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John U. Bacon is an author, public speaker, TV and radio commentator, college instructor, and a former high school hockey coach.

Biography
John U. Bacon is an author of seven books on sports and business. His books include:


 * America's Corner Store, about Walgreens Drugstores
 * The Spark, about Cirque du Soleil
 * Bo's Lasting Lessons, with former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler
 * Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football
 * Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football
 * Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football

Three and Out, Fourth and Long   and  Endzone have been New York Times bestsellers.

He provides weekly sports commentary for Michigan Radio, and appears often on NPR, ESPN and the Big Ten Network among other networks. In 2015, his radio essay won first prize in the Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) awards, open to all 900 NPR affiliates, which submitted 1,100 entries. Bacon has also been a guest on NPR's popular quiz shows "Wait,Wait, Don't Tell Me," and "Ask Me Another."

Bacon frequently gives speeches for corporations and other organizations, including Volvo North America, MicroSoft Brazil, Ameriprise, and other companies in North and South America. He has also given three TEDx talks, another to receive the Golden Apple Award , and the Knight-Wallace Fellows Program's Hovey Lecture.

Bacon teaches at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and the University of Michigan. In 2009, the students at Michigan awarded him the Golden Apple award, given annually to the student's favorite teacher.

Bacon coached the hockey team of his alma mater, Ann Arbor Huron High School, from 2000 to 2004, leading them from the worst to best record in school history in three years. In 2007, he was inducted into Huron's hall of fame.

Bacon is married to the former Christie Breitner, and they have one son.