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Last Night On “The Knee Jerks”: Red Wings Good, Lions Not So Much
Posted: 17th November 2009 by Greg Eno in NHL
First, a semi-major announcement: ôThe Knee Jerksö will be moving up a couple of hours!
Beginning Dec. 14, youÆll be able to get your jerkosity two hours earlier. The show will debut its new 9:00-11:00 ET time slot, so everyone can get some sleep on Monday nights!
The first quarter of the Red WingsÆseason is almost done with, so on ôThe Knee Jerksö , my weekly gabfest with Big Al Beaton ...
Tonight on “The Knee Jerks”: Detroit Red Wings-Heavy Episode
Posted: 16th November 2009 by Greg Eno in NHL
It's a hockey-centric episode tonight (Monday) on "The Knee Jerks," my weekly gabfest on Blog Talk Radio with my co-host, Al Beaton , as we talk all things Detroit Red Wings and NHL with Kahn. Ansar Kahn, that is.
Khan has been the Red Wings beat writer for Mlive.com and Booth Newspapers since the 2000-01 season, and for several years prior to that for the Oakland Press. You can get the ...
Curtis Granderson is No “Untouchable” as Trade Talks Swirl
Posted: 14th November 2009 by Greg Eno in MLB
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Curtis Granderson is a nice guy. HeÆs the kind of man any father would be thrilled to have his daughter marry. He is one of the true ambassadors of baseball, and I donÆt throw those kinds of words around willy-nilly.
But IÆd trade him in a heartbeat.
This is one of those columns that will get me, figuratively, run up the flagpole at Comerica Park, hung in real-life effigy. YouÆll have thought ...
Last Night on ôThe Knee Jerksö: The Lions’ Report Cards are in…
Posted: 10th November 2009 by Greg Eno in NFL
Believe it or not, half of the LionsÆ16-game NFL schedule has been played, so after a suggestion from Big Al Beaton, my co-host on the weekly gabfest ôThe Knee Jerksö , we gathered around the campfire, and had ourselves a mid-season review.
Our guests were Michael Schottey and Dean Holden , two of the premier Lions writers for Bleacher Report . Those two guys chimed in with analysis, mid-season letter ...
Losing-Cultured Lions Have No Idea How to Handle Lead, Wither Against Seahawks
Posted: 9th November 2009 by Greg Eno in NFL
The Lions blew a game on Sunday, but you can hardly blame them. It wasnÆt exactly a familiar situation for them.
The Lions lost, and those betting that the Seahawks would cover their 10-point donation won, as Seattle beat Detroit 32-20ùthe last seven points coming with less than 30 seconds to play on a ôpick sixö interception.
Until then, the Lions had covered the spreadùand the Lions donÆt cover things so well, ...
Pat LaFontaine was Missed, but Detroit Red Wings Did OK with Steve Yzerman
Posted: 7th November 2009 by Greg Eno in NHL
He played hockey in Waterford, growing up in the northern Oakland County burg in the 1970sùa decade of horrors when it came to his local team, the Detroit Red Wings.
As he honed his skills as an adolescent and started depositing pucks into opposing goals with eye-popping frequency, the Red Wings were stumbling through the National Hockey League, soiling what had once been a tradition-rich franchise history.
As the 1980s arrived, his ...
Hockey Palaces Like Detroit’s Olympia Stadium Sadly Extinct Nowadays
Posted: 4th November 2009 by Greg Eno in NHL
They don't make arenas like Olympia Stadium anymore. Hell, they don't make buildings like it anymore.I don't know of any place where an escalator lifts you up at an 80 degree angle, which it did at Olympiaùthe Old Red Barn where the Red Wings played from the 1920s to December 15, 1979.If you think I'm exaggerating about the 80 degree angleùyou're right; perhaps it was only about 77 degrees.The Olympiaùcorner ...
Detroit Lions Serve Notice to St. Louis Rams, NFL: We’re STILL No. 32!
Posted: 2nd November 2009 by Greg Eno in NFL
All those Jim Zorn haters out there ought to rev up their engines again. They ought to bang down Redskins owner Dan Snyder's door, and demand that Zorn get the ziggy. In fact, the entire Redskins team ought to wear scarlet letters on their uniforms: "L," both for Loser, and for Lions. How any team can lose to the garbage that is the Detroit Lions is beyond me. ...
Don’t the Phillies Know That Philadelphia Is City of Chumps, Not Champs?
Posted: 24th October 2009 by Greg Eno in MLB
They don’t win championships in Philadelphia. If they do, it’s a fluke—something that someone pulled over on God.
Every three decades or so, one of the teams will screw up the ecosystem and snatch a title out from under fate’s nose.
What’s happening now is a travesty. The Phillies are in the World Series for the second year in a row. What’s worse, they actually won it last year.
This is all ...
Strength in the middle.
It’s been bantered about in all the major team sports.
NBA championships, folks used to say by rote, can’t be won without a dominant big man clogging up the middle. It’s not required nowadays, but it certainly doesn’t hurt.
Strong interior blocking, in the middle of the offensive line, is indispensable when it comes to establishing a ground game in the NFL. Conversely, superior middle linebackers have been the ...