By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com February 25, 2015 Struggling FM sports talk station Detroit Sports 105.1 has found their replacement for outgoing program director Jason Dixon and it would appear the new hire is not familiar with the Detroit sports market either. The DSR has learned that Dave Shore -- the current…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com Updated February 24, 2015 Five years ago yesterday, current Fox Sports reporter Clay Travis sent out a Tweet proclaiming that then-Kentucky center DeMarcus Cousins would be arrested within five years. On the date that the [racist] prediction officially became incorrect, Cousins was named to his first NBA…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com February 23, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, this website broke the news explaining the REAL reason why the Detroit News demoted Tom Gage and replaced him with Chris "Officer Barbrady" McCosky on the Tigers beat.  In a cost-cutting measure, the paper is trying to force Gage…

By Justin Spiro spirojus@GMail.com February 22, 2015 The full complement of the Detroit Tigers roster just arrived in Lakeland, Florida. The players will spend this first week shaking off rust. The Detroit media, however, is already in midseason form. While it is understood that both players and fans tend to…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com February 20, 2015 [Editor's Note: I debated whether or not to post this article. Eviscerating Darren McCarty is about as difficult as convincing Scott Anderson to shove a Paczki down his gullet. But then Brian Cook of MGoBlog.com posted this disemboweling of David Brandon so I had to…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com February 16, 2015 And you thought the Super Bowl ending was excruciatingly close and dramatic? Well, it wasn't even the biggest nail-biter during the short month of February. That honor surely will go to the 2015 Worst Detroit Sports Media Personality Tournament which ended earlier this…

DSR Worst Detroit Sports Media Personality Tournament - FINAL Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com February 14, 2015 After nine days of intense match-ups we have arrived at the culmination of the Worst Detroit Sports Personality Tournament of 2015 with two worthy combatants ..... Lynn Henning of the Detroit News versus 97.1's morbidly obese Scott Anderson …

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com Valentine's Day 2015 Above is the DSR's official response to the Lions' official website making a photo gallery of Valentine's Day cards. (more…)

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com February 13, 2015 You know the story by now. For some reason that NOBODY in Detroit, the baseball world or anywhere else on the planet can figure out, the Detroit News replaced longtime Tigers beat writer Tom Gage with the journalistic holocaust that goes by the name…

By Jeff Moss DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com February 13, 2015 As first reported here earlier this week, Detroit Sports 105.1-FM parted ways with program director Jason Dixon, whose tenure at the station was an abysmal failure. Dixon -- who was in charge of WMGC's transition from Adult Contemporary to Sports -- came to…