Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer meets with Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, right, before a game Nov. 28, 2015, in Ann Arbor.(Photo: Carlos Osorio Associated Press) Jim Harbaugh is at it again. Which means we are at it again, too. And by “we,” what I really mean is journalists who pounce on Harbaugh’s Twitter bombs every time the Michigan football coach launches them. We are doing his bidding, as I am doing now. We can’t help it. He’s news, and turning away feels like an abdication of responsibility. Call it the Donald Trump effect, in reference to the man who has become must-watch television not on the strength of those who admire him, but on the backs of those who abhor him. Not that Harbaugh is Trump. The U-M coach isn’t vain; he manages to stay in the news without making it about him, keeping the focus on the Wolverines — or the program’s opponents. As he did Tuesday, when he launched his latest fusillade by responding to a quote from Ohio State’s athletic director Gene Smith. …
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