DAILY SPORTS BREAKS DOWN THE WEEKEND THAT WAS
2B - Monday, October 30, 2006
SAID AND HEARD
M' SCHEDULE "We had some students
WEDNESDAY--111
W BASKETBALL VS. ATHLETES IN ACTION that didn't show up....
(EX), 7 P.M.
Too cold. they're not
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Kevin Hall
MEN'S SOCCER
Hall's goal in Saturday night's 1-0 victory
over Penn State led the Wolverines - play-
ing at home this year - to their first Big Ten
win of the season. Hall has two goals this
season.
THURSDAY--11.2
M Soccer @Big Ten Championships
M Tennis
M KTA National Indoor ChampionohipE
M BASKETBALL VS. WAYNE STATE (EX).
7 PM.
W Soccer @Big Ten Championships,7PM.
FRIDAY -11.3
W Tennisa Thunderbird Invitational
FIELD HOCKEY VS. IOWA12:30 PM.
W Swimming/Diving W Georgia, 6 PM.
M SwimminglDiving (n Georgia. 6 PM.
VOLLEYBALL VS.WISCONSIN, 7 P.M.
Ice Hockey @ Michigan State, 7:05 PM.
Saturday -11.4
Wrestling @ EMU Open
FOOTBALL VS. BALL STATE, NOON
W Swimming/Diving W Georgia,6 PM.
M Swimming/Diving @ Georgia, 6 P.M.
VOLLEYBALL VS. MINNESOTA, 7 P.M.
ICE HOCKEY VS. MICHIGAN STATE,
7:35 PM.
Sunday - 5
W Rowing @
American Heritage River Fall Classic
M BASKETBALL VS. MICHIGAN TECH,
2 P.M.
, _ - -
tough enough."
- Michigan coach LLOYD ARR on the
embarrassingly poor showing from the
student section for Saturday's game.
Sports characters perfect for Halloween
Typically, Halloween costumes aren't
my thing. The creativity and effort
required is too much for a simple boy
like me.-
But this year, I struck r
gold. Saturday night, I
dressed up as Charlie
Weis - and I brought,
down the house.
Underneath a turtle-I
neck and a Notre Dame
student T-shirt I
stuffed two pillows
- one in the front, one SINGER
in the back (in order
to fully accentuate Weis's roundness). I
walked around with a box of donuts, and
periodically shoved them in my mouth,
intentionally letting the powder sprinkle
down onto my face and shirt. For anyone
willing to listen, I used a white-board to
diagram deep passing plays, insisting that
"No one will expect it," and argued that the
Fighting Irish should be a top-five team in
the polls.
Put simply, I was a dead ringer for Notre
Dame's vaunted football coach.
Want to be as cool as me? Searching for
last-minute sports-related costume sugges-
tions before the big Halloween parties? Look
no further, I've got you covered.
Terrell Owens: Don a No. 81 Cowboys
jersey. Fill a few prescription drugbottles
with tic-tacs and down them periodically.
Stand by the keg and scream at the keg-mas-
ter to fill your cup before anyone else's. Sulk
and whine if he ignores you..
The Michigan hockey team: Go to two
parties. Live it up at the first one, then mill
about and act like you don't know why you're
at the second.
The NHL: Sit by yourself in the corner.
Nobody cares about you.
Any Big Ten quarterback who's played
Michigan: Stumble around aimlessly. Paint
on a black eye. Limp around with crutches.
Liberally apply fake blood.
Larry Harrison: Dress up in a Michigan
football jersey. Don't wear pants. Run from
the cops.
Kenny Rogers: Wipe pine tar on your left
hand. Physically assault any person you see
taking photographs.
Joe Buck (if youwant to do a tandem
costume, the same instructions apply
for Tim McCarver): Wear a suit. Follow
random people, pointing out obvious things
as if they required a Ph.D. to figure out. Act
smug.
Michigan football fan: Arrive late, if you
show up at all. Leave early. Don't make any
noise, besides talking on your cellphone.
Jim Tressel: Obviously, wear scarlet
and grey and a sweater-vest. Tote around
wine coolers. Approach people who look
like good athletes, slipping fake-$100 bills
in their pockets. Smile snarkily.
Maurice Clarett: Buy the standard
orange jump-suit and handcuff costume at
any Halloween store.
Tommy Amaker: Wear a blazer over a
Michigan polo shirt. Constantly twirl your
finger over your head. Start every phrase
with "Well, obviously" or "Well, certainly."
Joe Paterno: Hike up your pants, wear
a Penn State windbreaker and huge glasses.
Pace the house from side to side, mumbling
to yourself. Occasionally sprint to the bath-
room.
Isiah Thomas: Dress up in a finely tai-
lored suit and smile frequently. Call the cops
in a thinly veiled effort to ruin the party
permanently. If the party shows signs of
reassembling, call the cops again. Repeat as
often as necessary.
- Singer would love to hear about sports-
related Halloween costumes and will post your
suggestions on the Michigan Daily sports blog.
He can be reached at mattsing@umich.edu.
Back in the mudfor the 74th year
I
The cube, the block 'M' in
the Diag, The Michigan
Daily, the Mudbowl.
What do these
things have in
common?
If you said
they suck, you're '
~7wrong.
In fact, they
are some of the-
defining fea- MAIK(
tures of this
great univer-
sity.
But why do I include the Mud-
bowl on that list?
I'm sure you've stood on the
corner of South University Avenue
and Washtenaw Avenue at some
point and looked over at a yard
completely covered in mud.
The smell is awful.
It isn't aesthetically appealing.
And it just doesn't seem to make
sense.
But it's there for something so
good, so fun and so special. Char-
ity runs deeper than mud.
On Homecoming Saturday, the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity,
of which I am a member, holds
the annual Mudbowl game. It pits
SAE against another fraternity in
a two-hand touch football game
in mud up to your shins. For half-
time entertainment, two sororities
duke it out as well.
The mud is awesome, but it's
the money raised during the event
that really matters. Through fam-
ily, corporate and Greek Life dona-
tions, SAE donated approximately
$17,000 to C.S. Mott's Children's
Hospital this year.
Mudbowl isn't just an SAE tra-
dition. It's a campus tradition. Sat-
urday marked the 74th consecutive
Homecoming with a Mudbowl
game. It started out as a match-up
between SAE and rival fraternity
Phi Delta Theta. But when Phi Delt
was kicked off campus in 1998, a
tournament with all fraternities'
who wanted to play began.
Now, the winner of that tourna-
ment faces SAE in the mud. The
sororities also have their own
tournament, with the two finalists
making it to the mud. For the past
two years, the winner of the fra-
ternity tournament has been Beta
Theta Pi. But that clearly means
little. Although the exact statistics
do not actually exist, I think we've
only lost five or six times. And it
was more of the same this Satur-
day, as SAE dominated Beta, 32-0.
The girls' game featured Tri Delta
and Chi Omega, who battled to a
scoreless tie.
But what I love so much about
Mudbowl is the competition it
fuels. For random Joes like me,this
is my last chance to relive the glory
days of high school sports. Going
out in the mud on Homecoming in
front of 2,000-plus people is really
the last time I will do anything
athletic for more than five people
at once.
But it isn't just 2,000 people who
get to experience Mudbowl. Yes-
terday, during the ESPN telecast
of the Michigan-Northwestern
game, footage of SAE quarterback
Peter Krauss striking the Heisman
pose after a long touchdown run
was shown (not to be cocky, but
it was my block that sprung him
free). Highlights were also played
later that night and the following
morning on Sportscenter.
And while the spotlight shines
on SAE on Mudbowl Saturday, it
also sheds a positive light on the
Michigan Greek system, and on
the campus as a whole. What other
university has an event as unique
as the Mudbowl? In my opinion, no
one does.
With all the negative coverage
generated by fraternities in the
past, like unfortunate deaths at
parties and fighting, it feels good
to be a part of something that is so
well intentioned.
So next time you walk by SAE
and pass judgment on those play-
ing in a yard full of stinking mud,
think about this: When was the
last time you raised $17,000?
- Giannotto can be reached
at mgiann@umich.edu.
MMA NOLAN-ABRAHAMIAN/Daily
SEP - US Lecture Series by David North
The Economic and Political
Roots of the Crisis of
American DemocracU
The last decade has witnessed a rapid and increasingly menacing
escalation of attacks on core social and democratic rights. The
installation of Bush as president by the Supreme Court, based on a
decision to stop the counting of disputed ballots in Florida, set the
stage for further violations of constitutional principles. Exploiting
the events of 9/11, the Bush administration has moved to repeal,
with bi-partisan support in Congress, critical elements of the Bill
of Rights. In late September 2006,
both houses of Congress passed TH C S O
legislation authorizing drum-head C OF
military trials of so-called "alien AM ERICAN
enemy combatants" which deny DEMOCRACY
defendants the protections of either
the Geneva Conventions or Habeas
Corpus.
David North, Marxist author and
Chairman of the Editorial Board of
the World Socialist Web Site, will _/.
examine the relationship between
war, the intensifying levels of social
inequality within the United States.
and the move towards police state-
methods of rule.
Monday, October 30, 7 p.m.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room
530 S. State St.
a
Read the World Socialist Web Site
w w w. W s.o r g
Fishers enjoy chance to compete
By COURTNEY RATKOWIAK
For the Daily
Sleeping in tents, ducking gun-
shots and dealing with leaking
boats - the Michigan bass fishing
club teamhad the complete outdoor
weekend experience.
Michigan came in third place at
the Big Ten Fall Classic in Madi-
son at the beginning of the month.
While other Big Ten teams stayed
in local hotels, the Wolverines
camped near the lake where they
would be competing. When junior
Eric Eustice had to be towed to
shore with a faulty boat during the
tournament, the team realized that
they were fishing in the middle of a
duck hunt.
"You'd be fishing, and it's pretty
quiet and calm and still, and all of
a sudden you'd hear this (gunshot)
behind you," senior Jon Schultz
said. "Fifty yards that way, there's
a duck hunter, and you see the bird
drop. ... I've never had to worry
about getting shot while fishing
until that weekend."
The two-day Fall Classic was
Michigan's only tournament of the
semester, and it included a day for
pre-fishing and a day for competi-
tion. The pre-fishing helped fish-
ermen become accustomed to the
conditions of the lake and practice
techniques for the following day's
contest.
The team that caught the most
pounds of fish won. Michigan had
five boats competing at the tourna-
ment, and each boat of two team-
mates was permitted to catch a
maximum of five fish. The top three
boats from each school participated
in the official tournament weigh-in,
where the fish were weighed and
the winner was decided.
Though participants caughtother
types of fish, including muskie and
pike, only small-mouth and large-
mouth bass over 14 inches long
were considered for the tournament
weigh-in. Teams were required to
keep the fish alive for releasing at
the end of the competition.
Michigan caught 5.88 pounds of
bass, finishing behind first-place
Illinois and runner-up Purdue
while defeating Michigan State by
just .02 pounds to earn third place
in the conference.
"It was really hard fishing that
weekend," said Schultz, noting
that weather prevented ideal fish-
ing conditions for the tournament.
"There were not a whole lot of fish
caught, and so every fish counted
for every ounce. It was nice that we
got the victory against Michigan
State, because they're the ones that
we usually compete with more than
the rest of the schools."
The Wolverine club team is led
by Jim Diana, associate dean of the
School of Natural Resources. Due
to financial constraints, the team
does not have a set practice sched-
ule, but members of the team infor-
mally meet throughout the fishing
season.
"Students who enjoy fishing can
e-mail each other and say, 'Hey,
I'm going out on the weekend, who
wants to join me?' so we'll get a
group together," Eustice said. "It's
for more of the camaraderie of hav-
ing college students who like to fish
and can do it on a regular basis."
Senior Jon Levy said that one of
the main benefits of being on the
club team has beenthe opportunity
to fish in a competitive environ-
ment.
"I had never really had a chance
to compete before," Levy said. "I
thought it was really exciting to
compete in a real tournament, like
you see on ESPN. My freshman
year, I went to the tournament not
knowing anyone on the team and
not knowing our coach. it was a
good experience, putting myself in
a different situation where I could
learn from other people."
In the spring, Michigan hopes
to have a tournament with Michi-
gan State or organize an intrasquad
competition. The Wolverines will
continue to improve in warmer
weather by fishing together.
"A lot of the fishing season is dur-
ing the time we're not in school, so
we basically get a month or two on
each end of the school year to fish,"
Schultz said. "It's important that we
communicate in the summer, and
we do that. (Fishing) is something
we'd all be doing by ourselves, any-
way, so why not just get together?"
Pilot's license not required.
9 SUBURBAN SAAB
1.86L.385.8366 iC i 'c.