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You never know. Under different circumstances, Jim Schwartz could be coaching the Browns on Sunday, not the Lions. Schwartz, who spent the previous eight years as the Titans' defensive coordinator, interviewed with the Lions during the playoffs last season. He ended up in Detroit shortl...

Browns coach Eric Mangini has been impressed with Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford — from meeting him during the draft process, to watching film of him in preparation for Sunday's game. "The handle he had on the Georgia offense, he could answer our questions almost before they came out...

The Lions have until 1 p.m. Thursday to reach a sellout to avoid a local television blackout for Sunday's game at Ford Field. Like the Lions, the Browns also are 1-8.

Could we finally see Anthony Henry at safety Sunday against the Browns? Lions coach Jim Schwartz hinted at the possibility today in a conference call with Cleveland reporters. There has been talk of Henry moving from cornerback since the Lions acquired him in an off-season trade with Dal...

Twenty-four percent of fans who responded to a poll question said there was nothing that could convince them to watch Sunday's Lions-Browns game.

Benny Sapp: "Calvin Johnson is the best receiver in the league, hands down. He's the complete package."

By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Brett Favre and another year of experience have turned Sidney Rice into Minnesota's newest star receiver.

So I was watching the Bears-49ers game Thursday night, and when I wasn't laughing at how Matt Millen avoided talking about the Lions — even when they put the Lions' streak without a Pro Bowl quarterback on the screen, even when they showed former Lions coach Rod Marinelli, even when Millen...

Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is on pace to tie Peyton Manning's rookie record for interceptions. "Am I?" Stafford said. Yep. With 12 interceptions in six games, Stafford is averaging two picks per game. If he throws them at that rate in the final eight games, he will finish with 28, the s...

Coach Jim Schwartz said veteran Jon Jansen "battled through" his first game at left guard, blocking "pretty well" on runs with "a couple issues here and there" on passes. Jansen, who had always played right tackle, replaced Daniel Loper and Manny Ramirez, who had been rotating at the posi...

As expected of two teams that combined for one win entering Sunday, the St. Louis Rams and Detroit Lions played an awful football game. St. Louis, though, loved the outcome - for the first time all season. Steven Jackson's 25-yard touchdown run with 1:38 left lifted the Rams to a 17-10 win over D...

With three starters on the defensive line inactive, the Lions dressed six defensive linemen and lost one -- end Copeland Bryan -- to a hamstring injury.

Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson limped off the field and the team's training staff treated his right knee on the sideline Sunday.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers had plenty of fans at Ford Field to cheer them on as they defeated the Lions Sunday. Detroit made a comeback, but couldn't get the best of the Super Bowl champs.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Detroit Lions on the field and in the stands. Ben Roethlisberger had a season-high three touchdowns passes and Pittsburgh held on to beat Detroit 28-20 Sunday, winning two straight for the first time this season. The Steelers (3-2), supported by thousand...

After getting a little respect the past couple of weeks, the Lions have fallen off the radar today as far as the big NFL prognosticators go. If there's one out there picking them to beat Pittsburgh -- or even cover the 10 1/2 -point spread -- it's probably a typo.

Matthew Stafford can't be blamed for the Detroit Lions' failures last season, but he hasn't done much to make anyone forget about 2008. Stafford and the Lions try to avoid setting the NFL's second-longest losing streak Sunday when they host a Washington Redskins team trying to figure out...

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- The first changes were obvious, the kinds of things any new coach might do when finding himself suddenly in charge of a team that went 0-16 the previous year. So Jim Schwartz did the predictable upon his arrival to the Detroit Lions last winter. He assigned the players park...

Good signs from the Lions' special teams, bad calls from the officiating crew, dumb penalties -- including one by a rookie who should know better -- and a lot of NFL debuts.

DETROIT Lions COACH Jim Schwartz has been purposely vague during camp about distributing injury information about the players, especially minor ailments. The National Football League does not require teams to issue an injury report during camp. On Wednesday, Schwartz didn't want to r...

Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola says training camp has a competitive environment under new coach Jim Schwartz. He also says he doesn't think anyone in camp "feels safe" - and that's a good thing. He says no one deserves to have anything handed to them on a team coming off the NFL's first 0-...

Stoudt pitched a two-hitter and struck out six as Brandywine Heights (22-4), located near Kutztown, knocked the legs out from a third WPIAL team in a title game yesterday. Serra lost in Class A and Chartiers Valley in AAA. ... One left(y) for Brandywine baseball team to claim first state title R...

 Canada She has been involved with Lions clubs for the past 17 years. Her stepfather has been a member for 30 years, and her husband became a Lion 25 years ago. An information meeting was held Monday night at the Chippawa Lions Community Centre on Welland ...

Secondary is Lions' primary concern So that talented Penn State pass rush, led by first-team All-Big Ten tackle Jared Odrick, on-the-rise sophomore defensive end Jack Crawford and blitzing first-team All-Big Ten linebacker Navorro Bowman had better get to the quarterback in a hurry. ...

Last season the Hawkeyes knocked off an undefeated Nittany Lions team ranked No. 2 in the coaches poll. Penn State will definitely be looking for some payback after falling short of a shot at the national championship. the departure of Senior RB Shonn ...

Sims (114) and Cornley (113) rank first and second in the Big Ten in field goals made. ... The Nittany Lions and Wolverines are separated by just four ... Lions shooting short of expectations Pittsburgh Tribune-Review DeHaan leads MSU past Lions Detroit Free Press

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But a loss to the 0-15 Lions today would be especially embarrassing considering the Packers went 17-0 at home against the Lions during the Brett Favre era. ... Bears will win division—with help Monmouth Daily Review Atlas Giants Need to Beat the Vikings for Themselves, Not for the Bears FanHo...

By Ryan The Lions were impressive but fell short to Chicago. Dan Orlovsky was 28/47 with 292 yards and two touchdown passes. One to Calvin Johnson the other to Shaun McDonald. However the Bears would over come the Lions offense and win. Kyle Orton got injured with a high ankle sprain and is expected to b...

By Matt Loede John Sefcik from NFL Gridiron Gab Covering and Talking About the Vikings win over Houston One game remains in Week 9, and here at the Gab we are back with another edition of Gridiron Rewind to talk about all the big matchups from the week gone by. Today here on the show Matt Loede along with the s...

By Michael Aylwin The allusion to unfinished business refers to the last Lions tour to New Zealand, a thoroughly miserable affair that Robinson and O'Driscoll remember with a wince. O'Driscoll, the captain, was carried off, out of the tour, in the early minutes of the first Test, his shoulder dislocated i...

By Matt Loede It’s a special “Turn the Tables” edition of Gridiron Gabbin, as Patriots Gab Editor Jeff Sack takes over as host, and talks to NFL Gridiron Gab Editor Matt Loede. The duo talk about the recent NFL firings, the Lions and their state, the Raiders and Al Davis, Gene Upshaw and the future of the la...

If the Lions are the worst franchise in NFL history, and this is the worst Lions team ever, are we looking at the worst team ever to play the game of ... Week 6 NFC power rankings Examiner.com WEEK SIX POWER RANKINGS – NFC EAST ON FIRE Chicago Daily Herald

By Pete Treperinas Rod Marinelli (Detroit). Another quality Matt Millen hire. Rod Marinelli will probably be out of Detroit almost as soon as he was in. Even last year after a hot start, the Lions ended up at 7-9. Two disappointing seasons, and an 0-4 start to his third, I wouldn't be surprised if Marinelli is repl...

By Matt Loede Our NFL Insider - Lloyd Vance is back on NFLGridironGab.com with his news and notes around the league. Lloyd, who runs www.takingit2thehouse.com will join us each week to talk about all the hot topics in the league, and give his views and insight as to what is going on. Today we talk to Lloyd about...

William Clay Ford, Sr. purchased the team in 1964. Since then the Lions have played 10 playoff games, 6 of those in the Barry Sanders era. They have won exactly one playoff game Ford’s tenure.  That was in 1991 when they lost to the eventual champion Washington Redskins. 

By Eric Williams Lost in all of the news about Koren Robinson’s return to Seattle was Shaun Alexander visiting the Detroit Lions on Tuesday. gt; Read more! Lost in all of the news about Koren Robinson’s return to Seattle was Shaun Alexander visiting the Detroit Lions on ...

By Mick Miller Not since the immortal Barry Sanders have the Lions had such pedigree in a runningback. He nearly matched Barry’s single-season rushing record, falling just 61 yards short (2,567 yards, 29 touchdowns) and also like Barry, holds the hopes of the team and their fans in his hands as the Lions...

By Dave Halprin (Grizz) Lions RB Tatum Bell is off the free agent market. The Lions have reached an agreement for a one-year deal reported for $1.6 million. After Matt Mosley reported the Cowboys might be interested in him, he’s been on the list of potentials for Cowboys fans. If the Cowboys are planning to sign a veter...

Oct. 7, 2007 -- NFL's wild weekend Even with baseball playoffs going on, the NFL will be huge with Jaguars-Chiefs, Seahawks-Steelers, Lions-Redskins, Bears-Packers as games to watch.

By Mick Miller The Detroit Lions bounced back in a big way and set an NFL record with 34 points in the fourth quarter in a early-season big win against the Chicago Bears, 37-27, to move to 3-1, 2-0 in the North Division, and a game back of the 4-0 Green Bay Packers. The three Lion wins match last season’s total. W...

By Gonzo But anyway, as you can probably judge from both the poll on the right and the title of this post, we've got a situation here, people.  Access Vikings is reporting that Tarvaris Jackson didn't practice today, and is still pretty sore after injuring his groin against Detroit on Sunday.  Judd Z...

By Gonzo And yet, despite Tarvaris Jackson's four interceptions and all the penalties and everything else, the Vikings were still approximately 3" away from starting the season 2-0.  Not that winning a game like yesterday's would have made me feel any better about the team's performance at Ford...

By Kirkendall The Miami Dolphins newest quarterback, Trent Green: 13/21 for 128 yards and a score. Reason why not having the NFL Network isn't so bad: Oakland vs. Detroit Packers QB, Brett Favre has 35 yards passing and a pick in the first half against the Eagles.

By Brian Schonfeld I figured the Lions would be picking a QB somewhere in the draft and I don’t have any problem with them taking Stanton.  Many feel they should have used the pick on someone who will provide immediate help in 2007 instead of a QB.  I think that if you are going to pick a QB, you might as well pick a g...

By Brian Schonfeld Before the draft, I wanted to see Millen trade the pick and bolster the defense after trading down.  I felt that WR was one of the few positions where the Lions were strong with Roy Williams and Mike Furrey.  Now that they have drafted Calvin Johnson, I am looking forward to the 2007 seaso...

Vartan Kupelian and Mike O'Hara from the Detroit News: Behind the Scenes Twice as good as last year. That's what the betting line in Las Vegas projects on the Lions' victory total for the upcoming season. Another season of double-digit losses. That's the other projection, too. The Las Vegas H...

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) -- The Detroit Lions signed wide receivers Marcus Robinson and Cliff Russell and re-signed cornerback Keith Smith on Wednesday. Robinson was cut by the Minnesota Vikings with one game left last season despite leading the team with four touchdown receptions in 10 ga...

By Brian Schonfeld The Lions have a top prospect they want to take at #2 that is not on anybody’s radar. It appears he is so unknown that while he is #1 on the Lions draft board, I haven’t been able to find any mention of him in any draft publications or internet sites. A google search turned up nothing. However, accor...

By Brian Schonfeld Jon Kitna became the first Lions quarterback to take every snap on offense in a season. For the year, Kitna threw for 4208 yards and 21 touchdowns. He had 22 interceptions and a passer rating of 79.9. Throughout the season, Kitna would play well for three quarters and fold in the fourth. Lions wid...