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January 2, 2014
From the Detroit Free Press: In '88 Rose Bowl, Perles' gang ends Big Ten's drought
MSU flashback
In '88 Rose Bowl, Perles' gang ends Big Ten's drought
This column originally ran in the Detroit Free Press on Jan.2, 1988.
PASADENA, Calif. They had the ball! They had the ball! Todd Krumm was cradling it, dancing with it, raising it above his head and leaping into the arms of teammate Kurt Larson, and only gravity kept them from flying off into space. All the waiting, all the lean years, all the talk of Rose Bowl jinx - it was all crushed down and squeezed inside this little brown football, and now, Michigan State had it. God. At last.
December 31, 2013
Facebook: HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HAITI - Ringing in 2014 w/children of our orphanage. Pizza,...
From the Detroit Free Press: Can Lions finally get it right?
MITCH ALBOM: Schwartz is gone, but those who picked him will choose successor
Can Lions finally get it right?
By MITCH ALBOM
No win, no stay. It's been that way elsewhere in the NFL, and it is finally true here in Lions Land. Jim Schwartz is gone. Fired Monday. Look no further than this: His team lost six of its last seven games and missed the playoffs.
Or this: His December record the last two seasons is 0-9.
Or this: His five-year record is 29-51, with one playoff game, a blowout defeat.
December 29, 2013
From the Detroit Free Press: Apple bites into our holiday humanity
Apple bites into our holiday humanity
Misunderstood.
It's a word we use to make ourselves feel better. It's a virtual anthem to teenagers. And it is the latest marketing maneuver by Apple, which seeks to own Christmas in a way not even the Grinch imagined.
By now you have no doubt seen Apple's latest TV commercial (which actually is titled "Misunderstood"). It has been running all holiday season. At 90 seconds, it's hard to miss.
December 27, 2013
December 24, 2013
Facebook: MY FRIENDS, On this Christmas Eve, I wish all of you peace, the familiar hug of...
Even in being granted the next breath we take, we are already more fortunate than many. THis is an amazing world if we can clear our minds to see it that way. My eyes have been opened by many things, and you, my friends and readers, are a big one of those things,
Thank you for helping me see the majesty of life, and may this holiday season bring you and yours a blessed contentment. - Mitch
December 23, 2013
From the Detroit Free Press: FINAL NAIL: Coming up a 'play short' turns out to be this team's true identity
A lump of goal. An empty stocking. Meaningful football just took the rest of the year off in Detroit. In a game Sunday that, for a while, nobody seemed to want, the New York Giants finally looked at the Ford Field scoreboard, saw a fourth down in overtime, and decided, "Why not?''
Moments later, Lions fans were once again crying, "Why us?"
Or "Why again?" Or "Why, Lord, this close to Christmas?" Take your pick. As the Four Tops once sang, it's the same old song. It goes like this:
That's that.
