This is a blog, which means I can speculate wildly with only a small connection to actual reported facts. So here goes . . .
Fact: QB Steven Threet is leaving Michigan. Speculation: This feels like a weird time to transfer. I mean, why make this decision in February, in the middle of the second semester? [...]
21 Jan, 2009
Posted by: Steve In: Lions| Pistons| Tigers| UM football
The Mitten takes a couple of days off (sorry about that) and two-thirds of the football teams I cover hire defensive coordinators.
Today’s High Five:
For the Lions it’s Gunther Cunningham, Kansas City’s defensive coordinator for the last several seasons and a former Chiefs head coach. Here’s the standard bio and here’s Tom Kowalski saying Cunningham is [...]
05 Jan, 2009
Posted by: Steve In: Lions| MSU basketball| Pistons| Tigers| UM football
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 Michigan after all. [...]
02 Jan, 2009
Posted by: Steve In: Lions| MSU football| Pistons| Red Wings| UM football
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 parade by questioning [...]
26 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Steve In: Lions| MSU basketball| MSU football| UM basketball| UM football
Welcome back to the High Five:
There’s something to watch for in this weekend’s NFL games other than the Lions putting the finishing touches on 0-16. If the Dallas Cowboys don’t make the playoffs, the positions of the draft picks that the Lions got in the Roy Williams trade will improve significantly. Here’s how Dallas’ playoff [...]
22 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Steve In: Lions| MSU basketball| Red Wings| UM basketball| UM football
Today’s High Five:
Lions owner William Clay Ford told Tom Kowalski before the Saints game yesterday that COO Tom Lewand and acting GM Martin Mayhew will be back with the team next season, and any new guy brought in will have to fill one of the available “slots.” From what I’ve read, Mayhew could be a [...]
