There's little debating the Michigan football team's two most important wins of 2011.

Maize & Blue News Now interviews Mike Bottom and Sam Mikulak to preview the swimming and gymnastics U.S. Olympic Trials and chats with football players during picture day at Schembechler Hall.

If you see some men taking a paintbrush to Michigan Stadium sometime in February, don't be alarmed. They're professionals.

Looks like Denard Robinson made a stop in the Big Apple today.

Two decades after the Fab Five assembled as a transcendent freshman college basketball class at Michigan, they finally had a major championship to celebrate.

After spending time earlier this month with Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul, Burke will get more high-level tutelage this weekend as part of Brooklyn Net point guard Deron Williams' Skills Academy.

The Michigan basketball team kicked off its team camp Friday morning with a day full of games between high school teams from the Midwest.

Earlier this month the 6-foot-3, 198-pound Treadwell listed a group of top schools that included Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Oregon. An SEC team has made a move into that group in the last few weeks, however.

Michigan is up to 22 football commitments, with room for only a few more - and we're not even to July. All eyes are on wide receiver Laquon Treadwell of Crete (Ill.) Monee, who loves U-M but continues to add teams to his list. What to make of that? Plus, news on Michigan basketball targets and pledges, and more.

Defenseman Jacob Trouba (Rochester) of the Ann Arbor-based U.S. National Team Development Program was selected ninth overall by the Winnipeg Jets, and Plymouth Whalers forward Thomas Wilson went 16th overall to the Washington Capitals at the Consol Energy Center.

A list of swimmers with Ann Arbor-area ties competing in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials beginning Monday in Omaha, Neb. Listed below each name is their seeds in the events they will participate.

Mike Bottom was a swimming coach at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and returned a deep portfolio of athletes for the 2000 Games in Sydney.

Jerry Sandusky was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years, a swift and emphatic end to a case that shattered Penn State's image and brought down Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno.

Over the coming weeks, much energy will be devoted to the attempted closure of the Penn State scandal.

The BCS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick have endorsed a seeded four-team playoff model for college football that would begin for the 2014 season.