Rose Bowl game is finally here!

With kickoff scheduled for 5:00 p.m. EST today (January 1, 2007), the wait is finally over for Michigan fans who have been longing to watch the Wolverines return to the field since the end of the Big Ten season on November 18, 2006. There is comprehensive coverage of today's Rose Bowl game in both Detroit daily newspapers.

In the January 1, 2007 edition of the Detroit Free Press there is a position-by-position scouting report by Mark Snyder. Michael Rosenberg wrote an article entitled, "Granddaddy of 'em all offers plenty of drama and plot twists." The Freep has a Q&A with Alan Branch, Rondell Biggs, and Terrence Taylor. It also has a more in-depth interview of one of the Michigan players in an article entitled "Getting Personal with: Michigan senior CB Darnell Hood." Finally, the Detroit Free Press includes their U-M Notebook.

Over at the Detroit News, Bob Wojnowski (Wojo) wrote at article entitled, "U-M can recover a lot with a win today." Angelique S. Chengelis (a/k/a "The Angel of the Big House") wrote an article in which she posed the question, "Defining game for Henne?" The Angel also wrote an article re: the weapons of the USC offense. She also did a column regarding the Michigan seniors' last chance to snap the three game bowl losing streak. Finally, there is a photo gallery of pictures from yesterday's pep rally with the team at Santa Monica Pier. Go Blue!