Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sports writers Mitch Albom, Nicholas J. Cotsonika and Drew Sharp take their best shots each week at predicting the NFL's winners and losers. Their choices are made against the Glantz-Culver line. (Home teams capitalized.)
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Aw, come on, if you don’t laugh now, you’ll cry. It can’t get any worse, but it keeps getting worse. There’s no lower to go, but they keep going lower. The Lions fell behind by 31 points Sunday, didn’t score until the third quarter, and actually had a moment where, thanks to a replay review, they escaped a fumble — and threw an interception for a touchdown instead.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Hire Millen. Aw, come on, if you don't laugh now, you'll cry. It can't get any worse, but it keeps getting worse. There's no lower to go, but they keep going lower. The Lions fell behind by 31 points Sunday, didn't score until the third quarter ...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
We never took off the ties. The athletes got flashier. The analysts got louder. It would have shocked no one if the host and the three panelists undid their Windsor knots, unbuttoned their collars, and got down and dirty with the rest of the sports business.
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
He lives in Detroit, works alongside Mitch Albom, and spent three years researching and writing War As They Knew It, a book on Woody and Bo. Oh, we almost forgot the best part: He’s had the pleasure of covering Matt Millen’s tenure in Detroit. Naturally, we had a lot of questions for Mr. Rosenberg. Q: First, [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Sports writers Mitch Albom, Nicholas J. Cotsonika and Drew Sharp take their best shots each week at predicting the NFL's winners and losers. Their choices are made against the Glantz-Culver line. (Home teams capitalized.)
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
As reported earlier, J.Crew's first book is finally available. (And nope, it's not the latest masterwork from Mitch Albom.) Written by Max Blagg and illustrated by Hugo Guinness, What a Man Should Know is a collection of 50 (very) whimsical...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
In light of statements made by Jim Leland on Mitch Albom's radio show Tuesday afternoon, Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski declined comment about his manager's contract situation for the second straight day.
Bless You Boys (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Taking contract negotiations to the public never seems like a good idea. Yet that's essentially what Jim Leyland did yesterday while talking to Mitch Albom on his radio show. “I have not been extended,” Leyland told Albom, “and I’m not gonna be extended… There was some sense of an offer that I did not accept. “I’m not afraid of anything. I want to manage the Tigers. I have every intention of managing...
The Detroit Tiger Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Manager Jim Leyland was on Mitch Albom’s show and the Free Press has the transcript in 3 parts. The links to all follow, but here are some highlights and my comments. If I was looking at the two major culprits and without pointing fingers and necessarily individuals, the two major culprits were the pitching and [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Jim Leyland wanted a vote of confidence. He didn't get it. He had a talk with his boss, Dave Dombrowski, but when it was done, Leyland had the same one-year left on his contract that he had when it started.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Jim Leyland wanted a vote of confidence. He didn't get it. He had a talk with his boss, Dave Dombrowski, but when it was done, Leyland had the same one-year left on his contract that he had when it started. After Monday's loss in rainy Chicago, cementing a last-place, 74-88 finish, Leyland returned to Detroit, packed up and drove home to Pittsburgh.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
They may have just come together, this Michigan football group, a beleaguered collection of young players and a new coaching staff, lugging a wagon full of headlines that said the experiment wasn't working, it's taking too long, it's embarrassing, it's a mess.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
They may have just come together, this Michigan football group, a beleaguered collection of young players and a new coaching staff, lugging a wagon full of headlines that said the experiment wasn't working, it's taking too long, it's embarrassing, it's a mess.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Remember this game. Or at the very least, that play, with Thompson thundering to the end zone, swarmed by his teammates, blue on blue on blue on blue. It may be just another highlight. Or it may be something much, much more.
