Bellotti has endured a tough 2010, terminating basketball coach Ernie Kent and having to put out the fires of a football program under scrutiny after several players were suspended or removed from the team for various antisocial misdeeds. Inevitably this is fueling speculation that Bellotti is looking towards a return to coaching in 2011 or 2012.
Who knew? I would have sworn that Michigan would have played at least one home night game before, but it's never happened in the 130-year history of the program. Well, that's about to change. The university announced Thursday that its 2011 home game against Notre Dame, scheduled for September 10, will be the first night game ever held in the Big House.
The Wolverines have played 33 night games in their history, all of them on the road. They're 22-11 in those games. That's well below their overall .739 winning percentage, but it's not bad for a road record. There have been three previous night games in the Michigan-Notre Dame series, all of them in South Bend, and all of them Irish victories.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Tim Tebow has again done the impossible. He didn't just unveil a new passing motion Wednesday, he unveiled a new body.
This one isn't cut in half like a magician's trick gone terribly wrong. That was just one of the many issues Tebow faced just five weeks ago.
"He was so disconnected, his lower and upper body at the Senior Bowl," said NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock.
It's always easier to impress scouts when your upper and lower torsos are attached. And in the most anticipated Pro Day in world history, Tebow showed he is definitely getting himself together.
He's not ready to apply for membership in the Manning family yet. But Tebow's passing mechanics have improved so fast, I couldn't help wonder why he couldn't have done it sooner? He could have. But all of Urban Meyer's horses and all of his men didn't try to put Tebow together again.
The question is, should they have? It certainly would have made Wednesday less of an all-consuming mystery.
GULF BREEZE, Fla. -- Mickey Shuler has all the necessary intangibles -- size, strength, and smarts. Let's not forget pedigree, either. His father enjoyed a highly successful career in the NFL, too.
Yet, Shuler realizes that professional scouts still may have questions after their review of video from his career at Penn State, where he was an important but unsung contributor at tight end for the Nittany Lions offense.
That's why Shuler spent two months here at Athletes' Performance Institute in preparation Wednesday's Pro Day at Penn Sate, catching passes from quarterbacks such Sam Bradford and Dan LeFevour and refining his body and skills.
The most cerebral quarterback in the 2007 draft was reunited -- sort of -- with that year's "next John Elway." Al Davis will hire you as Raiders coach if you can name them.
Try JaMarcus Russell and Brady Quinn. They headlined the 2007 Sugar Bowl, a 41-14 LSU romp over Notre Dame, and not much since. They now find themselves on rival AFC West teams after a Sunday trade sent Quinn to Denver.
Their career dives trace back to that January night three years ago. Russell played great. Quinn played like he was already working for the Browns.
We could theorize how those performances altered the NFL universe. If Quinn had played like Russell, the Raiders might have drafted him with the first pick. They took Russell, who might have stayed in school if he'd played like Quinn.
I don't think it really mattered. The cities might have been different, but the aroma would have been the same.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Tim Tebow has again done the impossible. He didn't just unveil a new passing motion Wednesday, he unveiled a new body.
GULF BREEZE, Fla. -- 
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