Our good friend Mike passed along this video, an ESPN commercial featuring Minnesota Twins baseball player Joe Mauer being interviewed by Sports Center’s Scott Van Pelt. Hope you enjoy.

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a vast region. By the way, did you know that the Upper Peninsula is wider than the Lower Peninsula is tall?
I love exploring Google Maps and finding aerial views of my favorite places in the Upper Peninsula as well as the rest of the world. Here are [...]

As difficult as this is to admit I just have to throw it out there, I’m moving to Lansing! I have already garnered a decent amount of heckling, harassment and being called a traitor from various people. Now that I’m announcing it here I expect a lot more of it, and that’s OK, I’m [...]

This post was contributed by Ron Riekki regarding his new novel, U.P. which is available now. You can learn more about Ron on his website at rariekki.webs.com

I love the opportunity to reach out to the U.P. reader, as—other than vanity press stuff I’ve found online—fiction set in the U.P. is such a rarity. Besides [...]