Bonus Bacon Blog

Here’s a bonus Bacon Blog, on a Wednesday no less. Meet the NFL’s Most Interesting Man, Zoltan Mesko, in today’s WallStreet Journal.  (It’s free today.  After that, I won’t charge you, but they will.) >View Article Here...

Bullfighting: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

August 13, 2010 Press play to listen When I read the Spanish province of Catalonia voted to outlaw bullfighting, I was not surprised. A few years ago I traveled through Spain to write about bullfighting. Along the way, I met Barcelona’s director of tourism,...

The All-Star Next Door

August 6, 2010 DEAR LOYAL READERS Well, turns out teaching in Chicago on Thursdays can mess up your schedule a little bit — and more so when you throw in the Big Ten media days Monday and Tuesday this week. That means I didn’t go home between Thursdays,...

The Camp Director

Dear Loyal Readers, I’m traveling this week so I didn’t get a chance to tape a new commentary, so I hope you will enjoy this updated version of one from last year, about former Camp Director Pat Rode — one of the more popular ones we’ve...

Goodbye, Mr. Brown

July 16, 2010 Press play to listen It was a beautiful summer morning. I walked from my home in Ann Arbor, down State Street, to St. Thomas Church. A crowd had already gathered outside, waiting to pay respects to our old friend, Mr. Brown.  No one told us to...