CHICAGO -- It was like watching one of your favorite TV shows get canceled.Washington 27, Chicago 13.Bad news, Bears.Yes, America, the airwaves are safe once more. No more videos. No more Super Bowl shuffles. No more Taco Bell commercials, if we're lucky. McMahon, Payton, Ditka, the Fridge? All passe now. This is 1987. The Redskins advance, the Bears go back, where? Their caves, I guess.
ST. LOUIS -- The moment came in the bottom of the eighth, and from now until he is an old man, the time, the circumstances, even the words -- "bottom of the eighth, World Series, 1987" -- will forever tickle a certain fancy. He was sitting on the bench. The manager came over. "Why don't you bat for. . . ."
ST. LOUIS -- The moment came in the bottom of the eighth, and from now until he is an old man, the time, the circumstances, even the words -- "bottom of the eighth, World Series, 1987" -- will forever tickle a certain fancy. He was sitting on the bench. The manager came over. "Why don't you bat for. . . ."
CHICAGO -- It was like watching one of your favorite TV shows get canceled.Washington 27, Chicago 13.Bad news, Bears.Yes, America, the airwaves are safe once more. No more videos. No more Super Bowl shuffles. No more Taco Bell commercials, if we're lucky. McMahon, Payton, Ditka, the Fridge? All passe now. This is 1987. The Redskins advance, the Bears go back, where? Their caves, I guess.
HOUSTON -- The Pistons are now like men dancing in wet cement, never sure which pose will harden. It could be glory. For this is a team of talent, of scorers, of depth. But this is also a team that remade itself in the off-season, and for all the wins -- 44 already -- it is still difficult to figure who'll do what on any given night."That could be good," muses forward Adrian Dantley, stretching out across his hotel bed, "because the other team can't prepare too much."
HOUSTON -- The Pistons are now like men dancing in wet cement, never sure which pose will harden. It could be glory. For this is a team of talent, of scorers, of depth. But this is also a team that remade itself in the off-season, and for all the wins -- 44 already -- it is still difficult to figure who'll do what on any given night."That could be good," muses forward Adrian Dantley, stretching out across his hotel bed, "because the other team can't prepare too much."
MINNEAPOLIS -- Four years ago, Greg McMurtry sat at the family kitchen table in Brockton, Mass., across from a football coach named Bo Schembechler."Would you like to wear No. 1?" Bo asked. "If you come to Michigan, I'm gonna give you that number.""OK," said McMurtry. "Great. Sure."
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.
