Detroit Free Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- On one sideline, the miracle man stood alone, watching, his back stiff, his hand throbbing, his body racked with pain. For the first time in most people's memory, Joe Montana could do nothing about the finish of a championship game. Nothing but pray.

SAN FRANCISCO -- This is how an era ends. On one sideline, the miracle man stood all alone, his back stiff, his ...

My grandmother, who grew up in Brooklyn, used to talk about getting the news during World War I, how the family would wait for the paper each day and read sketchy stories with no pictures.Later, my father would talk about World War II, how the family huddled by the radio when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and how the news crackled from that old speaker in the wooden casing.

In some ways, this is the hardest column I have ever had to write, hard because, for the first time in my life, I have no interest in writing it. This has never happened before. I love my work. I love wandering around the sports world, breathing in its funny drama, writing it down.

So the question now becomes: What do we do with ourselves? All of us civilians, who are watching this most strange ...

LOS ANGELES -- The greatest myth about this football team, the Raiders, is that you only need a uniform to be a ...

LOS ANGELES -- The greatest myth about the Raiders is that you need only a uniform to be a part of them. As if the ...

"A man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the rest . . . " -- Paul SimonThis will be the last column I will ...