Morris Carries The Ball For A Whole Generation
PASADENA, Calif. — When they were kids, Jamie Morris and his brothers and sisters would sneak up to the attic and go through their parents’ memories. One day they found a helmet. And a foreign flag, dog tags and C rations.
From Vietnam.
“Did you ever kill anybody?” a five-year-old Jamie once asked his father.
“Yes,” said Earl Morris, who had fought as a Green Beret. “Yes, son, I did.”
GAMES NOT ALL ON THE FIELD FOR WOLVERINES’ MOON
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. — This is the week for heroes, for the best and the brashest of college football. They are stars — these quarterbacks and running backs and mammoth linemen. But because they are stars, chances are they have been carefully handled....
The Coach And The Qb: Schembechler, Harbaugh Have A Special Relationship
PASADENA — Uh-oh. Death before this. That’s what was racing through Jim Harbaugh’s brain the first time he threw a pass in a Michigan practice. It wasn’t a bad pass. Not for a nine-year- old. The problem was neither he nor the football was supposed to be there. Harbaugh was the son of a Wolverine assistant coach, Jack Harbaugh, and he was playing on the sidelines with the other coaches’ sons, and his pass accidently flew out into the middle of the big boys’ practice and when he heard the whistle shriek there was only one question left to be answered.
Would he get out alive?
Aching Hunger For More Is Impossible To Digest
Kathy Ormsby jumped off the bridge. She just jumped. She was running in a college race and she was losing and she was frustrated and suddenly she ran out of the stadium with eight laps to go, ran down a main street, “apologized to God” and leaped off the bridge. She was trying to kill herself. She failed. She landed in a soggy marsh 35 feet below and lay there, paralyzed, until somebody found her.
No sadder stories. There can be no sadder stories. That is all I thought when this happened six months ago in Indianapolis. It is all I think even today, the day after Christmas.
NOT ALL PRESENCE OF MIND IS HERE WITH THESE PRESENTS
“Open a present, Jack.””OK.””What is it?””It’s a contract. A five-year, $10 million contract from the Giants.””Oh, that’s wonderful, honey! What a lovely Christmas gift! And you thought all the major...
LIONS’ LAST 1986 EFFORT REALLY WAS NO EFFORT AT ALL
Out with a whimper.There were no bangs in this Lions’ season finale, not unless you count Darryl Rogers’ head against the wall. It was just another loss — the 11th of the year. Success? Absent. Effort? Missing. Execution? Well, unfortunately, no one...
WHO CAN PICK WHILE HEARING THESE VOICES?
I flip the locks. I open the suitcase. I put the crystal ball and the binoculars neatly inside.”Not a bad season,” comes the voice.”Thank you,” comes the answer.I stack the tarot cards in a pile and pull a rubber band around them. The astrology...
WEARILY, TIGER INSISTS HE MADE HIS POINT
“This is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave, right? Well, they proved to me it wasn’t the land of the free.”– Jack Morris He sat at a table in a back room of the Ginopolis restaurant, as people outside the glass doors...
Jack Morris’ Turn To Earn Winds Up Going In A Circle
So, in other words, he could still be a Detroit Tiger. That’s what we get from Jack Morris’ one-week tour of America.
He went to the Minnesota Twins and they turned him down. He went to the New York Yankees, and they were lukewarm. So he offered that which has never been offered before:
A one-year deal, subject to arbitration.
Which means this: Morris gives a figure, George Steinbrenner gives a figure, and a bozo with a degree on his wall decides which is fair. This has never been tried with a team that did not previously employ the player.
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