SPARTAN BASEBALL BEATS MICHIGAN TWO OUT OF THREE GAMES THIS WEEKEND

Michigan State defeated Michigan in B1G Baseball today in Ann Arbor, 7-4. The victory gives MSU a 2-1 weekend series against UM, after winning 7-6 on Saturday at McLane Stadium. The Wolverines won in extra innings, 4-3, on Friday night.

The victory brings the Spartans to 3-1 against Michigan this season. The teams played a single game on April 12, with Michigan State winning, 11-5.

MSU is now in third-place in the conference at 10-5. The Spartans are 30-11 overall, the best season record in the league. Its the seventh consecutive 30-win season in eight years of the Jake Boss Era.

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MICHIGAN BASEBALL PROGRAM BACK FROM PLAYER PAYMENT PROBATION PENALTIES

Looks like the Michigan Baseball team is finally back to the College World Series, after a three-decade absence from the annual event. Good job, Blue Boys, you made it, you won the league tourney to get the automatic bid. Way to go, hoo hah.

What the sports media want you to forget about is what happened to UM Baseball since the last time they made the CWS. Do you remember?

Michigan was caught paying their baseball players

at the end of the 1980s.

That's against NCAA rules!

How many times will the sports media mention this key historical fact while covering the UM Baseball team this week? Our "over-under" for such references is ZERO. The sports media are too deeply in love with Michigan to mention the truth about the UM past.

Paying players in college sports is much worse then deflating footballs in pro sports. Doing so creates the ultimate "competitive advantage", so penalties for getting caught paying players go well beyond most other infractions.

The reason UM hasn't made the CWS since the 1980s is because they were cheating at baseball. Coach Bud Middaugh created fake jobs to funnel cash to players, like walking around Michigan Stadium on football game days wearing a bib and holding up gameday programs. Players "found" $500 checks in their lockers on a periodic basis. Middaugh denied the allegations, but they were so obvious that Michigan Athletic Director Glenn Shembechler fired him almost immediately.

The banners came down, the trophies were returned, the record-books were changed, the scholarships were taken away. And the program sunk to the lowest level, after riding high for decades.

The legacy of Michigan Baseball is

much the same as Michigan Basketball.

They cheated, got caught, and were

punished by the NCAA.

The screen shot below was taken from a CBS Sports web site. Links to other reference articles on the history of University of Michigan Baseball are listed below.

FROM CBS SPORTS WEB SITE

Los Angeles Times report on Michigan Baseball Cheating

Sarasota Herald-Tribune report on UM Baseball Cheating

Tulsa World report on Michigan Baseball Cheating

Gainesville Sun report on Michigan Baseball Cheating

"Baseball at the University of Michigan"

See Page 100

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