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 Matt Pelc
I can always gauge my interest in a sport with the frequency I watch the postseason when my team is eliminated.
For the past decade, my football team, the Detroit Lions, have been eliminated from the postseason usually by the end of September, yet despite their presence in the postseason more infrequent than a [...]

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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 Brian Rexroth
Behind the shooting of Rodney Stuckey, the growth of Jonas Jerebko, the rebounding of Ben Wallace, and the unlikely step up of a veteran in Chucky Atkins, the Pistons have now won four out of their last five contests.  The Pistons hand AI’s old/new team, the Philidelphia 76ers, their 11th loss in a [...]

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By Matt Pelc
It is getting to be a daily event here on JLABANNERS.com: saying goodbye to a popular Tiger.
While I could understand the Tigers parting ways with Placido Polanco due to age, economics and declined productivity, the Curtis Granderson and Edwin Jackson fire-sale, sorry Dave Dombrowki, I am calling a spade a spade, is mind-boggling.
Both [...]

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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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