Olympics Preview: Storylines, Schedules, and the Ultimate Guide to the Michigan Wolverines in Paris

In 2021, 29 Michigan Wolverines alumni traveled to Tokyo to compete in the Olympics. They won 10 medals, including a gold for Maggie MacNeil and gold for a Canadian women's soccer team with Shelina Zardosky and Jayde Riviere. With the Paris Olympics starting this Friday, the question is:

All Blue: Is This Thing On?

Unfortunately I disappeared for a minute there. No way around it, life outside of this little blog got in the way. Good things mostly, that should pave the way for this being a little easier on me next year. It is wild to be thinking about next year already, but

All Blue's Spring Championship Weekend

This weekend, four different teams will play in or complete their conference tournaments. Women's tennis will play the entire Big Ten Tournament right here in Ann Arbor, the lacrosse teams will host their B1G First Round games, and Water Polo will head to Harvard for a must-win CWPA

All Blue With Titles on the Line

Men's Gymnastics at the National Championship On Friday night in Columbus, Ohio, #3 Men's Gymnastics will compete in the second national semifinal. With the top three teams in each session advancing to the finals, Michigan is certainly favored to advance out of a group that includes

All Blue Goes Floor to Ceiling

All of the sudden, we are in the homestretch of the athletic calendar. The winter sports have had their championships (or Michigan has been eliminated, one or the other, or otherwise I don't really cover hockey), the calendar has turned to April, it is spring sport season alone.

Maryland 8, Michigan 6

Sometimes, good teams lose to other good teams. On a cold afternoon at U-M Lacrosse Stadium, the #2 Michigan Wolverines fell to the #1 Maryland Terrapins. Michigan was undefeated, Maryland had just lost its second game of the season. In a battle between two stifling defenses, Maryland had the little

All Blue: #1 Maryland v. #2 Michigan Women's Lacrosse

In 2018, the fifth season of Michigan varsity women's lacrosse, the Wolverines were led by new head coach Hannah Nielsen. The season finale saw Nielsen helm Michigan in their first ever win over a ranked opponent, beating #16 Penn State. It was Michigan's seventh win of

All Blurbs: A Big Ol' Update on a Lot of Stuff

Apologies for not getting anything out last week, unfortunately my real job got in the way, but in my defense I had been at a relatively steady two-things-a-week clip before that. Usually I write about the three things I'm most excited about, but this week I'm

WBBubble: Conference Championship Week(s)

Let's start here: I think this is all overkill. If the question is "will Michigan women's basketball make the NCAA Tournament," I think we'll have a very good idea by midnight on Thursday. Michigan will play the winner of Wednesday's

All Blue: WBBubble Update, Lax Comeback Kids

Michigan has just one women's basketball game left, senior night at Crisler against Purdue. It is the last game that will be played in the Big Ten Regular Season this year, so they will go into it knowing exactly which seeding scenarios are left on the table. In

WBBubble Watch

January. February. Barnes-Arico. That's right, the college basketball postseason approaches and Michigan is attempting to keep a five-tournament streak alive. It's by far the longest in team history, but to continue it Michigan will need to win some games, and also get some luck elsewhere. At

All Blue Has A Need For Speed

Championship season has arrived for the Winter sports. By the end of next weekend, Big Ten titles will have been awarded in both swimming and indoor track. Admittedly, those are some of the sports we cover the least here at All Blue, so today the full issue is dedicated to

All Blue Rips It

It was an extremely busy weekend for the Wolverines, and they acquitted themselves pretty well overall. Let's get right to it: Women's Tennis' Big Trip to Seattle Once again I will say the thing I always do about tennis: this is the most underrated spectator

All Blue is Getting Really Into Water Polo

The December break hits hard. I got used to having unlimited events to talk about before the whole AD took three weeks off for Christmas/watching football. Luckily, the February ramp-up hits even harder. Winter sports are in the meat of their seasons, while lax and the ball/bat sports

All Blue Sweeps at Home

Michigan teams hosted some big events last weekend, with both tennis teams hosting the ITA Kick-Off and Water Polo hosting their annual Wolverine Invitational. The friendly confines certainly helped the Wolverines, as I simply do not have to mention any losses today. Not bad! BluTV Day Date Time Sport Opponent

Spring Preview Part 2: Technically Still a Preview

Truth be told, most of these seasons have happened too much to fully call it a preview, especially wrestling. The other two aren't as bad. So its not not a preview. We'll jump write in. One quick housekeeping note: the Delaney Cup, my all-sports Big Ten

All Blue Sticks It

We're still buzzing from the National Championship Game here at All Blue. If you haven't read it yet, I'm very pleased with last week's column on my trip to the game. Part 2 of the Winter Preview will be coming later this

All Blue at the Edge of Football Season

A friend of mine called me on Wednesday to ask when I knew. When did I know it was over, that Michigan had won the National Championship? It's a hard question to answer. It's hard to piece together what I remember from seeing it in person

Back to School

The holidays have come and gone and Ann Arbor is once again teeming with student life. Or something, I think students actually start next week, but I was back at the office in-person Wednesday so congrats everyone Michigan is back in session, which means the huge layoff between the end

Introducing The Delaney Cup

Every spring, Stanford is awarded the NACDA Director's Cup. Texas has actually won a couple times in the last few years, and North Carolina won the very first one in 1994, but Stanford has won the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics' attempt at making an

All Rouge: Catching Up with the DCFC Women

The college soccer women's season came to a close with Florida State absolutely beating the crap out of Stanford, 5-1. Michigan bowed out early after sweating out Selection Sunday, and little else of relevance to this blog happened in the tournament (MSU did pretty good, UCLA took a

Sacré Blue!: A Very Early Olympic Preview

I love the Olympics. Two weeks where all of the sudden my savant-like skill for knowing where sports are airing are relevant outside my household. Daytime sports? Yes please. Waking up and having sports already on? YES PLEASE. In 2021 I compiled The Big Google Doc About Michigan at the

Fall Season Recap: Reasons for Optimism, Questions Unanswered

This is the most awkward part of the calendar if you like to follow stuff that is not football or basketball or hockey. All of the fall team sports are over, and while several of the winter sports have done something, nothing starts in earnest until after we know whether

All Blue: In Which I Am Wrong Several Times

After thinking far too hard about the bubble and bid thieves and what Michigan women's soccer had to hope for while sitting out the Big Ten Tournament, I looked at the numbers on Monday morning and tweeted that, unfortunately, I thought Michigan was headed to the "first

All Blue: Hitting Reset

People love it when you start your niche newsletter with few readers with some navel-gazey content notes. We've been here for a almost three months and gotten through most of the fall season. When I think about what writing I'm most proud of, ultimately it'