Michigan’s basketball team had an unusual look Thursday.
The Wolverines had to wear practice jerseys in the Big Ten tournament and likely will again on Friday.
The tops (yellow) did not match the shorts (blue). Players incongruously wore white socks, and their sneakers did not match, with one player, Muhammad Ali Abdur-Rahkman, lacing up pink ones.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are conducting an investigation into the team's charter flight that skidded about 400 yards off the Willow Run Airport runway in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and into a ditch on Wednesday. No one was injured.
The team's luggage, including uniforms and shoes, is considered evidence and had to remain behind in the plane's cargo area until that investigation is concluded.
Michigan forward D.J. Wilson said it has been a strange 24 hours, going from the seriousness of looking out of his airplane seat and knowing the plane couldn't stop in time, to players joking about their uniforms being, "like when we played in middle school or AAU."
Credit: Gerry Broome
Credit: Gerry Broome
Williams not a Trump fan
Roy Williams' North Carolina team beat Miami in an ACC tournament quarterfinal. In his post-game news conference, Williams profanely criticized President Trump.
The response came after a question about Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim’s criticism of the ACC for having its tournament in Greensboro, N.C. Boeheim says the league’s signature event needs to be in large cities such as New York, Washington and Atlanta.
Williams first said that he thought that the league should move the event around, but also should not forget its roots. He then was asked if he thought there was an advantage in media coverage or recruiting to have the tournament in a major city.
“It used to be much more so than I think it is now,” he said. “Now everybody has got social media, and we don’t need the New York Times to find out what in the dickens is going on in the country. You know, our president tweets out more (B.S.) than anybody I’ve ever seen.”
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Credit: Ellamarie Qumiby
Credit: Ellamarie Qumiby
“Where’s Linwood?”
A video posted on the official race website for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race shows a dog team that arrived at a checkpoint without a musher.
As the video scanned the faces of the mellow-mannered dogs, a man could be heard saying, "Where's Linwood?"
That would be Linwood Fiedler, a race veteran. He arrived at the checkpoint about an hour behind his dogs after falling asleep and toppling off his sled, according to information accompanying the video.
Fiedler checked in at 4:09 a.m. Thursday and was back on the trail at 11:37 a.m., race standings show.
Race director Mark Nordman said Fiedler faced no penalty for his separation from his dogs.
The winner of the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska is expected in Nome early next week. Racers set off from Fairbanks on Monday.
Credit: Dustin Bradford
Credit: Dustin Bradford
Browns pay $16 million for QB they don’t want
The Cleveland Browns found a franchise quarterback, just maybe not their own.
With an eye on making another move at quarterback, Cleveland acquired veteran Brock Oswelier and a 2018 second-round pick in a trade with the Houston Texans, who were looking for a partner to help them get rid of the QB's $16 million guaranteed contract.
The deal apparently was made to give Cleveland more assets to perhaps trade for another QB such as New England backup Jimmy Garoppolo.
Credit: CURTIS COMPTON / AJC
Credit: CURTIS COMPTON / AJC
Murray and Gurley are back together
Aaron Murray and Todd Gurley were a dynamic duo in college at Georgia. Now they are together again in the NFL.
The Los Angeles Rams came to terms on a contract with free agent quarterback Murray on Thursday. Gurley is the Rams’ top running back.
It’s not a sure thing that Murray will be handing the ball off to Gurley again though. Murray has yet to appear in an NFL game. The Kansas City Chiefs drafted him in the fifth round in 2014. The Chiefs cut him prior to the 2016 season. He spent the year with the practice squad of the Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles. Now he gets a shot with a new team.
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