Detroit Pistons star Rodney Stuckey is providing 500 pre-identified children ages 5-18 from Orchards Children's Services with backpacks and Pistons knit hats as a part of his back to school event.
By the time Tracy McGrady was done addressing the Detroit media Monday, I was ready to grab his new Pistons jersey out of his hands and hang it in the rafters.
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Ricky Sandoval, security director for the Detroit Lions, battled pancreatic cancer for more than three years before succumbing in July 2009 at the age of 49. Sandoval willfully hung on, battling daunting odds: pancreatic cancer is so aggressive that the average patient dies within months of diagnosis.
Monroe was at Milliken State Park in downtown Detroit, where Coca-Cola presented a $25,000 check that will be used for an indoor/outdoor adventure play area.
If Mike and Marian Ilitch succeed in buying the Detroit Pistons basketball team, any celebration could quickly be followed by a debate over paying for the new dual-use arena downtown that the Ilitches hope to build.
After failing to meet expectations in his first year with the Pistons, Charlie Villanueva spent the offseason working out in Detroit. Now Villanueva hopes the extra effort will be enough to earn him a spot in the team's starting lineup.
Dan Loumena of the Los Angeles Times addressed reports of Magic Johnson being a potential owner of the for-sale Detroit Pistons. Loumena refers to an NBA.com article, but the Free Press has also written about Magic's interest. In his Lakers' blog on Wednesday, Loumena weighed in: Does this make sense? Could it really happen? Yes and absolutely. Magic is never one to rest on his laurels and he ...