Detroit Free Press

LADIES AND gentlemen, kiss your sports fan good-bye.Check back in a week. Follow the trail of empty pop cans and pizza boxes. Listen for the sounds of a whimpering voice, hoarse from screaming. Sniff the aroma of unwashed jeans, dirty socks and ...OK, forget the sniffing part.You get the idea. We are about to enter the mother lode of sports hysteria. Seven days of playoffs without a break. Red Wings. Pistons. Red Wings. Pistons.Two sports. Two teams. Two playoff series.And -- get this -- alternate nights!

THE LOCKER ROOM door opened and it was Bill Ranford's turn with the buffalo herd. He leaned against a wall and ...

ON THE LAST day of his amateur life, a kid named Joe Dumars waved good-bye to his sleepy hometown of Natchitoches, ...

Which is more significant, a shooting in a high school or the possible destruction of the world?Which has deeper ...

LET'S TRY to figure how far the Pistons will go in the playoffs.First let's try to figure whom they'll play in the playoffs.Well, before that, let's try to figure whether they'll make the playoffs.Maybe we should figure out the playoffs.You see the problem.

GRANDPA'S HOUSE, THE YEAR 2035 -- The old man put his grandson on his knee and opened a dusty scrapbook."Who's that, Grandpa?" the child asked."That's the greatest quarterback I ever saw," the old man said. "His name was John Elway.""Where's his rocket booster?"

BRENDAN Shanahan doesn't worry about much. He could be pushed from an airplane with no parachute, and he'd raise ...

Alot of people think the Jenny Jones trial is about murder.Others say it's about free speech.I say it's about ...