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Detroit Lions, now 1-3, have no defense for their defense
It’s probably a good thing the Lions didn’t have fans inside Ford Field on Sunday. The fewer witnesses, the better. This was sad, lifeless, sometimes cringeworthy defensive football, bad tackling, no tackling, low resistance, no resistance. Please don’t...
Anti-Semitic posts — and tepid reactions — should enrage us
We must consider why DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic comments drew less outrage than other types of hateful language.
In bizarre NFL draft, Detroit Lions made the prudent pick: Jeff Okudah
As big-time sporting events go, it was more transistor radio than virtual reality. But in the end, a draft is just a team making a pick. And low-tech or high-tech, the Lions made the pick that wasn’t surprising, wasn’t earthshaking, but filled a need with...
When all was lost, Patrick Mahomes delivered a Kansas City masterpiece
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — I’m not certain what destiny looks like in person. But I think we just saw it in the Super Bowl. In the fourth quarter of a game that was clearly tilting to the San Francisco 49ers, on a night when he did not at all look like the superstar...2018 Michigan APME Finalists Announced
Finalists in the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors 2018 newspaper contest were announced today. The top three places — the awards in order of finish — will be announced at the annual awards banquet in Lansing on April 28. Mitch Albom’s column in the...
Patriots, Tom Brady make history in sleepy Super Bowl
ATLANTA — They were coming, the Rams, like kids running down a hill, giddy with their speed, going faster in the fourth quarter than they had all night. Jared Goff, who’d been terribly out of sync, was momentarily sharp, Clark Kent in a phone booth, and he moved his...
Tom Brady is the G.O.A.T. we never saw coming
Don’t ask us. That’s my stock answer to The Tom Brady Question. True, he played college ball right down the road at Michigan. And true, when someone becomes the greatest NFL quarterback of all time — and if Brady leads the New England Patriots to a sixth Super Bowl...
Detroit Lions draft picks easy to judge, hard to be right about
“Who are you to judge?” It’s the question that shadows the NFL draft. TV experts make predictions. TV experts get it wrong. Viewers laugh, “Who are you to judge?” Player waits. Player doesn’t get selected. Player snarls, “Who are you to judge?” Team...
Matt Patricia joins with old Patriots pal GM Bob Quinn
The Beard has landed. Matt Patricia arrived in Detroit on Wednesday to take over the Lions after spending weeks as the worst-kept hiring secret in the NFL. At first blush, the former Patriots defensive coordinator — fresh off Sunday’s Super Bowl — seemed intelligent,...The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
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