Detroit Free Press

In these difficult financial times, it would be nice to have a voice of reason.What can I do for you?Are you the ...

THE LIVE ALBOM:So today Mark Carrier pleads innocence before the NFL commissioner for hitting Tampa Bay's Brice ...

"Right now, I'm in awe of myself." -- Mark McGwire, after Sunday's gameThat was no home run, that was an exclamation point.Mark McGwire's final rocket shot of the season -- which launched on the last Sunday in September, traveled more than 370 feet, and landed in a leftfield box at Busch Stadium, plopping into a group of partying lab researchers -- was more than McGwire's 70th of the year. It was more than the all-time record. It was more than nine better than Roger Maris, whose mark they said might never be broken.

When those in power say they're doing what the American people want, you can pretty much bet they have their own interests in mind.Take Kenneth Starr. For the past four years, he has pursued the president's every conversation, memo, phone call and sneeze. He has spent more than $40 million in taxpayer money. He insists he is doing what the American people want -- even when the American people tell him they're sick of him.

Attention, please: Whoever came up with the bright idea of starting the Big Ten season with Michigan vs. Michigan ...

Afew weeks ago, on a visit to Japan, I heard a knock on my hotel room door. It was a Japanese colleague holding a ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- With the sellout crowd roaring like an evil engine, and the Lions down to the last play that mattered, Charlie Batch took the snap, dropped back, looked desperately to the end zone -- and got absolutely flattened by John Randle.So there's one thing he and Scott Mitchell have in common.