That 40-plus year period also includes Northwestern’s 34-game losing streak during 1979-82. In 1981, the Mildcats lost all of their games, getting outscored 505-82.

Now that Northwestern has gotten respectable, someone needed to step in and replace it as the league’s doormat.

I was accepted to law school.

I mean, let’s face it, our government is woefully, woefully behind in all of its policies that affect the use of technology.

The Lions signed him to a free-agent contract and will try him out on the OL in practice this week.

I wonder if this endorsement will gain HRC votes in Ohio and/or cost her votes in Florida.

Too bad. I wanted him to play at least one game this season so he could become the only man to play in the NBA in his teens, his 20s, his 30s, and his 40s.

When I was in law school, a number of my classmates decided to go by more presumptious names than they went by in college (e.g., Stephen Stuffy started calling himself “S. Stanton Stuffy”). Some guys took it a step further by taking up pipe smoking (this was years before no-smoking policies on college campuses). And…

Brooks’ writing is heinous, but he’s not the worst columnist on the NYT editorial page. That dubious distinction belongs to Mr. Ross Douthat.

EMU football has two major factors working against it:

I live not far from EMU, and was a season ticket holder for a couple of years during the 1980s. At the time, the Mid-American Conference threated to expel the school for failing to meet football attendance requirements. The athletic director pulled out all stops to get people to buy tickets, including an appearance by…

The right wing assures us that our health-care system is “the best in the world”.

Too bad proper names aren’t allowed in Scrabble. He’d be worth a ton of points.

Mt. Pleasant is one of the biggest party towns in the state of Michigan. Bet the over on the number of couches set on fire tonight.

Not to be confused with the Coastal Carolina, which won the College World Series; the College of Charleston, which is in you-know-where; or The Citadel, which is still open despite the passing of Pat Conroy.

Oy. “Let’s Go Crazy” came up on last night’s online qualifying test for Sports Jeopardy, and I got it wrong. I missed a passing score by 1 question.

In my state, it is customary (but, so far as I can tell, not the law) to start meetings of local governing boards with the Pledge of Allegiance.

The band still has to perform heavy penance for “south Detroit” which, as everyone in my part of the world knows, is Windsor, Ontario.

Modest proposal: The word “journey” should be used only to describe something that can be drawn on a map.

This reminds me of a man in my state who ran for a slew of offices (he even got on the GOP presidential primary ballot in another state). After the local paper referred to him as a “perennial candidate”, he sued the paper for slander. The paper moved for summary judgment, and its attorney showed up at the hearing with…