EXTREMES CAN BE EXCITING, MISLEADING
“How boring,” we say, “to take everything into consideration. It’s much more exciting to blurt out an opinion.” It was never hip, for example, to say, “Maybe O.J. did it, maybe he didn’t.” We were more attracted to...
Gibson Has Spirit Every Team Needs
Kirk Gibson was yelling like a banshee. His teammates froze. I still remember that scene, even though I can’t tell you the day, can’t tell you the opposing team. I can tell you the Tigers had lost several games in a row, during a pennant race, and that was enough to boil Gibson’s blood. He was screaming, calling them — and himself — names I can’t repeat here, pacing like a caged beast, swearing they would never lose again or he’d kill somebody.
The other players — older and younger — looked up the way children look at a raging parent.
They won their next three games.
DESPITE INJURY, UCLA’S EDNEY HAD HAND IN WIN
SEATTLE — One hand, 12 hearts. The hand belonged to UCLA point guard Tyus Edney, it was swollen at the wrist, sore and bandaged and useless. He dribbled lefty during warm-ups, declined to slap palms with his teammates during introductions, tried to milk every...
Baseball Must Realize That All Is Not Forgiven
SEATTLE — You want an Opening Day? Take your kids to the park, pitch them a few balls, cook some hot dogs and go home. Trust me, that’s all we have left of the spirit of this thing.
Smiling? Who’s smiling this morning? Just because a court injunction has sent the game back to work? Just because the major leaguers will soon be in Florida and Arizona, doing in April what they should have done in February? Big deal. Nothing has been solved. Nothing has changed. They are still disgraceful, both sides, without shame. Unworthy of our cheers. Undeserving of a smile.
NCAA SHOULD GIVE PLAYERS THEIR SHARE
SEATTLE — It always surprises me when a college basketball player gets to major in economics. After all, economics teaches supply and demand. And why would a school want its star athletes to figure that out? Eventually, even the most dimwitted ballplayer could...
To Go All The Way, Pick The Wackiest From Final Four
SEATTLE — Anyone from North Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma or California can skip this column. Save your strength. As fans with teams in this year’s Final Four, you already know whom you are rooting for. Besides, you have no time to read. If you are truly the robust, manly, college basketball fanatics America is so proud of, you are busy throwing up in a beer can.
No. This is for the masses left behind. The fans whose schools were knocked out early in the tournament. (Did I say Michigan? Did I say Michigan State? I didn’t say that! Did I say that?)
U-M’S HECTIC NCAA RUN ONE FOR BOOKS IN HOOPS LORE
SEATTLE — I’ve been trying to call Rumeal Robinson for days. His agents have been trying, too. He reportedly flew from Argentina to Atlanta — he took part in the Pan Am Games — and nobody has heard from him since. You call his house, the phone...
WINGS’ FOLLOWERS SHOULD LIGHTEN UP
Tweeeeeeeet!All right, everybody — out of the pool!I’m talking about the naysayers, groan-masters, worrywarts and talk-show junkies who can’t stop nitpicking about the Red Wings, only the best team in town.”Oh, woe is us!” they cry....
IT WOULD BE A MIRACLE FOR DEION TO BE LYRICAL
And now, because football is over and baseball can’t get started, we bring you Deion Sanders, a man who clearly has too much time on his hands.He has come to rap. Bust it.”It’s Deion, stepping on the pe-on,tell me have you seen one?No, we...Stay Connected
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