John Tondora

Position(s): Senior Sports Editor (2023), Football Beat (2023), Hockey Beat (2022-2023) Section(s): Sports Semesters at The Daily: 5 I wasn’t supposed to be here. Maybe somebody’s said that before, but I don’t know if they want to stack resumes. Because four colleges, about three and a half years, 10 moving-ins and -outs between college living spaces and […]

LOS ANGELES — It’s hard to overstate how big the No. 4 Alabama offensive line is.

John Tondora: Michigan football needs the best J.J. McCarthy possible on Monday — not the McCarthy it got the final four weeks of the season.

After a loss to TCU, one of Michigan's seniors made a class-wide group chat. The rest, is now history for the class that came back.

Words that had once invoked so much, slowing dulling to a blunt edge. They certainly hadn’t lost all their meaning, but the punch those lauded lyrics packed was perhaps no longer the same. An antiquated Michigan football program stumbling its way into the new millennium.

Mike Boynton Jr.’s time in Ann Arbor may only just be starting, but the moment Michigan’s newly-minted assistant head coach touched down in the Mitten State, it was a homecoming all the same.

Between a rapid turnaround that saw his Florida Atlantic team lose to Northwestern on March 22 in the NCAA Tournament, to his hiring as Michigan’s head coach just two days later, the Indiana native has seemingly gone around the world and back again.

Bricks, typically, are not the first thought associated with winning basketball. But for Akeem Miskdeen, co-architect of Florida Atlantic’s program and eventual Final Four run alongside Michigan coach Dusty May, it’s about the process over the prize. Building a winning program means laying a foundation — brick by brick. A major recruiter of the Owl’s […]

When Dusty May moved to the Mitten State, he realized it was time to get bigger. During his time in the Conference USA and American Athletic Conference, May’s roster construction at Florida Atlantic saw an ample helping of small-ball. Rostering just two players listed at six-foot-nine or above with the Owls, while not everything has […]

In more recent memory, the words, ‘Transfer Portal’ may have incited winces amongst the Maize and Blue faithful.