* Detroit 22, Chicago 20: Erik Kramer and Joni Mitchell team up for a new duet: "I've looked at life from both benches now . . . "* Kansas City 23, Cleveland 20: If the Browns do win the AFC, couldn't they be promoted to a better color, like The Yellows?
Their hair is thinner now. Their bellies jell over their belts. Their muscles are fleshy, no longer tight. Some have had doctors tell them to slow down, watch the blood pressure. When you meet them, many do not seem big enough to have done what they did on that cold Saturday in November 1969.But then, what they did was the stuff of giants.
Each day he drives to a high school gym and works out with a trainer and an old friend. Then he drives home slowly, "praying I don't get in an accident and ruin everything." It is November, and for the first time in his basketball life, the game is going on without him. No practice. No paycheck.And it's his own doing."To be honest, I really wanted to play for Detroit," Chris Webber says from his home in Oakland, Calif., where he remains a restricted free agent. "When I came home over the summer, I was hoping to stay."
* Lions 17, Green Bay 16: Edgar Bennett is their running back? Edgar? That's a butler, not a football player.* Chicago 27, Tampa Bay 14: Erik Kramer resumes the familiar position: seated.
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.
