Feb. 3, 2008 the New York Giants faced an undefeated New England Patriots team in Super Bowl XLII. Tom Brady and Randy Moss had broken a NFL record for touchdown passes in that season, their veteran defense was playing well and the team as a whole was firing on all cylinders. But that night in University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona, Brady and Patriots failed to complete a perfect season losing to the Giants 17-14.
When the news came out that the Detroit Shock was leaving town and relocating to Tulsa, Okla., I was shocked. Yeah I knew that attendance was an issue, but I held out hope that they would find a way to work it out.
On a cloudy, rainy and windswept day, the Detroit Public School League (PSL) football championships commenced at William Hill Field on the campus of Renaissance High School. Doing battle were Central vs. Fredrick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. versus Cody.
Not since the days of A.J. Vaughn (1967) and Ed Skonewski (1975) has the Wayne State Football team looked this promising. The Warriors’ season gets more interesting every time they step on the field and earn a well-deserved victory.
EAST LANSING — No sooner than Michigan State University had outlasted visiting Northwestern, 24-14, the team’s thoughts focused directly on Saturday’s upcoming battle with No. 6 ranked Iowa (7-0, 3-0 Big Ten). “We were not looking past Northwestern,” said MSU’s starting defensive end Trevor Anderson, “but who could have imagined we would be playing Iowa for a chance to get into a least a tie for the Big Ten lead.”
The last time the Pittsburgh Steelers came to Ford Field was February of 2006 and they left the field after 60 minutes with another Super Bowl victory.
In wet, rainy weather on a high school football Friday at Cass Technical School, the story was not the Technicians’ 40-0 win over Mumford, it was Bettina Little becoming the first female to referee a Detroit Public School League (PSL) football game.
