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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Lions Once Again Kings of 30-Minute Football
October 05, 2009 by
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The Lions turned in another of those 30-minute jobs yesterday in Chicago, and it cost them, big time.A 21-21 halftime tie turned into a 48-24 laugher for the Bears, but here's what's NOT funny.Matthew Stafford dislocated his knee cap, according to ESPN.The thing popped back...
Stafford Has QB Presence Like No Other Lion in Years
October 04, 2009 by
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It was Super Bowl week, and Thomas Henderson wanted to try out some new material. What better opportunity than Media Day—held on Tuesday before The Big Game—to show how brilliant you are, and how much the other guy isn’t? Henderson, the bombastic Dallas Cowboys’ linebacker...
Time For Hamilton To Lead, Like It Or Not
September 30, 2009 by
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Rip Hamilton appears to be done grieving, and that's a step in the right direction, anyway.Hamilton chatted up the team during Media Day on Monday, and he spoke with a twinkle in his eyes and often times barely able to suppress a grin."We have to teach the newer guys, the...
Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": Pistons Talk Put On Hold, But Some Good Rants
September 29, 2009 by
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Our NBA talk got put on hold for a couple weeks last night on "The Knee Jerks", my weekly sports gabfest with Big Al from The Wayne Fontes Experience.Our guest, A. Sherrod Blakely---Pistons beat writer for MLive.com---got caught up in some work-related stuff and couldn'...
Streaking Lions Win First Straight Game
September 28, 2009 by
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Every dog really does have his day.Every blind squirrel really does find a nut.The longshot came in. The House lost.It was "any given Sunday," finally. The dice came up snake eyes.Someone had to be the victims of the Lions' losing streak ending, and it happened to be...
Red Wings' Run of Excellence Taken for Granted in Detroit
September 27, 2009 by
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I was in New York, one of my favorite towns, and I started walking. It was a June day, some 18 years ago, and if you haven’t been to New York in June, then your life officially has a missing ingredient. I set out around Times Square and headed north, up Sixth Avenue, from around...
Whether Forced Or Not, Jimmy D Got Rooked In Federko Trade
September 23, 2009 by
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Jimmy Devellano, recently announced as a winner of the Lester Patrick Trophy for dedication toward hockey, was the first man hired by Mike Ilitch when the latter purchased the sad sack Detroit Red Wings in 1982. One of the reasons was Jimmy D's uncanny ability to sniff out NHL...
Last Night on "The Knee Jerks": Can the Shaky Tigers Hold On?
September 22, 2009 by
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The Tigers' wobbly state as a first place team took center stage last night on "The Knee Jerks", my weekly sports gabfest with Big Al from The Wayne Fontes Experience.Our guest was Johnny Lawrence, one of the featured Detroit Tigers columnists for The Bleacher Report...
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