Michigan Stadium, aka "The Big House," is a gem in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Truly one of the great…read moresporting stadiums in the state. It is one of the most iconic stadiums in college football and home to the Michigan Wolverines. It is a premier entertainment venue and hosts major events similar to those hosted at professional sporting venues. In the football world, it is known for its record-breaking seating capacity. The Big House also offers a world class stadium tour guided by knowledgeable experts. On the tour you're given behind the scenes access to player tunnels, player locker rooms, media suites, club and executive suites, and of course, ground zero on the playing field. The tour takes you through so many exclusive areas of the stadium that fans normally don't see, offering the player and stadium employee perspective. The tour guides are knowledgeable and sure to provide historical context and little known facts of the legacy of the stadium. Overall, a very good experience and beautiful stadium.

My wife brought me to a Michigan game two years ago as a present. Let me tell you, I've been in a…read morelot of stadiums, but being around 110,000 plus fan is ELECTRIC. Atmosphere was phenomenal, crowd was great, food and drinks were your typical stadium pricing, but overall a great experience. We ubered to the game from our hotel to avoid traffic and parking. The amount of vendors outside the stadium was unreal too. So many pop up shops. I will say though, good luck getting online on your phone while being around that many people, we had to walk almost a mile away from the stadium to connect with uber. I would do this experience 100 times out of 100. Best football game of my life even though Michigan lost lol.

This 5K is beautifully organized on a beautiful course! It is safe, there are enough volunteers for…read moreeverything, and a great breakfast buffet and t-shirt are offered. There are kids races, adult fun races and timed races, and a dog walk! They encourage you to bring your whole family and dog for the fun!! I saw this on their website: WHAT: 6th Annual Vision Builders 5K Run / Walk / Kids Race / Dog Walk WHO: Bring the whole family (including your dog) for race participation and food, fun, and activities! WHEN: Morning of September 16th, 2012 WHERE: Hudson Mills Metropark, 8801 North Territorial Road in Dexter, MI WHY: Great fun for a great cause! All proceeds go towards the development of Kutumb Village, a multi-faceted campus providing education, housing, medical care, nutrition and women's empowerment programs-a sustainable community resource for residents of the Nadesar slums in Varanasi, India. MORE INFORMATION AND ONLINE REGISTRATION: http://www.visionbuilders5k.org Registration now open!

Ann Arbor has a professional symphony that performs September through April…read more Performances are world-class, and some of the annual events have become popular traditions, including the Mozart Birthday Bash.

Ann Arbor's very own professional orchestra--they're awesome. Their season runs Sep. - Apr. and…read moretickets are very affordable. I like that while their music is first-rate, it's not a hoity-toity event each time. Yes, you can dress up and make a night out of it, but many people also go in jeans. Before the concerts they always have pre-concert lectures which tell you about the music that will be played that night, which is a really cool thing and very informative. The A2SO is a non-profit and they do a lot of great work for music education in local schools, so they're a great place to spend your money for a fun and different night out. In addition to their regular concerts, which are on Saturdays, they always have family concerts the Sunday afterwards, which are more kid-friendly. They do free Kinderconcerts for little ones at local libraries, and cheap Afternoon Delights concerts for senior citizens or folks who can't get out to a night show. All in all a fantastic part of our community.

Through the 2020 college football season, Michigan is still on top all-time for the most…read moreNCAA-recognized wins at 964. Needless to say, the Wolverines are one of the sport's all-time great programs. Along with 964 wins, Michigan has captured nine national championships recognized by the NCAA: 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1918, 1923, 1933, 1948, and 1997. Two of those titles came during the poll era beginning in 1936. Michigan also claims national championships in 1932 and 1947. In recent years, Ohio State (931 wins) and Alabama (929 wins) have narrowed the gap. Good thing current Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh has done a nice job keeping the program on the winning track. Since being hired as Michigan's coach in 2014 (first season in 2015), through the 2020 season, Harbaugh's record at the school has been 49-22 overall (.690) and 34-16 in the Big Ten (.680). In six complete seasons at the helm, Harbaugh's Michigan teams have completed their seasons ranked in the final top 25 polls four times (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019). Harbaugh guided the Wolverines to five straight major bowl appearances from 2015 to 2019. Two of those appearances were College Football Playoff New Year's Six bowls: the 2016 Orange Bowl (a 33-32 loss to No. 10 Florida State) and the 2018 Peach Bowl (a 41-15 loss to No. 10 Florida). Harbaugh's bowl record at Michigan is 1-4. While he has yet to win a Big Ten conference championship, Harbaugh has definitely been an upgrade over the team's previous two head coaches, Brady Hoke (2011-2014) and Rich Rodriguez (2008-2010). The last great Michigan coach was Lloyd Carr who coached the team from 1995 to 2007. Carr had tremendous success in Ann Arbor. In 13 seasons, his Michigan teams never missed the postseason. He won five conference championships. His best season was the 1997 national championship season. The Wolverines went undefeated that year, going 12-0 overall and 8-0 in the Big Ten. They won the 1998 Rose Bowl, 21-16, with Brian Griese at quarterback. It capped off a magical season for Michigan and they ended with a final ranking of No. 1 in the AP poll. The 1997 Michigan team had an outstanding defense led by First-Team All-Americans Charles Woodson (cornerback) and Glen Steele (defensive end). To this day, Woodson is the only primarily-defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy. Michigan Stadium, located southwest of Central Campus, is the biggest stadium in the Western Hemisphere. Since 2015, "The Big House" has had an official seating capacity of 107,601. This was down from its 2010-2015 official capacity of 109,901. In 2013, the Michigan-Notre Dame game set an NCAA record for attendance with 115,109 fans (record-high for a college football game held in an American stadium). Two other schools in the Big Ten, Penn State and Ohio State, also have football stadiums that hold over 100,000 each.

The most storied franchise in all of college football…read more The most all time wins. The highest win percentage. Most winning seasons. Eleven national championships. Everything about this team is winning. Charlie Sheen was wrong, if he was so "winning" then he wouldn't have tiger blood, he would have WOLVERINE BLOOD. The most distinctive fight song (Hail To The Victors!) and helmets (wing-tipped, so classy). Best sports rivalry (sorry State, you're not really our rival) AND they play in the biggest college stadium. I'm originally from NYC and I have converted a number of my high school friends that went to state universities to Wolverine fans. They all agree with me, there is no other college football team to root for. Michigan gives you the legacy and the ACADEMICS (can't say that for any SEC school, suckers). Simply, to sum it up... IT'S GREAT TO BE... A MICHIGAN WOLVERINE!!!

I had the great pleasure of watching UM Women's Basketball team compete in the final game of the…read more'25-'26 academic year in the second round of the NCAA tournament against NC State yesterday. The squad played exceptionally hard and pulled away for an impressive victory. The arena was clean, easy to get to, and we were welcomed by friendly elderly security screeners. The fans were engaged and polite. Several times our seat neighbors helpfully explained a rule for me after I had to be told to sit down & be quiet by my girlfriend. "Why one star?" you ask. I answer your question with a question: how can an institution whose athletic tradition is bested only by its academic prestige, a school full of valiant victors and heroes conq'ring, a university Darth Vader himself called the Best In The World, how can this venerated landmark serve its paying guests food not fit for the livestock on faculty in East Lansing? At halftime our beloved Wolverines were clinging to a 3 point lead after star guard Olivia Olson sat much of the first half in foul trouble (she finished with 27 points, all after the break). We had arrived within time's bending sickle's compass, though I didn't know it yet. We ventured into the concourse and chose a lunch line without much thought. This carelessness has altered the trajectory of my otherwise unremarkable life. Nothing looked particularly appetizing, least of all the prices. The prices! Friends, Romans, countrymen, I could have finished my abandoned undergrad degree (not from UofM, didn't even get waitlisted) for less than the cost of these heat-lamp Hindenburgs . But a hungry man with a hangry lover is wont to make hasty decisions: a small pepperoni Buddy's pizza; a small cardboard boat of fries badly in need of sildenafil; a small lukewarm water set on the counter by an aggressively indifferent sandwich artist sometime during the regular season; a box of popcorn whose visage, to a lifelong resident of B1G corn country, inspires rage and sorrow at the lost joy of freshly popped 'n buttered maize from states that begin with I; this pathetic bounty, $36. No. $43. Wait, no, $28. The concession areas in Crisler clearly list prices, but no person from the battalion of service workers there employed will exchange money for food. The world-renowned Behavior and Cognitive Sciences Department at the University of Michigan has installed tray-sized platforms under mounted fisheye lenses that, in partnership with Jian Yang's Seefood®, will discern what items you have set upon it and select at random two consecutive digits of Pi and display a dollar sign preceding those two digits and demand you pay that sum to be permitted to eat. Pending peer review they anticipate their findings will be published in JABS sometime next year. Based on the speed at which the queues move, our fellow-travelers, otherwise thinking people, tap their cards and exit. Love's not time's fool and neither am I--before I hand over my hard-earned SNAP credits, I want to be sure we are being charged the correct sum. I hesitate. My Opehlia, smarter than me in every way, arrives at the correct total for our selections long before I do. The Pi digits generated by the UoMBCSD machine do not match hers. Surely the difference is easily fixed? Here enters a sturdy woman, bearing a nametag inscrutable, sharply uniformed as assurance of comprehensive training, to assist. Harass? Assist. "Ok den, what y'all got?" I gesture at the clearly visible food sat upon the Seefood® tray. "Uh huh," she grunts, ostensibly by way of reassurance, though a glance at my beloved confirms that neither of us are reassured. Ophelia, smarter and gentler than me, proposes a summary as seconds of unrecognition creep in this petty pace. "I think it's charging us for a chicken and fries combo, but I just wanted the fries." Comprehension lights upon Sturdy's countenance. "Aay! Ay, ay, gimme one'dem empy whites!" She calls back to her antecounter coworkers. For a brief moment I fear she's referring to me: there are less-accurate descriptions of your humble reviewer than an Empty White. Mercifully, a barren rectangular styrofoam container emerges and Sturdy takes it in one hand, grabs our fries uncovered-thumb-first with her other hand, and replaces the empty space with the empty white. Seefood® thinks for a moment, then regurgitates a total that Ophelia and I both recognize is lower than correct. I move to pay but Sturdy stops me as the numbers crawl through her mind like allied troops on Omaha Beach: slowly, with violent intent. "Naw dat ain' righ'." Our fries are still marinating in her thumbsweat as she uses her other hand to scroll the touch-screen menu UoMBCSD helpfully installed as part of their two-tailed experiment on the hungry unsuspecting masses of Crisler. She arrives at FRIES as an option and presses the screen. INVALID ENTRY Hôtel des Invalides took less time to finish than checkout at a Crisler Seefood® public psychosocial experime

Great game, what a great team, food and atmosphere. Our seats were fantastic we even got free foodread more

Very nice indoor practice facility. Opaque roof lets sunlight come through without harsh glare…read more The facility is large and can handle several teams scrimmages and drills. EMU keeps the air inside pretty dry. Occasionally, the air is a bit humid but that's only on the steamiest of days outside. There is a convenient drop off lane that is covered off the main drive. Parking is conveniently located across the street. I have been bringing my daughter here for soccer practice for at least five years. I cannot believe there was no Yelp page for the EMU dome until I added the facility. Enjoy! A great EMU resource!

Had the pleasure of visiting the USA Hockey Arena for the first time to attend the final match of…read morethe 2019 World Junior Summer Showcase hockey tournament between the United States and Canada. My first impression was very positive because parking was super easy in the adjoining on-site lot that is plenty large enough for the size of the 3,504 seat hockey facility. It is an intimate venue as far as hockey arenas go, and it is absolutely perfect for what it is. There is a great pro shop with all kinds of authentic USA Hockey gear at all ranges of prices, I'd also say that they provide ample restroom facilities, and a decent sized vending station (though, if I had to throw any shade on an otherwise top-notch spectator-friendly facility, I would have to admit that the standard arena fare served up is decent, but certainly uninspired--yet, I had no expectation of enjoying a top-notch burger once inside an amateur team arena, so all's good here). The sight lines throughout the arena are generally unobstructed (with the exception, perhaps, of the end glass behind the goaltenders where there seemed to be more than the usual number of puck marks that blurred some of the ability to get a clean photo of the on-ice action). But the atmosphere is great and it should be--basically a facility dedicated to cheering on our men and women suiting up in the red, white and blue. Go USA!

I love the drive in here! It is so much fun to watch a double feature under the stars in your cozy…read morecar. My husband and I make it a few times every season. My only complaint is that it is usually all family friendly movies or one bad kid movie with one we actually want to see. I like kiddie fare but it would be nice to have a quality double feature that did not include one cartoon type movie or kid clunker. At any rate still a blast and optimal for cuddling and bringing your own collection of snacks.

Only came here for one game for our travel team. I was less than impressed with the officiating,…read morebut that has nothing to do with the facility. There was an outdoor, and it looked like an indoor playing field as well We played outdoors on a beautiful turf field. The area is surrounded by a forest, which makes it a very attractive place. We are not from the area, so I'm not aware of what else they have but this is a really good place to travel to for a game

Not sure how this place...or who characterized it as a "day care" (I guess Comerica Park would be…read moredaycare if you dropped your kids off for a baseball game), but 100% this place is for indoor soccer league playing. Nice facility, three large, well-kept fields. Free wi-fi, concessions that are very reasonable, big screen TVs if you'd rather watch National and International Sports.