Finding What They Were Missing

April 2, 2010 Press play to listen Tom Izzo’s best coaching job From the outside, it looked like a typically dominant Michigan State basketball team.  By the end of January, the Spartans were undefeated in the Big Ten, and ranked fifth in the nation.  That record hid...

Little Man Comes Up Big

March 26, 2010 Press play to listen It’s been a dismal year for Michigan fans. The football team and the men’s basketball team both failed to make it to the post-season, and together they lost to Michigan State three times. The men’s hockey team was supposed to be the...

Spring Training’s Longest Marriage

March 19, 2010 Dear Loyal Readers, Thanks once again for your continued, well, loyalty.  First, a correction: I cited 33,000 subscribers last week, but in fact, we’re well over 38,000, because the stats I looked at only covered the past12 months, and we’re...

How to Talk Sports, the Coach Bacon Way

March 13, 2010 Press play to listen In America, you’re “behind the eight ball,” if you will, if you can’t “Talk Sports.”  Jay McInerny once wrote that sports fans constitute the largest fraternity in America, and not knowing how to talk about them will put you...