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Sparky Anderson, the winningest manager in Detroit Tigers history, resigned from the club today after 17 years on the job. Says Time's Steve Wulf: "Although other managers are able to stay an inning or two ahead, the essential part of being a manager at the major league level is to keep the the team happy. And Sparky was always able to do that." Anderson came to Detroit in 1979, and led the team to a World Series championship in 1984 and the AL East title in 1987. He managed the Cincinnati Reds to more victories than anyone else before...
Very few teams, including the best, escape adversity in a season. Even the San Francisco 49ers lost to the winless Detroit Lions two nights...
...tapes provide a profane voice-over to real-life police corruption and brutality dramas that have been playing out not only in Los Angeles--where last Friday two officers were implicated in evidence tampering in a murder case--but also in New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Detroit and Washington...
...Detroit police in riot gear used pepper spray and tear gas this morning to disperse striking newspaper workers who tried for the second time since Saturday to block delivery trucks carrying the day's combined editions of The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. "Either this is a prelude to a prolonged period of violence, or this is the endgame of the newspaper guild," reports Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "But it really looks like its the latter. As much as this is a pro-labor town, it's even more a pro-law town, and these strikers weren...
...DETROIT Woman's fatal plunge after altercation on bridge tarnishes city's already troubled...