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I started this 2 weeks ago and it just kept growing. I heard Dumars traded Mason and Hooper to the Lakers for Jack Nicholson's sunglasses and the "D" from the "HOLLYWOOD" sign.
Below are my brief thoughts and links - please add your own in [...]
urban hope by buckshot.jones
Throughout each month we post items of Michicentric interest to our Michitwitter page. In case you missed them here is a look back at just a few of the items for the month June. If you find these interesting there are plenty more for you to check out. We encourage you [...]
Maia warns you that she likes purple and cats. She writes that the Spirit of Detroit is the iconic statue for the city. When a Detroit team is in the playoffs, the statue is attired in the team's jersey. She says there's a reason one of Detroit's nicknames is Hockeytown (and there's a reason that [...]
Yesterday Dave Bing was sworn in as the 62nd mayor of Detroit (here's the list of Detroit Mayors). Wikipedia's page on Dave Bing notes that he was a seven-time All-Star for the Detroit Pistons from 1966 to 1975. He was rookie of the year, is in the Basketball Hall of Fame, his number 21 was [...]
Chuck Daly, who won back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons and then went on to coach the Dream Team to the Olympic gold medal in 1992, has died. He was 78.
Daly was voted one of the 10 greatest coaches of the NBA's first half-century in 1996, two years after being inducted into the Basketball [...]
Monday night on CBS's Late Night with David Letterman the Lion's #1 draft pick presented the "Top Ten Thoughts That Went Through Matthew Stafford's Mind On Draft Day." Stafford signed a record setting six-year contract that contains $41.7 million in guaranteed money and carries a total value of up to $78 million if he [...]
The Detroit Lions have the #1 pick in the 2009 NFL Draft and will hold their annual Draft Day Party at Ford Field this Saturday (April 25) from 3-8 PM. It's FREE to the public and no ticket is required.
In addition to watching the draft on stadium video boards and wondering if the Lions will [...]
Last "Everything" at Tiger Stadium by RichKD
Tiger Stadium from Wikipedia
Tiger Stadium (formerly known as Navin Field and Briggs Stadium) is a stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. It hosted the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team from 1912 to 1999, as well as the National Football League's Detroit Lions from 1938 to [...]
Yesterday Mark "The Bird" Fidrych died in an accident on his Massachusetts farm at the age of 54. I read a lot of words about Fidrych, who had one magical season in 1976 at the very height of my own love of baseball. I think the best were written by Michael Rosenberg who also wrote [...]
What better way to get in the mood for Opening Day that the Detroit Tigers classic Talking Baseball featuring some classic Detroit Tiger baseball cards?
Justin Verlander gets the start at 7:15 PM in Toronto. The Tigers home opener is Friday at 1:05 vs the Texas Rangers.
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