LEWIS ISN’T ONLY ONE DESERVING OF CLOSURE
RAY LEWIS wears this T-shirt now and then. It has a man’s picture on the front. The man’s name is Marlin Barnes. Like Lewis, he was once a standout linebacker at the University of Miami. In fact, he was Lewis’ best friend.Lewis began wearing...
Case Study: Kill The Death Penalty
He didn’t do it.
That didn’t stop police from interrogating him for 12 hours, screaming questions, denying him a lawyer, holding a gun to his head, telling him he should fess up because otherwise he was going to “get the needle,” the death penalty, dead man walking, because, after all, he raped that girl at the Pizza Hut, he murdered that girl, this is how he did it, isn’t it? Isn’t it? ISN’T IT? If you sign this confession, it’ll be easier on you….
PGA TOUR’S FIGHT VS. MARTIN SHAMEFUL
MAYBE CASEY Martin will trip on something and his leg will just snap, and the doctors will amputate it — as they say they might have to — and then golf’s nasty little problem will go away.But unless that happens in the next few months, the showdown...
Plastic Surgery Is Our Cultural Scar
Jenna Franklin wanted a birthday present. She asked her parents. They said OK.
Jenna was about to turn 16.
She wanted new breasts.
“You’ve got to have breasts to be successful,” she told a British tabloid.
Her mother, who already had breast enlargement, liposuction, a nose job and a cheek job, agreed.
“There are so many young girls who are depressed about the way they look,” she said, “if you can do something about it, that’s great.”
FORDS ROLL THE DICE BY HIRING MILLEN
NOW WHAT are you going to say? You, the suffering Lions fan, who for years has been chanting the same moaning mantra, “Aw, the Ford family, they never do anything different — and they’ll never change.”Like the voice in those NFL playoff...
The Mystery Of Millen Has Yet To Be Solved
WELL, HERE it is Monday morning, and what do we know now that we didn’t know before about Matt Millen, who will be put in charge of the Lions this week?
We know he used to start fights with his teammates. We know he is a Type-A personality. We know he loves his wife and his four children. We know he dresses like a frat-house brother.
We know he jokes during broadcasts. We know he watches loads of tape. We know he comes from a blue-collar Pennsylvania town that breeds hard-working, tough-nosed people.
A Bullet’s Impact
One night. One town. One bullet. One kid.
The kid was Justin Mello, barely 16 years old, a popular soccer player at Anchor Bay High School with a melting smile, a tall, athletic frame, a freshly minted driver’s license, and a dream of buying his father’s GMC truck with the money earned working at a pizza shop.
SURVIVING 2000HOW ODD, YOU ASK? LET’S RECOUNT THE WAYS
FIRST OF ALL, we’re still here. That little miracle is where you begin. Remember last New Year’s? The horror of Y2K? At the stroke of midnight, the world was supposed to freeze in its tracks. Clocks would stop. Cities would go dark. Our entire...
DREAMS DEFERRED 2000ANGELA JO MOTZ LEFT HER BABY IN A CARDBOARD BOX TWO DAYS AFTER HE WAS BORN.AND FROM HER SAGA, THERE ARE LESSONS PARENTS AND CHILDREN CAN LEARN
Let’s start with the act that got her in trouble, then we can deal with what made her do it. It was just after 7 a.m., and she had been driving aimlessly for hours. At one point, she had parked outside her high school, where she was due to graduate in a few...Stay Connected
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