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Western Michigan hires Detroit Mercy women's coach Kate Achter. She has a losing record as coach of Loyola (Chicago) and UDM, but she took both putrid programs and made them respectable. And, Western isn't putrid, plus it's getting a new arena. UDM doesn't have the resources of a place like...

"Becoming Led Zeppelin" - if you're a fan, it's so worth it. Two hours very well spent. One of many cool things: the audio clips of John Bonham, who didn't do many interviews.

I've had those dreams, too - about school and previous jobs. I was a good student and I'd like to think I did a good job at my previous stops, but still ...

Late to the party, but ... It'll be 11 years next month that I left what I thought would be my lifetime job at a newspaper chain (I was there 25 years) to take a public-sector job (not the feds, thankfully now). Yes, I was nervous, but I knew I could do the job - the big boss was a former...

When my kids were young, I got home from work and they and my wife weren't home yet from some activity or another. I put "Hoosiers" into the VCR (again, years ago ...) while waiting for them. When they came home, my wife asked my daughter what I was watching. She said, "Hooters." Me: "NOOOOO...

Yes, please! And thanks for running the pool again!

I've periodically been checking the Concordia University-Ann Arbor website (I used to live/work near there). As stated earlier in the thread, the entire athletic program is being dropped at the end of this school year and there will be limited academic programs in 2025-26. Now, all 2025-26...

The pride of Paw Paw, Mich., at 97, he had been the oldest living former player for the Tigers, Red Sox and White Sox, and the seventh-oldest ex-MLB player. https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2024/12/28/charlie-maxwell-death-detroit-tigers-paw-paw/76830205007/

I worked for a suburban newspaper chain for 25 years, going between the two biggest papers and sometimes working for both at the same time - wherever they needed me, I went - I was the Swiss army knife, if you will (which I still am at my current job). I worked in several areas at the papers -...

He wasn't a star in the major leagues, but he won World Series championships with the Orioles and Reds, and later coached. He also was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys as a running back after being a two-sport star at Ball State. I never met Merv, but his brother Marv, who was a high school...

Starman - You beat me to it. Very, very few left from the "Paper Lion" '63 team - without having the book with me, deck LaBeau and Milt Plum might be it. Joe Schmidt was one of the Lions' all-time greats.

Four pre-2016 Michigan players are suing the NCAA and Big Ten Network because they were "unlawfully denied" the opportunity to make NIL money during their Wolverine days. Methinks this is going to get tossed out of court...

The starting third baseman for the Tigers' 1968 World Series championship team. He was traded to the Senators as part of the Denny McLain deal that brought three key players to the Tigers: Joe Coleman, Ed Brinkman and Aurelio Rodriguez, who would have won several Gold Gloves at third base if not...

My late wife and I met while attending a MAC school. Our kids didn't want to go the four-year route, so they both went to the local community college and graduated debt-free. Neither wanted to have college debt after graduating - they saw how long it took to pay off their mom's student loan.

It turns out that Jim Harbaugh won't be at the season opener, but several 2023 team members and Harbaugh's parents will be the honorary captains. Cooler heads prevailed.