IN A MOVIE OR A BOOK, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PLOTDecember 5, 2004 | Detroit Free PressThe first movie I ever saw was "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." My grandmother took me to a Saturday matinee. I ...Read More
NOTRE DAME IS THE SAME AS EVERYONEDecember 1, 2004 | Detroit Free PressNo different from anyone else. That is the stark reality now at Notre Dame, and the Irish don't like it, even as ...Read More
HOMOPHOBIA CURTAILS SOME HARMLESS FUNNovember 21, 2004 | Detroit Free PressThey may not want to admit it, but most men, when they were boys, tried, at least once, to walk in their mother's ...Read More
MIDTERM GRADE: NOT BAD, NOT GOODNovember 8, 2004 | Detroit Free PressSo this is where the Lions are halfway through the season. A mediocre team that can't run the ball, can't throw ...Read More
R-E-P-E-A-T?November 2, 2004 | Detroit Free PressHow do you measure Big Time? Chauncey Billups was in an L.A. hotspot this summer, sitting at a table with such ...Read More
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF MICHAEL HARTOctober 29, 2004 | Detroit Free PressYou are a freshman. You attend Michigan. It is a long way from home, a long way from your mother and your sister ...Read More
LI’L JOEY TRICKS US WITH QB DISGUISEOctober 25, 2004 | Detroit Free PressEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Who was that guy? The one wearing No. 3? He was not the same guy who wore No. 3 last ...Read More
LIONS RISE AS VICK FALLSOctober 11, 2004 | Detroit Free PressATLANTA -- So, being a responsible journalist, I conducted a search. On the sidelines. In the rafters. Under the ...Read More
CURSES, DALE! YOU DIDN’T DESERVE THISOctober 10, 2004 | Detroit Free PressWell, shut his mouth.Dale Earnhardt Jr., a race car driver of great fame and even better lineage, fell from first ...Read More
PISTONS’ ROOKIE, 29, HAILS FROM REAL WORLDOctober 6, 2004 | Detroit Free PressThese days, NBA rookies get their first paychecks before they can vote and their second contracts before they can ...Read More
NO EXCUSING WHAT FOX INSINUATEDSeptember 28, 2004 | Detroit Free PressEvery now and then, we learn a lesson about ex-players in front of TV microphones. Usually the lesson is this: ...Read More
STUBBORNNESS ISN’T A VIRTUE WORTH A VOTESeptember 26, 2004 | Detroit Free PressLike most of us, I was taught that being stubborn was a fault. When I was stubborn as a child, my parents scolded ...Read More