MY BOSS IS A LOUT — AT LEAST ON TVDecember 3, 1999 | Detroit Free PressWALTER IS a jerk. A knucklehead. A loser.He is also my boss.Walter, my sports editor, is chubby, bald, sarcastic ...Read More
SEEING TODAY’S SPORTS THROUGH DIFFERENT I’SNovember 27, 1999 | Detroit Free PressFROM THE moment Latrell Sprewell came bounding onto the court last Saturday night -- chin jutting, muscles taut, ...Read More
TO THE WINGS, HE WAS SIMPLY DARREN’S DADNovember 25, 1999 | Detroit Free PressDEATH SHOULD never take a holiday. Especially not Thanksgiving. Not the one holiday devoted to families. This is ...Read More
ARE WE BETTER OFF IN AN ATM WORLD?November 14, 1999 | Detroit Free PressFridays used to be different from other days. Fridays were when you went to the bank.If you were lucky, you simply ...Read More
LIONS’ PRAYER ANSWEREDIS IT ADDING UP TO A MAGIC SEASON? LIONS DOWN RAMS 31-27, SHARE NFC LEADNovember 8, 1999 | Detroit Free PressWELL, AS Woody Allen once said, that was as much fun as you can have with your clothes on.Here were the Lions, all ...Read More
BIG PEOPLE AREN’T KEEPING US SAFENovember 7, 1999 | Detroit Free PressIt's one of our first assumptions in life: The big people will take care of us.When we're infants, it's our mother ...Read More
PAYTON LEFT FIGHTING FOR ONE MORE YARDNovember 2, 1999 | Detroit Free PressCHICAGO -- On Jan. 10, 1988, Walter Payton played in his last NFL game -- a loss to Washington in the NFC ...Read More
NEW SONG: BRING IN ‘DA BUCS, BRING IN ‘DA NOISENovember 1, 1999 | Detroit Free PressWE MAY NOT dress as well as New Yorkers, we may not tan as well as Californians, we may not do chowder as well as ...Read More
OUR VANITY MAKES EGG SALE A BIG DEALOctober 31, 1999 | Detroit Free PressTraditionally, the first thing you say about a newborn baby is how much it resembles the parents."Look, she has ...Read More
WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL HIM CHARLIE HUSTLE?October 27, 1999 | Detroit Free PressFUNNY THING about America. You do something wrong, people scream. They want your head. Then you disappear, other ...Read More
IT WAS A TRAGIC FAREWELL FOR A REMARKABLE GOLFEROctober 26, 1999 | Detroit Free PressONE OF THE early news reports said only the pilots in Payne Stewart's private jet were dead. That Stewart and the ...Read More
SERIES PREDICTION: WATCH FOR RICKY MARTIN, BATTERIESOctober 22, 1999 | Detroit Free PressYOU WANT to know what's going to happen in the World Series?I know what's going to happen ...GAME 1: The Series ...Read More