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June 13, 2007

A Journalistic No-No

Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers threw a no-hitter last night, which sent sports scribes scrambling to do his gem journalistic justice. Of course, to properly convey the magnitude of the feat—only the second this year!—headline writers were forced to make puns out of every major word in the story: Detroit-Tigers-Justin-Verlander. And they're off!

Detroit

Sports Net
No hits in Motown

ESPN

According to ESPN, Verlander is pretty good.

Tigers

Torrance Daily Breeze
Verlander grrrrrreat for Tigers
When the Tigers made the World Series, we noted that sports writers seem particularly interested in giving free PR to the Kellogg's corporation.

Justin

Detroit Free Press, Sports Network
Justin-credible!

Hartford Courant, Sporting News
Justin Time

Verlander

Detroit Free Press
VER-IFFIC!

Detroit News
Ver-ocious!







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