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Wojo: As the sports world flickers, Tom Izzo keeps the passion burning

It’s late March and Tom Izzo is busy cleaning his garage, and his attic, and his home office with the overstuffed drawers. He’s thinking about going back to woodworking and refinishing furniture. And he finds himself talking more to his 93-year-old mother, Dorothy, about surviving the polio epidemic.

In this upside-down world, everyone’s finding things to do and things to think about (and not think about.)

“I’m being a human again,” Izzo says.