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Michigan-Ohio State Not All That Anymore
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They’re putting a Michigan-Ohio State football game on this Saturday, right on schedule. The third Saturday in November, usually. You used to circle the date. Now you happen upon it, by accident. “Oh, is THAT still playing?” Michigan-Ohio State creeps up on you now, like your...
Brendan Shanahan: The Atypical Hockey Player
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Brendan Shanahan shouldn't have been a hockey player. He should have been tasting wine, or taking in the theater. Or maybe he should have been in the aisle behind you at the bookstore, helping some pretty young thing pick out a title for her dad on Father's Day.Instead, he...
Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": Icing the Puck with MLive.com's Ansar Khan
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First, a semi-major announcement: "The Knee Jerks" will be moving up a couple of hours!Beginning December 14, you'll be able to get your jerkosity two hours earlier. The show will debut its new 9:00-11:00 ET time slot, so everyone can get some sleep on Monday nights!The...
TONIGHT on "The Knee Jerks": Red Wings Crazy, with KHAAAAN!
5 days ago by
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It's a hockey-centric episode tonight (Monday) on "The Knee Jerks," my weekly gabfest on Blog Talk Radio with my co-host, Al Beaton, as we talk all things Detroit Red Wings and NHL with Kahn. Ansar Kahn, that is. Khan has been the Red Wings beat writer for Mlive.com and...
Lions Pour More Losing Concrete in Minneapolis Stinker
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The Lions proved once again that they have a losing foundation.The mix that was poured to create it includes an impressive blend of poor blocking, miserable tackling, and obscene pass rush and coverage.It's rock solid, this foundation, and the trouble is, their coach has been thwacking...
Wallace Giving Pistons Great Minutes, But Maybe Too Many of Them?
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Ben Wallace is a 35-year-old NBA big man who is playing like he's 25. For now.There's been a lot of ballyhoo over Wallace, who the Pistons snatched from the jaws of retirement last summer and signed for a league pittance.The signing was decried, but not by me. But that'...
Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": The Lions' Report Cards are in: "SEE ME!"
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Believe it or not, half of the Lions' 16-game NFL schedule has been played, so after a suggestion from Big Al Beaton, my co-host on the weekly gabfest "The Knee Jerks", we gathered around the campfire and had ourselves a mid-season review.Our guests were Michael Schottey...
Losing Cultured Lions Have No Idea How to Handle Lead, Wither Against Seahawks
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The Lions blew a game on Sunday, but you can hardly blame them. It wasn't exactly a familiar situation for them.The Lions lost and those betting that the Seahawks would cover their 10-point donation won, as Seattle beat Detroit 32-20---the last seven points coming with less than...
Local Boy LaFontaine Missed, but Red Wings Did OK with Yzerman
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He played hockey in Waterford, growing up in the northern Oakland County burg in the 1970s—a decade of horrors when it came to his local team, the Detroit Red Wings. As he honed his skills as an adolescent and started depositing pucks into opposing goals with eye-popping frequency...
Hockey Palaces Like Olympia Sadly Extinct Nowadays
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They don't make arenas like Olympia Stadium anymore. Hell, they don't make buildings like it anymore.I don't know of any place where an escalator lifts you up at an 80 degree angle, which it did at Olympia---the Old Red Barn where the Red Wings played from the 1920s to...
Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": Mucking it Up in the Corner with Matt Hutter
18 days ago by
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We took to the ice---figuratively, anyway---and talked some serious Red Wings hockey last night on "The Knee Jerks", my weekly sports gabfest with Big Al from The Wayne Fontes Experience.Our guest was Matt Hutter, who filled in admirably for Jose Canseco, whose schedule forced...
Lions Serve Notice to Rams: We're Still No. 32!
19 days ago by
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All those Jim Zorn haters out there ought to rev up their engines again. They ought to bang down Redskins owner Dan Snyder's door and demand that Zorn get the ziggy. In fact, the entire Redskins team ought to wear scarlet letters on their uniforms: "L," both for Loser...
Lack of “Franchise” Defensive Lineman Detroit Lions' Bane for Decades
20 days ago by
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Football has had a fascination with the morose when it comes to handing out monikers to the game’s greatest defensive platoons. We’ve had Steel Curtains and Doomsday and Purple People Eaters. There were the Killer Bees down in Miami. Detroit and Los Angeles—when the NFL actually...
New-look Pistons Have Lowest Expectations In Nine Years
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When the Pistons open the home portion of their season on Friday against Oklahoma City, the pre-game fanfare won't be all that.No banners to raise. No pre-game speeches. No glow from any division title or from yet another appearance in the conference final. No pride, really, taken...
Don't the Phillies Know That Philadelphia Is City of Chumps, Not Champs?
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They don’t win championships in Philadelphia. If they do, it’s a fluke—something that someone pulled over on God. Every three decades or so, one of the teams will screw up the ecosystem and snatch a title out from under fate’s nose. What’s happening now is a travesty. The...
Osgood's No. 30 Ought to be in Rafters Post-Retirement
October 21, 2009 by
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So this much we know.One evening, in the not-too-distant future, fans will look to the rafters at Joe Louis Arena---or wherever the Red Wings will be playing by then---and see a large red "jersey" with a white No. 5 and the name "LIDSTROM" adorning it, the years...
Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": 50 Minutes of Detroit Sports Pop Culture with Bob Page!
October 20, 2009 by
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It was slightly truncated, thanks to that wacky server at Blog Talk Radio, but we managed 50 delightful minutes with colorful broadcaster Bob Page last night on "The Knee Jerks", my weekly sports gabfest with Big Al from The Wayne Fontes Experience.Bob was in rare form, regaling...
Schwartz Era Not Immune to Sunday Stinkers
October 19, 2009 by
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Things are apparently so bad with the Lions that they don't even show up for their games anymore.The Lions yesterday set football back in Detroit all the way to...2008.If this is them turning the corner, then they just ran smack dab into a bus, like that girl in that scene from...
Baseball Needs Yankees Back Under Bright Lights of World Series
October 18, 2009 by
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It was the vaudevillian comedian Joe E. Brown who went on the record about it most famously. It was he who put it into words with so much brevity yet pith. “Rooting for the Yankees,” Brown was jotted down as having said, “is like rooting for U.S. Steel.” Those Damn Yankees—welcome...
Spanking in Buffalo Not All Bad for Red Wings
October 14, 2009 by
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The Red Wings got a good, old-fashioned facewash Tuesday night in Buffalo. A regular butt kicking. The Sabres booted the Red Wings halfway back to Detroit, using a second period, four-goal barrage to beat them, 6-2.It was utter, total annihilation, dropping the team to 2-3 on the season...
Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": Hoopin' It Up, with A. Sherrod Blakely
October 13, 2009 by
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The Detroit Pistons and the NBA took center court, if you will, last night on "The Knee Jerks", my weekly sports gabfest with Big Al from The Wayne Fontes Experience.That's because our guest was A. Sherrod Blakely, who is the Pistons beat writer for MLive.com.Sherrod...
Just Like That, Steel Curtain Closes On Lions' Chances
October 12, 2009 by
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They say more NFL games than you know come down to a handful of plays. The talent level, supposedly, is so close from team to team that in any given game, wins and losses are often decided by maybe no more than three or four percent of the total number of plays run.Usually, though...
Red Wings Enforcer Polonich Never Same After Brutal Attack
October 11, 2009 by
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Red Wings coach Mike Babcock, as he is wont to do, succinctly summarized why his team had signed Brad May to a contract. “We had him for a few exhibition games and no one bothered our guys,” Babcock said. “Then we didn’t have him and people started taking some liberties. ...
Will (gasp!) Backup Goalie Be Red Wings' Bugaboo?
October 08, 2009 by
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Can a backup goaltender, of all things, decide whether a hockey team reaches the promised land or not?We're about to find out.The Detroit Red Wings pull the curtain back tonight for the first time in front of their home crowd in the 2009-10 campaign. And their fans will see something...
Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": We Put the Gloves On, Then Took 'Em Off!
October 06, 2009 by
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We turned extra combative last night on "The Knee Jerks", my weekly sports gabfest with Big Al from The Wayne Fontes Experience.That's because our guest was none other than Marvin Hagler, Jr., son of the multiple world champion boxer.Junior was on to discuss his upcoming...
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