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The office of Creem magazine was as unruly as the music that its writers covered. One day, when local hero Iggy Pop paid a visit to the mag’s Detroit headquarters, publisher/founder Barry Kramer sneaked up behind the proto-punk and dumped a trashcan full of garbage on his head. Then Kramer inexplicably exclaimed, “Hey, motherf - - ker! Did …

The NFL turned Kelly Stafford’s life into “a nightmare.” Lions star QB Matthew Stafford was removed from the NFL’s COVID-IR list on Tuesday, but not after a false-positive test by the league turned his family’s life upside down. “The past four days have been somewhat of a nightmare,” Stafford’s wife Kelly wrote. “We were all …

There’s been a move by the BLM and other radical leftists to defund the police in the wake of the wrongful killing of George Floyd. The movement has gained ground because politicians and media have largely not been pushing back on the insanity of the idea and how doing such a thing would be the …

“It is going to be the first line in my obituary.” — Jim Joyce It is not this simple: Joyce missed a call and the Astros committed baseball sins that rocked the sport. It is not that kind of straight line. From there to here. A lot happened in between. And MLB was probably on …

Detroit — Stephanie Byrd agonized over temporarily laying off nearly the entire staff at her family’s trio of Detroit businesses when the coronavirus pandemic hit. But she’s not just concerned about the impact on their bottom line. She’s worried other black-owned businesses will struggle to withstand another wave of economic uncertainty, following decades of inequity …

A portion of ESPN’s 10-part documentary series “The Last Dance” explored the prolonged tension between Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas, digging into the infamous walk-off game and Thomas curiously being left off the 1992 Olympic Dream Team. Over the years, Jordan denied having any involvement in Thomas not making the Dream Team, the first American …

Eminem confronted a home intruder in his living room after the suspect slipped past his sleeping security guards, according to a report Thursday. The 26-year-old Matthew David Hughes smashed a kitchen window with a paving stone and climbed into in the rapper’s home in a gated community in the Detroit-area around 4 a.m. earlier this …

DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler is backing off a planned May 4 restart at its North American factories because some U.S. states still will have stay-home orders in place. The move likely means that factories of all three Detroit automakers will be idled for at least another two weeks as they negotiate reopening terms with the United …

A bad dream is getting worse for Isiah Thomas. The Hall of Fame Pistons point guard was snubbed from the Dream Team in 1992 and Sunday’s new installment of “The Last Dance” may have provided another reminder of why Thomas didn’t get to chase an Olympic gold medal with one of the greatest teams ever. …

Their knees are weak and their arms are heavy but now they’ve got Mom’s Spaghetti. Eminem donated the red sauce meal, a reference to the lyrics in his hit song “Lose Yourself,” to healthcare workers fighting the battle against coronavirus in Detroit hospitals. The 47-year-old rapper, who just celebrated 12 years of sobriety, dropped off …