• Rescuing the Undeniably Ugly Paul Bunyan

    From deep in John U. Bacon’s Three and Out, check out a few great lines delivered by Rich Rod before last year’s rematch with the Spartans. Here’s RR talking to the team after displaying a picture of the Paul Bunyan Trophy: “The ugliness of that trophy is well documented.  It’s undeniable.  But Paul’s ugliness is only acceptable when we have it. “They’ve had Paul for two years now.  Who knows what they’re making Paul do?  Probably taking him around to every damn frat house on campus and doing God knows what to him.”  They laughed. “Poor Paul!  He needs to be rescued!” Rich Rod’s speech was great but he didn’t rescue poor Paul and sadly he’s been in East Lansing longer than Gilligan was on the Island. Go Blue!  Rescue Paul! Get Three and Out here – it drops October 25th.

  • Bacon on The Fab Five and Fishman’s Motion

    John Bacon’s Blog is required reading each week & he recently posted a few thoughts on the Fab Five documentary and the legacy of the controversial quintet.   Bacon broke the M-14 roll-over story a decade and a half ago (which sparked the investigation) and he ties that story to Fisher’s culpability: But I had to wonder: If the press could figure all this out in about 24 hours, why couldn’t Steve Fisher connect the dots right under his nose over several years?  They say he wasn’t part of the payola plan, and that’s probably true.  But you’d have to be willfully blind not to see its effects by 1996.  When Fisher was fired, he said they’d built an elite program, which was true, and they’d “done it the right way,” which wasn’t –  and by the time he was fired, he had to know it.  Bacon added this: To this day, Fisher has never accepted any responsibility for what happened on his watch, and Chris Webber has never apologized for taking over a quarter-million dollars from a booster. There’s always interesting commentary on his site & Bacon usually joins in to respond.  This time Bacs’ post elicited a comment Steve Fishman, the man who represented Webber in the federal criminal investigation: …there is one thing in the story that still…