Food & Drink We're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to find which is home to the President of Beers. #34: Bell’s Amber: Bell’s Brewery, Kalamazoo, Michigan State: From the Motor City to Lake Michigan (or any of its shores along many Great Lakes), the Wolverine State is darling as a mitten and home to a fragment of land called the Upper Peninsula whose ...   More

News  I'm usually a big fan of when ESPN goes the documentary route and was intrigued by what I saw of the network's March Madness-timed film the other night on the "Fab Five."For non-sports fans, the "Fab Five" was a group of University of Michigan freshmen in 1991 who many considered the greatest class of high school hoopsters ever recruited to one school. (They also deserve our fashion thanks for ...   More

News Um, don't get too happy about the breathless headline. The latest national numbers are in for state unemployment rates, and they show Oregon's 12.1 percent unemployment rate is second-worst behind Michigan's 12.6 percent. Oregon's rate also ranks first in the biggest month-to-month jump, leaping 1.4 percentage points from February to March. The gory details are right here. A happy alternative ...   More

News In this installment of my pre-Rose Bowl exchange of questions and answers with Ohio State fanatic Noah Litton, I ask about one commonality that surfaced between Buckeyes and Ducks fans: a recent Sports Illustrated survey of fans in different conferences concluded that Ohio State and Oregon fans were both voted the rudest in their respective conferences. My question to Noah: How accurate is that ...   More