Visiting the WMU Surplus Store, you'll typically find desks and shelves, furniture, computers and athletic equipment. But occasionally you'll stumble upon a real find.
Fat snowflakes were falling in Mount Pleasant when fierce MAC rivals Western Michigan and Central Michigan kicked off in a nationally televised game on ESPNU.
It's a story that many long-time Kalamazoo residents may have heard, especially if they followed the local baseball scene in their youth; Future President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush played on the Yale University baseball team that made it to the College World Series in both 1947 and 1948. In fact those first two College World Series were played at Hyames Field.
As the calendar turns to June, the anticipation for the upcoming college football season increase with the announcement of game times for the Western Michigan Broncos.
Maybe this resonates with us a little more because our feelings are still a bit hurt. Maybe there a little bit of satisfaction reading former University of Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill's comments about P. J. Fleck.