Redemption

by | Apr 11, 2013 | Uncategorized

[Click here for audio version: Bacon_final_Beilein_for_web_with_open_4-12-2013] It wasn’t that long ago that Michigan’s basketball program was not merely unsuccessful, but the shame of the athletic department, if not the university. Bo Schembechler, then Michigan’s...

May I substitute a speech for a column?

by | Apr 5, 2013 | Uncategorized

Dear Loyal Readers and Listeners, This is fund drive week at Michigan Radio, and the fourth draft of my book — gasp! — is due Monday, which is also why I wrote only one column in March — sorry!  Should have let you know. In the meantime, I’m...

A Streak to Remember

by | Mar 29, 2013 | Uncategorized

[To listen to the audio version, click here: Bacon_3.28_web]   Sports columnist Rick Reilly once wrote that weekend golfers invariably claim, “I’m a good golfer.  I’m just not consistent.” Well, he said, if you’re not consistent, you’re not a good golfer....

Renaissance Resident

by | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized

[To listen to the shorter audio version, please click here: Eddie Kahn 2-21-13] In the Michigan hockey program’s 90-year history, some 600 players have scored more than 10,000 total goals.  But the man who scored the team’s very first goal, 90 years ago, might still...

Paper Viper

by | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized

[To listen to the audio version, just click here: Vipers 2-28-13] A few years ago – okay, a bunch of years ago – I bit on a bet I never should have touched. I was writing for the Detroit News, and a top minor league hockey team called the Detroit Vipers played at the...