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Sports Columns

Game between Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions can be a theatrical experience

Normally I don’t advertise in this space. But when a business is doing us Packers and Lions fans a favor, hey, I’m happy to. So the Thomas Theatre Group of Marquette is going to show tonight’s Detroit Lions at Green Bay Packers game on one of their big screens. Like really big screens. ...

Aaron Rodgers just triggers something in me about New York sports teams

Last week, I wrote the top part for this Armchair Quarterback column about Aaron Rodgers’ injury and how that brought to the surface how I hate New York sports teams. If you saw this space, you know that isn’t what you read — instead, I went with my original plan to complain about how ...

Whole new look to the NFL season in Detroit, Green Bay

We’re on the verge of a brand-new NFL season and the Detroit Lions — the Lions? — get to kick it off tonight with a game at the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. As they mention in a TV commercial from a few years back, “Say what?!?!” Yes, it is a whole new world ...

Put ‘ultra’ in front of competitive for Sunday’s NFL playoff games

There’s a couple ways to look at this ultracompetitive conference championship round in the NFL playoffs. There weren’t any real upsets in last weekend’s divisional round, which is a good thing in that it pretty much leaves only the best four teams in the league still ...

The most wonderful time of the year? The divisional round of the NFL playoffs!

I’ve already heard that the upcoming weekend is the best of the year in sports. It’s the divisional round of the NFL playoffs! I’ll have to give some thought as to whether this is THE best weekend in sports — I thought the Nick Baumgartner week was pretty fine last February — but ...