by johnubacon | Sep 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
You can listen to the Podcast here: We learned this week that FBI undercover agents have been investigating college basketball for two years, and they found everything the NCAA has largely failed to find for decades: coaches paying top recruits through...
by johnubacon | Sep 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
(You can listen to the audio version here by clicking “Play.”) I’ve always said the two toughest jobs in this state are not governor, mayor of Detroit, or CEO of General Motors, but goalie for the Red Wings and quarterback for the Michigan...
by johnubacon | Sep 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hello, Loyal Readers! Having just finished my next book, The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism, on Wednesday morning, I am back, and so is the Bacon Blog! Thanks for your patience. More good news: My most...
by johnubacon | Aug 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hello, Loyal Readers, from outside Gate A27 at Newark International Airport. This is how I’m rollin’ these days. Just finished a full week of interviews for the book I coauthored with my good friend John Saunders, “Playing Hurt: My Journey from...
by johnubacon | Aug 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hello, Loyal Readers! AS Mark Twain would say, “Rumors of my death have been exaggerated.” But two books in one year will do that. The first of them, Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope, which is John Saunders’ memoir of facing abuse,...
by johnubacon | Apr 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear Loyal Readers, Thanks for your patience! As you might know, I’m buried deep in the Writer’s Cave these days, finishing not one but two books. The first I wrote with ESPN’s late John Saunders, titled Playing Hurt: My Journey from Hope to Despair,...
