Tagged: Detroit Tigers
Football Thursday: Legacy of Chuck Hughes goes deeper than being only NFL player to die on field during a game
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He is forever frozen in the picture now, this man with blue eyes gazing into a future that would never be his. Chuck Hughes will remain 28 years old and in the middle of a professional football career nobody could have predicted back home in Abilene, Texas. He will never get old. He will never wear down. He will never lose his sturdy chin or his slightly bent nose or his crooked half smile. He will always be young.
Sharon Hughes loved her husband’s smile. It had such assuredness. Sometimes she will say, “He was confident, that boy,” because that’s how he seems to her, trapped for eternity in a hopeful gaze during the last year of his life. She is 68, a librarian and bus driver in a tiny school district in southern Texas. And the 42 years she has lived since he became the only player to die on the field in an NFL game are far longer than the eight they were together. She tries to imagine what he would look like today, at 70, wondering if he would still be handsome. But she can’t. So she stares at the picture of the man eternally youthful and figures that’s how she will always know the love of her life.
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And That Happened: Sunday’s scores and highlights
Gardner, Yanks halt Tigers’ win streak at 12
Fielder’s 14th-inning double sends Tigers past Indians
MLB: Chicago White Sox 11, Detroit 4
Rios’ 6 hits tie AL record in White Sox romp
Cabrera hits 3 HRs, but Tigers lose in Texas
Four-run 5th helps Tigers beat Yanks
World Series: San Francisco Giants sweep Detroit Tigers
BBC Sport
San Francisco Giants clinched their second World Series title in three years as a 4-3 win at Detroit Tigers sealed a 4-0 sweep in the Fall Classic.
Miguel Cabrera hit a two-run homer in the third inning to put the Tigers ahead for the first time in the series.
Full story: BBC Sport
Fake Justin Verlander t-shirt creates Internet stir
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Justin Verlandercan be funny and a tad self-deprecating after a tough loss.
Just not this funny and self-deprecating.
Though many people instantly wanted to believe it was real — and who could blame them? — the photo of the Detroit Tigers pitcher wearing a “Property of Pablo Sandoval” t-shirt that made the Internet rounds on Friday was a fake.
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