If the language Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh used during his postgame news conference on Saturday to describe Ronnie Bell’s injury left even a glimmer of hope that the star receiver would emerge from an MRI with a favorable bill of health, the ashen look on his face as he prepared for Monday’s media session extinguished it.
Shortly after 11 a.m., Harbaugh assumed his usual spot behind a lectern outside Schembechler Hall with the air of someone bearing the weight of delivering bad news. Sure enough, his first words confirmed what Wolverines’ fans suspected but had desperately hoped to avoid: Bell, the team’s unquestioned No.