Michael Whitaker

As we await the return of sports and any sort of sense of normalcy, we have some unfortunate news to pass along that's affected a huge part of the Michigan sports community. Dwayne Stephens Sr., the father of Michigan...

Thanks to the spread of COVID-19, the National Hockey League as well as several other leagues in North America and across the world have paused gameplay in an effort to flatten the curve of the illness. And while sports...

Thanks to a shortage of advertising money, radio company Entercom has been forced to proceed with layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs of employees. 97.1 The Ticket is owned by Entercom, and two on-air personalities that metro-Detroiters are very familiar...

Our list of former Detroit Red Wings GM Ken Holland's top free-agent signings continues with number four on our list. For those of you who may have missed it, here's number five: No. 5 - Luc Robitaille Number four...

Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly sure wasn't shy about making his thoughts known about the comments made by ESPN analyst regarding the immediate future of college football. Of course, thanks to the spread of the novel...

There's no question about it - Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford was playing some MVP level football before the injuries to his back forced him to shut down his season last year. And the analytics only go to show...

Our Game of the Day series continues, and we're throwing it back to the magical 1996-97 Detroit Red Wings season for this one. The legendary rivalry between Detroit and the Colorado Avalanche continued with a playoff matchup one year...

Michigan State Spartans head coach Tom Izzo found himself back in the headlines today thanks to a report from ESPN saying that he contacted a witness in a sexual assault investigation against one of his players before they'd had...

There's absolutely no "disputing" who Fox Sports analyst Skip Bayless believes was the greatest player in NFL history to wear the jersey number 81. Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson receives that honor from Bayless ahead of Terrell...

The Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox provided baseball fans with one of the more memorable bench clearing brawls 20 years ago in the Windy City - twice in the same game on April 22, 2000. Both brawls stemmed...