By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer DETROIT — Ron Gardenhire’s Detroit Tigers sensed an opportunity this season — and these last few weeks have shown why. Detroit is 9-7 and in second place in the AL Central, 1 1/2 games out of first. It may not sound like much, but the Tigers are now ...
By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer DETROIT — From the first plate appearance of the game, Tim Anderson made this a long day for the opposing pitchers. Anderson homered to cap a 10-pitch at-bat leading off the first inning, and Luis Robert added a bases-clearing double in the fifth to lift ...
NOVI (AP) — Dwight Hicks left New Jersey as a teenager, seeking to take a step toward his NFL dreams by playing football at the University of Michigan. Hicks was willing to do whatever it took to compete in the 1970s and says the price paid included being sexually assaulted by the late Dr. ...
By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer DETROIT — Eloy Jimenez hit a three-run homer in the first inning, and the Chicago White Sox snapped Detroit’s four-game wining streak with an 8-4 victory over the Tigers on Tuesday night. Edwin Encarnacion also went deep for the White Sox, who won for ...
By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer DETROIT — Matthew Stafford says he didn’t give much thought to opting out of this coming season. It would have been understandable if he’d considered it. “I think like everybody, you hear it and you talk with your spouse and your family about it. I ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer A crumbling college football season took a massive hit Tuesday as the Big Ten and Pac-12, two historic and powerful conferences, succumbed to the pandemic and canceled their fall football seasons. Five months almost to the day after the first ...
By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer DETROIT — JaCoby Jones hit an inside-the-park home run in the seventh inning and the Detroit Tigers breezed to their fourth straight victory, 5-1 over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night. Niko Goodrum homered and had four hits for the Tigers, who handed ...
DETROIT (AP) — A doubleheader between the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers this week is being postponed to allow more time for additional COVID-19 testing. Major League Baseball opted to postpone Thursday’s doubleheader to continue additional testing while players and staff are ...
(AP) — The Hockey Hall of Fame has postponed its 2020 induction because of the pandemic. The ceremony was to have taken place Nov. 16 in Toronto. The 2020 class, announced in June, featured players Jarome Iginla and Marian Hossa and general manager Ken Holland, who worked with the Detroit ...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The Patriots have traded an undisclosed 2022 draft pick to the Detroit Lions for cornerback Michael Jackson. New England announced the deal Sunday. Jackson was originally drafted in the fifth round in 2019 by Dallas. He began his career on the Cowboys practice squad ...