Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "Is it the equivalent of Nazi Germany for library boards to decide that some books are appropriate for children, and others aren't? Even when the author agrees that her book is inappropriate for young children?"
Essentials WHAT #2 Michigan (4-0) vs Nebraska (2-2) WHERE Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE WHEN 3:35 Eastern THE LINE M –17 (Vegas) M -22 (Bill C) TELEVISION FOX PBP: Jason Benetti Color: Brock "Why Aren't You Robbie Hummel" Huard TICKETS From $34. WEATHER mostly sunny 15 mph win mid 90s(!?!?) Overview Scott Frost has been reduced to Ryan Day's speechwriter and Matt Rhule has taken over. Rhule is a fantastic hire for Nebraska. He's resurrected Temple and Baylor; he seems like a legitimately good dude; he's yoinked the starting quarterback and inserted an in-state dude named "Heinrich" who's running 20 times a game in a bid to placate the football gods still wroth at the Bill Callahan era. Good things are coming for Nebraska. Just not, like, you know, now. This is a year zero situation if there ever was one. Rhule had to import Jeff Sims, a Georgia Tech quarterback who thinks that uniforms are fascism, man, and that throwing to the guys in t
Nebraska Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry Mac I undertook a really dumb thing this year. I killed my entire lawn. On purpose. We moved into our current house in 2019, and the lawn has always been mediocre at best. It was green in the summer, but a lot of the green was weeds, clover, crabgrass, nutgrass, and dandelions, and the portion that WAS grass was a mixture of completely different grass types. Every year I said, “this is the year I do something about this lawn.” And every year, I did the same thing: nothing. I had too much work and too many kids to drive to various activities and too many football games