Detroit

Usually it’s the players who become the story after a game, but one ref overshadowed both the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys on Sunday with one call...or rather, non-call.

My first day on the job as a 22 year-old English teacher, I was asked for a hall pass. Even later that year when I was coaching freshman baseball, I went out to talk to the umpire before the first pitch and was greeted with, "Hey kid, go get your coach."

Detroit's infant mortality rate is now higher than any other state and is above that of Mexico, China and Thailand.