FRIEND OF THE CITY DEFINED BY HIS JOBOctober 12, 1997 | Detroit Free PressMaybe someday good fortune will take Ben Kelso out of this chair. It's a ratty thing, held together with tape and ...Read More
U-M ADMITS NOTHING…EVEN IF SCHOOL AVOIDS BLAME, ITS STANDARDS WERE JEOPARDIZEDOctober 10, 1997 | Detroit Free PressIt was less of a press conference than the first day of a college class, where the professor hands you a massive ...Read More
UNIFORM’S DIFFERENT, BUT SPIELMAN HASN’T CHANGEDOctober 6, 1997 | Detroit Free PressChris Spielman eyed the enemy in the end zone and screamed, "Phil! Widen out! They're coming your way!" Then the ...Read More
PUT KICKERS IN THEIR PLACE — OUT OF NFLSeptember 25, 1997 | Detroit Free PressI have been thinking a lot lately about NFL kickers. And I think they've got to go.Take the scene in the Monday ...Read More
SEPTEMBER MAGIC GONE — BUT TOWN WILL SWING AGAINSeptember 17, 1997 | Detroit Free Press"Is there a baseball game tonight? Oh, no. Now we'll never find a place to park."The woman speaking was an escort ...Read More
IN HIS FINAL DAYS, A TEACHER TO THE LASTSeptember 11, 1997 | Detroit Free Press"I decided what I want on my tombstone," he says.I don't want to hear about tombstones."Why? They make you ...Read More
AS DEATH IMPENDS, PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE BECOMES CLEARERSeptember 9, 1997 | Detroit Free Press"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -- Henry AdamsThe next Tuesday, I ...Read More
SILVERDOME STILL BIG TOP, BUT THE LIONS STILL WONSeptember 1, 1997 | Detroit Free PressThe coach did not wear a clown-loud shirt, he did not smoke a clown-like cigar, and he did not make any clownish ...Read More