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Michigan Video: On top of the Mackinac Bridge

Byron Goggin and the Wild Weekend Adventure crew take you into the pillars of the Mackinaw Bridge, up 50 stories of maze-like passages and onto the top of the Mighty Mac! Includes a lot of stuff that most folks who drive across the bridge…
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Michigan's Mackinac Bridge

2007 is the 50th Anniversary of the Mighty Mac. We'll be telling the story of the Mackinac Bridge piece by piece here on Absolute Michigan and on Michigan in Pictures and we'll post links to the photos and stories below. If you have some links…
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Tiger All Star Voting: Push for Placido (and Magglio & Pudge)

In practically every category, Detroit Tiger second baseman Placido Polanco has the edge over Yankees 2nd bagger Robinson Cano: batting average (Polanco is hitting .343 and 4th the majors), on base percentage, batting average with runners in…
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Shop Michigan: Surfing Lessons 101 from The Third Coast Surf Shop

Surfing 101 is a class designed as the first step in learning how to surf, it goes over the fundamentals needed to become a good surfer. The lessons starts with land instructions that go over warm-up exercises, equipment handling and safety,…
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Justin Verlander pitches 1st Tiger no-hitter since 1984!

The only thing better than throwing a no-hitter is doing it at home, and Justin Verlander's no-hitter in a 4-0 vistory over the Milwaukee Brewers on June 12, 2007 was the first ever for Comerica Park and the first by a Tiger pitcher since…
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Berrien County, Michigan

Berrien County is located at the southwest corner of Michigan along the shores of Lake Michigan and shares a state border with Indiana. Read on for history and links! St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights Courtest Archives of Michigan Berrien…
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Detroit Sports Bloggers Roundtable

starting off right by paulhitz I went over to Mack Avenue Tigers, hoping to get some analysis on Tiger rookie Andrew Miller, but ended up at Behind the Jersey reading through an excellent Detroit Bloggers Roundtable featuring a discussion…
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USASA regional adult soccer tournament in Michigan

The Midwest Regional Finals of the United States Adult Soccer Association's national cups competition will be held this weekend (June 14-17) in the St. Joseph area. (Check Absolute Michigan listings for St. Joseph & Stevensville for travel…
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Photo Friday: Seney, the sky afire by Kyle Rokos

There are a lot of things I like about Kyle including the fact that he uploads his photos at huge enough sizes to be great backgrounds, the cool places he goes in the Upper Peninsula, and of course the fact that he too is aware of the phenomenon…
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Lighthouse preservation and the DeTour Reef Light

Interlochen Public Radio's Peter Payette reports that the state of Michigan and lighthouse preservation community have been wrangling for years over the terms for taking abandoned offshore lighthouses from the Coast Guard and preserving them. Peter…
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Main Street America coming to Grayling

fabulous grayling. ok. not really fabulous by ArtsyT The Gaylord Herald Times reports that Grayling Township planning commissioners voted unanimously to approve a concept plan for a $161-million, four-season Main Street America theme park.…
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Photo Friday: Silhouette Sunset by Murtasma

Murtasma (Daniel Gallegos) lives in Ann Arbor and hails from Tharagotha, Spain. I believe that this is a photo of Put-in-bay on Lake Erie. Daniel has all manner of amazingly rich photos of all manner of amazingly rich scenes. Check…