The phone rang around 3:30 Wednesday afternoon. Paul Boyer, the equipment man, picked it up."Who wears No. 14 for us?" asked Scotty Bowman, the Red Wings coach."Aaron Ward," Boyer said."Make a new No. 14 with the name 'Shanahan.' Give Ward No. 27. You think he'll mind?""No," Boyer said, smiling, "I don't think he'll mind."
TAMPA, Fla. -- Complimenting a team on beating Tampa Bay is like complimenting a surgeon for washing his hands. Still, bad things often happen when the Lions play the lowly Bucs. So fans should be thankful this morning. Truth is, Detroit knew things would be fine when, late in the first quarter, the Buccaneers (franchise motto: "Forget the game, get a tan") had one of those plays they now will try desperately to keep out of their football video.
Whenever this country starts to depress me -- more and more these days, I'm afraid -- I think back a few years to a time in New York City, when I was a social worker. I ran an after- school program for 5- and 6-year-olds. They would line up each day at the bottom of the stairs, then wait until I blew a whistle.
Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.
