Michigan Men? - Paperback

by Mike Milano (Author)

Across the country there are about sixty elite high school wrestlers who are recruited to compete at top ten NCAA Division 1 wrestling programs per year. It is a far smaller number of those athletes who pursue a second sport. There is only one who has also earned a scholarship to play football at The University of Michigan - as a 5'6" running back. Mike Milano had reached this impossible dream. First carry, in front of 111,000 Michigan fans - six yards.Twelve months later he sat helplessly as his name rolled across the ESPN ticker: "Michigan running back, Mike Milano, Charged with a Felony - Indefinitely suspended from the Michigan Football Team." He faced up to ten years in prison. The dream world he was living in had disappeared. At the same time, Michigan football was also going through a transition, one that was equally disastrous. In the brutally honest and gripping MICHIGAN MEN?, Mike tells us about that transition from behind the closed doors of Schembechler Hall, and the impact it had on his life.

"Life is about people, and the moment we stop wanting the world to be better for other people is the same moment we make it worse for ourselves." Mike Milano

About the Author: Mike Milano grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he teaches third grade as a part of the 2011 Teach For America Corps. He hopes that by writing his story, readers will understand the impact that one person can have on another person's life, and the importance of actively pursuing a life in which we make an effort to help each other.Publisher's website: http: //SBPRA.com/MikeMilano