by johnubacon | Jul 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
[To listen to the audio, click here: Bacon_final-__with_intro_-_football_playoff-7-13-12] Well, it’s finally upon us. No, not the apocalypse – the Mayan calendar be damned – but a bona fide, Division I, college football playoff. A committee of 12 university...
by johnubacon | Jun 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
[You can listen to the audio by clicking here: Bacon-Chappuis_recorded_open_for_web__final-6-29-12] You can read about Bob Chappuis’s heroics as a World War II tailgunner, or as a Michigan Wolverines tailback, just about anywhere — from his Time magazine cover...
by johnubacon | Jun 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
[Author’s note: I’ve been traveling the past two weeks, so I haven’t been in town to record any new commentaries. However, with Father’s Day upon us, I decided to re-run this from last year. – JUB] My dad grew up in Scarsdale, NY – but,...
by johnubacon | May 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
[Listen to the audio by clicking here: Hutchins, 6-1-1] This spring, the University of Michigan women’s softball team won its fifteenth Big Ten title, and fifth in a row. It went to the NCAA tournament – for the 18th straight season – and won its 14th NCAA regional...
by johnubacon | May 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
[Listen to the audio hear: Field Day 5-12] Remember Field Day? For most of us, it was a hallowed year-end school tradition, right up there with ice cream socials, and signing yearbooks. The kids loved it, of course, and looked forward to it every year. But,...
by johnubacon | May 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
[Listen to the audio by clicking here: Sports Parents 5-12] Teresa Bloodman’s son was thrilled to pass the first two tryouts for his Maumelle, Arkansas, high school freshman basketball team, which allowed him to play on the team for the first two months of the fall....
