The Detroit Tigers recently held their 15th annual Negro Leagues Tribute Game against the Cleveland Indians with the stated purpose of celebrating and acknowledging the contributions of Negro Leagues players to the long history of professional baseball.

Ten former players were feted and saluted by the Tigers during the Negro Leagues Weekend at Comerica Park: Frank Crossan, Joe Douse, Melvin “Buck” Duncan, Harold “Bee-Bop” Gordon, Gene Johnson, Marvin Jones, Cecil Kaiser, Alton King, James “Bullet” Moore and Ron “Schoolboy”...

Fernando Rodney, 32, holds the keys to the Tigers’ drive toward the 2009 Major League Baseball playoffs.

Inserted as the team’s closer following spring training, Rodney is holding down one of the most high-pressured positions in all of sports.

When he enters a game, many times the Tigers are clinging to a one- or two-run lead and it is his job to be the man that shuts down the other team’s comeback attempt. For Rodney, one bad pitch could eliminate everything his teammates had fought for in the first eight innings to bring them into a position where three...

Following the announcement that the Pistons had hired John Kuester to be the new head coach of the team, the Motor City welcomed him with the million dollar question:

Is he the right man for the job?

Only time will tell but the upcoming version of the Detroit Pistons surely will have a very different look than the one that we all came to appreciate and admire as they fought through the NBA wars to reach the Eastern Conference Finals six consecutive years.

Already Pistons President Joe Dumars has added draft picks Austin Daye, DaJuan Summers and Jonas Jerebko. The...

I guess it’s true what they say huh? Never say never.

Because even with how impressed I’ve been with the Hyundai Genesis sedan (talk about a winner), I was skeptical that the automaker could pull that formula off in a coupe.

In fact, I was betting Hyundai’s image would take a serious blow at the attempt of trying to launch a two-door model of the Genesis. Sedan? “Sure.” But a performance sports coupe? “Not hardly,” was my initial
thought when I first heard about plans for the Genesis sports car.

It’s not that...

Long gone are the days when you could say Ford Motor Co. isn’t up on the latest technology and the automaker’s pulling in the number to prove it. Last month, Ford’s hands free SYNC system reached a new milestone with the delivery of the 1 millionth system powered by Microsoft Auto software.

Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally delivered the 1 millionth SYNC system to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in his new 2010 Fusion Hybrid.

SYNC is Ford’s fully integrated, voice-activated, in-car communications and entertainment system for mobile phones and digital...