Pistons: After an awful sports weekend got awfuller with the Lions’ latest collapse and the Pistons’ inexplicable blowout loss against one of the NBA’s worst teams, there was finally some good news in Mittendom late Sunday: Antonio McDyess will re-sign with the Pistons. Though no one’s saying exactly when he’ll rejoin the team, he should [...]

College basketball: Michigan 55, UCLA 52. I’m about to post Part III of my epic Mark Dantonio trilogy, which was inspired by MSU football’s “program win” over Wisconsin. Well, John Beilein’s U-M basketball team had a pretty significant program win of its own last night, toppling #4 UCLA 55-52 at Madison Square Garden in the [...]

Three games to talk about. Let’s start with football.
College football: Michigan State 21, Purdue 7. It’s hard to argue with Drew Sharp’s contention that MSU is far from an elite team. (Though it’s also hard to see why he seems to take such glee in saying it, or why he keeps repeating himself.) Even as [...]

The sun sets, the Pistons hold off the Larry and Shannon Brown-led Charlotte Bobcats, and we know a little more about the big trade.
Did we make a good deal? The scariest possibility is that while Iverson may be more famous, at this point in their careers maybe Billups is better. He’s more durable, bigger, possesses [...]

I’ve been looking for something dramatic to inspire the first post here, and, well, how about this: MLive’s Sherrod Blakely reports that Joe Dumars has finally made his break-up-the-Pistons’-core deal, and is trading Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess to the Denver Nuggets for Allen Iverson.
Some first thoughts while we wait for details:

I’m going to miss [...]