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.