Detroit Free Press

REGIS: Welcome to the show, folks. It's time to play "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." And our first contestant is ...

FOR A FEW DAYS there, George Irvine was my favorite guy in sports.He was a head coach who didn't want to be head coach. A guy in the corner office who dreamt of returning to the office pool.The Pistons asked him to take the reins after Alvin Gentry was fired in March. Most assistant coaches would be wiping the drool from their ties. Not George. His response was more like that of a first-grader being asked to eat broccoli. "Aw, do I have to?"

LOS ANGELES -- Sergei Fedorov, on the outside. He is 10 years old, in the small Russian city of Apatita. A team of ...

WHAT WOULD you do for one more day on the job? Would you suffer ungodly pain? Go under a surgeon's knife? Take a needle in your private parts? Live on a training machine? Would you sweat, gasp, howl, yowl, lift weights, do ultrasound, stretch your muscles for so many hours, they seemed ready to slide off the bone?Would you do all this without break, endure an everyday hell for nearly two years, with no promise, no assurance, not even a ray of light at the end of the tunnel, only the belief that maybe, if the gods were so inclined, you could someday get to work one more day?

We would not see snow. We would not see cold. We ignored the icy water as we sloshed through city streets."Wind? ...

My first encounter with the "new" economics came a few years ago, when a radio show I was doing was up for ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- It was after midnight now, and the tunnel beneath the RCA Dome was thinning out, as reporters ...