IS THE SPARK STILL THERE?April 6, 1987 | Detroit Free PressSparky Anderson used to play baseball with Buckwheat. That's right. The Buckwheat. From "The Little Rascals." In ...Read More
HOW THEY SEE ITApril 6, 1987 | Detroit Free Press* MITCH ALBOM: Hagler in eight. Five years off is five years off. * GEORGE PUSCAS: Hagler, by knockout within ...Read More
HOW THEY’LL FINISHApril 6, 1987 | Detroit Free PressJohn Lowe AL East AL West NL East NL WestToronto Kansas City St. Louis San FranciscoNew York Minnesota New ...Read More
KNIGHT’S LEDGER IS OUT OF BALANCEMarch 30, 1987 | Detroit Free PressNEW ORLEANS -- Did you know Bobby Knight is writing a newspaper column? One of those quickie syndication deals. He ...Read More
MONROE’S DAD KNOWS, AND HE MUST BE PROUDMarch 29, 1987 | Detroit Free PressNEW ORLEANS -- It doesn't matter, all the money and the music and the new clothes and the computers. College is ...Read More
THE PITINOS’ QUIET TRAGEDY HAS PASSED HUMAN INTERESTMarch 27, 1987 | Detroit Free PressNEW ORLEANS -- Fifty million viewers. Five hundred reporters. One tragic story. No way you win with odds like ...Read More
THIS COLEMAN OF DETROIT HOPES TO TAKE NEW ORLEANSMarch 22, 1987 | Detroit Free PressEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Derrick Coleman rose toward the basket, gently, majestically, as if in slow motion, as if ...Read More
HEY, IF IT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR MY OLD PAL DENNIS . . .March 20, 1987 | Detroit Free PressTHE LIVE ALBOM: *Hey. Wait a minute. Dennis Conner goes Down Under, comes back all dark, and gets a parade. I go ...Read More
SOMEBODY’S ELSE’S HERO NOWMarch 15, 1987 | Detroit Free Press"This whole thing has been like a movie -- 'The Negotiation of Lance Parrish.' It's ridiculous. This is not how I ...Read More
FRIEDER DID HIS SNAPPY JOB WITHOUT GETTING ANY BREAKSMarch 12, 1987 | Detroit Free PressIt was 20 past midnight. My phone rang."It's Frieder," said the voice in the receiver."Where are you?" I asked."In ...Read More
FANTASY BECOMES REALITY AS SEARCY GETS HIS CHANCEMarch 6, 1987 | Detroit Free PressLAKELAND, Fla. -- His locker is isolated, off in the corner, next to a fire extinguisher. It is the kind of spot a ...Read More
BALL PLAYERS TRIM THE FAT IN DAYS OF HIGH CELERIESMarch 4, 1987 | Detroit Free PressLAKELAND, Fla. -- I walk past, player after player, shaking my head. I am in search of something that was never ...Read More