Bacon Saves your Soul (WTKA audio)

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From this morning it’s author John U. Bacon who joined  guest host Larry (Pee Wee boys machine-pitch baseball coach) Lage and Ira in studio at WTKA to discuss his latest tome, the long awaited yet-to-be released Fourth And Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football.  

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Bacs was kind enough to share an advanced proof copy of the book with me and I’m digging in right now.  I can already tell you my favorite chapter is entitled “The Battle for the Brown Jug” and the term “Brown Jugologist” made it through the first few edits. $$$

A few less jug-enabled media members have torn through the book as well and here are a few testimonials:

“John U. Bacon went deep inside the world of college football, penetrating the locker room doors to meet some players you won’t forget and, most amazingly, learn the secrets coaches protect more fiercely than the CIA. By getting so close to the heart of the sport, Bacon reminds us what we love about our greatest game.” – John Saunders, studio host at ESPN and ABC College Football

Fourth and Long“John Bacon’s exploration of the uncontrolled greed, intellectual corruption, and sheer mendacity that have captured college football would be depressing – if it weren’t so wonderfully reported, engagingly written, and utterly persuasive. If you care about college sports, Fourth and Long is required reading.” -Daniel Okrent, bestselling author, Nine Innings and Last Call


“No one knows the Big Ten better than John U. Bacon, so it’s no surprise he picked the perfect football season to chronicle in his groundbreaking book, Fourth and Long. Bacon has written a riveting portrait of a watershed season in the most venerable college conference in the nation. The Big Ten is at the vortex of so many issues in college sports, and Bacon expertly covers them all.”  — Christine Brennan, USA Today national sports columnist, ABC News commentator, best-selling author of Inside Edge and Best Seat in the House

“John U. Bacon has gotten to the core of the tug-of-war between players and fans on one side, and the people running college sports exclusively for their own profit on the other.  Bacon provides unique perspective that causes even the most ardent supporter of the status quo to question the future of this cherished American institution.” – Jay Bilas, ESPN basketball analyst and best-selling author of Toughness

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