Detroit Free Press

EAST LANSING -- I don't know what the Spartans and Wolverines did after their big game Tuesday. I know what they ...

EAST LANSING -- I don't know what the Spartans and Wolverines did after their big game Tuesday. I know what they ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Just before this Super Bowl began, Garth Brooks, the country singer, and Marlee Matlin, the ...

LOS ANGELES -- The young man was tall and broad-shouldered. While his teammates spoke of touchdowns, he spoke of flying a jet across the skies of Kuwait. Chad Hennings is a Dallas defensive lineman, who, unlike most of the players in Super Bowl XXVII today, served in the military. I found him intelligent. Engaging. Then someone asked about gays."In the military? I'm against it. Absolutely. Nothing against gays, you know, but the idea of living with them? In close quarters? Nuh-uh."

LOS ANGELES -- Oh, Curt. How sad.In what can only be a meek and pathetic attempt to recapture your lost youth, you ...

LOS ANGELES -- The hair! The hair! They are buzzing about his hair, his follicles, his "do", his mop, big brown crown. Does it move? Does it muss in a hurricane? Could he use it as a helmet? Could he melt it with anti-freeze? Does he comb it, or slide underneath it? Can he run his fingers through it, or does he need power tools? The hair! The hair! Jimmy Johnson hears all this talk about his hair, why he wears it in that Glen Campbell, early-1970's, part and dip and swirl back, half-country, half-lounge lizard, spray-until it turns-to- cement style. Such hair!

With or without his helmet. I don't care if he forgets his pants, his shirt and his socks this time. Just give me ...

LOS ANGELES -- The gates opened and the beasts came running. Cameras bounced on shoulders, boom microphones swung ...