GRAF ECLIPSES VENUS IN A SUBLIME DRAMAJuly 2, 1999 | Detroit Free PressWIMBLEDON, England -- For hours and hours, through sunshine, through clouds, through three rain delays that ...Read More
AS WIMBLEDOM TURNSTHE PRESS POUNCES ON EMERGING STAR, ALEXANDRA STEVENSON, AND 14 AFTERATTAINING STARDOM, BORIS BECKER BOWS OUT.July 1, 1999 | Detroit Free PressWIMBLEDON, England -- With applause, a grown man said good-bye. And with controversy, a young girl said hello. It ...Read More
AGASSI NEEDS A DATE — AND A PERMANENT PERSONAJune 30, 1999 | Detroit Free PressWIMBLEDON -- "So, Mr. Agassi . . .""Call me Andre.""So, Mr. Andre, welcome to Top Flight British Dating Service. I ...Read More
FATHER KNEW BEST — AT LEAST IN 1899June 20, 1999 | Detroit Free PressToday is the final Father's Day of the century. And in many ways, the fathers of 1899 didn't have it as good as ...Read More
WE ALL KNOW TRUTH ABOUT ENTERTAINMENTJune 6, 1999 | Detroit Free PressLet's see. Our kids adore pro wrestling. They are mesmerized by gory video games. They sing along to rap music ...Read More
TO KEEP LIDSTROM, I’D MOVE MOUNTAINSMay 21, 1999 | Detroit Free PressIAM HERE in Sweden. I sit in my bulldozer. I wave at my foreman."Keep the men digging!" I holler."How deep?" he ...Read More
SO LONG, STANLEYHEY, WE STILL HAVE THOSE MEMORIESMay 19, 1999 | Detroit Free PressSUMMER melted.The icy joy that for two years has been Detroit hockey nirvana dissolved Tuesday night into a soggy ...Read More
DOC’S ADVICE: WINGS MUST BE GOAL-ORIENTEDMay 18, 1999 | Detroit Free Press"Welcome back to the Dr. Laura program, the nation's No. 1 advice show. I'm Dr. Laura and our next caller is ...Read More
GOING . . . GONESAD FACES, SAD ENDING FOR PISTONSMay 17, 1999 | Detroit Free PressATLANTA -- The faces told it all. Grant Hill looking down into his chest and sighing. Bison Dele scowling as he ...Read More
A RUDE AWAKENING FROM SWEEP DREAMSMay 12, 1999 | Detroit Free PressTHE GENIE went back in the bottle, the glass slipper melted away, and the puck that had been stopping everywhere ...Read More
BISON DELE: BIG MAN PUTS OUT LITTLE EFFORTMay 11, 1999 | Detroit Free PressATLANTA -- Their big man, Dikembe Mutombo, was having the time of his life. He backed in on one Piston, knocked ...Read More
WITH RETIREMENT LOOMING, DUMARS SPEAKS HIS PIECEMay 10, 1999 | Detroit Free PressTHERE ARE few things more enjoyable in Detroit sports than a private conversation with Joe Dumars. I have been ...Read More