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Mike O'Hara: Soon to be ex-Lions beat writer
Published 7/25/2008 by Big Al (noreply@blogger.com) at The Wayne Fontes Experience
I just caught this surprising blurb in Crain's Detroit Business in an article covering the latest round of buyouts from the struggling to stay afloat Freep and News. ...

After 3 Decades on Lions Beat, Detroit News Writer Mike O'Hara Retires
Published 7/26/2008 at FanHouse
Filed under: Lions, NFL Media Watch Mike O'Hara, who has worked at The Detroit News since 1966 and has covered the Lions since 1977, is retiring -- just in time to not have to endure another Lions season. "I'm not an unhappy camper; it's just time," he said. In O'Hara's years covering the Lions, they've had 10 head coaches, more bad quarterbacks than I care to count, and two great running backs who won Heisman Trophies at colleges in Oklahoma and had the initials B.S. O'Hara has covered somewhere around 500 Lions games, exactly ...

Lions Beat Writer Mike O'Hara Retires
Published 7/26/2008 by Sean Yuille at Pride Of Detroit: Front Page Posts
... Mike O'Hara, who has been the Lions beat writer for The Detroit News since 1977 (worked at the paper since 1966), is leaving the paper.  He took a voluntary buyout and went out on his own terms. ...

Lions tales: Sims’ knee, a WR is IR, and FISTICUFFS!
Published 7/28/2008 by Big Al at SideLion Report | A Blog For Detroit Lions Fans
... from the Detroit News, and will be retiring. Any man who could put up with the Lions’ antics for 31 years deserves kudos! Here’s a SLR tip o’ the cap, as O’Hara will be missed. (Yes, I just praised someone in the MSM. Hard to believe, I know…) ...