Detroit Free Press

CALGARY, Alberta -- The red light came on, and for Detroit, the rest of the lights went out. The Flames had ...

It's cold, it's hard, it's dangerous and it flies. And when a puck hits an unprotected hockey player, it takes no ...

Let's make this simple: If you're a hockey player, being a Red Wing is a pretty good job. Tonight, 20 men will ...

There was a popular song during the first World War. Its title was "Over There." It encouraged young men to "get your gun" and "make your mother proud of you." It told the world "the Yanks are coming . . . and we won't come back till it's over over there."Today, for most of us, war is indeed, "over there." It arrives only in green-screen TV reports and controlled press briefings and presidential photo ops that say "Mission Accomplished." Some of us would like to keep it that way.So last week, when images of flag-draped coffins appeared on the Internet, many complained.

Millions of years from now, when all that is left of mankind are some dusty ruins and a tape of the Red Wings' 2004 playoffs, aliens will assume that the closing ritual of every NHL game was to have an opposing player skate toward the goalie, and casually -- some might even say matter-of-factly -- ram an elbow into his head.Which pretty much sums up Ville Nieminen's last few seconds Thursday night.

In the NBA, there are players who rise, and players who rise to the occasion, and here was Ben Wallace rising so ...

Brett Hull is talking on a cell phone as he drives to the airport with his carpool buddy, Chris Chelios. I am ...