Detroit Free Press

TORONTO -- Jack Morris has always been a vindictive cuss when it comes to the media, so it didn't surprise me ...

TORONTO -- "Touch me!" Dave Winfield was saying, his eyes bulging, his voice rising like a TV evangelist's. ...

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, ...