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Lynn Henning The Detroit News Published 11:28 PM EST Jan 31, 2019 The first day on the job as a full-time journalist and sports writer was Aug. 5, 1974, a hot, bright Monday morning, three days before President Richard Nixon resigned, and with a 7 a.m. start at the Battle Creek Enquirer. A guy two months after grabbing his journalism degree from Michigan State had secured that most aspired of all prizes: a job at a daily newspaper.  I walked into the office and joined my two sports-staff partners, Dick Lovell and sports editor Bill Frank. My first task: write a cutline (photo caption) for an Associated Press photo of Jack Nicklaus from the Pleasant Valley Classic's final round. Four decades and many million words later, it ends, formally anyway, today at The Detroit News, a wondrous employer for nearly all of the past 40 years. There have been moments and minutes so magical, and so frequent, as to defy any orderly account.  But here goes on … [Read more...] about Henning: 45 years covering sports provide endless memories

Window Shopping I can finally add a third item to my list of unexpected things that come from Iceland: volcanic ash clouds, a half decent national football team and Fannar Thor’s 900hp turbo V8-powered Porsche 944 drift car. It was one of the first machines that caught my eye when I arrived at Gatebil. Here I was, fresh off the plane in Norway, standing in front of a widebody Porsche 944 sporting a huge wing, with two screamer pipes and an LS intake sticking out of the bonnet. In many ways, Fannar Thor’s 944 ‘F2’ set the scene for what I could expect from Rudskogen’s liveliest festival. Fannar has owned his Porsche 944 for around 16 years. In fact, it was his very first car, and he spotted it one day when taking the bus home from school, and instantly fell in love. Fortunately, the Porsche was up for sale at a local car dealer, and that very same day Fannar and his uncle retraced his route, found the dealer and bought the car there and then. “It was … [Read more...] about Spoiler Alert: A 900hp Turbocharged LS2 Porsche