Crowe supports the University of Michigan Wolverines American football team, an interest that stems from his friendship with former Wolverines coach Lloyd Carr.

In September 2007, after Carr came under fire following the Wolverines ' 0 – 2 start, Crowe travelled to Ann Arbor, Michigan for the Wolverines ' 15 September game against Notre Dame to show his support for Carr.

* Richard Doyle ( basketball ), the first All-American in Michigan Wolverines men's basketball history

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* In May 1911, at his last competition wearing the Michigan uniform, Craig helped the Wolverines to a third place finish in the inter-collegiate meet.

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It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

In the early fall of 1983, the Michigan Wolverines played the Huskies in Seattle and brought the wave back to Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.

2009 Michigan Wolverines football team enters Michigan Stadium under the M Club banner as the Michigan Marching Band salutes.

This " spread option " offense is also used by the Michigan Wolverines, Missouri Tigers, Ohio State Buckeyes and other college teams with quarterbacks who can run as well as throw effectively.

Oddly enough, the mascots for Michigan State University and the University of Michigan are the Spartans and Wolverines, respectively.

* College football national championship – Michigan Wolverines and Princeton Tigers ( shared )

* College football national championship – Michigan Wolverines and Pittsburgh Panthers ( shared )

* College football national championship – Michigan Wolverines and Yale Bulldogs ( shared )

* College football national championship – Harvard Crimson, Michigan Wolverines and Yale Bulldogs ( shared )

* College football national championship – Michigan Wolverines, Minnesota Golden Gophers and Penn Quakers ( shared )

The Ferris State Bulldogs men's ice hockey | Ferris State Bulldogs on a 5-on-3 power play against the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey | Michigan Wolverines.

For a resort area, Mackinack Island, Michigan, is the place to visit.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, e.g., Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama celebration is Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

In Michigan, there is fine color on route 27 up to the Mackinac Straits, while the views around Marquette and Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula are spectacular.

The main science building at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is also named after Albertus Magnus.

* 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.

* 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.

* 219: 550 Gary / Hammond / Michigan City / Southbend, IN ( deprecated, 550 is available for reassignment as of 2012.

* 219: 559 Gary / Hammond / Michigan City / Southbend, IN ( deprecated, 559 is available for reassignment as of 2012.

Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

Ann Arbor is home to the University of Michigan, a world renowned institution of higher education.

* 1956 – Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.

Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, have, since the 1950s, celebrated both Dominion or Canada Day and the United States ' Independence Day with the International Freedom Festival ; a massive fireworks display over the Detroit River, the strait separating the two cities, is held annually with hundreds of thousands of spectators attending.

Baxter is considered an important writer, whose literary work is recognized and highlighted by Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

Cadillac () is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County.

The area surrounding Cadillac is primarily rural, and is considered to be part of Northern Michigan.

The local area is home to a relatively large number of American chestnut trees, planted by pioneers from New York and Pennsylvania who settled in western Michigan.

The stadium is located next to Lake Michigan, and was recently remodeled in a modernization intended to update stadium amenities while preserving a historic Chicago structure.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

The first witness, Moses Winston Mardis, 5835 Michigan Av., a real estate agent and former bail bondsman, took the stand after opening statements had been made.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

The first international convention for coin collectors was held 15 – 18 August 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, and was sponsored by the American Numismatic Association and the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association.

The first curling club in the United States was organized in 1830 only 30 miles from Detroit, at Orchard Lake, Michigan.

The first bowl game was the 1902 Rose Bowl, played between Michigan and Stanford ; Michigan won 49-0.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

While raising Chicago, and at first improving the health of the city, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, then into Lake Michigan, polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city.

In the August race at Michigan International Speedway, Earnhardt led laps late in the race and nearly pulled off his first win on a non-restrictor plate track since 1996.

It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit organization in 1962, the consortium extended its first offer of membership in 46 years to Allegheny College in 2008.

Governor Stevens T. Mason, the first governor of Michigan

Jennifer Granholm became the first female Governor of Michigan on January 1, 2003, when she succeeded John Engler ; she served for 8 years, until January 1, 2011.

The first awards were made in 1931, and today the Hopwood Program offers approximately $ 120, 000 in prizes every year to aspiring writers at the University of Michigan.

The league joined with teams in Michigan and Ontario to form the first fully professional International Professional Hockey League ( IPHL ), in 1904.

During the first ten years of its existence, IIT Kanpur benefited from the Kanpur Indo-American Programme ( KIAP ), where a consortium of nine US universities ( namely M. I. T, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ohio State University,

In 1888, Labadie organized the Michigan Federation of Labor, became its first president, and forged an alliance with Samuel Gompers.

Michigan ( 1975 ) was the first state to create a GBMI verdict, after two prisoners released after being found NGRI committed violent crimes within a year of release, one raping two women and the other killing his wife.

* 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.

* 1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.

At University of Michigan, Dewey published his first two books, Psychology ( 1887 ), and Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding ( 1888 ), both of which expressed Dewey's early commitment to British neo-Hegelianism.

It is believed that the French explorer Jean Nicolet was the first non-Native American to reach Lake Michigan in 1634 or 1638.