NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT TO RELIVE THE PAST
As I write this, I am about to fly to a college reunion. Not one of those formal blowout weekends, with speeches and slide shows and wine and cheese parties. No, just a reunion of a half-dozen guys I lived with during those four years, back when dinosaurs roamed the...
A Legacy At Stake: Will The Wings Be Remembered For The Cups Or The First-Round Exits?
So they changed the goalie and they’re back on home ice and they are saying the right things about patience and experience. Here’s the cold truth: The legacy of these Red Wings is on the line tonight at Joe Louis Arena. If this team of All-Stars, assembled on Mt. Olympus, paid for with chests of gold, should nonetheless be slashed in its Achilles’ heel by the lowly Nashville Predators, history will not be kind. A hockey paradise will have been squandered.
IT’S THE SAME OLD SONG FOR WINGS, BAD LYRICS AND ALL
The door opens in a Nashville record company. A man with a guitar enters the office. The executive behind the desk gives him a smile.”Whatcha got?” he asks.”Songs,” the guitar picker says.The executive nods for him to start. The guitar player...
GET ANGRY, GET SMART OR ELSE IT’S OVERSO, WHO ARE THESE GUYS? STILL, NO REASON TO PANIC!
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — All right, hockey class. Open your lesson plans. The same ones we used last April, and the April before, and the April before. The ones with “WHY?” scribbled across the front and “WHO ARE THESE GUYS?” scrawled on the...
SISTER’S FAMILY LOVES ITS PIECE OF THE ROCK
My sister lives on a rock.I am not being cute. I am being geographically — and geologically — correct.She lives on a rock.It is a big rock, sticking out of the ocean. Actually two oceans. Actually, one is an ocean, and one is a sea. It is also between two...
The Roar Of ’04On Opening Day, The New, 4-0 Tigers Have Fans Cheering For All The Rightreasons
The last time baseball was played at Comerica Park, the crowd was on its feet for the final out. Six months later, Thursday afternoon, as shadows fell on a misty Opening Day, the scene repeated itself, with fans once more on their feet as the Tigers left the field.
There is only one difference between the ovations, but it is all the difference in the world.
The last time was pity. This time was praise.
That’S More Like It! Legace, Third-Period Charge Exorcise The Ghosts Of Last Year’S Flop
There is alone, there is lonesome, and there is the loneliest man in sports. Manny Legace, the Red Wings’ goaltender, went through all three phases Wednesday night — and it took him only two minutes.
First, he was alone. After all, he was making his first playoff start at age 31. He’d gone from “second backup” to “first backup” to “only healthy option.” Eleven years in professional hockey, and finally, the net is yours? You face such moments by yourself, alone, and alone he was, to start the game.
FIGHTING OVER THE PLEDGE IS WASTE OF TIME
The debate over the Pledge of Allegiance seems to be about everything except the Pledge of Allegiance.The actual pledge, let’s face it, is recited by children, mumbled by teenagers and forgotten by adults.Few people know its history. You ask the average American...
WAR IN IRAQ DIVIDES NATION LIKE VIETNAM
The war in Iraq, which began one year ago, was a rousing success, a stunning victory, the toppling of a brutal dictator and a bull’s-eye blow to terrorism — or it wasn’t.Depends on whom you believe.The war in Iraq was a lie, a misleading...Stay Connected
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