by johnubacon | Jan 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by johnubacon | Nov 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
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,...
by johnubacon | Nov 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
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,...
by johnubacon | Nov 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by johnubacon | Oct 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by johnubacon | Aug 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
