Golden Grizzlies shine; smoking ordinance burns.(Opinion)

Crain's Detroit Business, March, 2005

A few thoughts about events of the past week: The good ... * The Oakland University Golden Grizzlies. The team was eliminated from the NCAA tournament by the University of North Carolina on Friday afternoon, but the team provided many feel-good moments as it unexpectedly won its conference tournament and a play-in game to win the right to play No.

2 UNC. All in all, it was a welcome break from the sad spectacle of last week's congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball. * Automakers who are revising the way they use the customer-satisfaction surveys. (See story, Page 11.) In the past, very large incentives have hinged on the results, leading many dealers to resort to unseemly measures to make sure customers give uniformly excellent scores. Good...