by johnubacon | Oct 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the shorter audio version, click here: Bacon-final-fresh ineligibility-NCAA-for web with open 10-4-2013] Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, who might be the smartest man in college sports, stood outside the Big Ten’s brand new offices last week, telling a...
by johnubacon | Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio version, click here: NCAA Penn State 9-27-2013] On November 5, 2011, Penn State’s former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was arrested on forty criminal counts, including the sexual assault of eight boys over a fifteen-year period, one of...
by johnubacon | Sep 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Michigan football fans often wear funny pants and funny hats. They sing funny songs and tell funny stories. But to Michigan fans, some things are not funny– and Appalachian State is about five of them. You might recall those guys, who opened the 2007 season against...
by johnubacon | Sep 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hello Loyal Readers, Well, after months of research and reporting, and more months of writing and writing and revising, my latest book, “Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football,” (Simon & Schuster) launches today! You can order it...
by johnubacon | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
[NOTE: This is from a feature I did for the now-defunct Northwest Airlines WorldTraveler Magazine, back in 2001. For my last story at the Detroit News as a full-time feature writer, in 1999, I interviewed Elmore Leonard at his home — and stayed three hours,...
by johnubacon | Aug 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Hello Loyal Readers and Listeners! Today, something different: My first excerpt and interview for my upcoming book, “Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football.” (Simon & Schuster, Sept 3, 2013.) Here are the links: And here is the...
