Michael Phelps' appetite is famous in Michigan

 
By Jo-Ann Barnas
Published: August 17, 2008

It was easy to tell when swimmer Michael Phelps was in the midst of a particularly grueling training period.

The door to Benny's Family Dining, on South Industrial Highway in Ann Arbor , near the University of Michigan campus, would swing open around 7 a.m. And in would walk Phelps, still groggy after the day's first workout, sliding into a booth near the front of the diner — away from the smokers seated in back...


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