August 4, 2010 – By Norman Rey I don’t care what Bill Simmons says about rooting for more than one team, I’m a transplanted Detroiter, who has lived in New York for 35 years, and most of my family now resides near Philadelphia. So, I’ve got a broader point of view than most. I’m just [...]
August 1, 2010 – If you happen to entertain loyalties to Detroit you are well used to the wags condemning the pro sports teams like so many of the neighborhoods and businesses of the Motor City. The Pistons are for sale and have crashed from their once heady heights. The Red Wings have grown old. [...]
July 27, 2010 – Well, they could be rootin’ for the Cubs. Detroit Tiger fans are following the 2010 AL Central division race like zombies stumbling toward certain destruction. It wasn’t enough to lose the division in a 163rd game last year. Or to lose a multi-game lead by swooning in September. Or for Brandon [...]
June 11, 2010 – The dust-up between New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick and ESPN/Yankee mouthpiece Michael Kay was over Mushnick’s protectively veiled claim that Kay’s lifting of newspaper information verbatim and using it as his own was dishonest. It had to do with Mushnick being “critical” of Dave Winfield’s ESPN television analyst skills and [...]
June 9, 2010 – For those of our readers outside New York and Japan who may not know, Michael Kay is a New York Yankee television broadcaster and radio host on NYC’s ESPN outlet during prime afternoon commuter time. He was born and raised in the Bronx, educated at Fordham and served as a sportswriter [...]
