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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
