UM vs. OSU (...and Tony Stewart!)

Eric Zorn on the Michigan game last Saturday:

Had we managed to hang on to win Saturday's game against Ohio State, it would have been a sporting injustice. No team that gains only 32 yards on 24 rushes -- a pathetic average of 1.33 yards per carry for which we can blame the offensive line-- deserves to win.

And no team that lost to Minnesota and Wisconsin, had to go to overtime to beat MSU and Iowa and beat Penn State only by pulling a miracle out of its bonnet deserves a share of the Big Ten title.

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On a more pleasant note, Tony Stewart won the Nextel Cup yesterday.

When the season started, it didn't look good for Stewart. He got out of the gates solidly at the Daytona 500, finishing seventh, and had a sprinkling of strong runs scattered throughout the first 10 events of the year. But three consecutive finishes outside the top 20 dropped him to 14th in the standings and a feeling of helplessness pervaded the team.

'It wasn't one partiular race, it was our whole season from the start,' Stewart said. 'Once we got away from Daytona, we really were just behind until we got to Michigan.'

That was race No. 11 and Stewart and Co. managed to bring a hot rod to the track and make the adjustments necessary to stay up front and secure a second-place finish. That was just a teaser for what was to come. Stewart won five of his next seven races and shot from 10th in the standings to first -- a position he would relinquish for only one week the remainder of the season.

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