By Matt Pelc
In sports, the bad usually balances out the good.
For every Cleveland Cavaliers, there is a New Jersey Nets. For every New Orleans Saints there is a Detroit Lions, but in the NHL the good teams seem to outnumber the bad teams.
A good team is usually a team that finishes above .500.
We often lament [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Last week, we talked about the possibilities of the Red Wings and Pistons sharing an arena in Detroit and the fact that the Red Wings may be playing their games at the Palace while things sort themselves out for a new arena in the city.
We covered the possibilities in that last article, but [...]

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By Matt Pelc
This story caught me off-guard this morning while perusing the Detroit News.
http://detnews.com/article/20100117/SPORTS0103/1170322/Pistons–Palace-may-be-for-sale
I was commenting to my cousin who was visiting Florida last week about the basketball arena fiasco here in Orlando where the taxpayers had to dole out money to build a new arena to replace one that is just over 20 years [...]

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By Brian Rexroth
Ford Field has been the site of many attendance records in recent years and in the recent trend of utilizing NFL stadiums for sporting events other than NFL Football (In the Lions case if you can call it that).  It has been the site of record attendance at an NCAA Basketball Championship game during the 2009 Final [...]

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By Brian Rexroth
With the clock ticking down on 2009 and the end of a year and a decade in sports, one is left to reflect what does sport mean in your life?  To me, either playing or watching sports (or a great sports movie–my personal favorites both golf movies Caddyshack or Tin Cup) is a [...]

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By Matt Pelc
The other day I helped my three-year old daughter Kelsey write her letter to Santa and of course she told the jolly old fat man that she wanted the moon and the stars.
For a kid, once Christmas morning comes and there are scores of gleaming and neatly wrapped (as long as the wife, [...]

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By Spencer Ott
Shit, shit, shit the injury bug is really breaking it off in the Detroit Red Wings‘ asses lately.
Including Andreas Lilja we now have eight of our key players out. That number now includes Jonathan Ericsson, who went down in yesterday’s 3-2 win over Phoenix with what appears to be a knee injury on [...]

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By Spencer Ott
Ohh how the Red Wings are trying our patience this year.
As I a die-hard Wings fan I ask everybody else to be understanding this year.  We have lost some key players and signed some questionable people as well.
I think I need to talk about what we have lost as much as what we [...]

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By Brian Rexroth
Welcome to December.  After grinding through the first two months of the year with what seemed like the ambulance from Madden 92′ following them around, you start the month of December with a chance to rest a few days until playing the Oilers at home on Thursday night.  This rest is needed after [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Remember the days when our football weekend was defined by dominance on Saturday followed by a day of ineptitude?
I lamented on another lost Saturday this weekend on Facebook and someone commented saying that in the state of Michigan we have had our share of championships.
This is true, but mainly in basketball and hockey, [...]

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