Keating's corner: Saying goodbye to a 'perfect' gentleman

Published Jan. 24, 2011 3:08 p.m. ET

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In a calendar year that included the passing of Ernie Harwell and Sparky Anderson, the probation and turbulent times of Rich Rod's Michigan football program and Michigan State's first conference football championship in a decade, one story in our state loomed head and shoulders above the others in 2010.