One thing I've taken pride in over the years is the fact that Detroit is one of the few cities in American active in all four major team sports. (Football, basketball, baseball, hockey.) I've taken a great deal less pride in the fact that, for a good period of time, none of those teams were any good. But things have been better of late. The Red ( Read more... )

So, first of all, as I'm sure everybody knows by now, there will be NO Ohio State-Michigan rematch. Woo hoo! As for the rant I was going to post, some guy at slate.com pretty much captured what I wanted to say. The main thing for me is that the way college football is right now, the whole regular season amounts to a playoff. (Well, not quite, but ( Read more... )

After spending some time at work today, I decided to take advantage of how productive I was feeling and ran a bunch of errands. First, I stopped by Lowe's (I'm liking them more and more over Home De-pot) to pick up a fluorescent light fixture to put atop my kitchen cabinets (for indirect lighting). Then I stopped by Bed Bath & Beyond to pick up ( Read more... )