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Today, Western Michigan University announced the details of an agreement which allows former head football coach P.J. Fleck to assume ownership of the mantra "Row the Boat."

When PJ Fleck left West Michigan University for the head coaching job at University of Minnesota, everyone wondered what would happen to the “Row The Boat” mantra that Fleck had made so prominent. Even at his first press conference after taking the head football coach job at University Of Minnesota, he talked about wanting to take the phrase with him...

Here's a creative way for college football fans to get some exercise. A map shows the path to row a boat from Kalamazoo to Minneapolis.

Remember when Dallas was going to host an expansion of ArtPrize? The three-year agreement was set to begin in 2016, but ArtPrize Dallas was cancelled because of funding and some who "saw the concept as threatening to the status quo." It seems Dallas is having second thoughts after introducing two ArtPrize-like sculptures made out of tires.

What does a 10-0 record get you in the College Football Playoff rankings? Not much if you're Western Michigan University.

Jim Harbaugh and P.J. Fleck are not only among the 23 finalists for this year’s American Heart Association Paul “Bear” Bryant Award for Coach of the Year, they are among the front-runners Who should win the Coach of the Year award: Michigan's Jim Harbaugh or Western Michigan's P.J. Fleck?

A computer simulation says no college football team in the country has a better chance to go undefeated than Western Michigan University. It's not even close.

The college football "experts" have been sharing their predictions for months. Now computer simulators are weighing in too. If this simulator is right, it looks like a very good season for the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University.

Western Michigan University linebacker Kasey Carson, who is from Battle Creek, got a big surprise from a big movie star on Saturday. Carson received a video message from Sylvester Stallone, telling him he was awarded a full-ride scholarship, The Battle Creek Enquirer reports.

Western Michigan University has taken a major step to contribute to the creation of renewable energy in Michigan. WMU's partnership with Consumers Energy has opened a new solar power plant on campus.

West Michigan is continuing to come together to remember the victims of the Kalamazoo shootings Saturday night. Two vigil events are planned for Tuesday night to honor the victims and their families and to pray for an end to violence.

JoJo Girard and I both went to Central Michigan. At CMU before the politically correct 1990s, the annual Central/Western weekend (when WMU and CMU played the home football game in Mt. Pleasant) was also the home of the "End of the World" party. Ahh those were the days!