Bell Begins To Toll For Tigers
NEW YORK — That music you hear from the Big Apple isn’t “New York, New York” anymore.
It’s taps.
Pennant races may not be over until they’re over, but if Saturday’s 9-4 Tigers loss didn’t decide the fate of the American League East, it summed it up rather neatly: The Red Sox won again in Boston, the Yankees exploded their napalm offense, and the Tigers, defeated, went gentle into that very bad night.
“Do you find yourself talking more or less to the team as this goes along?” someone asked manager Sparky Anderson after Detroit’s 16th loss in its last 19 games.
FOR PETE’S SAKE, YOU GUYSROZELLE, LEAVE THE TANNING BOOTH AND SEE THE LIGHT
In Week 2 of the NFL season, we answer the burning question: How many more quarterbacks can we put on the injured-reserve list? We also address the NFL drug suspension policy.Which goes like this:Bad boy.Shame on you.Go play golf for 30 days and think about what you...
Football Is Bo’S Life: He Is The Last Of The One-Name Coaches
“I have waited each year for that moment. . . . I have watched for that miraculous synthesis. . . . When it comes, I look around my field, I look at my boys, and I want to shout to the sun: ‘By God, I have created a team!”
FOOTBALL STILL BO’S LIFESCHEMBECHLER LAST OF THE ONE-NAME COACHES
“I have waited each year for that moment. . . . I have watched for that miraculous synthesis. . . . When it comes, I look around my field, I look at my boys, and I want to shout to the sun: ‘By God, I have created a team!’ “– Pat Conroy,...
TATTERED TIGERS FAR FROM FEROCIOUS NOW
We arrive in the Big Apple with a whimper, not a bang. We get off the bus with bags heavy on our shoulders. We slink down the ramp and into the stadium and we try — we try very hard — to put on our game face.”ROAAARRRRR!” we want to...
PICKING FIRST WEEK’S WINNERSMEANS STUDYING THE DRUG TESTS
To be honest, I really don’t see why I should bother making predictions this season, since after the second week every player in the NFL will have been suspended for 30 days for failing a drug test.But what the heck . . . We’re back. Bolder. Brasher....
The Oblong Crystal Ball A Sneak Preview Of Stories You’Ll Read In ’88
I crawl into the attic. I lift the old blanket. There, beneath a dusty program from Super Bowl II, is the oblong-shaped crystal. I put it on the table. It begins to glow. Headlines. I see headlines. Stories. I see stories. Football, 1988.
Here we go . . .
PONTIAC, Sept. 4 — The Detroit Lions beat the Atlanta Falcons Sunday, prompting a celebration rarely seen in a season opener. “WE DID IT! WE DID IT!” screamed the Lions players to the crowd of 766 fans at the Silverdome, many of whom stayed for the whole game.
Atlanta players seemed confused.
LAJOIE’S LAST-MINUTE DEAL IS A REAL BARGAIN
At 6 o’clock Wednesday night, Bill Lajoie left his office at Tiger Stadium with no bigger evening plans that his grandson’s birthday party. A day’s worth of frantic deal-making had fallen through. The Tigers would get no offensive help before the...
The Nfl Ax Deals Death To Dreams
Joe Bushofsky does not look like a killer. His face is wide and soft with the smile of a favorite uncle. But when you enter his office, especially during the last few weeks of NFL training camp, chances are something’s going to die. And most likely it’s your dreams.
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