October 1, 2009 – 6:08 am
This Saturday the University of Michigan Wolverines travel to East Lansing to play the Michigan State University Spartans at Spartan Stadium. The rivalry between the two teams and their fans is intense and the Lansing State Journal takes note of this in their article "Rivalry ingrained in players from families - Intense feelings have bubbled [...]
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September 28, 2009 – 10:39 am
In honor of the Detroit Lions FINALLY snapping their epic 644 day losing streak (thanks Mitch for calculating that), here's the NFL Network's highlight reel. The game featured a goal line stand, a Matthew Stafford run and while it wasn't always pretty, it's nice to have something in the "W" column.
In blue cats, orange cats, [...]
September 22, 2009 – 9:12 am
Photo: The Corner, Kaline's corner, Michigan & Trumbull...Tiger Stadium by MichiPictureGuy
Yesterday the last of Tiger Stadium was taken down. For more than 100 years, Michigan & Trumbull aka "The Corner" was the address of Tiger baseball, home to greats from Cobb, Greenberg & Kaline to Gibson, Trammel & Whitaker.
Last night Absolute Michigan pool photographer Ken [...]
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August 27, 2009 – 7:32 am
"It's lonnng gone" --Harwell by b.plus
Tigers a big source of pride in Motown from MLB.com says that:
...For all the upheaval going on around this bruised piece of the Midwest, the Tigers' little piece of it has almost become a separate reality. And they've received such a boost from their fan base that they [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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