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Pro Players Make It Impossible To Coach

Pro Players Make It Impossible To Coach

December 8, 2000 | Detroit Free Press
COACHING IS dead.The whistle is buried. The chalkboard is blank. The days when a coach spoke and a player listened?Those days are gone.There is no coaching anymore -- not in the NBA, anyhow, where $100-million players are a way of life.Coaching there has been replaced by "managing." Managing means keeping a player happy. Managing means keeping an ego in check. Managing is what Paul Westphal tried unsuccessfully to do in Seattle, with sulking multimillionaires like Gary Payton and Vin Baker.
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Terminally Ill Know What’S Best For Them

Terminally Ill Know What’S Best For Them

December 3, 2000 | Detroit Free Press
Last week, as Americans fought over ballots as if they were life and death, the Dutch passed a law that really was about life and death: namely, when is it acceptable to end one and welcome the other?Their answer? When a patient is suffering. Not necessarily dying. Suffering. Inconsolably. Unbearably.When that happens, under the new law -- the first of its kind in the world -- any patient older than 16 need only discuss it with a doctor, agree that the pain is too much, and ask for a peaceful death.
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Back To The Future In Merry Land Of Iz

Back To The Future In Merry Land Of Iz

November 30, 2000 | Detroit Free Press
EASTLANSING -- Less than a minute into Wednesday night's Michigan State-North Carolina game, the shot clocks went out, and someone had to root around in the storage closets and drag out the old corner units. Prop 'em up. Plug 'em in. So already, the night was going back in time.
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Who’s President? There’s No Debate

Who’s President? There’s No Debate

November 12, 2000 | Detroit Free Press
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to our final presidential debate. And we mean it this time. Let's begin with the obvious question: Gentlemen, which of you is our president?BUSH: I am!GORE: I am!Which of you had more votes?BUSH: I did! Electoral votes!GORE: I did! Popular votes!What about recounts?BUSH: We're done counting!GORE: We've only just begun.Absentee ballots?BUSH: They're mine! The military loves me!GORE: They're mine! Jewish voters living in Israel love me!
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Ross Calls It Quits; Lions Pick Moellera Bizarre Turn Of Events, Even For A Cursed Franchise

Ross Calls It Quits; Lions Pick Moellera Bizarre Turn Of Events, Even For A Cursed Franchise

November 7, 2000 | Detroit Free Press
BOBBY Ross walked into the locker room and asked the players to listen up. They didn't know it, but he already had resigned, already had told management he couldn't do the job anymore, that his body, spirit and tolerance were spent.Yet as the players looked up, Ross first took care of housekeeping. He reminded them of a banquet they had to attend Monday evening. He reminded them to lift weights, start thinking about the next game, Sunday against Atlanta.Only then, with the small details attended to, did he clear his throat.And told them he was quitting.
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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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