What a year in sports! Surprise winners such as the Chicago Cubs and USA Ryder Cup team, and sad farewells to greats of the past and present such as Muhammad Ali, Jose Fernandez, Gordie Howe and Arnold Palmer. Here’s our top-10 and the names of...
The news hit us like a ton of bricks. Muhammad Ali. Gordie Howe. Just like that, both men that we looked up to and admired are gone from our midst. One cannot imagine a worse week for sports fans – in Detroit especially – as we lost “The...
What a year in sports. 2015 was as crazy as they come as the sports scene was dominated by American Pharoah, the New England Patriots (and Deflategate), the Kansas City Royals, Golden State Warriors, Jordan Spieth, Serena Williams and the sad...
Since 1934, Detroit Lions football on Thanksgiving Day has been an American tradition. Recently, I asked three people – Frank Beckmann, the former Detroit Lions radio and television announcer, inductee into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame;...
It was an opportunity of a lifetime for me. A chance to meet the people of a sliver of the world that I would have never dreamed I could. When the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) invited me, as a sports journalist, to preview the Olympic Winter...
Competing on the Pro Bowlers Tour for 22 years, Aleta Rzepecki-Sill was the first woman bowler to earn $1 million in a career. Now, she’s a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. “It was obviously a milestone and a great accomplishment and...
National Top Ten 2014 Stories: LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling is banned for life from the National Basketball Association by commissioner Adam Silver following the public release of racially-charged audio recordings between Sterling and his...
There is no place on God’s earth for the unprofessional and unworthy comments on race as recently uttered by the owner of one of professional basketball’s top teams. The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced its severe punishment of...
