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Today is Feb. 3, 2023. It’s a perfectly innocuous date, at least until you shorten it to just the digits: 2/3/23. That’s 23-23, or as ESPN (and its ACC Network) has dubbed it: “Michael Jordan Day.” It’s all fine and good, we guess — there are worse ideas than a day devoted to Jordan’s greatest moments

MOBILE, Ala. – A year after metro Detroit produced two of the top four picks in the NFL draft — and the two favorites for Defensive Rookie of the Year — in Sauce Gardner (Detroit King) and Aidan Hutchinson (Dearborn Divine Child, Michigan), the region has emerged as the hot spot for one of the

Dre Bly spent four of the best years of his life in Detroit. He signed a big free agent contract with the Detroit Lions in 2003, made the only two Pro Bowls of his career as a player, and celebrated the birth of two of his children while in town. Bly could not help the

Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Producer: Andrew Hammond • Editor: Robin Chan • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Guest: Helene St. James, Free Press Red Wings beat writer • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: This week, the guys welcome back Free Press Red Wings beat writer Helene St. James to discuss the problematic power play performance and scoring

MOBILE, Ala. — As a freshman at Louisiana, O’Cyrus Torrence would spend hours in his offensive line coach’s office watching tape. Then-Louisiana assistant Rob Sale was trying to get Torrence up to speed on the finer points of offensive line play, and as he talked through terminology with his massive recruit — the 6-foot-5, 337-pound

Hello, Tom Brady? It’s me, retirement. Let me start by saying: “You again?” Most people retire once. Oh, not everyone. Sinatra didn’t. Streisand. Garth Brooks. Lots of athletes; Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Brett Favre. Sometimes, it works out. Most of the time, it doesn’t. Yours didn’t. You came back for one more year in the

Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn is still in the mix to become the next head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. Glenn will interview with the Colts a second time on Thursday, CBS Sports reported, becoming the eighth known candidate to get a second interview for the job. In his second season with the Lions,

MOBILE, Ala. — Duce Staley, whose intense coaching style and straightforward approach with players made him a hit on “Hard Knocks,” is leaving the Detroit Lions to join Frank Reich’s staff with the Carolina Panthers. Staley spent the past two seasons as the Lions’ assistant head coach/running backs coach, and helped the Lions post two

Sitting on the couch, eating my morning yogurt, watching ESPN’s “Get Up.” And the news popped across the TV. Tom Brady is retiring. No, seriously this time. And they aired his short, homemade retirement video. “I know the process was a pretty big deal last time, so when I woke up this morning, I figured

MOBILE, Ala. — Aubrey Miller Jr. did not get to watch many Detroit Lions games this season, but the Jackson State linebacker kept close tabs on the team — and his good friend, James Houston — through social media. Houston had eight sacks in seven games after opening the season on the Lions practice squad.

You watch these NFL playoffs and, for the first time in a long time, you think: Why can’t this be the Detroit Lions next year? Why can’t it be the Lions in the NFC championship game? Why can’t it be in the Lions, getting ready for the Super Bowl? And I have come to a

BURROWHEAD, Mo. — OK, I’m not actually in Missouri. But I am firmly and figuratively situated in the mind space that belongs to the Cincinnati Bengals’ quarterback. So that’s where I thought I’d start this column, because, frankly, I can’t stop thinking about what Joe Burrow said after the Bengals beat the Baltimore Ravens in

Jared Goff is in rare company as a Detroit Lions quarterback. Goff was added to the NFC Pro Bowl roster Tuesday, joining teammates Frank Ragnow, Penei Sewell and Amon-Ra St. Brown in the game. The Lions have four offensive players in the Pro Bowl for the first time since 1971, and Goff is the second

It’s a copycat league, the NFL. So goes the saying, and the saying is going around a lot at the moment, as it always does this time of the year, when the schedule has winnowed the field to two, and the runup to the Super Bowl doesn’t quite ramp up for another week. So, yeah,