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Uber Mid-Tier — Ann Arbor — 2024-08-18
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Derek Jeter received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Michigan on May 3, 2025.
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Charles Woodson is the only primarily defensive player to win the Heisman since college football moved to the two-platoon system in the early 1960s.
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Tom Brady was drafted 199th overall (6th round) in 2000 out of Michigan — now widely considered the greatest draft steal in NFL history.
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In 1991 Michigan signed the most decorated recruiting class in NCAA history — the Fab Five: Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson, all starting as freshmen.
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Charles Lindbergh's father graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1884, and his mother studied chemistry at UM.
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Gerald Ford played center on the University of Michigan football team (1932-1934) before Yale Law School.
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The University of Michigan has three Heisman Trophy winners: Tom Harmon (1940), Desmond Howard (1991), and Charles Woodson (1997).
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Tom Brady credits Michigan sports psychologist Greg Harden as pivotal to his development, and he helped recruit QB Bryce Underwood to Michigan in 2024.
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The Fab Five popularized baggy shorts and black socks — fundamentally changing basketball fashion globally — and brought trash talk and streetball swagger to the national college stage.
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The Fab Five reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Championship games, losing to Duke and North Carolina.
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Tom Brady played quarterback at the University of Michigan from 1995 to 1999, fighting from 7th on the depth chart to starter and winning an Orange Bowl over Alabama.
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The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library at 1000 Beal Avenue in Ann Arbor houses 25 million pages of records and 450,000 photographs.
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A 2024 peer-reviewed paper in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living analyzed the Fab Five's 'pioneering sociocultural influence' on basketball and American society.
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Laith Al-Saadi of Ann Arbor competed in The Voice Season 10 finale in 2016.