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Electric Football: Norman Sas' Invention Thrilled Kids Before Video Games
So it really took an MIT grad to come up with electric football? Not exactly. But it took an MIT grad to come up with electric horse racing and then decide that there was no money in that, but that there might be in a football version...
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Detroit Tigers Shouldn't Be Afraid to Trade Prospect Nick Castellanos
Twenty-five years later, people in Detroit are still talking about John Smoltz for Doyle Alexander. It’s the Motor City’s version of the Alamo...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 2-1 This Week: LAA (7/16-19); CWS (7/20-22) So, What Happened? Justin Verlander got torched in the All-Star Game, AL manager Ron Washington scolded him publicly and JV was linked to supermodel Kate Upton ...
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Penn State Football: Forever Stained by Joe Paterno
What I’d like to know is how Joe Paterno could even look at Jerry Sandusky for 14 years, let alone be a friend and confidante...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 5-2 This Week: All-Star Break (7/9-12; at Bal 7/13-15) So, What Happened? To quote last week’s MMM: “MMM expects no less than a 5-2 week and an All-Star break record of 44-42...
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Hey, Hey Hockeytown: Ryan Suter, Zach Parise Don't Think Red Wings Are All That
Since when did Hockeytown turn into the Second City? What is happening here? The Red Wings being left at the altar? GM Kenny Holland having to return Mike Ilitch his checkbook? ...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 4-3 This Week: MIN (7/2-5); KC (7/6-8) So, What Happened? The Tigers ground through the rest of their 10-game road trip by stumbling in Texas then righting themselves in Tampa...
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NBA Draft 2012: Why the League Shouldn't Allow Teenagers to Be Selected
At first blush it would appear that Tigers great Al Kaline and Detroit Pistons draftee Andre Drummond have about as much in common as Ann Coulter and Rachel Maddow . But it’s very appropriate that Drummond was drafted this week...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 3-3 This Week: at Tex (6/25-27); at TB (6/28-7/1) So, What Happened? Interleague play is done for 2012, and for the Tigers it’s bittersweet...
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Detroit Lions: Don't Look Now, but They Are Model of Consistency
Roger Staubach stood at the rostrum at his Hall of Fame induction in Canton, Ohio in 1985 and addressed the crowd. He was barking out signals one last time. But this was no football huddle, and the play that Staubach was calling moved him to tears...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 4-2 This Week: STL (6/19-21); at Pit (6/22-24) So, What Happened? Is that actually a winning record MMM sees next to “Last Week”? Yes! The ...
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Quintin Berry: Detroit Tigers Fans Shouldn't Get Carried Away
It’s not Quintin Berry’s fault that he’s not Austin Jackson , just as it’s not saccharin’s fault that it’s not sugar, not Dan Quayle’s fault ...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 3-3 This Week: at CHC (6/12-14); COL (6/15-17) So, What Happened? Monday Morning Manager (MMM) thinks that’s the question Cincinnati Reds manager ...
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Thomas Hearns: Boxing Hall of Famer Made Detroiters Proud at the Right Time
To the cynical, Joe Louis Arena is aptly named. Name a hockey arena after a boxer? Well, you’ve heard the old joke. “I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 2-5 This Week: CLE (6/5-7); at Cin (6/8-10) So, What Happened? The Tigers played seven games against the Red Sox and Yankees , and the week was like walking across hot coals...
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Detroit Red Wings GM Ken Holland: The Best in the Biz Faces Toughest Challenge
First, you must know that the Detroit Red Wings aren’t a team. They aren’t a franchise. They are, in hockey vernacular, an “organ-EYE-zay-shun.” That’s your first lesson in hockey speak...
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Nicklas Lidstrom: His Stealth Perfection Is Irreplaceable
When Nick Lidstrom first suited up for the Red Wings in 1991, George Bush was president—the first Bush. The Tigers’ first baseman was Fielder—the first Fielder...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 3-3 This Week: at BOS (5/28-31); NYY (6/1-3) So, What Happened? The Detroit Tigers were sweepers and sweepees last week...
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Pistons Center Greg Monroe: A Modern Day Willis Reed or Bob Lanier?
Under normal circumstances, I would dismiss the comparisons of a second-year NBA big man to the likes of Hall of Famers Bob Lanier and Willis Reed as so much horsepucky, figuring ...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 3-4 This Week: at Cle (5/22-24); at Min (5/25-27) So, What Happened? Every time the Tigers get a "big win," you think it might be the win to trigger a winning streak...
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1972 Detroit Tigers: A Forgotten Team Whose Destiny Was Nearly Great
The Tigers came out of spring training in Lakeland confident of their hitting. Their lineup was rich with veteran bats and some young ones. The offense didn ’t figure to be a problem...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 3-4 This Week: at CWS (5/14-15); MIN (5/16-17); PIT (5/18-20) So, What Happened? The mysteriously quiet bats of the Detroit Tigers lingered ...
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Ramon Santiago: Detroit Tigers' New Elder Statesman
He is the most senior of Tigers , with the cashiering of Brandon Inge a couple weeks ago. He played for Luis Pujols and Alan Trammell. He experienced 43-119 as a starter and the World Series as a bench warmer...
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Monday Morning Manager: A Weekly Take on the Detroit Tigers
Last Week: 3-2 This Week: at Sea (5/7-9); at Oak (5/10-13) So, What Happened? The Tigers won a game they should have lost, lost a game they should have won and split a series they needed to sweep...
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Martin Brodeur: Still Chasing the Stanley Cup at Age 40
In your world or mine, a 40-year-old goalie nine years removed from his last Stanley Cup is probably wearing a suit and gabbing in between periods for one of the TV networks...
