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My next book, LET THEM LEAD: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School Hockey Team, can be pre-ordered TODAY.
My next book, LET THEM LEAD: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America's Worst High School Hockey Team, comes out in exactly two months but can be pre-ordered TODAY. It helps if you order today to show the publishers people are serious. Happy to sign your copy...
Dr. Anderson’s Abuse and UM Athletics: What We Know, and Don’t Know
I am writing to address the tragedy of Dr. Robert Anderson’s abuse of University of Michigan students, and the many issues it has raised. If you’re reading this you probably already know, but in the interest of full disclosure, I coauthored Bo Schembechler’s last...
The University of Michigan’s Report on Fielding Yost’s Legacy
In 2017 the University of Michigan commissioned the President’s Advisory Committee on University History, charged with investigating the legacies of those whose names adorn buildings on campus. The committee is composed of eight tenured professors led by Terry...
The Long Shadow of Dr. Anderson
About 15 months ago, former student-athletes at the University of Michigan accused a former U-M doctor of sexually abusing them during medical exams. The University’s leaders hired a pre-eminent law firm, WilmerHale, to interview Anderson’s patients...
Tribute to a Hockey Mom
Click play to listen to the audio version. 250 years ago my mom’s side of the family lived in Yonkers, New York. But being United Empire Loyalists, when the Revolutionary War started they escaped to New Brunswick, Canada. And that’s what makes me Half-Canadian Bacon....
U-M Basketball Writing Two Compelling Stories
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Harbaugh’s New Contract a Small Step For Sanity
After weeks of waiting, University of Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and athletic director Warde Manuel finally agreed to extend Harbaugh’s contract through 2025. There are no polls tracking fan reaction, but it’s clear Michigan fans don’t feel the same way they...
Making Recruits Commit to Michigan, Before Michigan Commits to Them
University of Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel announced this week that he and football coach Jim Harbaugh would determine Harbaugh’s future on Dec. 19 –the day afterhigh school recruits commit to their future schools. In other words, by delaying the...
The 103rd Anniversary of the Great Halifax Explosion
Today marks the 103rd anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, the biggest manmade blast before the atomic bomb - one-fifth the power of the A-Bomb, as calculated by J. Robert Oppenheimer, its architect. ...
The Baco-Thon story in the Washington Post today
When they postponed the Boston Marathon, I decided to create my own one-man marathon, the "Baco-Thon." I didn't have 500,000 screaming spectators, so I ran past everything I care about - my schools, friends' houses, favorite...