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Keep Your Politics Off My Pigskin!

Why Punditry, Politics and Pigskin Don’t Mix Am I the only one who is utterly astonished by the news that Bill O’Reilly will interview President Obama during the Superbowl festivities? Great! The interview absolutely no one has asked for, airing during the worst possible time! Maybe it’ll be good for ratings; I honestly don’t know. [ READ MORE ]

Where College Football Has it Wrong

Two gripes about college football—the best, most entertaining sport in the land. The first is obvious: the BCS is pure BS. But that’s a yearly canard, and hardly original. The second is its replay policy. Let’s tackle that one first… Constant Replay I hate it. A few college coaches fought the implementation of instant play [ READ MORE ]

Meet the NBA’s Next Class of Supervillains

Is “The Decision” the “Summit” of Stupid? ____________________________________________________________________________ Most NBA fans, and certainly those in Detroit, remember The Bad Boys. The team they loved to hate in the 80s. Of course, the Celtics had their share of detractors, too — Larry Bird, Robert Parrish, Danny Ainge and Kevin McHale were all targets for various reasons, [ READ MORE ]

USA! USA!

This, just in time for tomorrow’s much-anticipated match. If this doesn’t convince you that soccer is a BFD, even in America, nothing will[ READ MORE ]

ESPN’s World Cup Announcers Bore

ESPN, in all it's wisdom and strategy, sidelined one of the game's best announcers, presumably because he isn't British enough[ READ MORE ]

Jim Joyce Goes Viral

The Anatomy of a Feeding Frenzy If you were anywhere near a sports fan, native Detroiter, highlight reel or Sportscenter broadcast, you now likely know that Detroit Tiger Armando Galarraga was robbed of an extremely rare perfect game (never before executed by a Detroit Tigers pitcher) by a blown call on the 27th out. (Watch [ READ MORE ]

Tiger Still Not Master of the Interview

Did you happen to catch Tiger’s post-match interview off the 18th green? It was classic Tiger — and not in a good way. Now that the Master is/was behind him, he went right back to being the aloof, curt, seemingly annoyed interview he always was. The contrition he was forcing (I believe, faking) in the [ READ MORE ]

Re: Pistons Predictions

Go back and read this post about my predictions for the upcoming Pistons season. Now read this article, an account of their most recent preseason game. I know preseason games amount to less than zero, but the similarities are uncanny![ READ MORE ]

Miguel Cabrera Needs to Sit

Another day, another Debacle in the D. The latest, Miguel Cabrera’s now public run-in with his wife, the law and booze, has put the Detroit Tigers in a disastrous PR position. Play him or sit him? Raise your hand if you condone/excuse any of the following: A team’s franchise player partying ’til all hours during [ READ MORE ]

Pistons Predictions

The last prediction I made in this space about the Pistons was that they would take one of two games on the road in an opening round playoff series against the Cavaliers. FAIL. Not only did they NOT take one in Cleveland, they got blown out in four straight games. So obviously I have earned [ READ MORE ]

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