http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker?disp=comments en-US-utf8 http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:15:29 +0000 Brandon Tucker [Member] c43817@http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/ Thanks Irish Eyes...<br /> <br /> I just checked out the Sporting News 2006 list. It's got Miami 2nd? <br /> <br /> I had no idea a city can win with one championship team where no one goes to games and another where the fans show up to games in the 2nd quarter and leave in the 3rd constituted a good sports city. <br /> <br /> Dallas ain't a bad sports town, I'll give em Dallas on a good year.<br /> <br /> <br />
I just checked out the Sporting News 2006 list. It's got Miami 2nd?

I had no idea a city can win with one championship team where no one goes to games and another where the fans show up to games in the 2nd quarter and leave in the 3rd constituted a good sports city.

Dallas ain't a bad sports town, I'll give em Dallas on a good year.


]]> http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2006/10/12/detroit_is_america_s_best_sports_town_th#c43817 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:52:15 +0000 Adam [Visitor] c43796@http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/ Since this is a golf-related site, let's not forget that the first significant victory of Arnold Palmer's career was in the 1954 US Amateur played at the Country Club of Detroit. http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2006/10/12/detroit_is_america_s_best_sports_town_th#c43796 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:43:58 +0000 Adam [Visitor] c43795@http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/ For any doubters, let me add a few things Brandon left out: - The 2006 Super Bowl was the second for Detroit, which is two more than New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philly COMBINED. - UofM football won a national title within the last 10 years and is ranked no. 2 currently. More than 100,000 fans at every single home game since the 1970s - MSU basketball won a national title in the last 10 years and is a perennial contender. - Detroit Grand Prix returns in 2007 http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2006/10/12/detroit_is_america_s_best_sports_town_th#c43795 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:40:12 +0000 irish eyes [Visitor] c43793@http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/ In 1998, the Sporting News proclaimed Detroit as the Best Sports City. They have remained in the top 10 ever since (#3 this year).<br /> <br /> Brandon did a fine job of enumerating all the points in favor of Detroit's preeminence; so I'll just add: 110,000 fans every Sat. in Ann Arbor and the Detroit Shock - champions again!<br />
Brandon did a fine job of enumerating all the points in favor of Detroit's preeminence; so I'll just add: 110,000 fans every Sat. in Ann Arbor and the Detroit Shock - champions again!
]]> http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2006/10/12/detroit_is_america_s_best_sports_town_th#c43793 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:55:26 +0000 golf goddess [Visitor] c43697@http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/ Yo, Chris,<br /> <br /> Great sports towns are Great Sports Towns, win or lose. <br /> <br /> But who cares what Chris thinks? Even if you don't follow baseball, you gotta love what the Tigers are doing.
Great sports towns are Great Sports Towns, win or lose.

But who cares what Chris thinks? Even if you don't follow baseball, you gotta love what the Tigers are doing. ]]> http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2006/10/12/detroit_is_america_s_best_sports_town_th#c43697 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:57:24 +0000 Brandon Tucker [Member] c43603@http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/ Hey Chris please name a better city, otherwise your claim really makes no claim at all. <br /> <br />
]]> http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2006/10/12/detroit_is_america_s_best_sports_town_th#c43603 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:24:42 +0000 John [Visitor] c43598@http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/ Dear Chris, Are you even serious? did you just mention Big Ben and Darko in the same sentence? Yes, the Pistons "lost" Big Ben, but they "got rid" of Darko. You mention that the lions are a laughingstock, which I don't deny. Yes, this is the first time in years that our baseball team is relevant (and awesome!). But the Pistons and Red Wings consistently contend for titles. And you have presented no counter argument for either a city with better sports teams or one with more loyal fans. Brandon 1, Chris 0. http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2006/10/12/detroit_is_america_s_best_sports_town_th#c43598 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:15:28 +0000 Chris Thompson [Visitor] c43597@http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/ Are you even serious? This is the first time in years that your baseball team has even been anything close to relevant, your football team is a walking laughingstock ( and definitely one of the consistently worst teams in the past 20 years, as is your baseball team every year except this year), and your basketball team lost Darko AND Big Ben in the offseason. If the Pistons thought the playoffs were tough last year, this year SURE isn't looking any better.<br /> <br /> Yet there you are, proclaiming Detroit, Michigan "America's Best Sports Town" and talking about some golf courses?!?!?<br /> <br /> Ok, buddy, whatever you say.
Yet there you are, proclaiming Detroit, Michigan "America's Best Sports Town" and talking about some golf courses?!?!?

Ok, buddy, whatever you say. ]]> http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/brandon.tucker/2006/10/12/detroit_is_america_s_best_sports_town_th#c43597