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Harbaugh a big fan of Sione 'Hoooouuuma'

Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh recently tried to engage his players in one of his favorite childhood memories -- drawing out the "oo" sound in somebody's name -- but it didn't quite work out as he expected in regard to fullback/running back Sione Houma.

"You watch him in practice and then you start going, 'Hooouuma. They're not booing, they're saying, 'Hooouuma,'" he joked on the "Stoney and Bill" show today on WXYT-FM (97.1). "I'm thinking everybody around me would get a chuckle out of that. (But) these 18-, 19-, 20-year-old guys are looking at me like I've got two heads.