Detroit Free Press

EAST LANSING -- The flag. He wanted the flag. Steve Smith was swimming in a sea of fans, TV cameras, beautiful ...

EAST LANSING -- So this is what Jud Heathcote does in the thick of the supposedly pressure-packed Big Ten title ...

Personally, and I think I speak for many Americans when I say this, I would like to push Donald Trump off a ...

He used to practice on the metal flap doors that dotted the sidewalks of Harlem. Tappety-tap-tap-tappety-tip. When it got too cold, he danced in the hallways of nearby apartment buildings. Tappety-tip-tip-tappety-tap. One day, when he was 14, a fellow "hoofer" knocked on his door, said they needed somebody up at the Apollo, quick, let's go. A few breathless minutes later, he was auditioning in the basement of the most famous theater in his universe, just him and his dream and the silver plates on his shoes. Tappety- tappety-tappety-tip!

If I were in charge of baseball, there would be no spring training lockout. I would simply take the two negotiators, Donald Fehr and Chuck O'Connor, stick them in a hotel room, tie them to the bedpost alongside a drooling German Shepherd and have the door hermetically sealed. Then I would inform the world that they had run off to Mexico together. And the players and owners, none of whom really know what's going on anyhow, would shrug and say, "Well, shoot, (spit) heck, (scratch) let's play ball."

MEMO TO: Coach BigFROM: Your humble assistant RE: Recruiting ProgressWell, boss, I thought you'd like a report ...

In the heat of the ice war, when the bodies are slamming and the hearts are pumping and the fans are banging on ...