Category Archives: Recreation & Sports

DNR Uncut: Michigan State Parks Capture Top National Award

November 3, 2011 – 5:56 pm

Here’s a “guest” post from the Michigan DNR. We say “guest” in that we copied and pasted it from their website. Great parks, great news.  Collectively Falling – Bond Falls by Aaron C. Jors The Department of Natural Resources announced today that Michigan state parks and recreation areas have won the 2011 National Recreation and [...]

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The Three Sisters

November 2, 2011 – 7:07 am

When you’re in a storm in big water, you can look for about every seventh wave to be a big one. Now your ship is designed to weather this, but there’s something you should know. These are not lakes, these are the world’s eighth seas, and her bottoms are littered with the wreckage of over [...]

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October 24th Northern Lights over Michigan

October 25, 2011 – 7:15 am

northern lights, clare county MI by ats8110 Last night our Michigan Northern Lights Log got over 2 dozen reports from the region of sightings – follow the link to subscribe via RSS. Here’s the skinny on last night’s Auroral Amazement via Michigan in Pictures… Michigan was treated to an amazing show of Northern Lights as [...]

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Sinking Ships for Money

October 17, 2011 – 2:21 pm

ship wreck by hoperenewed In November Absolute Michigan always features shipping and shipwrecks, and while most of the stories are tragic, Great Lakes Echo has a feature about a Michigan lawmaker who hopes to sink ships to boost tourism revenue: Some tourism officials question if the expensive and lengthy process of cleaning and sinking a [...]

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Michigan vs Michigan State Football Rivalry

October 13, 2011 – 11:11 am

It’s rights for the title of the state, state champions, who’s the best in the state, it’s huge, big for the fans, big for the alumni and big for the players and coaches. ~Ryan Van Bergen, UM Defensive End This Saturday at 12 noon the University of Michigan Wolverines head to Spartan Stadium in East Lansing to [...]

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Experience Great Lakes Week with Great Lakes Now

October 12, 2011 – 7:26 am

Edited Oct 17, 2011 to bring in the archived content from Great Lakes Week 2011 Detroit Public Television (DPTV), in partnership with the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Commission, U.S. EPA, and Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition provided unprecedented access to the largest gathering of scientists, political voices, educators, environmentalists, and interested groups ever [...]

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2011 Detroit Tiger Playoff Watch

October 12, 2011 – 7:12 am

We’ll update this page with cool features we find about the Detroit Tigers post-season and their quest for the World Series crown! Add your comments and links below! Share this:

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Five Things You Need to Know: Lions & Tigers & Bears Edition

October 10, 2011 – 2:19 pm

UPDATE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011 On Monday night the Lions beat the Bears 24-13 to move to 5-0. Quarterback Matthew Stafford summed up the energy and the role of the crowd: “It was up there. I mean, it was unbelievable. You know, especially early on some of those third downs, you couldn’t hear yourself think and [...]

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October Michigan Event Calendar

October 1, 2011 – 7:00 am

october day by PepOmint A sampling of Michigan festivals & events for the month of October. As usual, there’s no way we’ll get them all, so please add links and information about those we’ve missed (or reviews of ones we have here) in the comments below. Don’t forget that one of Michigan’s big attractions is [...]

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There’s no better place for Michigan for the Colors of Fall

September 26, 2011 – 7:34 am

Via Michigan in Pictures… We’ll lead it off with a polished video from Pure Michigan. You can also do some virtual color touring with this Motorcycle ride through the “tunnel of trees” north of Harbor Springs.. Untitled by DavidGuthrie As I took a little drive yesterday in Leelanau & Benzie counties in Northern Michigan I [...]

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