Charles Rogers

Charles Rogers NOVI, Mich. (AP) — Former Detroit Lions, Michigan State and Saginaw High receiver Charles Rogers is re-entering a special sobriety program after pleading guilty to drunken driving.Rogers appeared Thursday before Novi District Judge Robert Bondy and entered the...  

OK, so you're upset. Your team just lost to the winless Rams, which is inexcusable. I get it. I really do. What I do not get, however, is the reason Matthew Stafford is the point of that criticism.  He went 14-of-33 for 168 yards with one pick.  Those are not good numbers, but what did you expect?  He barely practiced and his receiving corps looked to be made of butter.  I counted about seven dropped passes, with most coming on third down...  

Does anybody know how bad Matthew Stafford's knee injury is? Does anybody know when anybody on the Detroit Lions' injury list will be available to play? Yes. The players, the training staff, and head coach Jim Schwartz. But nobody else. What started as a smart tactic of withholding all but the most essential injury information to cloud opponents' game-planning has become a behemoth of misinformation. It seems that Schwartz's philosophy with...  

There's no good news this week. As Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said, "You'll have a hard time finding the silver lining in this one." Wait, check that. The only good news is that the Lions didn't play the New England Patriots this week. Apparently shutouts come in much more humiliating packages. Still, that's little consolation in a game where the Lions were shut out for the first time since 2001, and against an average defense. For every...  

People were questioning whether it was time for the Detroit Lions to part ways with Ernie Sims long before the team drafted DeAndre Levy.But the crowd has grown more restless now that Levy, the Lions' rookie linebacker, seems to be...  

Frank Franklin IISaginaw native Charles Rogers, right, holds up a Detroit Lions jersey with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue after he was selected as the Lions first pick, second pick overall, at the 2003 NFL draft. Rogers was cut from the...  

Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz wasn't about to tip his hand about the recovery of quarterback Matt Stafford. Stafford wasn't much more forthcoming himself as the Lions returned to practice Tuesday after their bye week. The rookie quarterback has missed the last two games with a knee injury, and with backup Daunte Culpepper (hamstring) also at less than 100 percent, Schwartz is going to make the St. Louis Rams try to prepare for Stafford...  

AP Photo Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson has yet to practice with the team since injuring his leg against the Pittsburgh Steelers ALLEN PARK -- Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford and receiver Calvin Johnson both missed practice again on...  

Detroit Lions rookie quarterback Matthew Stafford, the first overall pick in the draft, had another shaky outing in Detroit's 27-13 loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday at Ford Field. Stafford did throw his first NFL touchdown pass, an 8-yarder to Calvin Johnson, but he also threw a pair of interceptions to linebacker Chad Greenway.  

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Coach Jim Schwartz declines to discuss injuries during the season. But apparently it isn't because he broke into the NFL under Bill Belichick. It's because of how he used information against opponents as Tennessee's defensive coordinator. "I could click on every coach's press conference on Monday, and I would sit there with my notepad, and I would start my game plan," Schwartz said. "I don't know how many times I caught...  

Essexville Garber head football coach Dave Schwartz (pictured)  was named the Detroit Lions High School Coach of the Week for week seven.Schwartz led his team to a 41-21 win over Frankenmuth last Friday to improve the Dukes to 6-1 and...  

ALLEN PARK -- When Pro Bowl defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth was a free agent in the off-season, he didn't get a phone call from the Detroit Lions and he hopes it wasn't anything he said to Lions head coach Jim...  

Watching the new Lions coach Jim Schwartz dodge and weave at his weekly press conference tells me a lot about the culture of incompetence and perpetual "wimp-hood" of those types who have been employed by Bill Ford Sr. over his 45-plus years of ownership of the Detroit Lions. Schwartz unleashed a barrage of excuses, rationalizations, and what ifs, while kicking the can down the road of some imagined future. When asked about the obvious...  

Lions coach Jim Schwartz says there's no feud between Calvin Johnson and Matt Stafford. During Sunday's game against Seattle, television cameras caught what appeared to be uncomfortable exchanges between the receiver and quarterback. Stafford threw five interceptions in the 32-20 loss. Johnson had two catches for 27 yards after missing the previous two games because of a knee injury.  

Detroit Lions outside linebacker Ernie Sims left in the third quarter against Seattle with a hamstring injury suffered trying to track down Seattle running back Julius Jones. Sims appeared to injure his right leg, although the Lions didn't specify which leg. The team said his return was questionable.