Detroit Free Press

TORONTO -- A cold rain fell on the first World Series game ever held in Canada, the same rain that wet the U.S. ...

TORONTO -- Here I am in Canada, wandering in the wilderness. I am carrying my bat and glove. I have come to talk baseball to the youth of this nation. Tonight is the first World Series game ever outside America.I have a job to do.Ah. Here come a couple kids now. Hi, kids. What are your names?"Bob." "Doug." Let's talk about the National Pastime. You do know what the National Pastime is, don't you?"Hockey!" "Yeah, hockey!"

The following is X-rated. Grab the kids. Cover their eyes. We are looking through magazines. Not Playboy. Not ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- I would like to tell you how this dead skunk of a football game ended, but I must admit, I stopped watching somewhere between the Vikings' third touchdown and the Lions' fifth stupid penalty -- which, I believe, was about nine seconds into the game. Talk about quick death! I could have left the stadium knowing the outcome of this game and scalped my tickets to fans still coming in.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- If Rickey Henderson were an insect he'd be a gnat, buzzing in your ear, watering your eyes, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- That sound you heard Sunday afternoon was two legends falling off the rainbow. The difference is, one landed in clover, the other flat on his back.I am talking Jack Morris. I am talking Dennis Eckersley. Once upon a time, they would have made a complete pitching staff by themselves. Let Morris go eight innings, drag him off the mound with the smoke coming from his nostrils,

News Item:The first of several presidential debates will be tonight in St. Louis. George Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot are promising to concentrate on the issues. . . . MODERATOR: Welcome to the presidential debates. Gentlemen, please introduce yourselves.CLINTON: Hello, George. BUSH: Hello, Comrade.PEROT: Be nice, boys, or I'll fire ya.MODERATOR: Ahem. Now then. Let's begin with a question on the economy. Gentlemen, what is wrong with the U.S. economy and what will you do about it if elected president?