I’ve driven past Rynearson Stadium on game day Saturdays. Little to no game-day traffic, and the stands are four-fifths empty. Sad, really.

Advance Publications, which owns the Ann Arbor News, revived the print edition in 2013, but the print edition is distributed only on Sundays and Thursdays.

Perhaps covering Eastern Michigan football made him lose his mind. The team hasn’t had a winning season since 1995 and draws about 5,000 fans per home game.

One of my neighbors has two daughters who are students at Eastern Michigan. He’s none too pleased that, on top of tuition, he has to shell out over $1,000 a year per kid in student fees—most of which help prop up a football program that draws the fewest fans in Division I and hasn’t had a winning season since 1995.

Our favorite pizzeria is part of a small-ish chain based in Ann Arbor that makes a high-quality pie. On Monday and Tuesday, we can get an extra-large with one topping for $10.

This might explain it: I grew up in North Jersey (Exit 140), and my wife grew up in South Jersey (Exit 50).

Would you rather get pizza from a place that made the best pizza in the world but had shitty service (slow delivery, terrible staff, etc.), or get mediocre-at-best pizza from a place with amazing service (great staff, fast delivery, etc.)?

Hear, hear. My wife and I grew up in Jersey but currently live in Michigan. When we go east to visit friends and relatives, we bring home a cooler full of scrapple and Taylor ham. And a dozen bags of Wise potato chips.

I did the same thing about 30 years ago. What my wife said upon discovering what I’d done cannot be printed in a family publication.

Now up to 38 percent.

Now I understand why Ghomeshi asked for a bench trial. A “the victims perjured themselves” defense would be hard to sell to a jury.

If Bush 3.0 and Clinton 2.0 lose in the primaries, there isn’t enough Dom Perignon in the world for me to celebrate with.

I’d bet that in one of his previous existences, Phil Mushnik was Dick Young.

If Hillary Clinton implodes in the 2016 primary as she did in 2008, she ought to be named honorary captain of the Titanic II.

I don’t have a problem with awarding delegate seats to U.S. Senators and Representatives and sitting governors. However, I do have a problem with awarding seats to party officials, who aren’t answerable to voters.

One of the most terrifying descriptions of Hell you’ll find in literature is Father Arnall’s sermon in Portait of the Artist as a Young Man.

The one thing Harbaugh didn’t do in anger last season was throw his hat on the field. Which is surprising since Harbaugh has done his best to imitate Bo Schembechler, hat-thrower extraordinaire.

“I respect your view,” the politician said, “patting Mr. Kierstead on the shoulder and starting to walk away.”

While Hernandez’s murder trial was going on, I went to my local brewery for a growler fill. One of the people sitting at the bar was wearing an Aaron Hernandez jersey. I live in southeast Michigan, hundreds of miles from Patriots country.

Did you just do this to be difficult? To be different from the British (and everybody else by extension)?