Mascot Manifesto

October 29, 2010 Press play to listen Michigan towns invest a lot in their high schools – and they should, because those schools represent them.  That’s why you see those signs at the city limits boasting about their Class B state baseball champs or Class D...

How Yost Built the Big House

October 22, 2010 Dear Loyal Readers, It’s fund-drive week on Michigan Radio, so I’m off.  However, for you loyal readers (and listeners), we have a couple items to keep your insatiable appetite satiated for another week. First, this feature piece that...

The Toughest Athletes are Down Under

October 8, 2010 Press play to listen Players on both sides of the Michigan-Michigan State game will tell you it’s the hardest hitting game of the year.  No one can doubt the guys who’ll go at it tomorrow are some of the nation’s toughest men.    But the...

The Story of the Gipper

October 1, 2010 Press play to listen The Notre Dame football team has lost three straight games to Michigan, Michigan State and Stanford. Normally, nobody would care about a 1-3 team that’s finished in the top ten just three times in the past two decades. ...