Because it’s the last week of football or maybe because Chip is 27 and 37 on the season, this winners row has Chip giving a pick on every game this week. Will this redeem Chip’s Picks? You will soon know the answer to that. (more…)
It’s been a busy few weeks for me, with the holiday season upon us, plus I was in Cleveland last week to take in the Cincinnati Bengals vs the Cleveland Browns. What a great time; the city of Cleveland was awesome, with some great food and wonderful fans. I want to give a special shout out to some local Clevelanders, Eric and George who I met during my travels there. These two are faithful Cleveland fans, regardless the sport, and I am a Detroit fan. We had some great conversations about the way our two teams performed this year and shared some good grub and drink.
I hope everyone had a safe and joyous holiday. Please give a listen to our show and give a call if you can, we’d like to talk with you.
WINNERS ROW (Chip’s Picks are in BOLD)
Red Wings to upend the Dallas Stars
Tampa Bay getting 3 over Atlanta (Tampa Bay to beat the Falcons)
Giants getting 3 over Dallas (Giants to beat Dallas)
Indianapolis Colts to beat Detroit by the 17
Do all you Indoor soccer fans realize that the Detroit Ignition starts their new season saturday, against the Milwaukee Wave. The newly formed XSL (Xtreme Soccer League)
an interactive, year-round operation debuting in four cities — Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit and Newark will begin this year. Our own Detroit Ignition is part of it since the teams from MISL went to the new indoor leagues:
NISL,
PASL-PRO and the
XSL.
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My Thursday is normally spent covering sporting news, doing errands or general relaxing. Today was no different, as I covered the Detroit Ignition at practice in the morning. After that, I caught a little sports radio, then ran across town and visited my favorite weekly stores. When I returned home there was total turmoil, It seems that my daughter had lost her red balloon, it was blown right out of the car. There were tears, screaming and a head rested on my leg with the words, “find it daddy”, muttered over and over.
What could I do? I had no choice. Since the rocket I would normally use is in the shop I couldn’t soar up into the skies to find it. The next idea I came up with was to find a plain red balloon. I hurried into a florist shop on Wayne road in Westland and thought for sure all I would find was a “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations on your Retirement”. Even though Nat can’t read yet, she would know that it wasn’t the same.
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Over the past two weeks I have been a part of some great charity events with the Romulus firefighters. On November 26th we played the Halecreek Elementary staff in the 1st annual Turkey Flag Football Bowl and came out with a victory. Last night, Dec 4th, the Romulus firefighters took on Merriman Elementary staff and parents in a basketball game at Merriman school. The outcome was not in our favor last night. Kudos to the Merriman team for their victory, although at both events the victory was for the Romulus Goodfellows and their efforts to make sure “no child is without a Christmas”. The Halecreek event raised over $200 plus toys and at Merriman we received over (3) big boxes of wonderful toys. Some proceeds from concessions and a collection went to a young Merriman student who was injured a few weeks ago.
I would like to extend my thanks to the staff, parents and kids of both schools who played, and those who rooted everyone on. A special thanks to the Romulus fire fighters who came out on their own time for this good cause. Lt Mike Wojtylko, Kevin Krause, Andy Ellis, Drew McNeil, Matthew Wilhide, Todd Tingstad, Jason Pittman, Bud McDiarmid, , Mike Gubaci (his family also, who took pics for us), fire pup, and joining us from Metro Airport Fire Dept., Kevin Wojtylko. A special thanks to Jerry Frayer for a great job at the ref spot and his son for playing with our team. I’m proud to be associated with these guys, as they show such dedication to these causes that are so important to our City. Also, a thank you to our Romulus Cable people for being there. I hope to work with these guys again in my next adventure.
WINNERS ROW (Chip’s Picks are in BOLD)
Minnesota to beat Detroit
Giants favored by 7 points over Philly (take the giants)
Oklahoma 16-1/2 point favorites over Missouri (taking Oklahoma)
Southern Cal 33 point favorites over UCLA (UCLA to cover)
