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IT’S SHOPPING TIME FOR NFL TEAMS

IT’S SHOPPING TIME FOR NFL TEAMS

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.
A MOMENT OF MADNESS, A WEEK OF SORROW

A MOMENT OF MADNESS, A WEEK OF SORROW

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.
U-M GETS ITS BIG SHOTMICHIGAN’S DREAM TEAM CRASHES INTO FINAL CHAPTER

U-M GETS ITS BIG SHOTMICHIGAN’S DREAM TEAM CRASHES INTO FINAL CHAPTER

SEATTLE -- He was racing down the court, his arms wide open, looking for someone to hug, someone to squeeze, someone to celebrate this unbelievable moment. Oh God, what had Sean Higgins done? Grabbed a rebound off a missed baseline jumper, tossed it back through the hoop like honey down a funnel, and sent the Michigan Wolverines to the national championship game in the most fairy tale-ish season we could ever imagine.A-maizing.

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.

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