3 AND OUT
The sad truth about Detroit baseball now is that nobody pays attention unless there’s an explosion. The Tigers’ battlefield is so strewn with rubble, only a burst of flame stands out.So we look up when a new stadium is opened. Boom! And we look up when a...
STUDY OVERLOOKS BASIC MALE TRAITS
Through the years, the sentence “Men don’t — ” has had many endings. There was “men don’t leave” (a movie), “men don’t eat quiche” (a book) and “men don’t gave a damn about anything but their...
STATING HIS CASE
A few weeks ago, Alan Trammell hung a message on the board in the Tigers’ locker room. He was trying to inspire his team. The words read:The Answer IsKeep WorkingThursday morning, Trammell entered that same locker room, not knowing whether he’ll be...
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE FOR MSU’S STANTON
What IS this? A stud quarterback, big, strong, good-looking kid, with smarts, with an infectious laugh, with the ability to whip the ball or tuck it and run, and he’s undefeated and unflappable and has a quarterback rating like a Google stock fund, and people...
STUPID PEOPLE, STUPID REACTION
Sometimes a story is just a boring rock. But if you throw that rock hard enough into the water, you get a new story: the ripples.I’m afraid that’s what’s happened with the recent “racial divide” story out of Livonia.In case you missed it,...
A PISTONS ASSIST
BILOXI, Miss. – Here in this coastal town, where the devil’s wind met the devil’s water, every breath you take is matched by a breath that is taken away, every stunned blink is met by a blink more stunning, a roofless house, a dog peering out a...
EASTER BUNNY MORE BELIEVABLE THAN LIONS
CHICAGO – The next time the Lions want to know why their fans don’t believe in them, they should take the tape from Sunday’s first half and hit “play.”Which will be the first time that verb was used.It was ugly, it was embarrassing, and...
A LIFETIME JOB TOO LONG FOR JUDGES
Anyone who has ever stood at the altar of marriage knows the heart can skip a beat at the words “till death do you part.” After all, who knows what might happen? Who knows how you might change in your thinking? Till death do you part is a long time,...
Car Guys Keep La. Rescuer Rolling
That Jeep escaped hell and high water. That Jeep survived when other cars died on the highway.
That Jeep transported 14 desperate men, women and children out of the watery grip of Hurricane Katrina and for two days, they squeezed and shifted and lay atop each other inside it, for hundreds of miles, until they finally reached the safe ground of a strange city called Detroit, a place most of them had never seen.
That Jeep got them here.
And then it got stolen.
“It’s gone,” Earl Walker told me Tuesday afternoon. “Somebody took it.”
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