Junior Hemingway completed his Michigan football career by being named Most Valuable Player of the Sugar Bowl.
A month later, one of his prized possessions from that final game was stolen from his father's home in Conway, S.C.
Hemingway's Sugar Bowl watch, along with a Gator Bowl watch and Outback Bowl ring from previous years, were among numerous valuables reported stolen during a break-in last Friday morning, according to the Myrtle Beach Sun News.
The bowl-game gifts are valued at $1,000 each, the report said.
Hemingway caught two touchdown passes in the Wolverines' 23-20 Sugar Bowl victory over Virginia Tech on Jan. 4 in New Orleans.
Extra point
Michigan announced Tuesday that its allotment of nearly 25,000 tickets for next season's opener against defending national champion Alabama sold out without a public sale. The game is Sept. 1 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
"We have received unprecedented interest in tickets for the Cowboys Classic game,” said Hunter Lochmann, the university's chief marketing officer. “The demand is on par or greater than our athletic department has ever seen.”
