Weekend High Five: There are several stories today in the Detroit papers about the Pistons’ trip to Denver to take on Chauncey Billups and the Nuggets. Here’s the view from Denver on taking on former teammate Allen Iverson and Chauncey’s impact. Bonus coverage from the Rocky Mountain News: Lions’ head coaching candidate Todd Bowles interviewed [...]

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 [...]

Today’s High Five: Score one for Martin Mayhew: he said he was going to play this coaching search close to the vest, and sure enough, it appears that no one in the media is real clued into the process. At this rate, we’ll probably all be in the dark until the press conference. For laughs, [...]

Today’s High Five: Dylan at U-M Hoops is experimenting with hockey-style plus-minus statistics in his evaluation of Michigan’s basketball team. MSU hosts Ohio State tonight, and it is the Mitten’s deep and enduring pleasure to introduce you to this blog by Ohio State player Mark Titus. It is genius. More serious news, and also seriously [...]

Today’s High Five: Sean at Pride of Detroit compiled a chart listing the Lion’s many coaching candidates. The list is not short. Shouldn’t Martin Mayhew add one more for an even dozen? Like maybe Jim Harbaugh, for instance? There’s a former Wolverine, and here’s a future one: blue-chip football recruit William Campbell is going to [...]

Today’s High Five: Jiri Hudler scored twice and Detroit notched a come-from-behind 6-4 victory over Chicago in the Winter Classic, played outdoors at Wrigley Field. And apparently the game also resurrected Chicago hockey. More reasons not to expect the Lions to make a front office hire soon. Brian at MGoBlog rains on the MSU football [...]