Make A Holiday For Someone
’Tis the season, says this best-selling author, but this year don’t just celebrate, Make A Holiday For Someone. You bring Popsicle sticks. You bring glitter. You bring boxes of donuts and inexpensive pizza. You bring stuffed animals, donated...
THE BEST ROLE MODELS FOR BAD BEHAVIOR
So Barry Bonds used steroids, smeared a little “cream” on his chest and poured a little “clear” down his throat. What’s everyone complaining about? It’s his body, no one else’s. It’s not as if another major leaguer,...
WE USED TO LET PARENTS BE PARENTS
A few years ago, in a small island town called Friday Harbor, Wash., an old woman was knocked to the ground by two young men. They broke her glasses. They stole her purse.That might not get much attention in New York, but in Friday Harbor (population 2,000) it was big...
Why Wings Will Never Be The Same
It is easy to imagine
America without pro
hockey. Look around. We are living it.
The NHL has been shut down for three months. Guess what? Life goes on. Sports go on. Remember when people used to say “football, baseball, basketball and hockey” as if they were four equal slices of pie? Well, ESPN hasn’t lost 25 percent of its content, newspapers haven’t cut 25 percent of their space, and the idea hockey might constitute a large chunk of the U.S. sports stage is now laughable.
I FEEL BLESSED TO WORK AND LIVE IN DETROIT
This will not be much of a column. A column has a point of view, and this one barely has a point – except to say thank you. But I’ve been wanting to say it for a while, so here goes.Sometimes people ask me why I live where I live. I have been lucky enough...
5 PACERS, 5 FANS TO FACE ASSAULT CHARGES
Nobody famous is going to jail. No NBA player is rotting in a cell. No former All-Star is gonna chop rocks with a pickax and answer the question, “What are you in for?” by saying “Beer hit me, and I ran into the stands.”The Oakland County...
They’Re Not Worthy Of Any Playoff Talk
Ah, parity.
The idea that no team is too much better than another. The idea that almost all teams have a shot at the playoffs.
It was on display Sunday afternoon at Ford Field. The Lions and Cardinals, both proud possessors of 4-7 records, were nonetheless in the thick of the playoff hunt. And so, before a crowd that needed a Dunkin’ Donuts mascots race to be stirred into making noise, a battle was waged.
IN A MOVIE OR A BOOK, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PLOT
The first movie I ever saw was “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” My grandmother took me to a Saturday matinee. I remember Debbie Reynolds played a woman on a sinking ship — the Titanic — leading others to safety. I was riveted. But I never wanted...
NOTRE DAME IS THE SAME AS EVERYONE
No different from anyone else. That is the stark reality now at Notre Dame, and the Irish don’t like it, even as they prove it true. They are an up-and-down football program, which only makes them normal, and they hate that so much they just fired their head...Stay Connected
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