WHO WANTS TO BEAT THOSE DREADED AVS?
REGIS: Welcome to the show, folks. It’s time to play “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.” And our first contestant is a Canadian man who claims to know nothing about hockey. His name is Dwight. Hello, Dwight.DWIGHT: Hello, Regis.REGIS: You know how the...
Please, George, Don’T Bite Apple Of Ambition
FOR A FEW DAYS there, George Irvine was my favorite guy in sports.
He was a head coach who didn’t want to be head coach. A guy in the corner office who dreamt of returning to the office pool.
The Pistons asked him to take the reins after Alvin Gentry was fired in March. Most assistant coaches would be wiping the drool from their ties. Not George. His response was more like that of a first-grader being asked to eat broccoli.
“Aw, do I have to?”
BEING SERGEI FEDOROVHE’S A RELUCTANT ENIGMA WRAPPED IN A HOCKEY STAR
LOS ANGELES — Sergei Fedorov, on the outside. He is 10 years old, in the small Russian city of Apatita. A team of adults, factory workers mostly, plays nights in an outdoor rink. They are hoping to do well in a state tournament. They are grown men. Fedorov is a...
TOO QUICKLY, KIDS TURNED INTO ADULTS
The old expression goes, “Youth is wasted on the young.”Not anymore. Now even the young don’t get much youth.Last week, we watched a 6-year-old Cuban boy bounced back and forth in a political Ping-Pong match. Someone — and by that I mean, some...
After All Gilchrist’S Pain, It’S Payback Time
WHAT WOULD you do for one more day on the job? Would you suffer ungodly pain? Go under a surgeon’s knife? Take a needle in your private parts? Live on a training machine? Would you sweat, gasp, howl, yowl, lift weights, do ultrasound, stretch your muscles for so many hours, they seemed ready to slide off the bone?
Would you do all this without break, endure an everyday hell for nearly two years, with no promise, no assurance, not even a ray of light at the end of the tunnel, only the belief that maybe, if the gods were so inclined, you could someday get to work one more day?
HOUSEWARMINGTHRILLS OUTWEIGH CHILLS AS TIGERS WIN OPENERNEW BALLPARK IS A WORK OF ART
We would not see snow. We would not see cold. We ignored the icy water as we sloshed through city streets.”Wind? What w-w-wind?” we said, as we marched to the gates. “We don’t feel any w-w-wind.”Those were not parkas wrapped around our...
ECONOMIC RULES DON’T MEASURE UP
My first encounter with the “new” economics came a few years ago, when a radio show I was doing was up for renewal.”Sorry,” my boss said, “we have to cancel the show.”This came as a jolt. The show was successful in the ratings, and...
MAGIC TO MATEEN: A NEW ERA AT MSU
INDIANAPOLIS — It was after midnight now, and the tunnel beneath the RCA Dome was thinning out, as reporters hunkered down to type their stories, fans flocked out in the streets, and work crews with mops, buffers and trash bins began the long task of cleaning up...
State Of Glory After 21 Years, The Magic Is Back At Msuspartans Go From Streets Of Flint To Top O
INDIANAPOLIS — When he couldn’t fly, he fell. When he couldn’t stand, he crawled. When he couldn’t take the pain, he took it, because you only get one night like this in your life, if you’re lucky, and you’ll take a bullet in the leg if you can get back out there and win. Mateen Cleaves knew it. His Michigan State teammates knew it.
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