What national pundits are saying after Game 1 Detroit Free Press A sampling of reports and columns from across the country after World Series Game 1: BURWELL: Reyes tosses aside script Tigers wrote St. Louis Post-Dispatch This kid with the low, flat-brimmed hat and knee-high striped socks stood on the mound in the middle of Comerica Park peering from behind his black leather glove and ignoring the commotion around him. It wasn't the biggest game of his life. Fielding the Game-Day Scoop Washington Post Only three men have a Fox microphone for baseball's marquee event, and former newspaper columnist and Orioles beat reporter Ken Rosenthal is using his to provide reports on game developments or just plain old baseball gossip -- the stuff insiders (and perhaps even casual fans) love to hear about Your Neighbors Favorite Recipe Appeal-Democrat When I was a kid, my entire family would sit around the then, state-of-the-art black and white Philco television, watching “I've Got a Secret.” The show usually consisted of three “secrets” per episode. A contestant would come out and whisper their secret to game host Garry Moore. Albert Chen: Unheralded Reyes easily wins duel of rookie starters Sports Illustrated DETROIT -- Two rookies. One is a 17-game winner and a former first-round draft pick who has had nothing but success unroll at his feet. The other: a little-known 15th-round selection who two months ago was in the minors re-learning his fastball. One is a hard-throwing intimidator who bullies hitters with a 100-mph heater; the other rarely reaches the mid-90s on his fastball and squints as he NFL Countdown: Sunny Days for Goodell Fox Sports For the seventh consecutive week, every game on the NFL slate is sold out. That's just another sign new commissioner Roger Goodell took over the NFL at its peak. In his Week 7 Countdown, our NFL Czar highlights this and much more. Rogers gets his chance to pump up Tigers in Game 2 Belleville News-Democrat Twice this postseason, he's left the Comerica Park mound in cap-waving, memory-making, career-vindicating fashion. For Giants, it's the hating game vs. Cowboys New York Daily News The one thing the Giants, Eagles and Redskins have in common is their warm feelings for the Cowboys. Parrys prove they overcome hurdles together Seattle Times In a matter of hours, his kid brother's right foot would be amputated. Anxiously, Josh Parry sat in the hospital room trying to find the NFL Countdown: Sunny Days for Goodell Fox Sports Every game on this week's the NFL slate is sold out, for the seventh consecutive week. That's just another sign new commissioner Roger Goodell took over the NFL at it's peak. In his Countdown, our NFL Czar highlights this and much more.
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