One sublect that many, including myself, have done for so long is give top ten lists of pretty much everything under the sun. Sports fans really like to make these lists. But what many readers don’t realize, unfortunately, is that 99% of top ten lists are nothing more than an opinion.  Some of the writers don't realize it either though.

Some of the more popular lists I have done would include the top ten baseball players of all time, top ten hottest WNBA players, and the big one, the top ten most overrated sports moments which I wrote earlier this year.

A marketing firm compiled data and fan feedback from all 122 pro sports franchises. With this list it is based on many items. This list is not my list. This list was done by two companies as well.

The list is called the "Ultimate Standings" by Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon and Markitecture INC. The list was published in the May issue of ESPN the Magazine.

The data used to figure all this out was put together with these factors included. Most of these factors included: Ownership, Coaching, Players, Fan Relations, Affordability Stadium Experience, and BLEEP-for-the-Buck.

So who are the Top Ten Franchises and who are the Bottom Feeders? Here are the lists.

Top Ten Sports Franchises:

10. Arizona Diamondbacks

9. Jacksonville Jaguars

8. Detroit Pistons

7.Detroit Tigers

6.Los Angeles Angels

5. Anaheim Ducks

4. Green Bay Packers

3.New Orleans Hornets

2. San Antonio Spurs

1. Indianapolis Colts

 
The Bottom Feeders:

113. Memphis Grizzlies

114. Baltimore Orioles

115. Cincinnati Bengals

116. Seattle Supersonics

117. Oakland Raiders

118. Minnesota Timberwolves

119. Atlanta Falcons

120. Detroit Lions

121. Toronto Maple Leafs

122. New York Knicks

 Notables and other numbers:

The city of Detroit had three teams in the top 12 and one in the bottom. The Detroit Red Wings came in at 12th.

No New York team ranked higher than the Giants at number 48. New York has seven pro sports franchises which is more than any other city.

The New England Patriots were ranked as the 11th best franchise.

The Chicago Cubs were ranked 95th. I guess without any living fans from the last World Series it is hard to rank higher. The Cubs have only won two World Series’ and they were back-toback in 1907-08.

The number 100 team is the New Jersey Nets.

The Indiana Pacers just missed the Bottom Feeder list at number 112

In MLB the Boston Red Sox ranked 89th while the New York Yankees ranked 65th. The Tampa Bay Rays ranked 75th while the Toronto Blue Jays ranked 67th and the Baltimore Orioles were ranked 114th. The AL East is not a good franchise division apparently.

Surprises on the list were the Milwaukee Brewers who were 13th and the St. Louis Blues were 14th.

 

This time of year Hockey could change its name to Goalie. Playoff success is generally predicated on a teams goalie play through out the playoffs. Goalie play with a healthy dose of shut down defense is the key to almost every Stanley Cup winner. Pretty much every team in the playoffs this year has a goalie that is capable of leading their team to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Lets look at each series and take an educated guess on which teams can emerge into round two.

 

Eastern Conference

1. Montreal Canadiens vs 8. Boston Bruins- Montreal one of the world premier hockey cities is juiced for the first round this year as the Habs have a number one seed. Montreal should sweep this series as they did the season series 8-0. Boston may get one win in this series but with as many injuries as they have had this season and right now, it just isn’t their time.

Montreal Sweep 4-0

2. Pittsburgh Penguins vs 7. Ottawa Senators - Ottawa started as one of the leagues best. But the last three months have been unkind in Ottawa. Pittsburgh has so much offense and Sidney Crosby may just be healthy. Ottawa ousted the Penguins in just five games last spring. That plays big in a team motivation to seek revenge.

Penguins in 5 4-1

3. Washington Capitals vs 6. Philadelphia Flyers- Both teams finished the season strong and both have top notch goalies. The Capitals boast an attack lead by scoring sensation Alexander Ovechkin and back him up with solid goaltending from trade deadline pick up Christabol Huet. Philly on the other hand finished the season 7-1-1 and have Martin Biron who will be a factor in net for the flyers. However I feel the Capitals have too much momentum going into the playoffs and will win a very tough series.

Washington 4-3

4. New Jersey Devils 5. New York Rangers. New York dominated to season series winning the first seven of eight. Both have strong goalies but the Rangers have the match ups that are going to stifle a Devils team that has made too many lateral moves with their roster over the last two years. It takes more than Martin Broduer to win a series, or does it?

New York 4-2

Western Conference-

1. Detroit Red Wings vs 8. Nashville Predators- The Wings get lucky having a first round series without west coast travel. The Wings being in the Eastern time zone often have series travel issues this time of year. Nashville is yet to win a playoff series and they are due. However they aren’t going to get this one. The series may get stretched to six games due to the massive injury list the Wings have but they have the best goalie tandem in the league. They will start Dominik Hasek and have back up Chris Osgood who actually lead the league in GAA percentage and started the All-Star game this season.

Detroit 4-2

2. San Jose Sharks and 7. Calgary Flames- This series may be a little tight than most have anticipated.The Sharks have been one of the leagues hottest teams but Calgary is one of the hardest working teams. Here is where the multiple over time games will come in . Both teams goalies are among the leagues best. The goalie match up of Nabokov and Kiprusoff shoudl carry this series at least 6 gams.

San Jose 4-2

3.Minnesota Wild vs 6. Colorado Avalanche- Minnesota is facing a very different Colorado team with the addition of many former players they acquired late in the season. Colorado needs to show that they are the Avalanche of old and not and Old Avalanche team. Minnesota may have enough to get to round two but I don’t see it happening. The only way the Wild move on is if the defense they have dominated with can hold up with a revamped Colorado team.

Colorado 4-2

4. Anaheim Ducks vs 5. Dallas Stars. Dallas just lost leader and defensemen Zubov and deadline acquisition Brad Richards finished very mediocre. Anaheim is the defending Stanley Cup Champs and they are for a reason. They boast four top tier defenseman and know what it takes to win a cup. They also have a very solid goalie in Jean-Sebastian Giguere.

Anaheim in five 4-1

This is it for round one. What do you think will happen? I think I made my case but series aren’t played on paper/blogs. If you are a NHL fan this is the best time of year. Every goal is huge.

Outdoor hockey is not only fun to watch but it is great for the NHL. It is rumored now that the last game in Yankee Stadium next year may be a hockey game involving the Detroit Red Wings and the New York Rangers.

Yankees fans will not and do not want this to happen. The house that Ruth built should not be taken down by Gary Bettman. Yankee fans may have a major outcry, but realize that this happens to all stadiums. The last event is not usually the typical home team game. Most of the time last events at stadiums are concerts. Tiger Stadium in Detroit had its last event as a Snoop Dog concert before Super Bowl 40.

The real reason the Rangers and Red Wings should not play at Yankee Stadium is because the place isn’t big enough. Pittsburgh and Buffalo sold out Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo earlier this season. If they can sell it out that Detroit/New York would need a football field as well. Have the game at the Meadowlands!

Actually the best idea for the NHL to have an outdoor game would be to have a Red Wings game in Ann Arbor at the Big House Michigan Stadium. The Wings could score a gate of nearly 120,000 fans! Mo Cheese could dance in front of the entire hockey world in this internationally televised event!  Mo Cheese is the Red Wings most famous fan and one of the most well known in all of sports.

They already pulled off an outdoor game for college hockey in Michigan that sold out.  Michigan and Michigan State played an outdoor game at Spartan Stadium.  It was a perfect storm for a quick sell out.  Two home teams basically because both are located so closely to each other and are already rivals in every sport. 

 

Darren McCarty is making his way back into the NHL. The former Wing and most recently Calgary Flame forward had been injured and out of hockey. Finally back healthy McCarty played in the IHL a team co-owned by Red Wings center Kris Draper, McCarty's former Grind Line linemate.
He signed with the Flint Generals.

In Flint it sparked attendance and sold out games. The Generals have a good team but have not drawn very good crowds all season, until McCarty arrived.

Then he got a minor league pro tryout with the Grand Rapids Griffins, the minor league affiliate of the Red Wings.

GM Ken Holland told Anshar Khan on Mlive.com "there are three options to signing McCarty: Put him on the NHL roster immediately and keep him there, send him back to Grand Rapids on a two-week conditioning stint, or sign him and send him to the Griffins indefinitely. In order to send him to the minors, he would need to clear waivers, unless it's just for a two-week conditioning stint.

"The intention is to eventually get him up here," Holland said. "In my mind, he's not ready to be put on an NHL roster. I don't think Darren is quite there, conditioning-wise. He's got to lose some weight."

Fans in Detroit will go crazy if he gets brought in. He was a fan favorite for 11 years in Hockeytown and would give the Wings a spark.

You have heard it for years.  The Cowboys are America's team.  You may have even heard the Yankees were America's team in baseball.  I wanted to find out what America thinks about this.  One factor I used to determine this is that the team could qualify in its particular sport if they have an equal or greater approval rating than the President of the United States.  According to Pollreporting.com the president's approval rating is right around 30%.

One thing needed to determine this was a lot of input from fans all across America.  I was able to gather over 700 responses to put this list together.  Most sports actually have what would be considered America's team.  Some sports were close but didn't have enough support.  Whether you like it or not America has spoken and here are their teams.

NFL-  Lets start with the most talked about and most obvious team.  In the NFL the Dallas Cowboys wear the crown of being America's team.  It has been said for years but with a 30% vote for, it was confirmed.  Only one other team even registered a number higher than 3% and that was the New England Patriots with 17%. 

MLB-  Here is another team that really was no surprise.  In MLB the New York Yankees were anointed America's team with 33% of the vote.  I thought maybe the Chicago Cubs might have a shot in this category but this one wasn't even close.  The Yankees winning ways have given so many fans a reason to keep watching.  They are a franchise that has been capable of putting together back-to-back Championships in almost every era.

The Yankees like the Cowboys have a love hate relationship with America.  Fans either love them or hate them.  There is always one or the other with these two storied franchises.

Now when you think of other sports they may not be as obvious but they are completely legitimate.  Who do you think of as America's teams in College football and basketball?  What about NHL and NBA?  Upon further review it is the usual suspects.  The teams we always see on nationally televised games because they get the best ratings.

NHL-  Currently the NHL has fallen almost completely off the sports map in most cities.  The NHL has its team though.  That team is none other than the Detroit Red Wings.  The Red Wings received the highest percentage of any team throughout the entire poll.  The Wings garnered 37% of the vote to be crowed America's hockey team.  The Wings were the team of the 90's and were able to put together Three Stanley Cups under "the Captain" Steve Yzerman.  They also play in "HockeyTown" which may help too.

NBA- well in the NBA this was a little bit of a surprise.  It was a huge 50% vote in this lopsided win that there is actually NO America's team in the NBA.  The only team that even registered a double digit number was the Los Angeles Lakers with 27% of the vote.  The Pistons were the only other team to get mentioned with 9% of the vote.  So in the NBA there is actually no team but we know who gets the most ratings when they are on TV.  That is why the NBA needs a Laker/Piston finals in 2008!

College sports the BIG 2-

College Football-   You know America's college football team isn't going to be a team from the Big Ten or the SEC.  You also know it isn't a team from the Pac 10 or the Big 12 right?  It is the team with its own network.  This was a no brainer.  Notre Dame is America's college football team with 37% of the vote.  This wasn't close at all with no other team getting more than Michigan's 9% total.  Notre Dame has every game as a Nationally televised game.  NBC is called the Notre Dame Network, if the games aren't on NBC they are on ABC.

College Basketball- This was somewhat of a surprise to me because I thought this team would be most hated.  That is also why so many of the other America's teams are thought of this way.  Duke Basketball is America's team in a landslide.  No other team even registered more than 5% of the vote.

If you didn't know, now yo know.  America claims a team for almost every sport.  It isn't just the Cowboys either.  Now when you see these teams on TV next time you will know why they are on, because they are America's Teams, Like it or Not!

Pavel Datsyuk is having his best season this year and has stepped up big time in the absence of teammate and linemate Henrik Zetterberg.  Pavel could have become a free-agent this off season but Red WingsGeneral manager Ken Holland decided to get it done now.  He got it done by inking Datsyuk to a seven-year, $46.9 million contract.

Having inked Datsyuk they also clinched the Central Division in Chicago last night.  They lost in a shoot out but still gained the point needed to clinch.  They were without Dominik Hasek, Nicklas Lidstrom, and Zetterberg. The wings also lost newly acquired and fresh off a back injury Todd Bertuzzi to a strained neck injury when he collided with Chris Osgood in the games first period.

Maybe next year the Nashville Predators will win the division but they still have a lot to learn over the long marathon of a full regular season.  They could have won the division this year but were dominated by the Wings.  The two are likely to meet in the playoffs this season where it really counts.

The trade deadline had it all yesterday.  Players were dealt, prospects and draft picks as well.  It is never fair to really say who winners and losers are for sometimes five to seven years.  Especially with as many draft picks and prospects were dealt yesterday.  The moves that were made are all to help organizations (canadian translation organ-eye-zation) wins the Stanley Cup this year or in ten years.

One team did what they have a history for and they are my first loser of the pack.  I left Nashville of the list of winners because they didn't add anyone after Foresberg.  Peter Foresberg has not played like the Peter Foresberg of Colorada since he was in Colorado.  The Predators are a fast team that didn't seem to prepare for  a marathon as the Detroit Red Wings have now tied the for the second best overall record in the NHL, just one point behind Eastern Conference leading Buffalo.


First winner is  the New York Islanders.  They get a franchise player in Ryan Smyth from Edmonton. but give up essentially three first round picks to get him.  The trick now is to sign him to a long term deal like Edmonton would not.  If they cannot convice Ryan to stay, they will have problems.

The second winner is San Jose.  They traded for Bill Guerin.  He may actually be the best overall forward right now in the NHL.  The Blues were eliminated basically from the playoffs and needed to look at the future.  San Jose may now have the best power play going into the playoffs.

The Third winner is Detroit.  They brought in struggling winger Kyle Calder traded from Philadelphia back to Chicago enroute to a trade to Detroit.  Calder came off the bench to score approxiamtley 6 seconds into his Red Wing career.  The Wings also brought in Todd Bertuzzi from Florida who has been out almost all season with back surgery.  Bert is almost ready to go though. 

The Pittsburgh Penguins got tougher, a lot tougher.  They convinced tough guy, veteran, goal scoring, playoff tested Gary Roberts to waive his no trade clause and also brought in the leagues best fighter Georges Larauque to protect possibly the leagues best player in Sidney Crosby.  These moves may be bigger than all of the above, but don't forget, goaltending wins out and they have a lot riding on Fluery to prove he has more than a great regular season in him, and he has that chance this year.  The Pens may not win it all this year but these are the steps to get there.  The playoff experience will be great for this young team.

Other teams that were close were Atlanta for bringing in Keith Tkachuk not Pascal Dupuis.  Atlanta is ready to make a playoff run adding to their improved line up.  Nashville did bring in Foresberg but that is all.  Five years ago that would have been huge.  But the question remains in Nashville is, will the Preds get the Peter Foresberg of old, or just and old Peter Foresberg? 

Teams that lost were not as clear because of the prospects and future picks acquired are moves made for the future  However I can say that with out a doubt the Edmonton Oilers are losers, clearly.  The irony of Mark Messier night?  Honoring a hero and sending another away, adding in Wayne Gretzky had his coyotes in town was too much for me.  The day they traded the franchise in Ryan Smyth, they celebrate Mark Messier and celebrate with another of their big trades made when they sent Gretzky to L.A. in 1998.  Smyth is often dubbed Captain Canada because he has represented his country on the ice so many times at the world Championship tournament.  He also won gold with Team Canada at the 2002 Olympics.

The Hab nots is what Montreal has become.  They traded away a defenseman two days earlier and stand in the number seven spot in the playoffs in the east tied with the Islanders.  They are still in a strong position to play for the Stanley Cup and decided maybe they shouldn't be.  They made no moves other than subtraction.

The Maple Loafs did it again!  They brought back Yanic Perrault for his third stint in Toronto.  He did have 19 goals for Phoenix this season so far and the Loafs do get Mike Peca back soon so maybe they are going to be just fine.  maybe they can have the respect of being called the Leafs again come playoff time.  Yanic said of his return to Toronto "It feels like Groundhog Day, "I wake up and I'm back in Toronto.  He also said "It's great . . . the fans have always been great."

It is nice to see the trade deadline hasn't lost its luster but had more shine since the salary cap. More players were moved yesterday than any in trades past.  It is also amusing to see the same basic results in standing before and after the cap. Many thought the Wings would falter but had the best overall record by far last season and only one point behind the Sabres for the Presidents Trophy. Some thought this would keep teams like New York from plucking great players from teams, having a huge payroll, and never making the playoffs.....wrong. It all came out who the have and have nots are when it comes to front office supremacy.

 

All Star games are terrible.  They have become a popularity contest and have been for some time now.  Current proof, Steve Nash, may be on his way to his 3rd straight MVP award, is not even in the starting line up for the Western Conference at this point!  Maybe it is because he has such bad haircuts sometimes, I don't know.  Dominik Hasek who had the best GAA in the Western Conference for the Detroit Red Wings was 24-7-3 with six shut outs wasn't even on the All Star team!  Every year in all of the sports we hear about and see players getting "snubbed" based on numbers.  Would it be better if it wasn't voted on by fans?  I think so.  Besides the only All Star game that is watchable in the MLB All Star game, unless they tie.  The NFL has thiers after the season is over.  This may be the worst of all.  How about sports change to just an All Star list?  Just name the All Stars with out even having a game.  What could happen as well is they could use the best players based on stats.  Now there is a concept.

The Phoenix Suns are doing it all this year with two tremendous winning streaks.  There are truly firing on all cylinders right now with Amare Stoudemire.  They are currently on a 17 game winning streak.  Amare may be the missing piece they were lacking last year when they just couldn't get past the Mavs.  They all look fresh and energetic and they need to be to carry on through the playoffs.  The Pistons were tearing up the league like this last year and got burnt out in the playoffs by the Heat last year.  The Pistons after the last playoff game last season had played 82 playoff games in three years.  That was equivalent of an entire extra season, like playing four seasons in three years.

The Super Bowl does not seem to have the hype in it this year than it has in the past.  I have heard WAY too much about the Patriots getting screwed by the refs in the AFC Championship.  Patriot fan is definitely crying.  Patriots fan Shut up about the refs.  This is what happens.  Try being a Lions fan and seeing how many times a year this happens.  I wrote about the NFL ref staying out of my life back in August.  How about you think about Raiders fan as well when you got the benefit of the biggest scam call I have ever seen with the "tuck rule" garbage they pulled out which led to Vinateri's field goal and later getting you into the Super Bowl in which you won.  What goes around comes around so get ready for the balance to tip the scale back the other way a little.

In Detroit the Red Wings decided to bring Dominak Hasek back for the 2006-07 season.  A lot of fans questioned why they would bring him back.  He has had many injuries through out his career.  Hasek already left here once, retired, and came back with Ottowa.  There was also that nasty thing called the Lockout which had put the proverbial foot on the last finger holding on to being in the mainstream American sports landscape.  Turns out so far that Ken Holland was right again.

 I wonder why Dominik Hasek was left off the All-Star team considering he leads the league in GAA (goals against average) with 1.98.  His total record this season is 24-7-3.  He also already has six shutouts.  Lets also not forget he is doing all of this as he is about to turn 42! The Dominator and Chris Chelios, who turns 45 this month, are both old enough to be grandparents now.  As good as they have both played, I would not be surprised if they played next year as well.

With Hasek being left off the roster it just gives another example on why All-Star games dont get  good ratings in any sport.  They don't always have the best players.  Either due to injury or by incumbantcy it never really seems to be the very best.  The best thing for this though is that it gives Hasek a few days off.  A man his age needs some time here and there to relax. 

Maybe this will give him the motivation to show all those who didn't put him in the All-Star that they made a mistake.  Right now the Redwings have two goalies that they have won Stanley Cups with.  They should feel confident that  Hasek and Osgood can both lead them to another Cup.

  The original scam was thought and planned out by the underpants gnomes.  They thought they had it all planned out.  UNDERWEAR + ? = PROFIT!  But the plan never came to fruition because they always had that same question mark.

  The Detroit Tigers owner Mike Illitch has devised a similar scheme but the question mark they never thought they would figure out, turned out to be the Tigers making the World Series. 

  You see, Mike Illitch is the owner of the Detroit Red Wings and Little Ceasers pizza as well.  So the equasion he was working with was - RED WINGS TICKETS + ? = PROFIT.  He now figured out that the question mark was his other toy, the Tigers.  RED WINGS TICKETS + TIGERS WORLD SERIES TICKETS = PROFIT!

  Here is how though.  According to a news bulletin by the Detroit Free Press,  if you couldn’t get World Series tickets for games 1 and 2, all you have to do is buy 20 Red Wings tickets.

Select 20 or more single seats in any combination (20 seats for one game, 10 seats for two games, etc.). That will qualify you to purchase two side-by-side seats to Game 1 (Saturday) or Game 2 (Sunday) at Comerica Park.  Red Wings seats might not be side-by-side, but they’ll be as close together as possible based on availability. Seats are $44, $54 and $76.
Tigers seating will be side-by-side, located in the outfield box, $256 per seat.

I guess it isn't that bad, but at least he didn't say you had to buy 25 Hot-N-Ready pizzas and multiple show tickets at the Fox Theatre in Detroit as well as a 5 drink minimum across the street from Comerica [park at the Hockeytown cafe.

 

This year in Detroit all four major sports teams have new coaches.  Three of them have already coached and the results have been outstanding.  The Red Wings won the presidents trophy with Mike Babcock at the helm, even though they were knocked off in the first round by Edmonton they had the leagues best overall record.  They also set records for road wins and consecutive road wins.  The Pistons with Flip Saunders got off to their best start in team history and ended up with the NBA's best record.  Currently the Tigers have the best record in all of baseball with new skipper Jim Leyland calling the shots.  You may need to read the previous sentence again, it isn't a misprint.

Now it is up to new Lions coach Rod Marinelli to prove his worth with the Lions.  Can the rookie head coach have the Lions in first place in the NFC north or even best record in the NFL.  It may be highly unlikely he will move them into first place or even make the playoffs but, he has put himself into a good position to make a run at it.  They added new offensive and defensive coordinators and moved Joey Harrington to Miami so they don't have that drama to deal with.  You may not think the Lions will do much this season but don't discount the mojo the city of Detroit has right now.   Rod Marinelli understands that winning teams do all the little things and get every extra inch possible here and there to get most possible out of his players.  The division this team has had in the locker room is almost as strong as Lions fans opinions.  I read on a Lions forum that one fans doesn't care if the Lions go 1-15 as long as they beat Miami because Joey Harrington is their quarterback now.   Some fans think that the Lions will or need to move one of their three first round draft pick wide receivers.  Almost laughable when you look at 95% of all WRs in NFL history and what they were able to do in their first few seasons.  There is power in numbers and they have plenty of numbers, but do they have any power?  They like many other positions need time to develop.  The problem is that Lions fans have been patient for long enough.  It is time for the fans to be reimbursed for all the money spent, Sundays lost, emotions released, and support for a team that has only won one playoff game since 1957.  The future is in good hands with Mike Martz coaching the offense.  Can Mike Martz put together the pieces to a puzzle that has never been put together?It is now the Lions turn to do something for a city who has supported them for so long, with nothing in return but Barry Sanders memories and great sound bites from the coaches who have come and gone.

  

   This past weekend the football world was entralled in the NFL draft.  Chat rooms and forums were lit up in anticipation of each teams picks and what Detroit was going to do with theirs.  The Detroit Lions have always been the biggest "hot button" in Detroit.  They have only won one playoff game since the 1957 NFL Championship.

     The Detroit Red Wings played game five in their best of seven series against the Edmonton Oilers.  They lost game five and head back to Edmonton facing elimination.  Detroit won the Presidents trophy this season for the best overall record.  However they are in danger of doing it all for not.  Have we seen Steve Yzerman play his last game?  Game six in Tonight in Edmonton at 8pm.

     The Detroit Pistons also had the best record in their respective league.  The also lost on Saturday to the Milwaukee Bucks.  Michael Redd scored 40 in a 20 point win at home against the defending Eastern Conference Champion Pistons.  Game four will be played tonight in Milwaukee at 8:30 pm.

     Last but not least the Detroit Tigers swept the suddenly inept Twins out of town yesterday with a 6-0 shutout and outscored the Twins 33-1.  The Tigers had their best April since 1993 which just happens to be the last season that the Tigers had a winning record.  The Pitching has been outstanding and the hitting has been timely.  Both add up to wins and are only 1 1/2 games out of first behind the World Champion White Sox.

     Having said all of that what does the Detroit Sports report decide to run?  You guessed it a Ron Mason spotlight.  Makes sense right?  Have all this action people care about and run a half hour spotlight on Ron Mason, the athletic director for Michigan State University. What a joke.

     This is a long line of blunders they have made at this station.  In an attempt to help them out I have put a short list of things to do to get better ratings and fan support.

1. Check all name pronunciations (before the show)
2. Broadcast from Detroit more than once or twice a year.
3. Here is a an idea, show all of the highlights from the games.  you have a half hour to kill, show me all the Tigers runs, Red Wings goals, and every draft choice.
4. Listen to the fans, like this blog and all who comment on this.  Most fans in Detroit follow all four pro sports, and are very passionate about them.
5. No more spotlights on anyone, I never watch them and have never heard anyone talk about them.