Hello and welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for everything football, basketball, and recruiting here in Michigan,

things are starting to pick up. The practice will be starting within a week. Barbecue at the

big house will be starting, just in a couple days as well. So it should be starting to get some

actual news to be able to report on rather than speculation. Of course, I'm the host, Zach Shaw,

joining me on the phones are Steve Lorenz and Isaiah Hull.

You can read all of our stories at Michigan.247sports.com.

We've been writing up a storm as practice gets near.

We had Big Ten media days earlier this week,

so plenty to talk about.

Glad these guys can join us.

We'll start, of course, as we have kind of become

accustomed to. We'll start with the only drinking question that we got this week. And that will be

from Mgo Thomas. So he had his first post last week. Now he's back again. He said, what has been

your guys' favorite Michigan alumni affiliated bar outside of

Ann Arbor for watching Michigan sports with other fans?

And I know Steve will have his soapbox in just a moment.

I will say I've never been to a Michigan affiliated bar, at least to my knowledge.

I did, when I went to Chicago, I stayed for a few days beforehand,

kind of as a mini vacation, a place I stayed with my friends. It was right around the corner of

Duffy's bar, and that seems like a really cool place. They have this deal, all you can eat and all

you can drink for 20 bucks. It seemed like really, really fun place to watch sports a little bit calmer, and I know Steve has opinions about that.

Isaiah, you have spent some time in other states and outside of Ann Arbor.

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