Mold Remediation in Warren, MI

Michigan football has been coy throughout the week about who will start at quarterback in Saturday's rivalry game against Michigan State, but it appears the answer was revealed on Friday night.

According to a report from 247Sports' Matt Zenitz, the Wolverines are expected to start redshirt junior Davis Warren tomorrow night against the Spartans.

Warren was Michigan's quarterback of choice at the beginning of the season, starting each of the first three games of the year for the Wolverines. In games against Fresno State, Texas and Arkansas State, the redshirt junior completed 48-of-72 pass attempts for 444 yards and two touchdowns. However, Warren also threw six interceptions in those three games and was benched in favor of redshirt sophomore Alex Orji. He hasn't seen the field since.

Of the three quarterbacks Michigan has rotated thus far, Orji was the best at taking care of the football. However, that may have been due to the redshirt sophomore's limitations in the downfield passing game as much as anything. Orji played sparingly in a special package role with Warren as the starter, before making his own starts against USC, Minnesota and Washington.

Orji has completed 23-of-43 pass attempts for 148 yards, with three touchdowns against one interception. He adds an element to Michigan's rushing attack, totaling 124 yards on 35 carries. Orji was benched in the second quarter of U-M's game against Washington, after the Wolverines fell behind by multiple scores.

Seventh-year senior Jack Tuttle replaced Orji against the Huskies, and appeared to be the answer Michigan had been looking for all season, leading the Wolverines to three consecutive scoring drives against Washington. However, it all went downhill from there for Tuttle, as he had two costly turnovers in the fourth quarter against the Huskies, and two more giveaways in U-M's 21-7 loss to Illinois last week. Since those three consecutive scoring drives, Michigan has scored just once on their last 15 possession with Tuttle at quarterback.

That leads head coach Sherrone Moore and the Wolverines back to Warren, who has been Michigan's most efficient quarterback thus far in terms of completion percentage and accuracy. Limiting turnovers will be the challenge for Warren, after the redshirt junior has watched from the sideline in the Wolverines' last four games.

Michigan and Michigan State are scheduled to kick off at 7:30 p.m. at the Big House in Ann Arbor, with Big Ten Network carrying the broadcast.

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Michigan is going to be reintroducing a new starting quarterback in the 2024 Battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy. Sources tell CBS Sports and 247Sports the Wolverines will start Davis Warren at quarterback against Michigan State. Warren started the first three games of the 2024 season before losing his job to Alex Orji, who then lot the job to Jack Tuttle after a few game. Tuttle passes the ball back to Warren after Michigan lost to Illinois, 21-7.

Warren, a former walk-on, threw two touchdowns to six interceptions in his three starts (66.7 completion percentage, 444 yards). Michigan beat Fresno State and Arkansas State with Warren and lost to Texas, 31-12. The Wolverines have not gotten any semblance of a passing game going the year after winning the national championship. Michigan ranks No. 113 nationally in offensive yards per play and No. 133 in yards per attempt, second-worst in college football.

Orji never eclipsed 100 yards passing in any of his three starts, though he was 2-1, beating USC and Minnesota and losing to Washington (a game in which he was pulled). Tuttle threw for 98 yards off the bench against the Huskies and 208 yards on 62% passing in the loss to Illinois.

Michigan is 4-1 at home, and Michigan State is 1-2 on the road. Michigan leads the all-time series 73-38-5.

Kickoff in Ann Arbor is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET.

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Sheetz, the Pennsylvania-based convenience and gas station chain that is quickly expanding throughout metro Detroit, this week announced three more stores in Warren, Eastpointe, and Ypsilanti, a couple of months after opening its first Michigan store in Romulus.

That means, as the company has pitched to those cities, more places to get cheap gas, yummy snacks, and hot food that the company refers to as MTO, made-to-order, at all hours, and jobs.

But it also, as some residents fear and have raised as concerns at city council hearings, means more traffic, trucks, and noise at all hours of the day and night — and, until the stores open, more construction.

The new store addresses will be: 1925 Van Dyke Ave., in Warren; 19001 East Nine Mile Road, in Eastpointe, and 2103 West Michigan Ave., in Ypsilanti.

The business, with bright red signs, is — as you might guess — named after the family that started it.

And, if you think Sheetz sounds a little like a vulgarity, it’s OK to snicker.

The company — and family that runs it — is well aware of the laughter at its expense but has embraced it, even worked that into its marketing to help you remember the name, asking, as a tagline, in ads and commercials, "Why the Sheetz not?"

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Company CEO Travis Sheetz said he understands the reasons "why not" that some initially have, telling the Free Press, "A lot of people love our brand, but not everyone wants to live next to one." But, he added, that opposition, with education and patience, often goes away.

Each store, the company has said, brings about 30-35 jobs per location with pay starting at just under $15 an hour, with benefits, including medical and dental insurance, a retirement plan, and stock ownership — and they enhance a community's tax base.

The company also touts that it's ranked on various lists as a good place to work.

When Sheetz opened its first Michigan store in late August, hundreds of customers packed it. Local officials gave speeches and the new employees and executives gave away lots of free stuff, including big donations to local nonprofit organizations.

Earlier this year, Sheetz announced plans to open another new location in Romulus on Middlebelt Road just north of Interstate 94, and a store in Chesterfield, and two in Taylor. The company plans to dot much of metro Detroit, and, eventually, the rest of the state, with stores.

Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com.