Detroit Free Press

ALL MIXED UP AS MAN MEETS WOMAN IN SPORT

ALL MIXED UP AS MAN MEETS WOMAN IN SPORT

Let's face it. Even though men and women live together, work together and sleep together, they are not always on the same page. MAN (watching Three Stooges): Ho! Haha! WOMAN: I'm leaving you. MAN: What's that, hon--ahaaahahaheee!Nowhere is this difference more apparent than in the world of sports, where men will tell you, on the scale of Truly Important Things In Life, there is 1) the 1975 World Series, 2) who was better in his prime, Magic or Bird? 3) the polio vaccine.Whereas women have it all backwards.
JORDAN OUT, LAIMBEER IN DOESN’T SEEM RIGHT

JORDAN OUT, LAIMBEER IN DOESN’T SEEM RIGHT

All right, America. The time has come. Here, on the morning of the new NBA season, the basketball question you've been wanting to ask for weeks:How come Michael Jordan retired and Bill Laimbeer didn't?"Ha!" Laimbeer says, sneering. "That's easy! I don't have $300 million like he does."Cute. But not the answer. True, Jordan, 30, may be resting his still-lean body while Laimbeer, 36, gets up each morning with a different joint creaking in his freckled white frame.
COLUMBUS CAME AT THE RIGHT TIME

COLUMBUS CAME AT THE RIGHT TIME

NEWS ITEM: MONDAY MARKS THE 501st ANNIVERSARY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ' ARRIVAL IN AMERICA. WHILE SCIENTISTS STILL DEBATE WHETHER COLUMBUS WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE ON THESE SHORES, THEY ALL AGREE THAT THE LAND HE FOUND 501 YEARS AGO BEARS LITTLE RESEMBLANCE TO WHAT HE'D SEE WERE HE TO WASH BACK ASHORE TODAY . . .
IF THERE’S TIME TO WIN, BIRD WILL FIND A WAY

IF THERE’S TIME TO WIN, BIRD WILL FIND A WAY

There is only one person on the Boston Celtics that worries me and that is Larry Bird. You can throw out as many Dee Browns and Brian Shaws as you want. Tall guys? Bring on the tall guys, Kevin McHale, Joe Kleine, Ed Pinckney. Even the old man, Robert Parish -- who recently celebrated his 92nd birthday -- even him, I can handle. I need an ax. But I can handle him.
WITH WEBBER, NO LONGER A KID, THE IMAGE IS OFTENONLY PART OF THE REALITY

WITH WEBBER, NO LONGER A KID, THE IMAGE IS OFTENONLY PART OF THE REALITY

Think about 19. Think about where you were, what you were doing. Maybe getting drunk at a frat party, maybe starting a job you knew would never last, maybe flopping on the couch, watching TV, trying to decide what to do with your life. It's an in-between age, 19, and most likely you felt torn at some point by the childhood behind you and the adulthood that lay ahead. Like a wishbone.

Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.

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