Detroit Free Press

CHAPTER 5: Finito.ROME -- There are two moments of truth for the American basketball player who crosses the sea ...

CHAPTER 4: Leggenda. 1.A legend.FORLI, Italy- They all wanted a piece of Bob McAdoo, all those people outside the bus, screaming and waving and cheering in Italian. Through the window he saw them, and thought to himself, "I better watch my wallet." So he slipped it in the pocket of his gym bag and..."BOB!" They were all over him. Hugging him. Slapping his shoulders. "SI, BOB!" "CIAO, BOB!"

CHAPTER 3. Sopportare. 1. To endure.MILAN, Italy -- With Rick Mahorn's farewell words ringing in my ears -- "Have ...

CHAPTER 2. Today's Italian word: Credere (credereh) 1. Believe. As in, "Can you believe Rick Mahorn and the Pope ...

TODAY'S ITALIAN LESSON:Dove (doveh) 1. Where. As in "Where the hell is the exit?" FORLI, Italy -- Well now, ...

SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE -- HeLP! I Am LOcKed in A bAseMent aND my hANds aRE tiEd aND my mOUth IS gagged aND I AM ...

ALBERTVILLE, France -- The thing about printing your own money, the bearded man tells me, is finding a place to do it. It's damn hard. You can't just build a mint, you know. Even if you do run the country.He reaches into the pocket of his blue jeans, which he wears with a denim shirt and white socks and bedroom slippers, not a bad outfit for a deputy minister of the government, and he pulls out a few bills, colorful little things with the picture of a mountain. They are signed by the "Secretary of Finance of Slovenia.""Tolars," he calls them.

MERIBEL, France -- Twenty minutes before the curtain came down, when the world was still young and the score was ...