SANDERS NEGOTIATIONS RESTORED THE SNORE
If you’re looking for a guy to celebrate the good news, you’ve come to the wrong place. The way I see it, Barry Sanders signed a contract Thursday only because greed finally collided with patience and both sides figured all the blood had been scratched...
Bo To Bill: You’Re Through At U-M
What am I doing here?
That’s what I was thinking as I ducked away from the reporters at the Seattle Kingdome Monday night, April 3, 1989. The bands were blaring. The teams were taking lay-ups. Basketball? What was I doing on a basketball court
— not just any court, but the NCAA championship game between Michigan and Seton Hall?
I tried to make my way to my seat.
“Bo! Bo!”
I looked up. It was Brent Musburger from CBS.
“How are you doing, Brent?”
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DAY-TO-DAY GRIND OF 1989 SEASON TAXES IMAGINATION
It has come to my attention that today’s football fan is in a feeding frenzy. He is a shark.It is no longer enough, for example, to know whether his team signed its top draft pick. He wants to know for how long and for how much and what ink was in the pen. If...
U. S. LOSES CHRISSIE HUMOR AND STYLE: THE LADY STILL HAS THEM
NEW YORK — It was all behind her now, the last match, the last press conference, the last walk through the crowd as they sang her name and reached to touch her. Chris Evert was alone with a friend in the women’s locker room, dressing for the last time...
$10,000 PAYOFF?BO SAYS: “NO, I WON’T BUY PLAYERS.”
This is the fourth of five excerpts from “Bo,” by Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler and Free Press columnist Mitch Albom. Today’s excerpt deals with recruiting. Thursday, in the final installment, Schembechler offers his assessment of the Bill...
They All Wore Maize And Blue
This is the third of five excerpts from “Bo,” by Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler and Free Press columnist Mitch Albom. Today’s excerpt deals with Bo’s favorite players.
I knew he was special the first time I saw him. We were working on deep fly routes.
“Are you watching this kid?” I whispered to Gary Moeller.
“Yeah,” he said, “he’s so fast, he’s coming back for the ball!”
Woody And Me
This is the second of five excerpts from “Bo” by Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, co-authored with Free Press columnist Mitch Albom. Today’s excerpt, “Woody and Me,” deals with Bo’s relationship with Woody Hayes.
I loved Woody Hayes. I am not ashamed to say it. In the 37 years I knew him, he coached me, humbled me, employed me, angered me and taught me more about the game than anyone could. I guess I was about as close to him as anyone, but to the day he died, I never considered myself his equal.
‘BO’TEMPER . . . TEMPER
This week the Free Press will run exclusive excerpts from Bo Schembechler’s new autobiography, “Bo,” co-authored with Free Press sports columnist Mitch Albom. The book details Bo’s life, career and criticism of college football today. In the first excerpt from “It’s Not Temper, It’s Coaching,” Bo explains his reputation.
If you believed all stories about me, you’d think I was the toughest, meanest b—— that ever lived.
Not true.
You’d think I had a temper made of lighter fluid. Not true.
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