NATION STILL HAS CLINTON ON BRAIN
To paraphrase the Robert Palmer song, might as well face it, we’re addicted to Clinton.We will not let him go. We tell people we’re done with him, finished, he’s out of our system. Then we sneak off for another injection of his private life, his lack...
SHAME ON MY ALMA MATER
Iremember the first moment I felt like a journalist. I was 22, and it was just before classes started at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. I was enrolled there, green with inexperience, and I went to the admissions office.There was a brusque,...
Recruiting Rankings About Hype, Not News
IGREW an inch in college. That’s not much. But it’s still a change. It shows I wasn’t a finished product when I arrived on campus — not physically and certainly not emotionally.
I remember that inch every year at this time, when newspapers — including this one — print the national “rankings” of college football recruiting classes.
From top to bottom they are listed, celebrated, analyzed and re-analyzed. Who signed whom? Which school got the hottest studs? Who did the best shopping at the teenage supermarket?
FORGET CAMERAS; ENJOY THE MOMENT
This Tuesday, “Good Morning America” will offer you something different with your coffee. You can watch a baby being born.The ABC morning show will have camera crews live at three hospitals — in Dallas, Houston and Boston — in hopes of...
Osu Plane Crash Didn’T Have To Happen
They read off the names of the dead. There were prayers and tears and scribbled notes for “10 special angels.” The governor called them all
“champions.” Heads shook in disbelief. Trembling lips were bitten.
It was a memorial service Wednesday for the 10 members of the Oklahoma State basketball program who died last weekend when their small plane crashed in a snowy Colorado field.
All involved were too young. The victims, the families, the crying students who packed the Stillwater gym Wednesday.
GIANTS DOOMED BY COLLINS, BUT RAVENS SURVIVE WITH DILFER
TAMPA– By the time it was over — and it was over way before it was over — the kid was useless. He couldn’t hit a receiver in a pillow fight. Mark this date. Put it in your football scrapbook. This was the night when a theory was disproved: You...
This Column Is One For The Ages
So there we were, sitting at this news conference, listening to the new football coach the Detroit Lions had hired, and he was saying some funny things and we were laughing and at one point I turned to a friend of mine and casually whispered, “How old is this guy?”
“Thirty-eight,” my friend said.
“Thirty-eight?”
I stopped laughing.
Giants Will Save League From Dilfer
Good news, Curt. This year, in deference to the grueling presidential election we just endured, I will not engage in the politics of personal destruction — even though you personally have been referred to as a Swinging Chad.
No, sir. I will not tell people that your Super Bowl predictions are normally as reliable as airport soup.
Or that your idea of research during Super Bowl week is seeing just how carefully that “six-foot” rule is enforced in Tampa.
THEY’RE NEW, THEY’RE RAW, BUT SO WHAT?
LET’S SEE. The Lions now have a CEO who never ran anything before, and a head coach who never head-coached before. All they need are some players who have never played before, and they’re all set.”He’s a character guy,” Matt Millen said...Stay Connected
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