Woodson Wants To Play All Day And Everywhere
When he was a kid, he was only trying to reach the couch. His older brother blocked the way, grinning and cooing, “Come on, try it. Come on.” And so young Charles Woodson, with a balled-up sock under his arm, dove into every invisible air tunnel, hoping for a clear chute to the promised land of bouncy cushions.
“I’m gonna score on you!” he’d yell.
“No, you’re not!” his brother would answer.
This Time, Lions Can Only Blame Themselves
The ball came out of the lights in a quick drop — which is what Corey Raymond was doing beneath it. His feet got tangled. Down he went. He watched the ball land in the hands of the New York Giants’ Chris Calloway, who raced to the end zone with the catch, the victory, and any chance the Lions had of convincing people they are worth betting on this year.
Perfect World? We Aren’T That Selfless
The only problem with a perfect world is so few of us want to give up anything to have one.
In a perfect world, black students would be admitted to the University of Michigan under the same standards as whites. I think everyone agrees on that.
And in a perfect world, white students would not have to give up their spots.
And there’s the rub, the yin and yang of a lawsuit filed last week by Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher.
MOORE CATCHES ON — BY LETTING GO
It was another lousy Sunday night after another lousy Lions loss, and Herman Moore was driving home with his wife, his mother and his father. They pulled up to the house. Friends and family were waiting inside.Herman was quiet.”Are you OK?” his mother...
FRIEND OF THE CITY DEFINED BY HIS JOB
Maybe someday good fortune will take Ben Kelso out of this chair. It’s a ratty thing, held together with tape and stuffing and a towel that passes for a cushion. It creaks. It bends. It doesn’t seem like a man could even sit in it for five seconds. You can...
U-M ADMITS NOTHING…EVEN IF SCHOOL AVOIDS BLAME, ITS STANDARDS WERE JEOPARDIZED
It was less of a press conference than the first day of a college class, where the professor hands you a massive reading assignment. Reporters who gathered at the Michigan Union on Thursday were given these heavy 250-page reports, with black plastic bindings and beige...
To The Roof Champs Get Their Due, Go Back To Work
The sticks played taps. Twenty-three sticks, lightly banging a wooden applause, as the banner began to rise to the rafters. This is how hockey players show respect and admiration. Tap the sticks. Curved wood against frozen ice. Louder now. Tap-tap-tap-tap.
UNIFORM’S DIFFERENT, BUT SPIELMAN HASN’T CHANGED
Chris Spielman eyed the enemy in the end zone and screamed, “Phil! Widen out! They’re coming your way!” Then the ball was snapped, and they went on the attack, all of them together, Phil — who is Phil Hansen, Buffalo’s soft-spoken...
A Small Shirt Leads To Huge Humiliation
Alonzo Jackson plunked down $34 and bought two new shirts from an Eddie Bauer warehouse. One was green-and-white plaid, a lumberjack-looking thing, and he wore it the next day. After school, he and two teenage friends went back to the warehouse to shop again.
It should have been just another breezy afternoon in a high schooler’s life. Instead, it became something more. An off-duty cop working as a temporary security guard came up to Jackson and asked him about the crisp new shirt. The suggestion was that Jackson might have shoplifted it.
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