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Ilitch must act quickly/Paul Peterson
July 4, 2011 If Detroit Tigers owner Mike Ilitch is at all serious about wanting his team to succeed in 2011, he must act quickly. Just about anyone ... who knows anything about baseball ... more »»
Jim Junttila/Woods, Water and Worse
July 1, 2011 “So how’s the fishin?” asked WW&W meteorologist Summer Solstice, gleaming with sweat as she cranked up her first heatwave, just in the nicka time for the fortha July weekend. more »»
Pay-to-play trend not a good idea/Paul Peterson
June 24, 2011 Call me old-fashioned, but I believe the current pay-to-play trend at high schools all around the country is not a positive one. Yes, I’m aware that many school districts are hurting financially. more »»
Weather ... or not/The Red Line
June 23, 2011 On the way into Norway (the town, not the country) Saturday for the U.P. All-Star Classic, there is a very large ship of what appears to be Viking origin. more »»
Vealies, part three/The Red Line
June 16, 2011 Many great series come in trilogies: The Godfather, Back to the Future, The Matrix. It's a high standard to meet, but the Third Annual Vealies are aiming high. more »»
King James no hero/Paul Peterson
June 15, 2011 If anything was proven by LeBron James in the recent NBA Finals, it was that he couldn’t even begin to carry Michael Jordan’s jockstrap. In the end, he couldn’t even carry Dirk Nowitzki’s supporter. more »»
Death of a soldier saddens all/Paul Peterson
June 11, 2011 I knew Robert Voakes Jr., which is to say, I knew his name from games I saw him play for Baraga High School athletic teams over the past few years. more »»
U.P. Finals tidbits/The Red Line
June 9, 2011 If I were the King of the Sports World, I would do everything in my power to make the first weekend of June as uneventful as I could. No famous figures would die. Baseball? Rained out. more »»
Paul Peterson
June 7, 2011 While most sports fans in Michigan are not shedding any tears about the current demise of the Ohio State football program, it should be noted that the same thing very well could have happened in Ann... more »»
A wild week in the NHL/The Red Line
June 2, 2011 Somewhere between here and Monday, hockey got turned on its ear. more »»
Finally, good news from Motown/Paul Peterson
May 31, 2011 In a town that has seen more than its share of bad news over the past couple of decades, it’s difficult to imagine much of anything positive coming out of Detroit. more »»
Just some comment on the weather/The Red Line
May 26, 2011 I find it rather hard to believe that Wednesday’s WestPAC track meet is essentially the last local sporting event of the 2010-11 school year. more »»
Managing (or lack of it)?hurting Tigers/Paul Peterson
May 24, 2011 Like the much-publicized Rapture/Doomsday this past weekend, Detroit manager Jim Leyland’s brain failed to show up in a road series in Pittsburgh. more »»
Precious cargo/The Red Line
May 19, 2011 I recently completed a move to a new apartment in town, and even though it was a remarkably insignificant distance — less than a Twilight League fly ball from my old place — the process was a... more »»
In the end, it was about respect/Paul Peterson
May 16, 2011 The spring was especially late arriving that long-ago baseball season. The trees were barely in bud, and the snow from a particularly harsh winter had left local ballfields just two weeks previous. more »»
On the long and winding road/The Red Line
May 13, 2011 When I left Houghton last Thursday night to spend a few days helping at a Christian retreat, Michigan Tech had no head hockey coach, the price of gas appeared to be going down and everyone had powe. more »»
Paul Peterson
May 10, 2011 On the heels of Justin Verlander’s no-hit game this past weekend against the Toronto Blue Jays, it was only fitting that the name of Virgil Trucks would come u. more »»
This draft is less filling/The Red Line
May 5, 2011 The absurdity of the NFL never ceases to amaze me. Within the last year, we’ve seen the league suddenly get religion on concussions, then simultaneously attempt to ram through an 18-game schedule. more »»
Lions move forward, but caution advised/Paul Peterson
May 3, 2011 If there is anything surer than a campaigning politician promising to fight for his constituents, it’s a general manager or coach in the National Football League lavishing high praise on their most... more »»
Point-counterpoint/The Red Line
April 30, 2011 Editor’s Note: Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals between San Jose and Detroit ended after this edition went to press Friday night. more »» |
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