Detroit Free Press

They ran naked, for one thing.Really. In ancient Greece, or so the legend goes, Olympians sometimes ran their ...

Free Press columnist Mitch Albom spoke with Dennis Rodman on Thursday morning before Rodman departed for Texas. Here are excerpts from that conversation.Q -- Is it true you don't want to play for the Pistons anymore? A -- It's not like that. I don't want to do anything against Ron Rothstein, but what he and Jack (McCloskey) did to Chuck Daly was wrong. Chuck did so much for this team, and they basically pushed him aside and said, "OK, we got a man to take your place."

So there I was, asleep in my hammock, when my boss calls and says, "I know you're on sabbatical, but as long as ...

So there I was, asleep in my hammock, when my boss calls and says, "I know you're on sabbatical, but as long as ...

I am going away. Taking a break. When the biggest news on the sports page is two boats sailing around a stick, ...

There's this story about Fiorello La Guardia, who was mayor of New York during the '30s and '40s. He was serving on police court one cold winter night when a shivering old man was brought before him. The man was charged with stealing a loaf of bread. "My family is starving," the man said.

CHICAGO -- The game ended the way they all seemed to end, the way this whole damned, crazy post-season has ended. Bang -- and you're dead. Less than 100 seconds left on the regulation clock, the crowd on its feet, screaming like beasts. Paul Ysebaert bumped into Sergei Fedorov deep in his own end. The puck squirted loose, here came Chicago's Greg Gilbert, scraping it out, shoveling it to a driving Brent Sutter, who pushed it past Tim Cheveldae for the only goal that mattered -- which was also the only goal of the night. Game over.Red light.Darkness.