AND yea, verily, it was written. In the future the poor will be rich, the weak will be strong, the meek shall inherit the earth and rugby league will scream like stuck pigs as the forces of rugby union, with cheque books in hand, merrily pluck their best and brightest to join union's swelling ranks. Fascinating, isn't it?
NEW YORK -- One talked about the ball he hit over the leftfield roof. Another remembered how Kirk Gibson took out an umpire in a collision. A pitcher recalled the memorable voice he could hear on a bad day. Another pitcher remembered how he saw Denny McLain's 30th win.
Ahmad Rashad's daughter came home from middle school one day saying a classmate wanted her father's autograph. "He said you played football. Did you?" Condola Rashad asked her father.
Tennessee Titans wide receiver Lavelle Hawkins and running back Chris Henry are teaming with other area athletes to hold a free football clinic and autograph session from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Weber Point Events Center.
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- The big win for fishermen at Martha's Vineyard for the next few days will be a half-ton shark and the $50,000 boat that is the grand prize for catching it. The big win for the Humane Society of the U.S. is closing down such contests.
A number of people who have posted comments today on the story about the deadline for preservationists to save a portion of Tiger Stadium are attacking Detroit City Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Collins. Some of the comments are vicious and personal.
DETROIT -- The pilgrimage continues, day after day, carload after carload. They come at all hours, from the Bloomfields and the Grosse Pointes, from Detroit's east and west sides, old and young, black and white, dry-eyed and misty-eyed, all connected by an old building that's empty and falling, but in many ways, forever full.