By Melrose Jerry Green DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 16, 2016 With the recent format change of Detroit Sports 105.1 to throwback hip-hop, we’re down to only one FM "sports talk" radio station in this town. As a result, this website has made it a priority to scrutinize every minor detail regarding the flagship station…

By Karl Henkel karlhenk89@GMail.com July 15, 2016 After Michigan State’s steamrolling of Michigan in the fall of 2013, Spartans coach Mark Dantonio praised then-Wolverines coach Brady Hoke, saying he had “great respect” for Hoke, who at the time had a “pretty unbelievable” undefeated record at the Big House. Of course…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 15, 2016 Not long after I started this website in 2003, I began receiving emails from Tiger Stadium preservationists requesting that I join their fight to stop the inevitable demolition of the dilapidated edifice at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull. Maybe because I was an…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 13, 2016 I am not going to lie to you. I absolutely hate Detroit News baseball writer Chris McCosky. Like, not phony distaste. I literally can't stand this miserable motherfucker. For as long as I can remember, the man has been filling up the pages of the News with…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 13, 2016 On this week's DSR Podcast, Jasper Apollonia and I discussed the website's purchase of Jim Leyland's old sofa and how I learned that my Tony Paul Periscope was picked up by Deadspin. We also discussed the Tigers first half, the potential trades they might need to make moving forward and the…

WBy Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 13, 2016 So a couple weeks ago I was reading the Detroit Free Press and noticed an article by Brian Manzullo and George Sipple about the Detroit Tigers selling Jim Leyland's old couch that had remained in Brad Ausmus' office since Smokes McGee retired at the end of 2013. (I'm not sure why it…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 12, 2016 It's rare when there is a positive development in the Detroit sports media landscape so I figured I would post a quick blog regarding yesterday's news that Justin Rogers is leaving MLive.com to cover the Lions for the Detroit News. Rogers -- the second banana behind Kyle Meinke for…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 11, 2016 A couple of weeks ago, the DSR broke the news that the Detroit Police Athletic League (PAL) had sold the naming rights to the Old Tiger Stadium location and the recreational facility was going to be called "The Willie Horton Field of Dreams at Re/Max…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 10, 2016 What do the Marlboro Man, the Disney movie "The Rookie," Billy Ray Cypress Hill, Scott Spieth, Thurman Munson, Sean Penn, 2Pac's mom, Merrick Garland, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Dr. Jack Kevorkian all have in common? They are all part of Tigers All-Star Break Mossisms™.…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com July 10, 2016 The other day I Tweeted out to my acolytes that now that Detroit Sports 105.1 is sleeping with the fishes, I will have a lot more time on my hands to focus on the third-trimester abortion down the dial with the call letters WXYT-FM. To be…