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.	”
—Promotional website for Death to the BCS

References

1. ^ "Campus radicalism lacks mass appeal - University of Massachusetts", 1 February 1993 (accessed 9 November 2011).
2. ^ "Journalism major thrives at UMass Amherst", umass.edu, 10 May 2006 (accessed 9 November 2011).
3. ^ "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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External links

• Brief bio on Yahoo!

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