NEW YORK -- You know what I always say. People. People who need people. They're the luckiest people in the world.So I had to come to the Big Apple to check out this rumor about two lucky people who have been -- and you're not going to believe this -- romantically linked at the U.S. Open.Andre Agassi and . . .Barbra Streisand.Go ahead, take a Maalox. I'll wait.
CHICAGO -- I can think of better ways to start a season.I can think of better pictures than this: thousands of Chicago Bears fans going from depressed to delirious in the final five seconds, lighting up victory cigars and mocking the Lions. I can think of less disturbing heroes than this: Jim Harbaugh, whom I still remember from his pimple days at Michigan, now raising his fists in triumph as a Bear, after his last pass of this humid afternoon found the curled arms of Tom Waddle for a touchdown.
NEWS ITEM: The editors of DC Comics, publishers of Superman, announced plans to kill off the 54-year-old comic book hero. The Man of Steel is scheduled to die in issue No. 75 of Superman classics while "saving as many people on earth as he can," sources say."Well, I was just shocked," Batman said, when reached Saturday in Gotham City. "I mean, I knew Supes wasn't doing great, but dead? I thought he couldn't die. That's what he used to say whenever I told him how much more money my movies made than his. 'Hey, pal, at least I'll never die.' That always shut me up.
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.