You can find out a lot from the sidelines -- out of bounds.
Out of Bounds Sports rants with a decidedly Motor City flavor
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Tuesday night at Joe Louis Arena, as the clock’s final few minutes ticked off, 21,000-plus fans stood and shouted, as if they were at a blackjack table at one of the city’s casinos.“Twenty-one!! Twenty-one!!”It was a night where no one left early to beat the traffic. The score was out of hand, but t
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When is someone going to officially declare that hockey players are certifiably nuts?I mean off-their-rocker nuts, totally and completely out of their minds?It’s a sport played by Kamikazes, who zoom around an ice rink surrounded by non-giving hardwood boards, with sharp objects all around them: ska
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The supposedly vaunted New England Patriots, the closest thing to an NFL dynasty since the 1980s 49ers, haven't won a Super Bowl in seven years.Meanwhile, Eli Manning and the New York Giants have won two in that time frame---actually, in the past five NFL seasons.Both times, the Giants made the Pats
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Ice hockey, the world’s fastest sport, is played at blinding speed by powerful men gliding along the rink on razor-sharp blades fastened to their boots, swinging fiberglass sticks at a vulcanized rubber disc.It’s polo played on ice, sans the horses.The thrills and chills come from the long, effortle
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He was the NHL’s original Iron Man—a man of perfect attendance, whose offices were located in six Taj Mahals of indoor sports venues.Long before the tentacles of corporate sponsorship wrapped themselves around the naming of stadiums and arenas, the NHL of Johnny Wilson was played in a half dozen bar
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They say you should never bring a knife to a gunfight.Well, the Lions didn't; they brought a shotgun. Trouble is, the New Orleans Saints have a howitzer.The Lions, 45-28 losers on Saturday night in New Orleans, didn't get blown out because they don't have a good offense. The Lions lost big because t
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So here they come marching into New Orleans, this previously bedraggled pro football franchise, in seek of something which has eluded them 53 of the past 54 years.It’s funny, in a way, that the Lions will be looking for just their second playoff victory since 1957 in New Orleans, a city that has vex
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In a flash, a whirr and a blur, another year in sports came and went. 2011, it seemed, might have been missed had you blinked.And what a year it was.Tigers AND Lions in the playoffs, for the first time in the same year since 1935.Pistons with a new coach (again).Red Wings almost coming all the way b
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The man with half a foot and a stump for an arm trotted onto the field at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans on November 8, 1970. The least likely pro football record holder was a pudgy, roly-poly man with what looked like a block of wood for a right foot.As Tom Dempsey strode onto the field, with two se
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Auburn Hills is a 35-minute drive north of Detroit. Make that almost an hour if you dare try it in the shadow of 5:00 traffic. It’s a rather uninspiring trek up I-75, with warehouses and impersonal office buildings surrounding you on the east and west.The starkness of the Detroit city limits gives w
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