Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Speaker, Commentator, Teacher, and Coachnoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:16:39 GMTWordPress https://wordpress.org/https://johnubacon.comen-usnoBestselling Author, Award-Winning Speaker, Commentator, Teacher, and Coachnoemail@noemail.orghttps://johnubacon.com/2023/01/harbaugh-watch-day-four-what-we-know-and-dont-know/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Thu, 5 Jan 2023 15:41:27 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=6142Note: Many readers on social media ask journalists to name their sources. If journalists did so – especially after promising confidentiality – they would no longer have sources, on or off the record. When I write for publications and book publishers, I show my editors who the unnamed sources are, and the editors can contact […]1https://johnubacon.com/2022/11/why-the-detroit-lions-play-on-thanksgiving/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:40:06 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=6121If it seems like the Detroit Lions have played on Thanksgiving since it became a national holiday, it’s because they actually started seven years earlier.   True, the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in October of 1621, but the custom faded, resurfacing only when George Washington, Abe Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt promoted the idea as a […]0https://johnubacon.com/2022/11/justice-delayed-for-all-involved/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:45:40 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=6107Four weeks ago I tweeted that “The only thing more annoying than a week of juvenile taunting between Michigan and Michigan State fans? Two weeks of it.” But I was wrong: the two weeks that followed the game have been even more annoying.  Michigan won the game, 29-7, for the first time in three years. […]12https://johnubacon.com/2022/11/a-brief-history-of-the-michigan-michigan-state-rivalry/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Wed, 2 Nov 2022 15:39:21 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=6103This is an excerpt from OVERTIME: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football (HarperCollins, 2019) THERE HAS BEEN enough adolescent sniping between Michigan and Michigan State to fill a book— in fact, several.  It started before Michigan Agricultural College opened its doors in 1855. After the University of Michigan lost its […]1https://johnubacon.com/2022/10/bacon-at-the-ann-arbor-district-library-tonight-630/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Wed, 19 Oct 2022 12:52:30 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=6100Hello, Loyal Readers! I’ll be gearing up for both my blog and podcast in the weeks ahead, but meantime my latest book, THE GREATEST COMEBACK: How Team Canada Fought Back, Took the Summit Series, and Reinvented Hockey, is now available on amazon, at Literati and Schuler’s, among others, and in Canada on amazon.ca, Indigo/Chapters, and […]0https://johnubacon.com/2022/08/the-investigative-report-on-the-michigan-hockey-program/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Tue, 2 Aug 2022 13:44:52 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=6058Regarding the University of Michigan hockey program: I now have the report produced by the DC law firm Wilmer Hale, and commissioned by U-M. I understand other reporters now have it too, and you can expect to hear from them soon.  Caveats: I am currently traveling through the Upper Peninsula on business, so both time […]1https://johnubacon.com/2022/02/what-juwan-howard-did-and-what-michigan-should-do-about-it/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:20:02 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=6022On Sunday a back-and-forth between Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard and Wisconsin’s Greg Gard spilled over to both teams and coaching staffs after the game ended. But it didn’t become national news until Howard recached out to slap the head of a Wisconsin assistant coach, which naturally has eclipsed everything that occurred before and after.  […]11https://johnubacon.com/2022/02/the-let-them-lead-podcast-guest-dr-jim-barahal-ceo-of-the-honolulu-marathon/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Tue, 8 Feb 2022 17:04:20 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=6018Episode Summary: Jim Barahal Jim Barahal’s first career would have been enough. After graduating from medical school he moved to Hawaii, started making house calls – unheard of in 1982 – and built a thriving practice, “Doctors on Call,” with 19 clinics and 60,000 patients a year, then sold most of it to Hawaii Pacific […]0https://johnubacon.com/2021/09/to-attract-younger-workers-the-best-way-to-make-it-special-is-to-make-it-difficult-then-let-them-lead-themselves/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:35:07 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=5984DEAR LOYAL READERS: As you might have heard, my next book, LET THEM LEAD: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School Hockey Team, is launching this month. Already getting great reviews (linked below), including this line from the Boston Globe’s great Dan Shaughnessy: “It’s where Ted Lasso meets the Mighty Ducks.” I’ll take […]0https://johnubacon.com/2021/09/let-them-lead-both-the-book-and-the-podcast-launch-tuesday/Uncategorizednoemail@noemail.org (johnubacon)Sat, 4 Sep 2021 19:36:45 GMThttps://johnubacon.com/?p=5950As you might have heard, my next book, LET THEM LEAD: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School Hockey Team, launches on Tuesday. Already getting great reviews, including this line from the Boston Globe’s great Dan Shaughnessy: “It’s where Ted Lasso meets the Mighty Ducks.” I’ll take it. You can order it at […]0