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Calvin Johnson smiled while admitting he learned as much, if not more, about golf as some of the children he volunteered to instruct. The Detroit Lions Hall of Fame wide receiver visited Detroit Golf Club on Tuesday, assisted with the Youth Golf Clinic put on by the The Children’s Foundation, then played in the Area 313 Celebrity

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The Detroit Lions stayed mostly out of the deep end in free agency this spring and two of their top three draft picks will miss the start of training camp because of injuries, but general manager Brad Holmes and head coach Dan Campbell have a deeper roster right now than they did last summer. All

The Detroit Lions have allocated a higher percentage of their 2022 salary cap to offensive players than all but two teams in the NFL. They have three first-round picks on their offensive line, a refurbished receiving corps that was a focal point of the offseason and could soon have one of the league’s highest-paid tight ends.

NFL training camp is upon us. The 2022-23 regular season isn’t too far behind. This season, the NFL is giving Detroit Lions fans an enhanced way to watch games with their new streaming platform, NFL+. GAMER TIME: Madden NFL 2023 ratings: Are analysts being fair to Jared Goff, Lions? CLOSE UP TIME: Lions ‘Hard Knocks’

The Detroit Lions will not have two of their top three 2022 NFL draft picks on the field when they open training camp Wednesday. The Lions placed receiver Jameson Williams on the non-football injury list and defensive lineman Josh Paschal on the physically unable to perform list Sunday. Williams, the No. 12 overall pick of

When the Detroit Lions report for training camp next week, they will be joined by a few dozen new friends. Shannon Furman, senior producer of NFL Films and director of this season’s “Hard Knocks” series, said a crew of about 35 camera operators, technicians, directors and assistants will be on-site to chronicle the more than

There were many new pieces for the Detroit Lions in 2021. General manager. Coach. Coordinators. Quarterback. Schemes. With so much turnover, the learning curve was steep for the organization. That held doubly true for the rookies. The Lions’ seven first-year players in 2021 saw varying degrees of success, but when Dan Campbell spoke in June at minicamp,

Count the good folks at EA Sports among the skeptics of the 2022 Detroit Lions’ talent — especially at quarterback. Even though ESPN’s Bill Barnwell liked the Lions’ runing backs, receivers and tight ends enough to bump Detroit 14 spots in his annual playmakers rankings, makers of Madden NFL 2023 threw some cold water on any Honolulu Blue hype.

Thursday night was about more than football for Detroit Lions center Frank Ragnow. In between shaking hands with fans, making radio appearances and posing for photos with his mother, Marty, Ragnow’s emotions ran high. He was joined by dozens of others at Eddie Merlot’s in Bloomfield Hills for the inaugural “Dine with The Pride” fundraising

One of the priorities entering Dan Campbell’s second year as Detroit Lions coach was to drastically improve the defensive line. The team was 28th in the league vs. the run and 27th in defensive sack rate. Notably, the Lions took star Michigan football edge and 2021 Heisman Trophy runner-up Aidan Hutchinson with the No. 2 pick in April’s draft — a

The Detroit Lions, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings and now the Detroit Tigers have all secured premium young talent as draft season nears its end. Nothing can excite the fanbase of four struggling franchises like new faces. Detroit franchises combined for six first-round picks in 2022 drafts. The Lions nabbed Michigan football defensive end Aidan Hutchinson and Alabama wide receiver

Peter King likes what he sees from coach Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions. King, a three time National Sportswriter of the Year, interviewed Campbell and Lions general manager Brad Holmes for his NBC Sports’ Monday column about the team’s rebuild. King notes the franchise, one that hasn’t won a playoff game since the 1991 season, has

The strength of the Detroit Lions’ roster has been questioned by ESPN’s recently completed 2022 position rankings. For the third straight year, ESPN’s lists weren’t a typical media poll. They surveyed over 50 NFL executives, coaches, scouts and players to compare the top-10 players at 11 positions. But only one Lions star cracked a positional top 10, meaning

The strength of the Detroit Lions’ roster has been questioned by ESPN’s recently completed 2022 position rankings. For the third straight year, ESPN’s lists weren’t a typical media poll. They surveyed over 50 NFL executives, coaches, scouts and players to compare the top-10 players at 11 positions. But only one Lions star cracked a positional top 10, meaning

Longtime Michigan sports icon Gary Moeller died Monday at age 81. Moeller served as both an offensive and defensive coordinator for Michigan football in the 1970s and 1980s and eventually as the Wolverines’ head coach from 1990-94. He went on to hold multiple coaching positions in the NFL, including a stint as the Detroit Lions head

He was private soul with a booming public voice, a soft heart beneath a hard, gritty exterior, a good man who had a bad hour in a Southfield restaurant 27 years ago and never really stopped paying for it. Many a football coach has issued this warning to his players: one night can change your

Mick McCabe |  Special to Detroit Free Press The first time Lloyd Carr saw Gary Moeller, Carr was an assistant at Nativity High in Detroit and Moeller was on Bo Schembechler’s staff at Michigan. “Bo had just gotten the job and they put out the word for all high school coaches that they were having

Gary Moeller lived in the Dicken neighborhood in Ann Arbor when he coached the Wolverines, one mile west of the Big House. So too, did Steve Kornacki, longtime sports reporter for the Free Press who covered the Wolverines in the 1980s and 90s. Kornacki lived up the street from Moeller’s “castle” and recalled a day he

Former Michigan football coach Gary Moeller, who later served as interim coach with the Detroit Lions, died on Monday at the age of 81. Moeller was a longtime assistant coach under Bo Schembechler and replaced the legendary coach in 1990 upon Schembechler’s retirement. In five seasons at U-M, Moeller was 44-13-3 and won three Big