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Josh Smith And The Deeply Constipated Offense Of The Detroit Pistons

Coming into this season, the Detroit Pistons were flagged by a lot of advanced metrics as a likely candidates for a sneaky good year. Instead, Detroit, and especially its offense, has been among the most comically misshapen teams in recent history. ...

Lions Fan Says He Was Beaten Unconscious By Eagles Fans

Some sports happened this weekend, which means that some sports fans did some awful and violent things. This latest instance comes from a 33-year-old Lions fan, who says a bunch of angry Eagles fans beat the shit out of him outside of the stadium after the Eagles' 34-20 home victory against the Lion...

Chip Kelly Still Doesn't Call "Shitty Plays" On Purpose

Following the Eagles 30-24 win over the Lions on Sunday Chip Kelly was asked if he intentionally called shitty plays to throw off the Lions. His answer was noncommittal. ...

Matt Stafford Fumbleface Is The Best Face, Non-Manning Division

Yesterday's Snow Bowl created a real problem for the Detroit Lions in the possession department. (They fumbled seven times.) One late mishap led quarterback Matthew Stafford to a moment of pure panic and desperation—a circumstance we feel deserved a more intimate experience....

Lions-Eagles Is A Beautiful, Snow-Filled Mess

Snow! At a football game!...

Detroit TV Station Remembers Yankee Star Nelson "A-Rod" Mandela

How does this happen? Seriously, how does this happen?...

NFL London Game Will Begin Ass-Early

One of the NFL's London games next season will actually be an afternoon game for Brits: It'll kick off at 1:30 p.m. local time. That means it'll be 9:30 a.m. on the East Coast, 6:30 a.m. on the West Coast, and, like, Tuesday in Hawaii....

The Packers Today Forgot They Had A Game Against The Lions

The Green Bay Packers allegedly played the Detroit Lions this afternoon, in a rematch of a Jan. 1, 2012 game in which the teams combined for a Packers team single-game record 1,125 yards. In that game, Detroit racked up 575 yards (Matt Stafford threw for 520 yards) while Green Bay rolled up 550 (Mat...

Reminder: The Lions Weren't Always Terrible On Thanksgiving

It's a new American tradition; everyone gathers as a family to watch the Lions get thrashed on Thanksgiving, because the Lions, recent improvements notwithstanding, have had a rough stretch as a professional football team. How long has Detroit been a Turkey Day laughingstock?...

We Got A Joseph Fauria Touchdown, So We Get A Joseph Fauria Dance

I might be showing a few too many cards here, but that looks a lot like the dorky disco dance from World of Warcraft to me. The touchdown gives Fauria six on the season....

MLB.com Reader Predicted Prince Fielder-Ian Kinsler Trade Last Week

Prince Fielder and Ian Kinsler swapped teams last night for this MLB offseason's first substantial transaction. If we had listened to this Rangers fan last week, though, we'd have already known about it....

Denny McLain Says "Domestic Issues" Drove Prince Fielder Out Of Detroit

Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain hinted at some darker, less savory reasons for why the team traded first baseman Prince Fielder today on the Michigan radio show Doctor & Bentley. His comments are definitely suggestive, though it's not exactly clear what he's trying to get at....

Detroit Is Trading Prince Fielder To Texas For Ian Kinsler

Everyone is now reporting that the Tigers have traded slugger first baseman (and, didjaknow, baseball's reigning Iron Man?) Prince Fielder to the Rangers for second baseman Ian Kinsler....

A Three-Man Front Is A Late-Game Defensive Formation For Suckers

The weekend, as I watched the absurd denouement of the Northwestern-Michigan game, something struck me as familiar — beyond the now-routine bumblefuckery that inspires the Wildcats to turn fourth-quarter leads into triple-overtime losses. No, it wasn't simply that Michigan drove in the dregs of game...

Dunk Contests Featuring Coach Sheed Are The Best Dunk Contests

That's it, cancel the dunk contest. Because in terms of entertainment value, nobody is topping Coach Sheed's performance in this post-practice dunk contest with Tony Mitchell....

Steelers Sabotage Lions' Obnoxious Pregame Dance Session

Before today's Lions-Steelers game, Pittsburgh let some of its opponents know that their pregame music hype session was goddamn annoying....

Miguel Cabrera, AL MVP, again: As expected, the Tigers' third baseman claimed the prize for a second straight year. Cabrera (.348/.442/.636) received 23 of 30 first-place votes. Mike Trout (.323/.432/.557) is your runner-up. He got five first-place votes. Chris Davis and Josh Donaldson got the other...

J.R. Smith And Brandon Jennings Are In A Twitter Fight

The fact that J.R. Smith's little brother occupies a spot on the Knicks' roster is and always will be a sad joke. This truth is not lost on Pistons point guard Brandon Jennings, who last night sent a since-deleted tweet expressing incredulity at the existence of Chris Smith's NBA career....

<em>Detroit News</em> Web Editor Has Spiders In Their Brain [Update: WTF]

Sports Sightings gets weird today....

Cat Intercepts Matthew Stafford? Cat Intercepts Matthew Stafford.