PUT KICKERS IN THEIR PLACE — OUT OF NFLSeptember 25, 1997 | Detroit Free PressI have been thinking a lot lately about NFL kickers. And I think they've got to go.Take the scene in the Monday ...Read More
SEPTEMBER MAGIC GONE — BUT TOWN WILL SWING AGAINSeptember 17, 1997 | Detroit Free Press"Is there a baseball game tonight? Oh, no. Now we'll never find a place to park."The woman speaking was an escort ...Read More
IN HIS FINAL DAYS, A TEACHER TO THE LASTSeptember 11, 1997 | Detroit Free Press"I decided what I want on my tombstone," he says.I don't want to hear about tombstones."Why? They make you ...Read More
AS DEATH IMPENDS, PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE BECOMES CLEARERSeptember 9, 1997 | Detroit Free Press"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -- Henry AdamsThe next Tuesday, I ...Read More
SILVERDOME STILL BIG TOP, BUT THE LIONS STILL WONSeptember 1, 1997 | Detroit Free PressThe coach did not wear a clown-loud shirt, he did not smoke a clown-like cigar, and he did not make any clownish ...Read More
BEATEN BY SYSTEM, AD DECIDED TO QUITAugust 31, 1997 | Detroit Free PressCollege is supposed to be a place that builds dreams, not a place that crushes them. You wouldn't know it by Joe ...Read More
SANDERS WON’T SAY IT, BUT HE’S THINKING BIGAugust 29, 1997 | Detroit Free PressThis is how you stop Barry Sanders. You cut off his lanes. Give him nowhere to go. Make him plow right into you ...Read More
AN OLD SONG BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF FIRST LOVEAugust 24, 1997 | Detroit Free PressI'm going to sing a song now and I'm not going to say the name, I'm just going to sing it. And if it doesn't mean ...Read More
FEDOROV, KOURNIKOVA DENIAL’S ROYAL COUPLEJuly 2, 1997 | Detroit Free PressWIMBLEDON, England -- As a journalist, I am not usually assigned to the romance beat, but I have been asked by ...Read More
ALL ENGLAND GOES MAD AS TRADITION TAKES HOLIDAYJune 30, 1997 | Detroit Free PressOnce again we welcome you to our annual dispatches from Wimbledon, also known as the World's Largest Umbrella ...Read More
IF STOCKS ARE IN CLOVER, THEN WHY AREN’T WE?June 15, 1997 | Detroit Free PressThese days, there are only a few things in life you can count on. Death, taxes, Dennis Rodman getting ejected -- ...Read More
STANLEY CUP 101 — UH-OH,THERE’S A POP QUIZ TODAYJune 10, 1997 | Detroit Free PressWell, now. That was a fun little hockey season, wasn't it? Done with St. Louis. Done with Anaheim. Done with ...Read More