by admin | May 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
March 14, 2010 Press play to listen The Red Wings bowed out of the Stanley Cup playoffs Saturday, in just the second round. It was disappointing for Red Wings’ fans – okay, crushing. But it’s worth remembering the Red Wings have made the playoffs for 20 consecutive...
by admin | May 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
May 5, 2010 Press play to listen This past September, the Detroit Tigers’ beloved broadcaster, Ernie Harwell, announced that he had contracted an incurable form of cancer, and would not seek treatment. For everybody who knew him, or felt like they did – which, really,...
by admin | Apr 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
April 30, 2010 Press play to listen The wonderfully named Zoltan Mesko was born and raised in Timisoara, Romania, right on the Hungarian border. Like his parents, Mihai and Elizabeta, Zoltan speaks both languages fluently. When the Berlin Wall came downin 1989, life...
by admin | Apr 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
April 23, 2010 Press play to listen With tax day just past, it’s a good time to ask where our money should go – and where it shouldn’t. I don’t have all the answers, of course – but I’m convinced one expenditure should end immediately: stadium subsidies. Two years...
by admin | Apr 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
April 16, 2010 Press play to listen The first quarter of this year has been filled with endless sports stories about salaries and steroids and sex – and pretty much everything but sports. So I welcome a look back at a time the stakes were real, and the men were equal...
