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Wednesday Quick Hits: Webber Retires
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6 Comments- Michigan’s spring football roster is out.
- Michigan’s final spring football practice will likely be held at Saline High School, but would not be open to the public due to there not being enough room for all of the people that would show up.
- The Michigan women’s basketball team won its first postseason game in seven years on Monday by beating VCU 75-57 in the second round of the WNIT. Michigan now moves on to the third round of the tournament to host Southern Miss on Thursday.
- As it turns out, ESPNU is not going to allow Michigan’s game against Niagara in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament to be syndicated locally, meaning most fans won’t be able to watch the game.
- The Blog That Yost Built takes a look at Niagara, Michigan’s first round opponent.
- The Hoover Street Rag has started previewing the NCAA Hockey Tournament.
- Construction on Michigan Stadium has stopped for two days due to a walkout by the Graduate Employee Organization. Michigan Against the World is not happy about it.
- On April 14, Michigan’s annual basketball celebration will be held at the Junge Family Champions Center. Tickets to the event are $40.
- Ex-Fab Five member Chris Webber has decided to retire from the NBA.
- Mother nature has defeated the Michigan baseball team yet again.
- Former Michigan running back and current actor Jarrod Bunch was on CSI: Miami on Monday.
- Jim Carty was interviewed on WTKA on Tuesday and sounded like a condescending ass. Sam Webb did his best to ask Carty some tough questions, but Carty basically deflected all of them.
Anyone going to the NIT game?? I’m thinking about going, since it may be 2-3 years before the men’s team makes the post season. Our coach is sooooo intense it is funny. He sure can coach, if you look at our record over the past 2 years and this year.
Where the heck does Carty go from here? He’s basically made himself into a pariah among fans and the athletic department for a story that went nowhere and barely scuffed the University’s image.
I know it’s not a reporter’s job to make friends, but in order to do his job, he needs to be looked on somewhat favorably during standard, everyday, boring press events that the athletic department holds. I can’t imagine he’s helped himself in that respect.
What an odd fellow…
So what is Webber going to do now that he’s retired? Be a greeter at the Detroit Casinos? Become a pot grower by buying up cheap homes in Detroit and turning them into “juana” farms? Coach HS basketball and teach kids how to call time outs at the the worse possible time? Or maybe host a new NBC game show called “Perjury!”?
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/highschools/content/sports/epaper/2007/12/23/a3_AA_smallO_feagin_1223.html
the one that usually posts but hasn’t lately,
Well said!! I could not have said it better myself!!
I am guessing Webber will be a pot grower and lose all his money on pot and then act like a bum. (Although now that I think of it, he acts like a bum already.) lol
I hope UM continues to distant itself from Webber. Also, it is not like the fab 5 was the only time we were successful in basketball. UM should honor the Glenn Rice era, as they actually won a national title. The only championship the fab 5 won was the Puerto Rico classic, or some preseason tourny. (Anyone, correct me if I am wrong.)
I am curious, of all programs that were put on probation and lost schollies due to an NCAA investigation, do the schools and the schools’ fans continue to ignore the players that started the investigation? (Some examples to look at would be Bama, Miami, Washington for football. Heck, tosu completely distants themselves from clarrett, and he helped them win a national title, not to mention osu getting away with murder with their academic scandals and paying players. Sure NCAA, Clarett was making up everything.)
Keep posing, the one that usually posts but hasn’t lately!! Your insights are enjoyable to read!
The whole UM academic mess is America’s fault and is just another example of George Bush failing in the worst way. We must learn to work together, as a society, to blah blah blah….