Detroit Free Press

If Ben Kelso wanted to be a thief, why choose a career in high school basketball? There's not much to steal in a ...

At the recent 100th birthday party for Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. Trent Lott, the soon-to-be majority leader, made ...

When it comes to a teenaged basketball player named LeBron James, everybody has an excuse.His Ohio high school, St. Vincent-St. Mary in Akron, which is showcasing James around the country this season, flying him everywhere from L.A. to Philadelphia, has its excuse: "We're giving him a chance to face top-flight competition," it says.And the school's athletic director, who sanctions a large appearance fee for James and the team to play in your gym -- reportedly between $10,000 and $15,000 a game -- has his excuse: "We're helping raise money for our school."

Marty Mornhinweg may be smarter than you think. He may be tougher than you think. He is definitely more confident than you think. Portrayed in recent weeks as a man dangling by a thread over a pit of snapping alligators -- and lucky to even have the thread -- the second-year Lions coach shows no signs of panic. In fact, if he had his way, he'd show no signs of anything but determination.

It was a ride to work like any other ride to work, except Brendan Shanahan had 50 cigars in the backseat. He would give them out to his teammates. He would shake their hands. He would tell them the details of the story, the date (Saturday); the time (3 in the afternoon); the names (Maggie and Jack); the birth order (Maggie first, Jack second, one minute apart); his wife's condition (good); his condition (good); the grandparents' condition (over the moon).It was a ride to work like any other ride to work -- except everything had changed.

There was a night when the bed hit a panel. That was funny. It was supposed to roll onstage, where a young actor ...