Dan Wetzel
Dan Wetzel is an author, screenwriter, and national sports columnist for Yahoo.com.
He is a New York Times best-selling author. He's written sports-related books "Resilience", Sole Influence, Glory Road, and Runnin' Rebel. As a sports journalist, he has covered NASCAR, college football, the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, mixed martial arts, and the Olympics. His columns appear nationally on Yahoo.com.
He is a fill-in host on The Sports Inferno in Detroit, Michigan on AM 1270.
Wetzel is a native of Norwell, Massachusetts and a 1994 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was editor of the campus newspaper (The Daily Collegian) and majored in political science.[1][2]
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Dan Wetzel is a passionate opponent of the BCS system for determining the NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship. He regularly writes on the desirability of a playoff to determine the national champion,[3] and has co-authored a book entitled Death to the BCS.[4]
| “ | You’re here because you’re like us. You hate the Bowl Championship Series. Despise it. Loathe it. Want it to disappear tomorrow. It is a pox on college football, and you just wish someone would find the vaccine. | ” |
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- ^ "Campus radicalism lacks mass appeal - University of Massachusetts", 1 February 1993 (accessed 9 November 2011).
- ^ "Journalism major thrives at UMass Amherst", umass.edu, 10 May 2006 (accessed 9 November 2011).
- ^ "Wetzel’s playoff plan: Money talks". 2009-12-07. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-ncaafplayoff120709&prov=yhoo&type=lgns. Retrieved 2009-12-21. "BCS Intelligence". 2009-10-20. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-bcs102009&prov=yhoo&type=lgns. Retrieved 2009-12-21. "Obama could bust the BCS with Broncos". 2010-01-06. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-obamaplayoff010510&prov=yhoo&type=lgns. Retrieved 2010-01-06."‘Death to the BCS:’ Nonsense rules". 2010-10-14. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=AjTIDssIx0uMlppYcZpOZ_05nYcB?slug=ys-deathtothebcs101310. Retrieved 2010-10-14.
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