Are the WNBA Playoffs Just a Novelty?

While the individual games may be intense and entertaining, the WNBA has plenty to learn in the area of marketing and good sporting sense.

Around the Bases: Tigers Trail Tribe by 4 1/2 in Central

It has been quite awhile since I last wrote about the Tigers, and plenty of baseball has happened.  The team has showed signs of busting out of their slump, but sits 4.5 games behind Cleveland in the AL Central.  Stringing together both solid pitching and high octane offense in just one game remains to be [...]

Shock-Fever to Tip Off Friday

Just a heads up, the Shock start their second-round series against the Indiana Fever on Friday night in Indianapolis.
Game 1 @ Indiana: Friday, August 31 at 8pm (ESPN2)
Game 2 @ Detroit: Sunday, September 2 at 1pm (My20)
Game 3 @ Detroit*: Monday, September 3 at 6pm (FSN Detroit)
*If necessary 
The Shock will have to watch for guard [...]

Center Court: Waiting for November 1st

Just as the Detroit Shock make their way into the second round of the WNBA playoffs, the NBA’s Detroit Pistons, or at least their fans, are anxiously anticipating another exciting NBA season. It may only be the end of August, but I can hardly wait until the regular season tips off. There has [...]

Shock Top Liberty to Advance

Blink and you miss it. The WNBA Playoffs are an annual novelty — the league makes things so quick and rushed that it almost seems as though the league is ready to step aside at the end of each season and take an early vacation. The Shock entered the playoffs as the Eastern [...]

Week Old Leftovers

Warner Robins, Georgia, took the Little League World Series over Tokyo after Dalton Carriker hit a walkoff homer in the eighth inning to send the American team to a 3-2 victory.  [SI]
Former NBA player Eddie Griffin had his fair share of difficulties driving — last week he was killed at age 25 after his SUV [...]

Recent Leave of Absence

Ok, I will admit it — I have been a very bad blogger of late.  Unfortunately my network was uncooperative so I disappeared without even saying goodbye, but I was on a trip through Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky last week.  I apologize for my disappearance — now that I have been home for a [...]

Cameron Maybin Called Up

The time to see the future is now.  Today the Tigers called top prospect Cameron Maybin up to the Big Leagues from Double-A Erie.  Craig Monroe was designated for assignment to make room for the 20-year-old outfielder.  Maybin is perhaps the future of the Tigers organization — I had been hoping he would stop in [...]