Territorial Bloggings

The NFL regular season starts tonight.
Yay!
I’ve always been a pro football fan (it’s a shame that Detroit doesn’t have a pro team, y’know?), but it’s only been in the past 10-15 years that the NFL has become my favorite league, and pro football my favorite sports season. Basketball (pro or college) is nowhere near the [...]

Just last night I was thinking about the NHL, and more specifically about how it’s a travesty that the Red Wings are in the Western Conference even though Detroit is obviously in the Eastern time zone. I was also thinking about how so many hockey pundits wail & moan about how to "fix" the NHL, [...]

The Captain — Steve Yzerman — has announced his retirement, closing a 22-season career.

Click here to view a slideshow of Yzerman photos
Some brief career stats:

22 seasons — all in Detroit
19 seasons as captain — the longest tenure in NHL history
1,755 points — 6th all-time
1,063 assists — 7th all-time
692 goals — 8th all-time
1,514 games played
3 Stanley [...]

Check out the latest column from The Sports Guy Bill Simmons. While he might seem a bit over the top, I think that’s typical of a Red Sox fan. I know that Cubs fans are like that, and having grown up in Detroit, I know that Detroit fans (esp. Red Wings fans) can be just [...]