Major Fun in the Minor Leagues

August 20, 2010 Press play to listen If you’re sick of the big leagues, but not baseball, check out your backyard.    Here in Michigan you can watch the Beach Bums in Traverse City, the Lugnuts in Lansing, the West Michigan Whitecaps near Grand Rapids,...

Bonus Bacon Blog

Here’s a bonus Bacon Blog, on a Wednesday no less. Meet the NFL’s Most Interesting Man, Zoltan Mesko, in today’s WallStreet Journal.  (It’s free today.  After that, I won’t charge you, but they will.) >View Article Here...

Bullfighting: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

August 13, 2010 Press play to listen When I read the Spanish province of Catalonia voted to outlaw bullfighting, I was not surprised. A few years ago I traveled through Spain to write about bullfighting. Along the way, I met Barcelona’s director of tourism,...

The All-Star Next Door

August 6, 2010 DEAR LOYAL READERS Well, turns out teaching in Chicago on Thursdays can mess up your schedule a little bit — and more so when you throw in the Big Ten media days Monday and Tuesday this week. That means I didn’t go home between Thursdays,...