Detroit Free Press

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- Let's say you want a little peace and quiet at the XVII Tonya-Nancy Olympics, maybe a ...

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- On a luge track, you never make a stand, since doing so would send you smack into the ...

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- He is running a power drill when the telephone rings. He claims he is making a door ...

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- Although the Winter Olympics have barely begun, we've already had our first major clash. It took place a few days ago, in a packed auditorium, during a press conference. It was not a clash of skis or hockey sticks, but a clash of cultures. In many ways, it set the stage for these Olympics.The focus of that press conference was Norway's Vegard Ulvang, a top cross-country skier and a national hero. Cross- country is to Norway what basketball is to America. Ulvang is hugely famous. When he speaks, people listen.

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- As this might be the last column I ever write, I want to get everything down. I have been ...

Chris Webber recently told me all things being equal, he'd choose to stay in college now, instead of turning pro. ...

Michigan's Fab Five started their first game together two years ago Wednesday. A lot of changes have taken place since then -- from the Final Fours, to Chris Webber's departure to the recent incident involving Ray Jackson and Jimmy King. As a reminder of how it all began, the Free Press offers this excerpt from "Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, the American Dream," written by columnist Mitch Albom.