• BertramDitore@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Michigan who? The state? The school? The team?

    I’m guessing they mean the school? But the word University never appears in the article. I know nothing about sports, so this is all extremely confusing to me.

    • RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, it would be the University of Michigan. It should include it. It felt like the title was missing something, like “Michigan man”, but as a sports fan I was able it figure it out by the name of the coach. Should definitely include the full name. UMich would have been a least a little better as that is often used as an abbreviation.

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      7 months ago

      It isn’t just sports but college sports, which seems to be a uniquely American kind of sports.

      Universities created collegiate sports as a way to help colleges teach leadership skills. The competition between universities in sports became a measure of which to judge universities and later became a source of profit for universities. The NCAA regulates most of the colleges in the US.

      If you see a state name when referring to sports, it is likely referring to a university with a name “University of State”. There are no state based games and professional sports in North America usually refers to a team by their name.