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Out of Bounds Sports rants with a decidedly Motor City flavor

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Out of Bounds · 2W ago

Brodeur Still Chasing the Cup at Age 40

In your world or mine, a 40-year-old goalie nine years removed from his last Stanley Cup is probably wearing a suit and gabbing in between periods for one of the TV networks. Or he might be coaching kid netminders somewhere, imparting words of wisdom about how positioning is everything and teachi
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Out of Bounds · 1M ago

Abdandoned, Undrafted Night Train a True Underdog Tale

The fact that no one wanted the football player from Scottsbluff Junior College—that’s in Nebraska, by the way—and thus never drafted him turned out to be par for the young man’s course. No one wanted Richard Lane, from the moment he was born. Literally. Twenty-five years before showing up at the
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Out of Bounds · 1M ago

Coaches Izzo, Petrino On Opposite Sides of Moral Spectrum

Two college coaches stood at their respective podiums recently. I don’t need a program listing to tell me which is taller.The images couldn’t have been starker in comparison.First, there was Bobby Petrino, the morally bankrupt coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks football program, looking every bit the
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Out of Bounds · 1M ago

NHL Playoffs' Justice Not Always Fair

I’m not sure where the April showers are so far, but it is the fourth month of the year, and this is Detroit, so whether the rains come or not, the hockey fan is about to venture into “that time of the year.”It’s a time of mysterious injuries of the upper and lower body; a time of a game every other
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Out of Bounds · 2M ago

Millen "Disciple" Mayhew a Self-Learner

As a pro football player, Martin Mayhew, being a defensive back, became used to going to work every Sunday trying to succeed with one arm tied behind his back.Don’t let anyone tell you that the rulebook doesn’t play favorites.In the NFL, receivers are given more benefits of the doubt than the teache
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Out of Bounds · 2M ago

NBA's "Player's League" Claims Another Coaching Victim

It’s hard to imagine now, but there really was a time when NBA players didn’t rule the roost. There was a time—really, truly—when the players listened to the coach, obeyed orders, and felt privileged to play in the league.The NBA coach of days gone by wore rumpled suits, chomped on cigars and taught
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Out of Bounds · 2M ago

Will Knight Be Next Great Pistons Point Guard?

What does it say for the Pistons when, in the middle of their season, they are getting nudged off the front pages by the likes of a baseball bench warmer who hit .197 last season?Brandon Inge is getting more media coverage than the Pistons. So is Ndamukong Suh, the football player, and his team does
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Out of Bounds · 3M ago

Red Wings Draw "21" In More Ways Than One

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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Out of Bounds · 3M ago

Holmstrom Proves It: Hockey Players Are Nuts

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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Out of Bounds · 3M ago

Eli's Coming

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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