The Best (and Worst) of Yours Truly, 2011

In a flash, a whirr and a blur, another year in sports came and went. 2011, it seemed, might have been missed had you blinked.And what a year it was.Tigers AND Lions in the playoffs, for the first time in the same year since 1935.Pistons with a new coach (again).Red Wings almost coming all the way back from an 0-3 playoff deficit against the San Jose Sharks.Michiganfootball resurging under new coach Brady Hoke.And I wrote about it all—with varying degrees of premonition and soothsaying.For the fourth year in a row, I take you through the calendar and share some of my bon mots—and why they were or were not some of my best.January(on Steve Yzerman putting together a winner inTampaBay)You can dress him however you like, put him wherever you want, but you can’t take the will to win out of him.There’s quite a story going on in the NHL, not that you’d know it, because it’s happening to a team closer toCubathanCanada.Yzerman is Vice President and General Manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning,...