Detroit Free Press

A few weeks ago, Alan Trammell hung a message on the board in the Tigers' locker room. He was trying to inspire ...

What IS this? A stud quarterback, big, strong, good-looking kid, with smarts, with an infectious laugh, with the ...

Sometimes a story is just a boring rock. But if you throw that rock hard enough into the water, you get a new ...

BILOXI, Miss. - Here in this coastal town, where the devil's wind met the devil's water, every breath you take is ...

Anyone who has ever stood at the altar of marriage knows the heart can skip a beat at the words "till death do you ...

That Jeep escaped hell and high water. That Jeep survived when other cars died on the highway. That Jeep transported 14 desperate men, women and children out of the watery grip of Hurricane Katrina and for two days, they squeezed and shifted and lay atop each other inside it, for hundreds of miles, until they finally reached the safe ground of a strange city called Detroit, a place most of them had never seen. That Jeep got them here.And then it got stolen."It's gone," Earl Walker told me Tuesday afternoon. "Somebody took it."

Not to be a wet blanket, but Red Wings fans, party at your own risk. Hockey may be back, but when your best offensive player isn't even on the continent, only a fool pops champagne.Here are two sobering words: "Pavel" and "Datsyuk." Any hockey expert will tell you he's the future of the Wings. And he's not here! He's in Russia, possibly under contract to not one but two teams. Ken Holland, charged with tightening Detroit's belt, has muffed the first lesson of Salary Cap 101: Sign your biggest star.