By Matt Pelc
I have a confession to make: I love football.
I know, that is an earth-shattering statement.
Readers of this site know that I must love football to devote my life to the Detroit Lions comedy show–or perhaps that means I hate football, but at least I think I love football.
With that said, enough is enough [...]

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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 Brian Rexroth
I stumbled across the following site allowing fans to simulate the NBA Draft Lottery and wanted to bring it up here and see what people thought about it and others like it that in my opinion jump the gun of the sports year’s natural progression and kind of ruin the fun of a sports [...]

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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 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 Matt Pelc
This summer when Curt Schilling retired, he was immediately canonized as a sure fire baseball Hall of Famer. The various ESPN analysts were tripping all over each other to be the first to sing the pitcher’s praises–well except for Steve Phillips who was getting biz-aye with a network production assistant.
Schilling’s career stats are [...]

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By Brian Rexroth
Local product Mark Ingram of Grand Blanc Senior High School and Flint Southwestern Academy is currently listed as the ESPN.com #1 projection for the Heisman Trophy.  Ingram is currently the star sophomore running back at Alabama University and his father Mark Ingram Sr. played wide reciever in the NFL.
Ingram has rushed for 1429 yards and 12 [...]

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By Matt Pelc
Tiger defenders are out in force while Tiger haters are also out in force–well me, over his recent collision with a tree outside of his palatial home near Orlando, Florida.
Call me a player-hater, I know I hear it all the time, but I have always detested certain players who ESPN or themselves crown [...]

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By Matt Pelc
When will it stop?
Saturday’s nondescript blowout college football game between Minnesota and Ohio State, on ESPN, yielded just one highlight and it was not on the gridiron, rather in the broadcast booth.
During another promotion for a NASCAR race, former quarterback and long-time commentator Bob Griese got into a pickle–or a taco in this [...]

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By Brian Rexroth
Sports Illustrated predicts the Pistons to finish 9th in the Eastern Conference and out of the playoff picture, only 3/10 ESPN writers select the Pistons to make the playoffs although one did select them to finish as high as 6th in the conference, and Sporting News ranked the Pistons as the 8th worst [...]

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