2B - October 27, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 0 Let sports inspire your Halloween costume It's become a tradition to offer up sug- gestions for sports-themed Hallow- een costumes leading up to the big weekend. But the truth is, I'm not very funny, I'm cer- tainly not creative and I've never had a good Halloween costume. (Last year, wearing a r seersucker sports coat and jeans, I tried to tell people I was dressed as Kevin Costner. No one NATE bought it.)SANDALS Despite. my short- - comings, continuing the practice of writing this Halloween- themed column is too important. So with- out further ado, here's my attempt to make your costume hunt just a little bit easier. " Go as the Michigan football team. Wear Adidas gear, show up early and get to the beer pong table. Dominate your first couple games, but eventually start miss- ing the table, dropping balls and knock- ing over cups. By the end of the night, it should be pretty clear that you don't even know which way is up. If anyone asks why you're having such a hard time, tell them you won't know the answer until after you break down the film from the night. * Go as the Michigan State football team. Brag to everyone at the party about how you finally beat your big brother at something. Never speak in complete sen- tences. Lose your last four games of beer pong. * Go as Matt Millen. Walk into the party wearing a suit and immediately start mak- ing awful suggestions to the hosts about where the keg should be placed, what the house beer pong rules should be and how to set up the living room. When you finally get kicked out, steal the keg (and $50 mil- lion if it's available). * Go as Adam "Pacman" Jones. The second you arrive at the party, start a fight. When your friends try to calm you down, keep fighting. Put on a different set of clothes and go to another party in the hopes that a change of scenery will calm you down. Repeat step one. " Go as Ohio State coach Jim Tressel. I 6 EY9 .... 3 - 6 6 1. The Michigan football team. 2. The Michigan State football team. 3. The Detroit Lions, Matt Millen's former team. 4. Adam "Pacman" Jone Michigan women's basketball coach Kevin Borseth. 8. Brett Favre. Wear ascarlet and/or gray sweatervest. Get to the beer pong table and dominate lesser opponents. But when you face a good team, choke to the point where you're knocking over your own cups for no reason. * Go as a Tampa Bay Rays fan. Wear a Tampa Bay hat with the price tag still on. When someone asks if you're from Tampa, reply, "Yeah, did you know we have a baseball team now?" If anyone asks you to name your favorite player on the team, pretend not to hear the question and walk away quickly. 0 Go as Michigan women's basketball coach Kevin Borseth. If anything hap- pens that makes you mad, throw a tantrum the likes of which the world has never seen. Even if the only person listening is standing right next to you, yell as loud as you can. * Go as Brett Favre. Demand everyone's complete attention at all times. If you aren't getting it, threaten to go home. If no one cares, change your demands and force your friends to take you to another party. Continue to demand everyone's complete attention at all times. I would have suggested that people dress up as Terrelle Pryor, but there's no need to make anyone sadder about the football team than they already are. - Sandals wants to hear your ideas for sports-related Halloween costumes, which will undoubtedly be far funnier than his. He can be reached at nsandals@umich.edu. Kelly breaks three pool Irn hgrecords in first'M win 6 Michigan Collegiate I Job Fair 4 November 7th, 2008 9:00 a.m - 3:00 p.m Burton Manor, Livonia, MI I 0 II ion,I U By ROGER SAUERHAFT Daily Sports Writer Michigan women's swimming and diving coach Jim Richardson has been with the Wolverines for 24 years. But before Friday's 167-126 win against Toledo, he wasn't too reluctant to take advice from a newcomer to Ann Arbor. Wolverine first-year men's coach Mike Bottom suggested that junior Margaret Kelly shift her focus from her hips to her shoulders, which would help her transition later in races and pick up the tempo as others faded. "Usually, improvement in sports doesn't really happen overnight," Richardson said. "It's a byproduct of doing the right things for a long period of time." But in her first meet after changing her technique, Kelly saw immediately results setting three pool records and propelling the Wolverines (1-3) to their first win of the season. Kelly's new milestones were the biggest accomplishments in the Wolverine triumph, but freshmen Caitlin Dauw and Amanda Lohm- an also had excellent meets, win- ning two individual events apiece. Dauw's two wins, in the 100-yard and 200-yard butterfly events, were the first of her career. C I 0a Sm mmm= =m mm m m m m =m Get in for only$1 when you bring t ad! - -m-mmmm -m-mm -m-mm - Freshman Caitlin Dauw won two individu season on Friday against Toledo. In her first event, the 200-yard freestyle, Kelly finished nearly two seconds ahead of her near- est competitor, Toledo sopho- more Laura Heckroth. Her time of 1:50.07 came within a tenth of a second of the pool record, and Richardson said he knew after the race that Kelly would have an impressive meet. "You could see it right from the start," Richardson said. "She was playing around with making changes in her stroke that might make her even faster. It worked here tonight." Then came Kelly's pool-record victory in the 500-yard freestyle (4:55:44) in an event outside of her specialty. SAID ALSALAH/Daily al events in Michigan's first victory of the A few events later, Kelly set a pool record in the 200-yard indi- vidual medley (2:02:88). In the very next event, the last of the night, the Wolverines leaned on Kelly as the anchor in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The Wolverines relay team broke another pool record (1:34:86). Even Richardson, with 24 sea- sons at the helm, said the notion of one swimmer setting three new record times in one meet was new to him. "Any time you can get a pool record, that's saying something," Richardson said. "I don't recall ever seeing someone break that many pool records." For more inforn please cont4 734.764.74 careercenter@un nat act 60 nich.edu career.emich.edu I I Michigan's scoreless streak hits 140 minutes after shutout loss a - - - - - J The Michigan field hockey team fell 3-0 to Penn State on Sunday, in the Wolverines' second consecutive shutout loss. The Nittany Lions (5-0 Big Ten, 13-4 overall) jumped to an early lead, netting two goals within 36 seconds of each other just five minutes into the game. Penn State scored again about 20 minutes later to seal its reg- ular-season Big Ten champion- ship. Despite beating the Nitta- ny Lions 10-9 in shots on goal, Michigan (3-2, 8-9) was unable to capitalize on any of its chances, including two penalty shots. The Wolverines are currently on a 140-minute scoreless streak. Michigan wraps up its regu- lar season next weekend against Miami (Ohio) on Friday and Iowa on Saturday. A