Today’s High Five:

• In preparation for the formal launch of the Mitten’s campaign against the Lions’ drafting a QB with the top pick in the NFL Draft, I present to you Bob Wojnowski’s column on the subject.
• Jason Garrett has gone from a former candidate to the leading candidate for the Lions’ head coach job in about 24 hours. That link, to a Nick Cotsonika blog entry, also makes a smart point: two of the Lions’ other interviewees, Miami’s Todd Bowles and Washington’s Jerry Gray, could be defensive coordinator candidates in Detroit, too, because they’re position coaches now. Here’s the thing, though, with the idea that Garrett is a front-runner: I understand how news can leak about who the Lions are interviewing, because the candidates and their agents could talk to reporters. But it really looks like Martin Mayhew and Tom Lewand aren’t tipping their hand, so it seems less likely that a report about who’s leading the race–something that only Mayhew and Lewand would know–would be accurate.
• Trevor Hoffman and John Smoltz are off the board, so the Tigers’ relief candidates are growing fewer.
• Curtis Granderson is going to play in the World Baseball Classic.
• The stats-intensive site Big Ten Geeks suggests that both MSU and U-M are among the nation’s most overrated basketball teams.

Today’s schedule:

• NHL: Dallas at Detroit, 7:30pm (Fox Sports Detroit)