U-M’S Tradition Was Born In The Fall Of ’69

U-M’S Tradition Was Born In The Fall Of ’69

by | Nov 18, 1994 | Detroit Free Press

Their hair is thinner now. Their bellies jell over their belts. Their muscles are fleshy, no longer tight. Some have had doctors tell them to slow down, watch the blood pressure. When you meet them, many do not seem big enough to have done what they did on that cold Saturday in November 1969.

But then, what they did was the stuff of giants.

U-M’S Tradition Was Born In The Fall Of ’69

Homesick Webber Man Without Team

by | Nov 10, 1994 | Detroit Free Press

Each day he drives to a high school gym and works out with a trainer and an old friend. Then he drives home slowly, “praying I don’t get in an accident and ruin everything.” It is November, and for the first time in his basketball life, the game is going on without him. No practice. No paycheck.

And it’s his own doing.

“To be honest, I really wanted to play for Detroit,” Chris Webber says from his home in Oakland, Calif., where he remains a restricted free agent.
“When I came home over the summer, I was hoping to stay.”

U-M’S Tradition Was Born In The Fall Of ’69

WORRIED NATION LEARNS THE WORST

by | Nov 6, 1994 | Detroit Free Press

There’s a sad little scene in the film “Radio Days,” in which an 8-year-old girl falls down a well. It is 1943. The story grips the country. Americans sit by their wood-cabinet radios, praying for the child’s safety. When rescue workers finally...
U-M’S Tradition Was Born In The Fall Of ’69

WE’RE TOO EAGER TO KEEP OTHERS OUT

by | Oct 30, 1994 | Detroit Free Press

When we were kids, we hid in trees. We jammed long pieces of plywood between sturdy branches, and hung blankets to cover the holes. This was our tree house. This was our club. The most important feature was the door.Because we could keep it closed.”Who is...
U-M’S Tradition Was Born In The Fall Of ’69

Lions Still Have A Shot Because Giants Stink

by | Oct 29, 1994 | Detroit Free Press

* Detroit 20, NY Giants 17: First of all, you should know that I always get these Lions picks wrong. Second, the Giants stink.

* Dallas 107, Cincinnati 102: The Bengals score all their points in the final three minutes, after the Cowboys leave the field because they’re laughing so hard.