EAST LANSING – As my 2-year-old son and I pulled into the parking lot of an Okemos grocery store for some midday shopping, a text from Tom Izzo popped into my phone.
It conveyed a simple message.
“(Expletive) you.”
So I immediately called him on his cell phone, my young lad listening patiently in his car seat. Izzo answered and my first words were: “What’s your problem?”
That’s a good place to start this, the last thing I’ll write for the Free Press as the Michigan State beat writer. I’ve been at the Freep in that capacity for nearly four years, and for nine before that at the Lansing State Journal.