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Note: Many readers on social media ask journalists to name their sources. If journalists did so – especially after promising confidentiality – they would no longer have sources, on or off the record. When I write for publications and book publishers, I show my editors...

If it seems like the Detroit Lions have played on Thanksgiving since it became a national holiday, it’s because they actually started seven years earlier.   True, the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in October of 1621, but the custom faded,...

Four weeks ago I tweeted that “The only thing more annoying than a week of juvenile taunting between Michigan and Michigan State fans? Two weeks of it.” But I was wrong: the two weeks that followed the game have been even more annoying.  Michigan won the game,...

This is an excerpt from OVERTIME: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football (HarperCollins, 2019) THERE HAS BEEN enough adolescent sniping between Michigan and Michigan State to fill a book— in fact, several.  It started before...

Hello, Loyal Readers! I'll be gearing up for both my blog and podcast in the weeks ahead, but meantime my latest book, THE GREATEST COMEBACK: How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and Reinvented Hockey, is now available on amazon, at Literati and...

Regarding the University of Michigan hockey program: I now have the report produced by the DC law firm Wilmer Hale, and commissioned by U-M. I understand other reporters now have it too, and you can expect to hear from them soon.  Caveats: I am currently...

On Sunday a back-and-forth between Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard and Wisconsin’s Greg Gard spilled over to both teams and coaching staffs after the game ended. But it didn’t become national news until Howard recached out to slap the head of a Wisconsin...

Episode Summary: Jim Barahal Jim Barahal’s first career would have been enough. After graduating from medical school he moved to Hawaii, started making house calls – unheard of in 1982 – and built a thriving practice, “Doctors on Call,” with 19 clinics and 60,000...

DEAR LOYAL READERS: As you might have heard, my next book, LET THEM LEAD: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America's Worst High School Hockey Team, is launching this month. Already getting great reviews (linked below), including this line from the Boston Globe's...

As you might have heard, my next book, LET THEM LEAD: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America's Worst High School Hockey Team, launches on Tuesday. Already getting great reviews, including this line from the Boston Globe's great Dan Shaughnessy: "It's where Ted...