…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Charlie Pappalardo: This weekend captured all of Michigan If you’ve followed the Michigan softball team throughout this past season, you likely know there is no clear cut storyline for the Wolverines. They started the season slow, streaked and slumped, and finished Big Ten play on fire. And throughout the rollercoaster year, I found myself confus...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Michigan falls in extra innings to Nebraska, losing Big Ten Championship NOAH KINGSLEY Daily Sports Writer EAST LANSING — Exactly 50 days ago, the Michigan softball team got punched in the mouth. In the first Big Ten series of the season, Nebraska came into Ann Arbor and swept the Wolverines in a doubleheader, putting them in an early hole in Big Ten play. F...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Michigan blanks Oklahoma, will host Super Regional ABHIJAI SINGH Daily Sports Writer Everyone huddled around the No. 1 singles court, anticipating that junior Ondrej Styler would clinch another victory for the Michigan men’s tennis team — just as he had in all three matches last weekend during the Big Ten Tournament. And with all eyes on him, Styler did exactly...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports 8 — Wednesday, May 4, 2022 Michigan wins first Big Ten Championship since 1996 ABHIJAI SINGH Daily Sports Writer Following on his serve, graduate student Nick Beaty rushed forward, volleyed the ball toward a Buckeye deep in his backcourt and screamed in bliss as his opponent failed to deliver a return shot over the net. His victory gave the No. 7 Michigan men’s tennis team a 3-1 lead an...…
…9 Thursday, May 21, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR 1. I TOOK TREATMENT AND RECOVERY SERIOUSLY How I broke up with my breakdowns ANA MARIA SANCHEZ-CASTILLO MiC Staff Writer This year I battled with psychosis and my clinical depression and it changed my life. I was confronted with some of my darkest demons. I felt out of touch with reality and my identity. Illusions and sensations became so terrifyin...…
…9 Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR ‘Never Have I Ever’ gone into an introspective spiral SUNITHA PALAT MiC Staff Writer Recently, I binged Season 1 of Mindy Kaling’s “Never Have I Ever,” a classic com- ing-of-age teen rom-com revolving around the life of a 15-year old Indian American, Devi Vishwakumar. At first I was uninter- ested in another heartfelt yet cringey Netflix series, but the ...…
…9 Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Wu schools Hollywood with just representation in ‘The Half of It’ CHERYN HONG Managing MiC Editor NETFLIX An immigrant’s Pursuit of ‘Happyness’ NOOR MOUGHNI MiC Columnist Read more at michigandaily.com On May 1, Netflix released a bildungsro- man film entitled “Half of It,” written and directed by Alice Wu, who is known for her previous film, “Saving...…
…9 Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR A Mother’s Day Reflection: My Amma, A life journey from India to New York SUNITHA PALAT MiC Staff Writer PROVIDED BY SUNITHA PALAT A Lebanese Breakfast MAYA KADOUH MiC Staff Writer Read more at michigandaily.com It’s 1996. The door of the ‘88 Volvo closes with the gentle push of a chestnut-brown, smooth hand. The discounted Macy’s black leather left...…
…9 Thursday, May 13, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “Ariadne” by Jennifer Saint is, at first, a retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus, but it doesn’t stay that way for long. Saint has not written another tale of men performing great feats of bravery and strength, but a portrait of the lives left devastated in their callous wake. The women that fill these pages are painted with an incisive brush, the result of which is...…
…9 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ARTS On the first day of my 10th-grade American Literature class, as an introduction to the quintessential high-school-English-class novel “The Great Gatsby,” we learned about the ever-present American dream, or the belief that anyone can make it in the United States if they just work hard enough. To my then 15-year-old self, the critique of the American dream was ...…
…9 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Hundreds march in Dearborn in support of Palestinians A few thousand Detroit and Dearborn residents gathered to rally against Israeli airstrikes and evictions of Palestinians Saturday afternoon. Organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement and endorsed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation – Detroit, protesters of all ages marched through the streets of D...…
…9 Thursday, May 6, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS When college hockey resumes in the fall, Michigan will have a new starting goaltender. Strauss Mann — who spent his sophomore and junior years as the starter in goal for the Wolverines — will not return for his senior season, instead opting to pursue a professional career, according to an announcement on Twitter. “I’m looking forward to my next chapter as I...…
…10 Thursday, May 21, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Wake Forest transfer Chaundee Brown commits to Michigan Just over three weeks ago, it appeared the recruitment of Wake Forest transfer Chaundee Brown was winding down when he released a final group of suitors that included Gonzaga, Illinois, LSU and Iowa State on Apr. 25. That didn’t stop Michigan coach Juwan Howard from trying to get his foot in the do...…
…10 Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Schlissel warns ‘M’ won’t play without on-campus instruction As colleges and conferences across the country move closer to resuming athletic activities, Michigan President Mark Schlissel is taking a much more measured approach. “If there is no on-campus instruction then there won’t be intercollegiate athletics, at least for Michigan,” Schlissel said in an int...…
…Adrien Nunez’ battle back to relevance Last season, on Nov. 12, Adrien Nunez was thrown to the wolves. Following a wrist injury to freshman phenom Franz Wagner, Nunez — a sophomore that barely sniffed the floor the season prior — was thrust into a starting position. A guard with daunting range and 3-point shooting ability, Nunez was billed as a solid force in Michigan’s offense throughout his career. It was the other side of his game...…
…Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ‘Alla familia’: Ben Cirella’s family’s restaurants spread the love Two weeks ago, Ben Cirella pulled his silver Volvo up to the entrance of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y. Elmhurst has been at the epicenter of New York City’s disastrous COVID-19 outbreak. Queens has 56,719 confirmed cases of coronavirus, the most of any city borough, and has recorded nearly 6,000 deaths...…
…Billy Magic and the internet’s unabashed enthusiasm for public transit “ Americans only love the college experience because it’s the only time in their lives they live in a walkable community,” reads a viral January 2020 tweet. Ann Arbor fits the bill, hosting most campus buildings and housing within about a one-mile radius and offering free transit to students. I’ve always found pleasure in proximity. I like to imagine the build...…
…10 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com STATEMENT Town or gown: the two sides of Ann Arbor Painting the rock at the corner of Hill Street and Washtenaw Avenue is much more than just a longstanding campus tradition. In 1953, Michigan students and their Michigan State counterparts began vandalizing each other’s campuses with paint the week before a rivalry football game, a tradition that escalated to stude...…
…The Show Must Go On The Michigan Theater and State Theatre, located in downtown Ann Arbor, have been home to countless movie screenings and performing arts events for the Ann Arbor and U-M communities in their respective 93 and 79 years of operation. The pair of historic theaters, operated by the Michigan Theater Foundation, have faced a year rife with challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In early March 2020, as COVID- ...…
…Thirty-four. That’s how many runs the Michigan softball team scored in its four-game sweep of Penn State this weekend. Twenty-three. The Wolverines’ previous best total for runs in a series, recorded a little less than a month ago against Ohio State. The offensive explosion for Michigan was the catalyst to the four wins it enjoyed this weekend and is indicative of the team’s trend over the past month. In the first game in Sat...…
…11 Thursday, May 21, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS As others his age embarked on their final year as college students last August, Nadav Aaronson set foot on campus for the first time. The native of Ramot Hashavim, Israel was a wide-eyed freshman — at 21 years old. Aaronson found himself surrounded by new classmates who, at three years his junior, were the same age as his younger sister, and all had mostl...…
…11 Thursday, May 28, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Michael Barrett looks like Khaleke Hudson’s replacement at VIPER The last time Michigan football needed to find a new VIPER, it looked to Khaleke Hudson. Now, with Hudson going to the NFL’s Washington Redskins, defensive coordinator Don Brown needs another starter at the hybrid position, and he thinks he’s got one in Michael Barrett. “I’d seen enough out of Micha...…
…JACOB KOPNICK Daily Sports Editor Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Guard Cole Bajema enters name in transfer portal After one season, freshman guard Cole Bajema is potentially departing Ann Arbor as he submitted his name to the transfer portal, a program spokesperson confirmed to The Daily. After not seeing the floor much during his first year in college basketball, Bajema has decided to test the tran...…
…NICHOLAS STOLL Daily Sports Writer Thursday, May 14, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com On September 14, 1998, Janine Smith gave birth to her second child, Natalie. Three days later, she was back on the bench coaching, with Natalie at her side. Right off the bat, the pair’s relationship and the game of volleyball were intertwined. It had to be. At the time, Janine was a Division I coach at the University of Texas at Arlingto...…
…An incomplete journey of identity and self-acceptance Trigger Warning: Homophobia; internalized homophobia W hen I was 12 years old, my mother told me to unbutton my collar because I looked like a lesbian. She assured me only a moment later, after I had undone two of the buttons, that it wasn’t bad to be a lesbian — I just shouldn’t misrepresent who I was. Years later, she would call me a “d*ke,” but I would laugh it off and prete...…
…The art of the roommate pitch It was a match made on Facebook. My roommate Maggie and I found each other on the Class of 2022 page and immediately clicked because we had so much in common. We had both taken gap years. We shared a bedtime (11pm to 1am), diet (vegetarian) and cleanliness level (we let clutter build up when we were busy). We were both training for our first marathon. We both came from small, religious communities i...…
…What Macomb County can teach us about American politics B ack when blue and red were just Crayola colors to me, I remember sitting around the reading carpet at my elementary school in Macomb County, Michigan, as everyone went around and talked about what their parents did for a living. Almost everyone seemed to have at least one parent who worked for a car company. With my dad working at Chrysler for nearly three decades, I was p...…
…12 Thursday, May 21, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Izabel Varejão’s epic journey through basketball Six-foot-four and cramped in the seat of an airliner, Izabel Varejão kept thinking, What am I doing, what am I doing, what am I doing? Mom? Suddenly, in that steel cylinder, the reality came crashing down on her. There would be no cousins in Cary, N.C. for her to lean on, and her mom was a 17-hour flight away. ...…
…Jim Harbaugh knows Michigan has to beat Ohio State. Don Brown is falling right behind him in line. “I think coach (Harbaugh) addressed the Ohio State issue yesterday, am I right?” Brown said on a Zoom call with reporters. “So he’s the boss, that’s what he said, that’s what I’m gonna try to do.” Speaking on Mike Tirico’s show Wednesday, Harbaugh said, “Nothing makes us angrier,” than losing to Ohio State. Over the last decade,...…
…Thursday, May 7, 2020 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Schoonbee’s Olympic dreams on hold Jessica Schoonbee is bored. She gets up around 7:30 every day — sleeping in compared to her typical rowing schedule at Michigan. She has an iced coffee and toast with peanut butter for breakfast. She tries to squeeze in a workout either before or after her online classes, still only half the amount of training she does during the school ye...…
…Ambry Thomas wasn’t Ambry Thomas wasn’t supposed to be at Detroit King supposed to be at Detroit King that day, lacing up his cleats for that day, lacing up his cleats for a 7-on-7 scrimmage, feeling the a 7-on-7 scrimmage, feeling the summer heat blistering up from summer heat blistering up from the field. If it weren’t for a call the field. If it weren’t for a call from his coach, Dale Harvel, the from his coach, Dale Harve...…
…12 Thursday, May 13, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS A battle between the top two teams in the Big Ten conference ensued over the weekend, with No. 23 Minnesota (26-10 Big Ten) playing host to the No. 19 Michigan softball team (32-6) in a four-game series. With the Golden Gophers only four games behind the top spot entering the series, the stakes were high, but the Wolverines prevailed. They clinched the Big ...…
…12 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily. SPORTS Michigan shows it belongs In competitive debut, Michigan Adaptive Sports and Fitness sends a message SEATTLE — No team had ever beaten Washington in a regional game it hosted since 1995. The Huskies were a perfect 52-0. Yet there Michigan was in the bottom of the seventh, up 2-1, and just three outs away from being the first team to do so. Alex Storako clearly ...…
…12 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com STATEMENT The j word: journalism at Michigan T he debate of the college major is an endless uphill battle; you can ponder and argue and make all the decisions you want without ever truly knowing if you’re making the right choice. It is impossible for a major to guarantee personal success, yet choosing one can feel like closing yourself off to only a select few caree...…
…For Spencer Heslop, commitment to faith requires difficult decisions For Michigan’s wheelchair tennis team, their competitive debut went about as well as anyone could’ve hoped. In the team’s first ever appearance at the Collegiate Wheelchair Tennis National Championships, the Wolverines’ athletes were finalists in the team competition and all but one of the individual competitions. The team racked up other accolades ...…
…Offense disappears in rubber game loss Blown opportunity: Michigan falls short in NCAA Regional final, wasting talented senior class The No. 24 Michigan baseball team entered the bottom of the ninth down by four runs — not an insurmountable deficit by the Wolverines’ standards. When slugger Griffin Mazur came to bat with one on and only one out, he needed just one good swing to put Michigan back in the game. Instead, the fifth-...…
…Michigan to travel to Seattle for NCAA regional Beaubien’s perfect game highlights doubleheader sweep The D-1 Softball Committee revealed on Sunday that the Michigan softball team will travel to Seattle in the NCAA regional. The Seattle regional is a double-elimination bracket consisting of the home team in No. 16 Washington, Michigan, Western Athletic Conference champion Seattle, and Big Sky Conference champion Po...…
…14 Thursday, May 13, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — There’s an old adage in sports that it’s hard to beat a team three times in a season. Heading into its matchup against undefeated Maryland, the Michigan men’s lacrosse team hoped that that adage would once again rear its head. After a historic win over Ohio State in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, the Wolverines were ...…
…14 Thursday, May 27, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS SEATTLE — Boos rang out in a cacophony from the Seattle University fans as centerfielder Bailey Thompson was rung out on a changeup that floated in and picked the bottom right corner of the zone. From the press vantage point, nearly behind the plate, the pitch thrown by senior left-hander Meghan Beaubien was objectively a strike. So why the jeers from the Red...…
…14 Thursday, May 20, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Redshirt sophomore left-hander Steven Hajjar and sophomore right- hander Cameron Weston have provided Michigan with a formidable 1-2 punch at the top of its rotation. Hajjar sports a 4-0 record with an impressive 3.02 ERA while Weston, the number two starter, has posted a 5-3 record and has an excellent 2.85 ERA. After those two, however, the Wolverines con...…
…Beniers, Power selected to play in World Championships Michigan falls to Pepperdine 4-0 in round of 16 Michigan will have the chance to see a couple of its young stars compete for their national teams later this month. On Thursday, it was announced that freshman forward Matty Beniers would be suiting up for Team USA at the 2021 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships — taking place in Riga, Latvia. Ben...…
