on Wednesday morning following a disappointing Super Tuesday performance. Despite spending half a billion dollars of his own fortune, Bloomberg failed to pick up primary victories and is exiting the race with just 44 delegates under his belt. “Three months ago, I entered the race for President to defeat Donald Trump. Today, I am leaving the race for the same reason: to defeat Donald Trump—because it is clear to me that staying in would make achieving that goal more difficult,” Bloomberg said in a statement....

January 7, 2023 · 3 min · 542 words · Russell Adkins

Mike Ditka Could Ve Prevented Barack Obama Presidency Says Mike Ditka

Well no, but perhaps the ESPN analyst and legendary head coach of the Chicago Bears could have prevented Barack Obama from reaching the Oval Office. While attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Canary Oil plant in Watford City, N.D., the Sunday NFL Countdown analyst told The Dickinson Press that not running against Barack Obama to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate was one of the biggest mistakes of his entire life....

January 7, 2023 · 1 min · 177 words · Thomas Ketner

Mike Fratello Really Feels For His Ukrainian Players

It wasn’t easy. Even then, Russian separatists were making their first overtures in Eastern Ukraine, and since then tensions between the Russia, Ukraine and the West have mounted as violence there has picked up. MORE: Davis came long way in short time | DeRozan dunk | Team USA “It has been a tough year,” Fratello said then. “Emotionally, it has affected a lot of people. I think they get up every day and honestly don’t know what is next....

January 7, 2023 · 2 min · 262 words · Mark Parks

Marcus Smart S Flopping Ability Earns Him New Iphone Game

In fact, many thought he should have left following his freshman year. But he returned to Stillwater to refine his game and to work on areas that needed improvement. As the calendar shifted over to February, Smart began to develop a reputation that may impact his wallet once he gets to the NBA. He's a flopper. MORE: All of Marcus Smart’s flops It's weird because Smart is one of the toughest, grittiest guards in the country, yet he's been caught on more than one occasion selling contact when there was none....

January 6, 2023 · 2 min · 234 words · Geraldine Medas

Maren Morris On Aldean Feud Going High Doesn T Work With These People

The country music singer, 32, and wife of fellow country star Jason Aldean, 34, engaged in a social media exchange in August after Aldean posted an Instagram makeup reveal video with the caption, “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life.” While Morris didn’t mention Aldean by name, she seemingly referenced her in a tweet....

January 6, 2023 · 3 min · 564 words · Barbara Keough

Maria Sharapova Battles Through Against Sam Stosur At French Open

Other women’s seeds advancing Friday included Ana Ivanovic (7) and Ekaterina Makarova (9) . Men’s winners included Roger Federer (2), Tomas Berdych (4) and Stan Wawrinka (8), who KO’d American Steve Johnson in three sets. In another thrilling encounter between the tournament’s No. 2 seed and her Australian adversary, there was no upset. Stosur won their 2014 match at Roland Garros. However, defending champion Sharapova did not have it all her own way in the 6-3, 6-4 win....

January 6, 2023 · 2 min · 393 words · Michael Sesler