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Sunday, February 26, 2006
A little blog love
A few more days into spring training and it’s obvious that Danny Knobler is going to be much beloved for his new Tigers Bulletin blog at mlive.com. Sadly, without comments, it’ll never have the voice of the fan. But there are some fan efforts out there that I’ll have to keep an eye on.
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Friday, February 24, 2006
Pros make bad Olympians
Haven’t posted about the Winter Olympics and here they’re almost over. But I had to reference this line from Bob Kravitz of the Indy Star about the ugly showing of the men’s hockey team: “The Americans didn’t fail to reach the medal round for the fifth time in seven Olympics because Modano and friends had to go to travelocity.com. They failed for a number of other reasons, including the fact they played like a bunch of testosterone-addled cement heads in this quarterfinal game.” The Olympics need passion, and these guys, much like the NBA debacle in Athens, just don’t have it.
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Thursday, February 23, 2006
We keep building them anyway
Apparently, sports arenas should no longer be considered long-term investments. The current debate is in Seattle, where basketball’s (Super)Sonics say that little ol’ Key Arena, renovated only 10 years ago, is no longer keeping up with the times.
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Football is a speed game
Football used to be played by big people, some of whom were fast. Those days seem to be over. In an NFL combine preview, the Philadelphia Inquirer notes that speed is what everybody is looking for, especially on defense.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Working on hitting
Or actually, being effective on offense when you’re not hitting. See, it seems the Tigers didn’t have trouble hitting the ball last year. Scoring runs was a different story. A team that was fourth in batting average (.272) finished 11th in runs.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Cleaning up for spring
Verlander throws
Time to refresh things for baseball season. We’ve got new sections to the blog roll you’ll find in the right-hand column, with new sources for baseball. And, of course, some headlines that we’ve wanted to point to.
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Saturday, February 18, 2006
Signs of Spring: Sweet Lou
Whitaker in camp
Happy New Year everybody. Major League teams are beginning to trickle in to their spring training locales and their former stars are joining them. Good to see Lou Whitaker reuniting with his old minor league manager in his third spring with the Tigers.
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