Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez loves fall practice. He wouldn't mind enhancing it a bit, though.
"If there was one rule to change in Division I college football, they would allow you to have a exhibition or preseason game against somebody else," he said last week. "There doesn't have to be any crowd or fans there, just so you have an idea of what it's like to go against somebody else so you can judge yourself a little better."
It's even more frustrating to him that every other level of football gets prep time against someone else.
"We're the only level (without,)" he said. "The NFL has four preseason games, and they're pros, even on smaller college, when I was in Division II, you could have a scrimmage game. In high school, obviously you have them. In Division I, you can't have them and it's kind of silly.
"All these (regular-season) games are so important and I wish we could have a scrimmage so we could have a judge on where we're at."

Follow along as the NASCAR Sprint Cup series takes the track at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn for the CARFAX 400.

Authorities have recovered the body of a Detroit man who on Saturday jumped off the bridge that connects Detroit and Belle Isle.

Follow along as the Detroit Tigers go for the three-game sweep of the Royals today at Comerica Park.

Four people are expected to be arraigned today in the death of a Brighton podiatrist who collapsed and died after stumbling into a restaurant covered with cut wounds.

At approximately 5:04 p.m. Saturday, with 6:31 left in second quarter, Matthew Stafford walked onto the Ford Field turf and saved the auto industry. It is possible I have the details wrong. It might have been 5:05.

Six weeks into working as Detroit's police chief, Warren Evans doesn't sugarcoat the trouble he has inherited.

The most impressive part of Matthew Stafford's exhibition debut wasn't the 25-yard touchdown pass he threw. It was how he responded to what went wrong beforehand.

TOLEDO — The line jutted out of the gate and veered right, stretching down the sidewalk on Washington Street. Travis Brewer had driven past the crowd, and now he was wedging two $1 bills through an aluminum slit for space No. 44 in the parking lot on Superior. By the time he reached Fifth Third Field, the ballplayers were filling the concourse and settling into the seats below.

Lions multipurpose running back Aaron Brown did a little of everything in Saturday's exhibition opener against Atlanta. The rookie ran 32 yards for a touchdown. He caught a pass for a 45-yard TD. He ran back a kickoff 32 yards. He did a backflip. He incurred a couple of penalties and some criticism from coach Jim Schwartz.