Tuesday Quick Hits: BlogPoll Joins CBS Sports

By Sean · Tuesday, October 7, 2008 · 12:18 PM |  Share | 1 Comment 

• The BlogPoll is now part of CBSSports.com. It is featured right next to the AP and USA Today polls and has its own page complete with all of the bloggers that vote in it.
• I again noticed that the videoboard in the south end zone of Michigan Stadium had something wrong with it down the middle of the screen. I am still not sure if it’s just the glare of the sun or what, but it looked like it was an actual problem with the screen. If anyone else noticed this, let me know in the comments section.
• Thom Brennaman and Charles Davis will be the announcers for Saturday’s game. More importantly, Charissa Thompson will be the sideline reporter, which is always a good thing. (She is the BTN’s version of Erin Andrews)
• After the Michigan-Toledo game the Big Ten Network will premiere Hail to the Victors: Greatest Stories of Michigan Football.
• Rich Rodriguez’s mom loves Michigan.
• The Michigan basketball team will be holding a practice open to students a week from Wednesday.
• Michigan QB commit Shavodrick Beaver is out 4-6 weeks due to torn cartilage in his non-throwing shoulder.
• Doug Dutch got his degree in psychology back in April.
• The Michigan Daily did a feature on Mike Barwis.
• Varsity Blue has unveiled its 2010 recruiting board.
• Wisconsin’s band was suspended indefinitely last week and was not allowed to be at the Wisconsin-Ohio State game. The band was suspended because it is under investigation for allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse, and sexual misconduct. What is it with the Wisconsin band when they go to Ann Arbor? Back in 2006 the band was put on probation after various incidents were reported on the trip back from the Michigan game, and now it appears something similar has happened. You stay classy, Wisconsin.
• Not that we didn’t know this already, but WAC officials really, really suck.
• Jim Carty has left the Ann Arbor News. He has been going to the University of Toledo College of Law since August and is leaving the paper to focus on school. This is perhaps the best news I’ve heard in a while considering Carty has been an annoyance to many people for quite some time now. I have disliked Carty in recent years for the things he wrote, but it wasn’t until the investigation into Michigan athletes and academics that I truly disliked him as a person.

  In one of the articles about athletes and academics, Carty published Perry Dorrestein’s GPA, which is not only an invasion of privacy but is unethical. After the Notre Dame game last month, Carty went out of his way to praise Dorrestein on the radio in an obvious attempt to make up for releasing his GPA to the public. It was just one of the many pathetic things Carty has done in the last few years at the Ann Arbor News, and I am very glad he is gone. He’s probably better off being a lawyer anyways considering he has written things based on nothing before, so now he can put that to use in a new profession.