Detroit Free Press

"They come and they go, Hobbs; they come and they go."Robert Duvall to Robert Redford in "The Natural"I always loved that line, but I never realized how true it was in sports until last week. While vacationing out West, I went to a jazz concert in a small California nightclub. Not long after I sat down, a man and his wife sat next to me. The man smiled and said, "How you doing, Mitch?"

It was somewhere between a Phoenix steal and a Phoenix hook shot, or maybe a Phoenix steal and a Phoenix lay-up, ...

The other day, a teenager asked me a question: "Did you really live in the '60s?"Well, yes, I said."Wow! Cool! How was it?"I took a deep breath. I knew this was coming. Whenever America runs out of ideas, it decides to "bring back" an era. As near as I can figure, the era must be at least 20 years old to qualify, which is just enough time for us to forget how stupid it was.

EAST LANSING -- Steve Smith was doing a celebration dance -- the Cabbage Patch, I think -- and Mike Peplowski was ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- All week long, they kept saying it's only a game, a war is going on, football, even a Super Bowl, ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- All week long, they kept saying it's only a game, a war is going on, football, even a Super Bowl, ...

Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to you John Elway hopes you roll over and choke to deathHappy birthday to ...

Gee, Curt, another Super Bowl, and here you are, picking a team from Niagara Falls. How appropriate, since every ...