Sara Driesenga sparkles as Michigan softball romps in opener

The Michigan softball team’s quest for its second national championship couldn’t have gotten off to a better start. In front of a packed crowd, Driesenga flirted with a perfect game as No. 8-seed Michigan overpowered Valparaiso, 5-0, in its NCAA Division 1 regional opener. More

Michigan coach Brady Hoke: 'chickening out' line not insult to Notre Dame players

Hoke said his comment regarding Notre Dame ending the football series after the next two games was not meant as an insult to any of the Irish players. Hoke was a call-in guest to WTKA Friday morning as part of the Mott Takeover fundraiser. More

Michigan leading rusher Mike Hart sad to see Notre Dame series go

Hart, Michigan's all-time leading rusher, is now an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan, but he still has opinions about the Wolverines. He's disappointed the Michigan-Notre Dame series will be suspended after the 2014 game in South Bend, Ind. More

Ex-Michigan center Steve Everitt calls Kirk Cousins’ 2011 comments ‘ridiculous’

Everitt, who last played at Michigan in 1992, appeared on WTKA's Mott Takeover fundraiser Friday and randomly referred to the former Michigan State quarterback's comment from two seasons ago, after the Spartans' fourth straight victory. More

Al Borges fine with Michigan’s Devin Gardner seeking QB guru’s help

Borges didn't take it personally when starting quarterback Devin Gardner recently enlisted QB guru George Whitfield for a three-day training session. Whitfield has worked with a number of college and NFL quarterbacks. More

Lloyd Carr, former U-M players back Brady Hoke on 'chickening out' comment

Brady Hoke's recent "chickening out" comment regarding Notre Dame and its exit from the series with Michigan after the next two games definitely has support among former Wolverines. More

Ex-Michigan RB Anthony Thomas likes look of incoming Derrick Green

Thomas, who appeared Friday on WTKA's Mott Takeover fundraiser, said he received a tweet from Green several months ago. "I didn't know who he was," Thomas said. More

Sara Driesenga helps youth movement take hold on U-M softball team

Sara Driesenga has known for years she was partial to Michigan. During Michigan’s run to the national championship in 2005, Driesenga was 12 years old, but already was sold on playing for the Wolverines. More

Michigan G Kyle Kalis made huge strides in spring practice, Al Borges says

Borges said that despite the youth and inexperience of the interior offensive line, he likes how physical they were in spring practice. Borges appeared early Friday morning on WKTA-AM during the "Mott Takeover" fundraiser for Mott Hospital. More

Penn State ‘a good hunch’ as Michigan night foe in 2014; full schedule here

Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon certainly knows it’s not an ideal situation for Michigan to play at Michigan State in football the next two seasons — the 2014 Big Ten schedule was revealed Thursday by the conference — but he prefers to look at the positives. More

• Michigan's Trey Burke ready for NBA with help from trusted allies
• Brady Hoke laments loss of Notre Dame series in wake of ‘chicken’ comment

Brady Hoke laments loss of Notre Dame series in wake of ‘chicken’ comment

"The excitement of that game on a national level, I just think it’s going to be too bad when that series ends," Hoke said Thursday on ESPN's "Mike and Mike" show. "College football is changing. For the better? I don’t know." More

• Penn State ‘a good hunch’ as Michigan night foe in 2014; full schedule here
• MSU opens 2014 Big Ten campaign at home vs. Nebraska; full schedule here
• Michigan has no plans for alternate football uniform in 2013 regular season
• Michigan gets OK for synthetic turf on baseball, softball fields

Michigan has no plans for alternate football uniform in 2013 regular season

After running through all sorts of uniform combinations over the past two seasons, Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon said this week there are no plans to wear an alternate jersey during the 2013 regular season. More

• Michigan's Trey Burke ready for NBA with help from trusted allies
• Brady Hoke laments loss of Notre Dame series in wake of ‘chicken’ comment

Michigan gets OK for synthetic turf on baseball, softball fields

University of Michigan Board of Regents on Thursday approved funding for athletic facility improvements, including replacing natural grass with synthetic turf at the baseball and softball fields. Regents also OK’d a $13.5 million field hockey project. More

• Brady Hoke laments loss of Notre Dame series in wake of ‘chicken’ comment

Reports: Ex-Michigan star Denard Robinson lines up at QB for Jaguars

Robinson, who projected as a running back/receiver prospect when the Jaguars drafted him in the fifth round, was lining up at quarterback at times during Jacksonville’s organized team activities Wednesday, according to multiple reports. More

Julie Hermann takes over as Rutgers AD, won’t try to spend like Michigan

Rutgers named Julie Hermann its new athletic director Wednesday, and the former No. 2 athletic administrator at Louisville promised a restart for the scandal-scarred program following the ouster of its men’s basketball coach and the resignation of other officials. More

Brady Hoke comment elicits 'delicious' response from Notre Dame player

The matchup between Michigan and Notre Dame is coming to an end, but apparently the echoes have been awoken in the rivalry just as the series winds down. More

Secondary role in Michigan offense didn’t bother Tim Hardaway Jr.

After helping Michigan reach the NCAA title game, Tim Hardaway Jr. announced last month that he would forgo his senior season and enter the June 27 NBA draft. More

Safety Marvin Robinson, LB Mike Jones leave Michigan football team

Michigan safety Marvin Robinson and linebacker Mike Jones have left the football team, a U-M spokesman confirmed Monday. Linebacker Kaleb Ringer left the team last week. More

• Michigan softball team hosts regional as No. 8 seed for NCAA tournament

Michigan softball team hosts regional as No. 8 seed for NCAA tournament

Michigan’s softball team enters the NCAA tournament as the No. 8 overall seed and will host a four-team regional this week at Alumni Field in Ann Arbor. More

• Safety Marvin Robinson, LB Mike Jones leave Michigan football team

Tickets on sale Friday for Michigan vs. Stanford at Barclays Center

As previously reported, Michigan’s basketball game against Stanford at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Dec. 21 will be part of a tripleheader. More

Top-seeded Michigan falls in Big Ten softball semifinal

Michigan (45-10), ranked sixth in the nation, was the Big Ten regular-season champion and the No. 1 seed in the tournament. Wisconsin (41-11), seeded No. 4, will play Minnesota in the tournament championship game at 1 p.m. Sunday (BTN). More

‘Mott Takeover’ highlights U-M golf-weekend fundraiser for Children’s Hospital

The primary goal of the weekend, hosted by former Michigan players Brian Griese, Steve Hutchinson and Charles Woodson, is to assist funding research to help children with heart defects. More

Southfield linebacker Lawrence Marshall headed to Michigan

Marshall had committed to Ohio State in February, then de-committed two days later. His commitment increases U-M's total to nine for the class of 2014. More

Michigan advances in Big Ten softball tournament

Ashley Lane hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning and the Wolverines withstood a late Ohio State rally to win, 3-2, in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals Friday at the University of Nebraska. More

Senior eases into leadership role for Michigan softball team

In her 29 years as Michigan’s softball coach, Carol Hutchins never has been confused with being a laid-back or relaxed person. Never. Enter senior second baseman Ashley Lane. More

Michigan football announces 2020-21 home-and-home series with Va. Tech

Michigan will host the Hokies on Sept. 19, 2020, at Michigan Stadium and will travel to Blacksburg, Va., on Sept. 11, 2021. The teams' only meeting was in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 3, 2012. More

Report: Ex-Arkansas QB Brandon Mitchell considering Michigan

Mitchell, a former Arkansas quarterback whose transfer was announced Monday by new coach Bret Bielema, apparently is looking at Michigan. That's according to a sourced ESPN.com report that appeared Thursday. More