by johnubacon | Mar 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
To listen to the audio version, click here: Bacon_final_Big_House_3-28-14 One debate I could do without is the question of who is a real Michigan fan, and who isn’t? On the face of it, the question is pretty stupid. A Michigan fan is a fan of Michigan. And beyond...
by johnubacon | Mar 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio version, please click here: Bacon Final 3.21.14 for web] On Sunday, the Michigan Wolverines faced the Michigan State Spartans in the final of the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament. After a decade of domination by the Spartans, John Beilein’s...
by johnubacon | Mar 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio version, click here: Ford 3.14.14] In the course of his 88 years, William Clay Ford, who died Sunday, captained Yale’s tennis team, earned an engineering degree and chaired Ford Motor Co.’s finance committee, which is enough for any lifetime....
by johnubacon | Mar 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio version, click here: Bacon Final Beilein 3.7.14] On Tuesday night, the Michigan men’s basketball team beat Illinois to earn its first outright Big Ten title in almost three decades. What’s more impressive is how they’ve done it. Michigan’s...
by johnubacon | Feb 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
To listen to the audio version, click here: Olympics 2014 Why in the world are the Winter Olympics in Sochi, one of Russia’s warmest places? Chalk it up to corruption – both the Russians’, which we’ve come to expect, and the International Olympic Committee’s – which…...
by johnubacon | Feb 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
To listen to the audio version, click here: Brendan Gibbons 2.14.2014 The University of Michigan named a new president last month, and the football team landed another great class of recruits last week. But there’s another story that keeps eclipsing those two. I’ve...