1. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 3-4 This Week: at Cle (5/21-22); MIN (5/23-26) So, What Happened? Toto, I don't think the Tigers are playing Houston anymore. The Tigers are 6-1 against the Astros , and 23-19 overall...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 23 hours ago 1,187 reads 3 comments

  2. Will Titus Young Get the Help That Charles Rogers Never Received?

    Ten years ago last month, Charlie Rogers stood in front of the media wearing a Detroit Lions baseball cap and proudly holding his brand new Honolulu blue and silver jersey with a No...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 3 days ago 6,835 reads 24 comments

  3. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 1-4 This Week: HOU (5/13-15); at Tex (5/16-19; Sunday on ESPN) So, What Happened? The Tigers ran into two teams playing their best baseball of the year last week...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 8 days ago 913 reads 2 comments

  4. Detroit Red Wings' 13th Playoff vs. California Teams May Be Last for Long Time

    Curse those NHL higher-ups. What are they doing, putting three teams in California, anyway? Why couldn’t they have left well enough alone? Why wasn’t it OK to have ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 10 days ago 1,338 reads 3 comments

  5. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 6-1 This Week: at Wsh (5/7-8); CLE (5/10-12) So, What Happened? Thank God for the Houston Astros . More accurately, thanks to the powers that be at MLB who made the decision to put the Astros in the American League...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 15 days ago 2,295 reads 6 comments

  6. Detroit Tigers: Is Don Kelly Baseball's Most Useful 25th Man?

    He is the quintessential jack of all trades, master of none. Getting rid of him would be like letting nine mediocre players walk away. But he’s open-minded; he’ll try anything once—and he has...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 17 days ago 3,390 reads 12 comments

  7. Former MLB Umpire Dave Pallone All Too Familiar with Jason Collins' Secret Life

    As a straight male, I don't even pretend to know what someone like Jason Collins must have been going through, living a secret life as a gay man while an active player in the NBA ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 21 days ago 138 reads 0 comments

  8. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 4 - 1 This Week: MIN (4/29 - 5/1); at HOU (5/2 - 5) So, What Happened? It was a good "bounce back" week for the boys. They limped home from their west coast trip, dragging a four-game losing streak behind them...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 22 days ago 1,454 reads 4 comments

  9. Detroit Lions: Drafting Ziggy Ansah Has an 'All or Nothing' Feel

    Ziggy Ansah has one thing in common with his new NFL team post-Matt Millen : Neither started playing football until 2010. Ansah ’s is a tale that, in the past 48 hours, has been re-told more than a bedtime story...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 24 days ago 273 reads 18 comments

  10. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 2-4 This Week: KC (4/23-25); ATL (4/26-28) So, What Happened? How did everything go sideways so quickly? The Tigers were cruising along, on a four-game winning streak, hitting the tar out of the baseball...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 29 days ago 363 reads 1 comments

  11. Detroit Pistons: Apathy Has Once Again Set In, Team Needs PR Move in Next Coach

    Cobo Arena, that appendage of Cobo Hall that is as round-shaped as the basketball that was used inside of it, was a place for the curious and the die-hard...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 1 month ago 4,639 reads 20 comments

  12. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Last Week: 4-2 This Week: at Sea (4/16-18); at LAA (4/19-21) So, What Happened? Somehow the Tigers managed to squeeze in two games against Toronto at Comerica Park ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 1 month ago 736 reads 5 comments

  13. Detroit Red Wings: Giving Jimmy Howard a 6-Year Extension a Smart, Logical Move

    The prevailing opinion among hockey fans in Detroit is that the Red Wings ' goalie doesn ’t win games, he merely loses them. He won’t win you a playoff series, but he sure will foul one up for you...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 1 month ago 2,050 reads 49 comments

  14. Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers

    Monday Morning Manager is back! Doesn't it seem like Miguel Cabrera took that called third strike to end the 2012 World Series just yesterday? Well, it's a new year and time for 26 ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 1 month ago 1,456 reads 8 comments

  15. Trey Burke: U-M's Guard Has Earned Player of the Year Honors

    A basketball player like Trey Burke comes around to a college basketball program about as often as guilt to a sociopath...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 1 month ago 775 reads 0 comments

  16. Detroit Tigers: Closer by Committee Worth Trying, for a Change

    The funny thing about baseball’s unwritten rules is that they find themselves written down eventually. And, just to be sure, I’ll prove it: Don’t steal a base when leading by six runs in the eighth inning...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 1 month ago 4,927 reads 9 comments

  17. Detroit Pistons Andre Drummond: Team's Best Player at Age 19

    The Pistons ’ best player is 7'0" tall, a teenaged rookie who suits up for the games these days in Armani. He’s wearing dress pants with razor sharp creases instead of warm-ups...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 1 month ago 2,194 reads 10 comments

  18. NHL Realignment: Detroit Red Wings, NBC, League Clear Winners

    The news that the Red Wings are moving to the Eastern Conference should have been announced by one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not a league spokesman...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 2 months ago 3,796 reads 25 comments

  19. Detroit Tigers Justin Verlander: He'll Be Baseball's First $200 Million Pitcher

    There was Hal Newhouser , Prince Hal, who never got the credit he fully deserved because he had the misfortune of dominating during the so-called “war years,” as if he planned it out that way...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 2 months ago 2,247 reads 4 comments

  20. Baseball Cards: Kids Version of High Stakes Gambling

    We were far too young to even be within 500 feet of a casino, but we had our version of a slot machine. We may not have been old enough to bet, but that didn’t stop us from plunking ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 3 months ago 73 reads 0 comments

  21. Detroit Tigers: Lack of Team Leader a Concern?

    The voice would sometimes be hushed, even barely over a whisper. But there was no discounting its sincerity, or its candor...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 3 months ago 2,126 reads 18 comments

  22. Detroit Red Wings: Hockeytown Ain't What It Used to Be as Team Turns Mediocre

    It was the summer of 1990, and Mike Ilitch made a phone call. Then he got into a car and made the executioner’s sojourn. It was the same type of visit that Bill Davidson had once made to Dick Vitale ’s house, some 10-plus years earlier...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 3 months ago 2,722 reads 21 comments

  23. Jordin Tootoo: Detroit Red Wings Mini Pugilist Becoming Fan Favorite

    If Dennis Polonich wasn ’t a hockey player, he’d be one of the henchmen in a gangster film noir ...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 3 months ago 3,682 reads 13 comments

  24. Detroit Pistons Tayshaun Prince Was Present but Not Really There for 10 Years

    He was the sullen Piston—at times a scowling player, even before there was anything to scowl about, as there has been aplenty lately. He was the one with arms like Stretch Armstrong and shoulders like a men’s store hanger...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 4 months ago 4,981 reads 23 comments

  25. Detroit Tigers Decision to Try Rookie Closer Bruce Rondon: Lost in Translation?

    When you think about it, there should be no wonder why the baseball closer has been known throughout history as being the one guy on the roster with a screw loose...

    Greg Eno Written by Greg Eno about 4 months ago 1,546 reads 6 comments