Detroit is “Best Sports City” of 2007
The Sporting News has named Detroit (and Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti) the “Best Sports City” of 2007. Detroit was last named “Best Sports City” in 1998.
Visit Detroit these days and you’ll see that this is a baseball city out of hibernation and filling Comerica Park. The Pistons and WNBA’s Shock put a spring in a hoops fan’s step. Yes, it’s still Hockeytown, same as it was when Detroit was our Best Sports City in 1998. Yet on an unseasonably warm Saturday in April, with the Wings facing the Flames in the playoffs at The Joe, you were as likely to see an old English “D” on a cap in downtown Detroit (the Tigers were playing the White Sox) as you were a winged wheel on a red sweater. …
Three teams — the Red Wings, Tigers and Pistons — finished no worse than fourth-best in the workaday world of regular-season standings in their respective leagues.
In fact, even with the 3-13 Lions skewing the percentage, Detroit’s major professional sports teams in their most recently completed full season won at a .588 clip. How’s that for packin’ your lunch every day?
Back in June, I conducted a Detroit sports blogger roundtable about why the city of Detroit is such a great sports city. You can read what they had to say in five different parts: Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4, and Pt. 5.
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