Dan Wetzel
Dan Wetzel is an author, screenwriter, and sports columnist
He's written sports-related books "Resilience", Sole Influence, Glory Road, and Runnin' Rebel. As a sports writer, he has written about NASCAR, college football, the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, mixed martial arts, and the Olympics. His columns appear In the sports section of Yahoo.com.
He cowrote the 2014 movie Life of a King starring Cuba Gooding Jr.
He cohosts a weekly radio show on Yahoo Sports Radio with Pat Forde. 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 | ||
On March 18, 2013, Wetzel authored a piece on the Stubenville High School rape verdict that quickly went viral. The article differed starkly in tone from other coverage of the case, eschewing sympathy for the rapists' "ruined lives"[5][6]and instead emphasizing the pervasive rape culture that permitted the rape to go forward, including the potential culpability of witnesses to the rape. [7]
References
- ↑ "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. Retrieved 2009-12-21. "BCS Intelligence". 2009-10-20. Retrieved 2009-12-21. "Obama could bust the BCS with Broncos". 2010-01-06. Retrieved 2010-01-06."‘Death to the BCS:’ Nonsense rules". 2010-10-14. Retrieved 2010-10-14.
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- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/17/justice/ohio-steubenville-case/index.html
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kia-makarechi/cnn-steubenville-coverage_b_2896948.html
- ↑ http://sports.yahoo.com/news/highschool--steubenville-high-school-football-players-found-guilty-of-raping-16-year-old-girl-164129528.html