Linking Laconically offers up a rare Wolverine salute

• 'A good man:' Michigan's Sims battles adversity to graduation - USATODAY.com
  "Battles adversity" is not a cliché in this headline.  Congrats to a classy Wolverine.
  
• NCAA tournament expansion through the years - College basketball - NBCSports.com
  Interesting piece.  I really had no sense how the tournament had developed in the decades prior to going to 64 teams.
• The State News : Best memory: Spartans win one for Lucas
  Joey Novak's final piece for the SN.
• Florida and who else? Duke? Maryland? (Hoops & Scoops: an OSU basketball blog)
  Speculation that OSU or Purdue, rather than MSU, will go to Duke since both those teams have played 2 straight home games in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge.
• Purdue Basketball Blog: Branden Dawson's time-table is set
  Will decide in September.  MSU could make his short list.
• Looking at Depth Ratio for Northwestern - Chicago College Basketball
  Depth ratio is totally catching on.  Northwestern is bizarro MSU.
• Ohio State's next Evan Turner? - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
  Talk about your big shoes to fill.
• UW wins appeal on behalf of Brust - JSOnline
  Good.
• Afghanistan on deck for ex-Spartan | greenandwhite.com | Lansing State Journal
  File under "sports story" that transcends sports by a good measure.
• Looking at the 2010 version of the MSU Offensive Line " JollyGreenGiants
  Is D.J. Young the most important player for a successful 2010 MSU football season?
• Behind the Music: 'We Are ND' - Dr. Saturday - NCAAF Blog - Yahoo! Sports
  The rest of the story.  I'm pretty sure Ted Mandell had a rough weekend.
• Lake The Posts - Northwestern Football Blog: Big Ten Expansion with Teddy Greenstein
  Thinks travel costs (east/west) will trump potential football imbalance (north/south) if they go with 2 divisions.
• BCS formula sheds light on Mountain West quest for AQ status - Andy Staples - SI.com
  Why do I feel like this formula is something like the World Cup seeding formula--subject to change if an underdog ever qualifies under it?
• Jamie Mottram, Sportif Yahoo Bloglord, Pushes 'Portal Power' | The New York Observer
  How to win a blogging job and influence the internet.

Speaking of classy Wolverines, congratulations to our main man, Dylan, on his graduation this weekend.  Just don't let finding/keeping a job get in the way of regular blogging, young man.