Raise your hand if you ever felt like running away from home.Raise your hand if you ever felt your parents ignored you.Raise your hand if you ever felt you'd rather live with another family, one that had more fun and more money.Hmm. A lot of hands. Now consider what happened in a Florida courtroom last week: 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley was officially "divorced" from his natural parents and awarded to foster parents -- one of whom happens to be a lawyer who helped represent the boy in court.
* LIONS 28, BUCS 20: Sorry, Tampa. I know you enjoyed that brief moment at the top. But your 15 minutes are up.* CHICAGO 21, ATLANTA 20: This should be a good contest. I know a better one: Mike Ditka and Jerry Glanville, middle of the field, in mud wrestling.
Let's face it. Even though men and women live together, work together and sleep together, they are not always on the same page. MAN (watching Three Stooges): Ho! Haha! WOMAN: I'm leaving you. MAN: What's that, hon--ahaaahahaheee!Nowhere is this difference more apparent than in the world of sports, where men will tell you, on the scale of Truly Important Things In Life, there is 1) the 1975 World Series, 2) who was better in his prime, Magic or Bird? 3) the polio vaccine.Whereas women have it all backwards.
* WASHINGTON 24, LIONS 17: I've already watched Jim Harbaugh, former Wolverine, beat the Lions. If Desmond Howard scores a touchdown in the final minute Sunday, I'm going to smack him in the head with his old Michigan helmet.* CINCINNATI 17, GREEN BAY 7: David Shula called up Don Shula last night and said, "Don't worry, Dad. One day you'll be 2-0 like me."
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.
