The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS fourth, just two months ago; 0: The number of quarterbacks with more Super Bowl wins to his name. Only Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw join Brady as four-time cham- pions, and that, we think, is some all-time company." A student at U-M while his personal coach, Bob B o w m a n , g u i d e d t h e Wolverines from 2005- 08, Michael Phelps never swam for the Maize and Blue, but he did serve as a volunteer assistant coach over four seasons with the men's swimming and div- ing program. ESPN ranked him No. 9: "The summer of 2008 be- longed to a 23-year-old and his swimming pool. B e c a u s e t h a t Au g u s t , Phelps went to Beijing, collected eight gold medals and left China the most decorated gold medalist in Olympics history. In all, he has reached the Olym- pics podium on 22 occasions in his career, and a staggering 82 percent of the time, he did so with gold in hand." Finally, Derek Jeter was set to play baseball at the University of Michigan be- fore the New York Yankees took him with their first pick in the 1992 MLB Entry Draft. A Kalamazoo, Mich., native, Jeter has remained a steadfast supporter of the Maize and Blue, attending football, basketball and baseball games in the past. ESPN ranked him No. 10: "Once upon a time, a fourth-grader from Kalamazoo, Michigan, told his teacher he'd be a New York Yankee. And for 20 years, he was. He won five Fall Classics in Bronx pinstripes. He sent his 3,000th hit into the left-field stands, a home run. And in his last-ever trip to home plate in Yankee Stadium, he launched a first-pitch fastball into right field, heading into that Yankee sunset with a walk-off hit. The end. Was it a fairy tale? No, just Derek Jeter's Bronx tale." ESPN.com judged Brady, who is the quarterback of the New England Patriots, to be the fourth-greatest athlete of 1995-2015, covering the 20 years the web site has existed. PHOTO COURTESY NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS