Richardson Could Be The Next Frosh Hero
ISEE BIG things. I see alley-oops and thunder jams. I see blocks that swoop like the hand of God. I see liftoff from the foul line, astronaut hang time, two-fisted dunks that leave the rim in need of medical attention. I see tip-ins, put-backs, “gimme-that-ball” rebounds, so high he could spray paint his name on the backboard.
I see a future of big nights, big numbers.
I see Jason Richardson.
And he is sitting on the bench.
IT’S GREAT TO BE GREENSPARTANS TREAT OPENER AS A TUNE-UP FOR THE BATTLES SURE TO COME
CLEVELAND — This is when you know you’re for real in college basketball. When you use the first game of the NCAA tournament to get your subs some playing time.That’s pretty much what Tom Izzo did Thursday night, on the first rung of the ladder of...
WHY ALVIN GENTRY? WHY NOW?FIRED PISTONS COACH PAID PRICE FOR A SINKING TEAM
ANOTHER Detroit Pistons coach was fired, and the rumor mill is running rampant. But before we get into conspiracy theories, ego theories, or does-Grant-Hill-still-love-Detroit theories, let’s remember one simple fact: Bill Davidson owns the team.And if he...
ANOTHER FIREARM, ANOTHER TRAGEDY
A6-year-old is dead, and it is your child. It is the child you have loved. It is the child you tucked under the covers and kissed good night.What is your child’s name?That is this child’s name.They called you at work. They said, “Your child was shot...
A Grandmother Anyone Could Love
She was not my grandma. We both knew that. My grandparents had been wonderful. They died years ago.
This grandma I met only recently. Met her in a nursing home. Visited her in hospitals. She was 79 and I never saw her healthy. Come to think of it, I never saw her standing up. I saw her on gurneys. In beds. Once I saw her sitting in a wheelchair, doing rehab with a therapist — she had to pull little plastic tabs out of a wad of goopy clay, and she rolled her eyes as if to say: “Can you believe this? A woman my age? Playing with goop?”
Sanders: Retirement Pays
IT WAS LIKE going to divorce court, with the judge deciding, in the end, that it was a no-fault marriage. These things happen, he seemed to say. One side wants out. The other side wants things the way they were. Make the math work. Get on with life.
So it was that Barry Sanders’ career with the Detroit Lions came to a bland, unsatisfying, but apparently legal end. According to the arbitrator, Sanders, who quit the team two years into his six-year contract, has to eventually give back his $5.5 million signing bonus money, but not all at once, as the Lions had wanted.
Keep The Tune, But Update The Lyrics
Thanks to the new millennium, we have had to update everything from computers to stationery. Now, with Valentine’s Day upon us, I suppose we have to update romance, too.
Particularly the love song.
Let’s face it. Many of the classic love songs of the 20th Century came from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s. People like Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, the Gershwins. We haven’t had a new romantic classic in a long time, unless you count “Love Stinks.”
IN BO’S VIEW, GOSS DESERVES MUCH BETTER
IT’S FUNNY how many people already have decided Tom Goss should lose his job, when most of them don’t know what his job is.They look at the mess on the Michigan basketball team, and somehow decide, “It’s Goss’ fault.” They point at...
WE’VE BECOME WRESTLING NATION
Idon’t want to say that wrestling has taken over this country, but pretty soon I expect my accountant to be wearing a diaper and boots.Last week, the World Wrestling Federation announced it was starting its own football league to compete with the NFL.This, in...Stay Connected
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