Breakups suck. When you get into a relationship with someone, you’re sure that it’s going to be a fairy tale-type thing. It’s going to be like the movies you grew up watching. You and your person will be at a fancy hotel, and they’ll open up a jewelry box and show you the contents before they accidentally close it on your fingers and you both giggle. Then you hold hands in a flowery field and experience nothing but good times. The reality is that it doesn’t usually work out that way. You meet s

Why are you the way you are? I don’t mean that in a Michael Scott way. You’re not Toby Flenderson, and you don’t annoy me. I mean as that question to be interpreted on a much deeper level. I also don’t want to just ask Detroit Lions fans. I want to ask all sports fans. Why are we the way that we are? What is it about fanaticism that makes people cram tightly into stadiums in, let’s be honest, uncomfortable fashion? What makes us spend our money on jerseys with someone else’s name on them and ap

If you missed Part 1 of The UDFA, catch up right here. Last month, we started our year-long series on undrafted free agent C.J. Moore. Since then, a lot has changed. When that chapter of the story ended, Moore was about to play his first ever NFL preseason game. Here we are a month later, and Moore is a full-fledged part of the Detroit Lions’ 53-man roster. But he didn’t get here without his share of high-nerved moments. Moore had a pretty productive preseason. In the first game of the summer

This is the final installment of our series covering mental health in the NFL. If you missed them, check out Part 1 and Part 2 here. All this week we have talked about mental health and how current players, as well as the NFL Players Association, are handling it in today’s game. But what about the players that have moved on from football? What happens when there is no more team, no more league and the spotlight fades? Former Detroit Lions quarterback Eric Hipple knows the answer to those questi

Wednesday we spoke with Detroit Lions linebacker Eli Harold about how masculinity can have a lot of bad effects on men dealing with mental health. We also learned that he believes the stigmas regarding mental health in the NFL are largely gone. Today we’ll talk with Lions defensive tackle Ricky Jean Francois about why he feels differently, and what you can do to help those dealing with mental health issues, even if you don’t have them. The mental health community doesn’t require that you have a

Four years ago when I picked up a writing career that I had left for dead in my early 20s, my writing went through a lot progressions. I didn’t know what I wanted to be. It took a lot of time and a lot of discovery to get to the point where I am now. I can comfortably say that I’m very happy to be writing the kind of things that make people laugh, or keep people informed about random stats and the complicated splendor that is Matthew Stafford. I am comfortable, but I’ve felt unfulfilled for som

ALLENDALE — The Detroit Lions and the Ottawa County Deputy Sheriff's Association got together Saturday night to play the fourth-annual Detroit Lions charity basketball game at Allendale High School. Detroit Lions legends Herman Moore, Cory Schlesinger, Rob Rubick, Eddie Murray, Lomas Brown and Tim Scott faced off against members of local law enforcement to raise funds to go toward the OCDSA, the Deputy Dave Steenwyk & Deputy Matt Chatfield Memorial Scholarship, Shields of Hope West Michigan and