December 12, 2025
By John Canzano, Bald Faced Truth: Mike Leach had a persistent hacking cough during the final football season of his life. He didn’t sleep well. The coach had always been a night owl, but close friends will tell you there was a spike in late-night calls that season.
He’d fought off pneumonia. There was fluid around his heart and lungs. Then, he was gone. It was three years ago today that Leach died.
He was 61.
I was in Maui at the time. When I got the call, I slipped out on the porch of a ground-floor condominium facing Maalaea Bay and wrote 1,500 clumsy words. It hardly captured what the guy meant to college football.
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