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(04/10/11 6:36pm)
It’s hard not to succumb to hyperbole early in the baseball season, but with just a few games in the books and Tigers outfielder Brennan Boesch hitting .364 at the time of this writing, I reserve the right to hold off on small, sample-size conclusions until the end of April at the earliest.
(04/03/11 9:03pm)
Major league baseball kicked off its season last week, so it seems like as good of a time as ever to predict the individual awards given out by the league. Here are my predictions:
(03/23/11 6:57pm)
As spring training winds down, it becomes time for all 30 major league teams to trim the fat of the 40-man roster down to the 25 guys who get to suit up on Opening Day. Last week, teams sent their top young prospects back to minor league camp to take a longer look at those in competition for big league jobs.
(03/13/11 11:27pm)
The Eastern Michigan University baseball team took two of three games from the Kansas Jayhawks this weekend. The Eagles won the rubber match 10-4 at Hoglund Ballpark Sunday in Lawrence, Kan.
(02/24/11 2:32am)
The Eastern Michigan University baseball team lost two of three games in a season-opening series against fourth-ranked Clemson.
(02/16/11 9:31pm)
Ever since Detroit Tigers’ general manager Dave Dombrowski has been in baseball he’s targeted power arms in the rotation. This is why he brought in David Chad as his scouting director, why the Tigers drafted Justin Verlander, Joel Zumaya and Andrew Miller and why they traded for Max Scherzer.
(02/09/11 8:44pm)
Super Bowl XLV was as eventful as any other Super Bowl, and at the same time just as forgettable. The game had everything you could look for in a Super Bowl: two great teams with great quarterbacks, two passionate fanbases, typically over-the-top commercials, ridiculous performances by stale acts during halftime and a drawn out rendition of our national anthem (this year, some lyrics were optional).
(01/13/11 4:03am)
When I decided to do an NFL picks column for The Echo, I didn’t want to dedicate much of the content of the column to my picks from last week. Unfortunately, my 0-4 record last week was too ugly to ignore. There is an added degree of difficulty picking games this early in the week, especially without the benefit of the Vegas spread. But I’m better than 0-4. Let’s take a look at what happened last week, and see if I can’t do better this time around.
(12/09/10 1:21am)
Last Sunday the Detroit Lions lost to the Chicago Bears 24-20 in a game we have all seen many times before.
The Lions came out playing extremely hard in the first half controlling the game with their stout defensive line. Even with Kyle Vanden Boesch out and rookie of the century Ndamukong Suh drawing double and triple teams on every play (not to mention more than a few uncalled holds).
(11/28/10 10:38pm)
Tired of baseball? Ready to take a nice long break before easing into the Hot Stove league? The Tigers sure aren’t. Having already signed right-handed setup man Joaquin Benoit to a three-year deal worth $16.5 million last week, they continued to throw their financial weight around coming to an agreement with former Red Sox and Indians catcher Victor J. Martinez for four years and $50 million.
(11/21/10 10:53pm)
Thanksgiving is here and as tradition America will be subjected to more than just turkey and all the fixings. Per the usual, Americans will see the Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, long halftime shows with stale acts and many commercials (just the way the NFL likes it).
The Lions will don their throwback jerseys Thursday, as they play the visiting New England Patriots. The last time the Lions played the Patriots on Thanksgiving was in 2002, a game that saw only one offensive touchdown (a rush by Antowain Smith). The Patriots won 20-12, the Lions quarterback for that game was Joey Harrington who threw three interceptions. Jason Hanson’s career has been the silver lining for this team the past two decades and he accounted for all of the Lions points that day.
The Lions are still building their young team, whereas the Patriots come in a well-oiled machine rolling through the league with a dynamic offense led by veteran quarterback Tom Brady. The Lions franchise quarterback Matthew Stafford is still out with a shoulder injury, so expect Shaun Hill to get the Thanksgiving start. If Stafford could just stay on the field, there’s lots of hope for the Lions future.
(11/08/10 12:09am)
Former Detroit Tigers’ manager George Lee “Sparky” Anderson died Thursday in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 76.
(11/04/10 12:26am)
The San Francisco Giants are finally World Series Champions, after beating the Texas Rangers 3-1 in Game Five on Monday night at the Ballpark in Arlington. The last time the Giants won the World Series it was 1954, the team played in New York, and Willie Mays was 23-years-old.
(10/24/10 10:01pm)
The baseball season isn’t a marathon or a sprint, it’s so long it’s a marathon followed by a sprint. The regular season separates the men from the boys as weakness is exploited over the six-month slog, but in the playoffs anything can happen.
(10/17/10 10:26pm)
The regular season is over for the Detroit Tigers, who finished 81-81 for third place in the American League Central Division. In the eyes of a major league front office this just means the offseason has begun early. General Manager Dave Dombrowski is tasked with filling the holes and bringing this team back to the playoffs in 2011. The Tigers have been looking forward to this offseason because, unlike last year, the organization will have a considerable amount of payroll flexibility thanks to big money contacts coming off the books.
(10/07/10 1:22am)
It’s not easy to still be a Detroit Lions fan, the most obvious football statement since “Concussions are bad.”
(02/25/10 12:40am)
The last time we saw the Tigers, they were walking off the field in Minnesota after blowing the Central Division over the last two weeks of the season. The heartbreaking failure down the stretch carried over to the questionable off-season changes made by Tigers General Manager Dave Dombrowski.
(01/20/10 11:35pm)
The first two weeks of 2010 are proof that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. A slugger cried and apologized for taking steroids, a nation in no condition to handle a disaster suffered a great one and Sarah Palin has shoehorned her way onto televisions everywhere.
(10/08/09 12:53am)
On Sept. 20, the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 6-2 to take a three-game lead in the American League Central in what they thought was the last game they would ever have to play in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
(09/27/09 10:08pm)
Down is the new up. Nazi is the new black. Jon Stewart is the new Walter Cronkite. No, really. In a Time magazine poll this summer, 44 percent of Americans voted Stewart America’s best newsman.