by johnubacon | Apr 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
You can listen to the audio version by clicking the play button. ‘Tis the Season of Our Discontent. Or it would be, if you attached your happiness to Detroit’s professional sports teams. Let’s start with the Pistons. When Bill Davidson bought the...
by johnubacon | Apr 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
You can listen to the audio version here. The Michigan basketball team beat Loyola last weekend and made it to the NCAA finals. That was a minor miracle in itself. The team had almost no stars, with maybe one future NBA draft pick. They started the season...
by johnubacon | Mar 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
This season, Michigan’s men’s basketball team has enjoyed another great turn-around. After a bad loss to Northwestern in early February, the Wolverines were stuck in the middle of the Big Ten – not the station of Final Four teams. But they haven’t lost since,...
by johnubacon | Mar 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
I can’t recall March Madness starting with more mayhem. In the first round alone, the lower-seeded team pulled the upset in eight of 32 games – fully a quarter. And it only got crazier in the second round, when six of 16 lower-seeded teams beat the favorite – which is...
by johnubacon | Mar 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Michigan West Coasters! Tuesday night at 6:30 I’ll be speaking at Forever Books in St. Joseph, Michigan, about The Great Halifax Explosion, followed by Q&A and signing, all the books you like. It’s all featured in this nice piece in the St. Joseph...
