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3 legacy Michigan license plates are making a comeback
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Three legacy Michigan license plates are coming back into circulation.
Senate BIll 464, sponsored by Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak), was approved by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Dec. 13, 2023.
The bill gives drivers the option to choose from three legacy license plates:
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A blue registration plate that replicates a registration plate issued by this state during the years 1983 to 2007.
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A black registration plate that replicates a registration plate issued by this state during the years 1979 to 1983.
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A red, white, and blue registration plate that replicates a registration plate issued by Michigan in 1976. This plate would only be available in 2026 to celebrate the United States’ semiquincentennial.
Anyone who wants a new legacy registration plate will have to pay a $5 service fee. There will also be a $50 fee, which will be deposited in the Michigan transportation fund. It will cost $10 to renew a registration of an existing legacy registration plate.
The license plates should be available within a year of the bill being signed.
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He Swam Halfway Across Lake Michigan. Then His GPS Batteries Failed
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Last year, Jim Dreyer was twice foiled by bad weather when he tried to swim across Lake Michigan to mark the 25th anniversary of the first time he accomplished the feat. This year, the weather cooperated, at least at first, but he had to call off the 83-mile swim on the third day because of a battery shortage. On Tuesday, Dreyer began the swim from Grand Haven, Michigan, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, towing a dinghy with food and other supplies, the AP reports. In an account of the swim on his website, the 60-year-old says that soon after his support team visited on Wednesday, when he was on track to finish the swim in 60 hours instead of the expected 72, the batteries in the GPS in the support craft began to die.
Dreyer says he placed the bag of eight replacement AA batteries to his left, turned to the right to remove the old ones, and turned to his left to see that the bag was gone. “I tore that supply craft apart looking for them, but to no avail,” he says. “Somehow the bag of batteries must have been pitched overboard.”
- Dreyer says was less than halfway through the swim at that point, but he decided to continue, planning to navigate by his wrist compass and the stars. But, he says, he tends to experience “wild hallucinations during the second night of a continuous swim,” and that’s what happened Wednesday night.
- He says he saw mysterious lights, a Milky Way that filled the entire sky, freighters that shot back and forth, and, in what may have been symbolic, a wall that “suddenly rose up from Lake Michigan right in front of me.” He says: “I could see it vividly. It was made of large steel girders with a metal mesh in between. It’s as if some force was saying, ‘You will not pass.’”
- Dreyer says he swam through the wall and continued toward what he thought were the lights of Milwaukee but got an unpleasant surprise when the support boat arrived on Thursday.
- Dreyer learned that he had spent the night swimming in circles. While he had swum a total of 60 miles, he was still a few miles short of the halfway point, with 45 miles to go, and the weather was about to turn. From Thursday night onward, there “would be 9-foot waves in my face directly out of the west. Pulling the weight of my supplies, this current would have me on a treadmill.”
- He says he decided to call off the swim because if he ran into trouble in 9-foot waves, the Coast Guard, not the support team, would have to rescue him.
- “I did not want to call upon the US Coast Guard for rescue on the taxpayer’s dollar,” Dreyer says, “especially when the purpose of the swim is to raise funds for the US Coast Guard’s Chief Petty Officers Association.”
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- “Basically, in the end, you know, I was alone in the middle of Lake Michigan with just a compass and eyes I couldn’t trust. That pretty much sums it up right there—lost the battle to my GPS,” Dreyer tells MLive.com.
- Dreyer is one of seven people to have swum across Lake Michigan, a feat that was long considered impossible, reports the Detroit Free Press. When he completed the swim in 1998, he became the second person to have crossed all the Great Lakes.
- He says he “definitely” wants to try again, but it’s not clear when. Dreyer says his other commitments include next year’s Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim, in which swimmers will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragedy by swimming the doomed freighter’s route from Lake Superior to Detroit.
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A timeline of Michigan men’s basketball’s 2024 offseason
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It’s been a busy offseason for the Michigan men’s basketball team, including a coaching change, a whole new coaching staff and 10 new players from the transfer portal and the freshman class.
Let’s recap this offseason so far, with a timeline of one of the busiest offseasons for the program in recent memory. This will focus on additions to the roster and won’t touch on departing players.
March 15: Warde Manuel fires Juwan Howard
In a press release that dropped a few days after Michigan was eliminated from the Big Ten Tournament, Manuel announced after a “comprehensive review of the program,” Juwan Howard would not return.
Howard posted an 82-67 record through five seasons as head coach. While he led the Wolverines to an Elite Eight in 2021 and a Sweet Sixteen in 2022, Michigan finished 8-24 overall and 3-18 in the Big Ten last season, the fewest conference wins since the Wolverines went 2-12 in 1966-67. Combine that with numerous issues off the court and Manuel felt the program needed a fresh start.
March 24: Michigan announces hiring of Dusty May
After being without a head coach for a little more than a week, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that May was being hired at Michigan after six seasons as Florida Atlantic’s head coach. That successful FAU tenure included a Final Four run in 2022 and an NCAA Tournament bid the following season.
March 26: May introduced as Michigan’s head coach at press conference
Both May and Manuel spoke at this press conference, with May expressing excitement to get back to the Midwest and Manuel shedding light on what was a relatively quick hiring process.
March 29: 2024 guard Durral Brooks re-affirms commitment to Michigan basketball
While he initially committed to Michigan under Howard, Brooks was technically the first player May landed, re-affirming his commitment a few days after the introductory presser. Brooks played high school ball at Grand Rapids Catholic Central and is rated 202nd in his class on 247Sports composite.
April 4: Will Tschetter announces return
A little more than a week after the introductory presser, Tschetter announced he would be returning to the program.
Tschetter has been at Michigan for three years now, and despite the team’s struggles, he had a pretty solid individual season as Michigan’s sixth man in 2023-24. He averaged 6.8 points and 2.4 rebounds per game while shooting 51.9 percent (28-for-54) from beyond the arc and 58.2 percent from the field.
April 18: Dusty May announces coaching staff
Before Michigan officially brought in any new players, May filled out the rest of his coaching staff. That coaching staff includes:
• Mike Boynton Jr., assistant coach, former Oklahoma State head coach
• Justin Joyner, assistant coach, former associate head coach at St. Mary’s
• Akeem Miskdeen, assistant coach, former assistant at Georgia
• Kyle Church, assistant coach/general manager, formerly at FAU
• Drew Williamson, assistant coach/director of player development, formerly at FAU
• Brandon Gilbert, special assistant to the head coach, formerly at FAU
April 19: 2024 guard Justin Pippen, North Texas guard Rubin Jones commit to Michigan
Pippen was the first new player May landed. Pippen, the son of NBA Hall-of-Famer Scottie Pippen, played high school ball at Sierra Canyon in California and is rated 106th overall on the 247Sports composite.
The Pippen commitment kicked off a busy weekend for the Wolverines, which continued with Jones committing to Michigan out of the portal later that day. Jones is North Texas’ all-time leading scorer, and averaged 12.1 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.5 steals per game while shooting 39.6 percent from the field, 41.6 percent from three and 77.3 percent from the free throw line last season.
April 20: Yale center Danny Wolf commits to Michigan
May landed another commitment later that weekend in the 7-footer. Last season, Wolf averaged 14.1 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game while shooting 47.2 percent from the field, 34.5 percent from three and 71.7 percent from the free throw line at Yale.
April 21: Auburn guard Tre Donaldson commits to Michigan
The busy recruiting weekend for the program continued, with Donaldson also committing to May’s program. He started in 10 of Auburn’s 35 games this past season, averaging 6.7 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 19.3 minutes per game.
April 22: Ohio State guard Roddy Gayle Jr., Alabama forward Sam Walters also commit
Michigan picked up its first transfer from the Big Ten, with Gayle coming over from Columbus. Gayle started in 35 of Ohio State’s 36 games last season and averaged 13.5 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game while shooting 44.9 percent from the field, 28.4 percent from three and 83.2 percent from the free throw line.
Gayle wasn’t the only one to commit on the 22nd, as Michigan also landed Walters, who played 12 minutes per game as a freshman with the Crimson Tide. He averaged 5.4 points, 2.4 rebounds and 0.4 assists per game. He also shot 42.7 percent from the field and 39.4 percent from three-point range.
April 23: 2024 commit L.J. Cason commits to Michigan
Cason was the third player in the true freshman class to join Michigan. A combo guard from Lakeland, Florida, Cason was previously committed to FAU.
April 29: FAU center Vlad Goldin commits to Michigan
Michigan landed one of the key pieces to FAU’s 2022 Final Four run in Vlad Goldin. This past season was his best, as he started all 34 games and put up career-highs in minutes (25.0), points (15.7), rebounds (6.9) and blocks (1.6). He shot 67.3 percent from the field and 66.3 percent from the free throw line. May utilized Goldin in the pick-and-roll a lot at FAU, and could do the same thing at Michigan.
April 30: Nimari Burnett announces return
Burnett joined Tschetter as a player from Michigan’s 2023-24 roster to return to the Wolverines. He started all 32 games last season and averaged 9.6 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists and shot 39.9 percent from the floor in 31.3 minutes per game.
June 10: Summer workouts commence
The Wolverines have been practicing for a good portion of this summer, working to mesh with all the new faces on this roster. We haven’t gotten much new info since workouts started, aside from the solid podcast interviews Brian Boesch has conducted with players , assistant coaches and Dusty May on Defend The Block.
August 5: Roster released
The Michigan Wolverines released their roster for the 2024-25 season last week. There is technically still one scholarship spot remaining; if May and his staff don’t want to add another player, they could either give that scholarship to a walk-on or utilize it to pursue another transfer or a 2025 recruit next season.
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