Remembering Paul Farmer, a man worth knowing, at a time when one is needed
Most columnists this weekend are writing about one man, an evil, power-hungry leader who is dragging the world to the brink of war. I am not. I am choosing instead to write about another man, who’s about as far from Vladimir Putin as one can get. His name...
Matthew Stafford’s Super Bowl win looked like Detroit Lions game … until the end
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — He began the day as a climber, but he finished it on the mountaintop. After 12 years in the NFL with a bumbling franchise that never sniffed greatness, Matthew Stafford went west, as young men in America used to do when pursuing their dreams. And...
Your old bicycle just got a great new reason to roll
My first bicycle had training wheels. My second was a Sting-Ray. Remember those? With the banana seats? My third was a Schwinn. It seems all bikes were Schwinns back then. It was light blue and had thin tires and three gears, and I was in high school and rode it to my...
The Games were once cozy, quaint and snowy; what happened to Winter Olympics?
I attended my first Winter Olympics nearly 40 years ago in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, a city about the size of Wichita. I drove a rental car and parked it outside the journalists’ village. I never used that car during the Games. There were buses to take you everywhere. Or...
Jim Harbaugh opens up, insists he’s a Wolverine for good, wants to win it all
On the first night of the rest of his life, Jim Harbaugh got snowed in. So he kicked back in a Minnesota hotel room, ate a hamburger and french fries from room service, and made phone calls to the important people in his life, telling them his decision was...
Tom Brady’s legacy is how he proved everyone wrong, starting at Michigan football
We always knew we’d be summing up Tom Brady’s career one day when he finally — finally — called it quits. On Tuesday, when the 44-year old Brady made it official, writers across the nation plopped down to put the most stellar career in NFL history into words....
‘Bernie’s Mom’ survived the worst, proving the resilience of the Jewish Soul
It was 80 years ago this month that 15 high-ranking Nazi officials met in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin. Among them were names like Adolph Eichmann and Heinrich Muller. They gathered over snacks and alcohol to address a single issue desired by their leader,...
Cheer or jeer? A Detroit Lions fan’s guide to watching Stafford vs. Brady
Let’s say you and your ex broke up. It was amicable. You both knew it wasn’t working. Then you heard your ex had a new partner. You’re glad. Hey, if it wasn’t going to happen with you, why shouldn’t the other person find happiness? Then you learned your ex’s new...
If we could go back in time, what would we tell the first American with COVID-19?
Two years ago this weekend, a 35-year-old man traveling home from Wuhan, China, became the first American diagnosed with COVID-19. What if someone from today could have greeted him BEFORE he got on that plane? “Whoa! Hold up! You can’t board!” “What? Who are you?...Stay Connected
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