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 [...]

Sorry I missed the High Five yesterday as I was traveling back home after the holidays. We’ll do a High Ten today instead, both to make up for yesterday and in honor of my dad’s thumb, which I nearly broke in a muffed attempt at an actual high five after Calvin Johnson’s touchdown on Sunday. [...]

Today’s High Five: Two weeks ago, Tigers fans wondered who would back up Dusty Ryan at catcher in 2009. Now, that’s a question for Toledo Mud Hens fans. After trading for Gerald Laird at the Winter Meetings, the Tigers are expected to announce that they’ve signed Matt Treanor to be his backup. Scot Shafer is [...]

Today’s High Five: KJ at the Spartans Weblog has a great post analyzing MSU basketball’s turnover woes thus far this season. Backup point guard Korie Lucious has made several great plays, but he’s also struggling to take care of the basketball. Here’s a Seattle Mariners’ blogger’s take on a potential J.J. Putz-to-Detroit trade. A month [...]

Todays’ High Five: The Lions benched starting cornerback Brian Kelly for the entire Minnesota game. Nobody’s saying why. [Update: the Lions cut Kelly today.] MSU’s New Year’s Day bowl game is good for football recruiting. So was U-M’s win over Duke. Bless You Boys looks at Brandon Inge, who will combine with newly acquired Gerald [...]

This is the debut of a new weekday feature, the High Five. The main idea is to link to that day’s five top stories relating to the Mitten’s teams. I’m defining “top stories” broadly: it could be an insightful column, a scoop about an injury, or an interview with a new starter; it could be [...]