by johnubacon | Mar 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio version, click here: Bacon_3.28_web] Sports columnist Rick Reilly once wrote that weekend golfers invariably claim, “I’m a good golfer. I’m just not consistent.” Well, he said, if you’re not consistent, you’re not a good golfer....
by johnubacon | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the shorter audio version, please click here: Eddie Kahn 2-21-13] In the Michigan hockey program’s 90-year history, some 600 players have scored more than 10,000 total goals. But the man who scored the team’s very first goal, 90 years ago, might still...
by johnubacon | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio version, just click here: Vipers 2-28-13] A few years ago – okay, a bunch of years ago – I bit on a bet I never should have touched. I was writing for the Detroit News, and a top minor league hockey team called the Detroit Vipers played at the...
by johnubacon | Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio version, click here: Bacon Superbowl_2013_WEB_-2-8-2013] Congratulations! You not only survived that annual orgy of conspicuous consumption called the Super Bowl, you also survived the two weeks of endless stories without news that lead up to...
by johnubacon | Jan 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio version, please click here: Bacon_final_Harbaughbrother_with_intro_for_web_1-25-2013,wav] Even those who don’t follow sports probably know the Super Bowl is a week from Sunday. And, for the first time ever, in any major American sport,...
