I feel like rambling.
The Big East had a great record last weekend at the NCAAs, but don’t forget how highly those teams were seeded. When you’ve got three #1s and two #2’s, all you did so far was avoid being upset — something that those teams did by some fairly narrow margins. I’m not calling [...]

As Tigers’ fans fixate warily on the team’s starting pitching (my prediction is that Dontrelle Willis pulls it together just enough to earn the last slot and hold off Rick Porcello, while neither Nate Robertson nor Zach Miner make the roster as starters or relievers), it’s easy to overlook the bright side: the bullpen looks [...]

Today’s High Five:

Lions: Shack Harris is officially on board. There are some other personnel tidbits here as well — Jason Hanson, for instance, isn’t going anywhere despite his free agent status.
Tigers: Tom Gage runs down Detroit’s issues heading into Spring Training.
Pistons: Drew Sharp uses the All-Star break as a chance to assess (bleakly) the state [...]

Today’s High Five:

Here’s a great interview that ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg did with Mark Dantonio about recruiting and the way the Spartans’ coach approaches “soft commitments.”
Indiana’s Devan Dumes is an apologetic and suspended thrower of elbows after the MSU-IU game over the weekend. Goran Suton is just looking out for future generations.
The Lions officially made some [...]

Good news: Pitchers and catchers report to Lakeland a week from today, and it’s going to be so warm this weekend it will almost feel like baseball season. So now that Brandon Lyon is on board and Justin Verlander kept Dave Dombrowski’s arbitration-avoidance streak intact, let’s look at the Tigers.
The purpose of this post is [...]

Weekend High Five:

Several sources are reporting that Shack Harris is in line to join the Lions’ front office as the personnel specialist. (Dave Birkett from the Oakland Press blogs that “a person close to Harris said suggestions he could soon be a Lion ‘are not untrue.’”) Harris left the Jaguars at the end of the [...]