by johnubacon | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Under head coach Tom Izzo, the Spartans have been to 17 straight NCAA tournaments, made it to 6 final fours and won it all in 2000 – while graduating 81 percent of his players. Not too shabby. Thanks partly to the tough schedule Izzo puts together, his teams tend to...
by johnubacon | Feb 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Everyone has been calling Super Bowl Sunday a national holiday for so long, it’s almost true. It’s great because everyone can play, no matter your religion, or even if you don’t like football. So, it’s time to break it all down, Coach Bacon style, starting with the...
by johnubacon | Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Big Ten entered the bowl season battered from a brutal decade. How bad was it? Michigan’s sworn enemies, Michigan State and Ohio State, had given up hating the Wolverines. What was the point? The Spartans and the Buckeyes could barely remember the last time the...
by johnubacon | Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Lions have lost to the Cowboys 13 times – so that’s not unusual. There are 31 other teams in the NFL, and 27 of them have winning records against the Lions. That leaves those pesky cats to feed on the likes of the Cleveland Browns, whose only fan in Michigan is...
by johnubacon | Jan 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
[This blog comes from my feature this week in The Wall Street Journal, linked here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-michigan-landed-jim-harbaugh-1419958985?tesla=y&mg=reno64-wsj] The private jet cut through the clouds and eased onto the airstrip at Detroit...
