Fox Sports Detroit viewers, set your DVRs. Friday night at 10PM EST, FSD is airing Blue Ice: The Story of Michigan Hockey, based on a book of the same name by some guy named John U. Bacon. You might want to add some extra time, as it's right after the MSU hockey game (7:30PM), which will hopefully have a better result than we've seen on Friday nights.
Blue Ice will also be repeated Saturday at noon EST, 12/14 & 15 at 2PM, 12/16 at noon, and probably others, which my TiVo isn't showing yet.
Great book
That sounds like an amazing class.
It was. Best class I took at
It was. Best class I took at Michigan.
Football is both an identity and a terminal illness. A rhythm and a chaos and an opiate for the mind all at once.
-Johnny Danbury (umichedme.blogspot.com)
So jealous.
My buddy is taking a class from him this upcoming semester too but I don't remember what it's about (sports journalism maybe?). Screw it. I'm going back to get another degree just so I can take a class from Bacon.
EDIT
Oops. Site burped for a second.
Football is both an identity and a terminal illness. A rhythm and a chaos and an opiate for the mind all at once.
-Johnny Danbury (umichedme.blogspot.com)
It's a wonderful idea, but
It's a wonderful idea, but unless it's at least 2 hours, I don't see how they come close to telling the whole story.
I checked this out from the Ann Arbor Public Library...
a few weeks ago.
A really good book, learned a lot about Michigan hockey that I didn't know, I have to find a copy for my bookshelf...or maybe Bacon needs to do an update for the last ten years or so of hockey, update it through the Shawn Hunwick story.
You'll see me in the short
You'll see me in the short segments they shot at Yost of the "mock student section." ;)
Fantastic book. I swear by it. Bacon said he would add an addendum when Michigan won another National Championship. Should've happened recently, as we all know.
Any chance somebody can
Any chance somebody can record this and get it up on MGoVideo?
The one thing wrong with my 4
The one thing wrong with my 4 years spent at Michigan is that this class was not available for me to take. [sad face}
That said, Blue Ice the book is outstanding. Must read for hockey fans, must read for Michigan fans. Red's words after seeing Michigan for the first as a hockey recruit sum up Michigan and Ann Arbor perfectly. "This Is The Place".
Those words should be chiseled into the side of Michigan's coaching Mount Rushmore, right next to "Those Who Stay Will Be Champions".
I will love the man forever (no homo).
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
Read it for history of college athletics with Bacon. For those who don't know much about it, it provides a lot of really neat stories about the program (some of my favorites were from the 70's). Keep an eye out for Kermit; anyone who has read the book will know what I am talking about.
Football is both an identity and a terminal illness. A rhythm and a chaos and an opiate for the mind all at once.
-Johnny Danbury (umichedme.blogspot.com)