So this is the week that Bo Jackson returns to Kansas City wearing a helmet. Not a bad idea, considering the treatment he'll receive.As everyone knows, Jackson is playing football in his spare time away from baseball. The people in Kansas City, where he plays baseball, would rather he concentrate on his summer game. You know, like NOT STRIKING OUT SO MUCH!
There are only 19 shopping days left until Christmas, which barely gives us time to suggest the best holiday gifts for your favorite NFL teams. Many of these items are available at your favorite department store. The others, I just made up.NEW YORK GIANTS FANS: You can start buying all the leftover autobiographies by last season's Super Bowl champs. No one else wants to read about a 3-8 team. No matter how much Gatorade it spills.
You might call it growing up, or, if your address ends in California, maybe mellowing out. Fair enough, since California is still an off-season home to Ron Duguay, a nugget of the glamorous life he once commandeered.
The coach speaks in a whisper, and the young wrestlers gather around him in a semicircle on the purple mats. They listen. They say nothing. A few of them are big and muscular. Others are smaller, their skin soft. They are teen-aged, but they are still children, really. And children should never have to witness a murder, especially not to one of their own. But it happened inside Romulus High School, and now everybody here must learn to live with the nightmares, and it is not easy.
So this is the week that Bo Jackson returns to Kansas City wearing a helmet. Not a bad idea, considering the treatment he'll receive.As everyone knows, Jackson is playing football in his spare time away from baseball. The people in Kansas City, where he plays baseball, would rather he concentrate on his summer game. You know, like NOT STRIKING OUT SO MUCH!
There are only 19 shopping days left until Christmas, which barely gives us time to suggest the best holiday gifts for your favorite NFL teams. Many of these items are available at your favorite department store. The others, I just made up.NEW YORK GIANTS FANS: You can start buying all the leftover autobiographies by last season's Super Bowl champs. No one else wants to read about a 3-8 team. No matter how much Gatorade it spills.
You might call it growing up, or, if your address ends in California, maybe mellowing out. Fair enough, since California is still an off-season home to Ron Duguay, a nugget of the glamorous life he once commandeered.
The coach speaks in a whisper, and the young wrestlers gather around him in a semicircle on the purple mats. They listen. They say nothing. A few of them are big and muscular. Others are smaller, their skin soft. They are teen-aged, but they are still children, really. And children should never have to witness a murder, especially not to one of their own. But it happened inside Romulus High School, and now everybody here must learn to live with the nightmares, and it is not easy.
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.
