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Harbaugh Watch, Day Four: The Latest Information
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...
Why the Detroit Lions Play on Thanksgiving
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,...
Justice Delayed — For All Involved
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,...
A Brief History of the Michigan-Michigan State Rivalry
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...
Bacon at the Ann Arbor District Library TONIGHT 6:30
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...
The Investigative Report on the Michigan Hockey Program
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...
What Juwan Howard Did, and What Michigan Should Do About It
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...
The LET THEM LEAD podcast. Guest Dr. Jim Barahal, CEO of the Honolulu Marathon.
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...
To Attract Younger Workers, the Best Way to Make it Special is to Make it Difficult – then Let Them Lead Themselves
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...
LET THEM LEAD: Both the book AND the podcast launch Tuesday!
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...