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April 8: Today’s NCAA Championship preview pages

We’re well into April now, and you know what that means: March Madness is nearly over. Tonight, Michigan and Louisville play for the NCAA men’s basketball championship in Atlanta. Here’s a look at today’s pages advancing the game… — DETROIT FREE PRESS Detroit, Mich. Circulation: 232,696 The Free Press goes all-out once again with a spectacular photoillustration of the Wolverines [...]

Feb. 4: A look at today’s Super Bowl pages

Pictures of players holding aloft the Lombardi Trophy. Pictures of players walking off the field, nearly in tears. Headlines that allude to the 30-minute delay last night for a power failure. Today’s Super Bowl pages contained quite a bit of sameness. The only thing that makes some of them stand out is attention to details like type placement or exquisite [...]

Feb. 3: Super Bowl pages from around the country (2)

On Friday, I posted a selection of Baltimore Ravens pages from Gannett’s Asbury Park Design Studio. Look for those here. Today, let’s look at a few more Super Bowl advance pages from around the country… — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE San Francisco, Calif. Circulation: 229,176 On page one today, the Chronicle focused on fans: Parties both in the Bay area and [...]

Nov. 30, 2012: Six cool Friday front pages

Here are the six pages that caught my eye during my sweep through the daily archive at the Newseum… — VICTORIA ADVOCATE Victoria, Texas Circulation: 26,531 As much as I love the little paper in Victoria, Texas — I’ve certainly written about it enough — the daily front pages often suffer from a bit of clutter. That’s not the case [...]

Nov. 17, 2012: A look at today’s Twinkie apocalypse front pages (1)

You’d think that Hostess bakeries announcing it would shut down in response to a strike was the end of the world or something, from the play it got Friday in the digital media and today on front pages around the country. Come on. Twinkies will be back on shelves in no time. Someone will buy the Twinkie trademark. Here’s a [...]

Oct. 29, 2012: Monday’s World Series pages

Here’s a look at today’s World Series pages… ____________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 4, DETROIT TIGERS 3 Giants win the series, 4-0 This series was an avalanche from the get-go. True, last night’s Game Four went into extra innings. But the worst that could happen — from the Giants’ point of view — was that the Tigers might force a Game [...]

Oct. 28, 2012: Sunday’s World Series pages

Here’s a look at today’s World Series pages… ____________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 2, DETROIT TIGERS 0 Giants lead the series, 3-0 Next game: Sunday at Detroit, 8 p.m., FOX New venue, same old story: The Detroit Tigers are looking every bit as offensively impotent as did the Yankees in the ALCS. The Giants have now shut out the Tigers twice [...]

Oct. 27, 2012: Saturday’s World Series pages

Tonight, the series picks up again after a one-day travel break. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS at DETROIT TIGERS 8 p.m., FOX Giants lead the series, 2-0 — DETROIT FREE PRESS Detroit, Mich. Circulation: 232,696 Today, the Free Press devoted its entire front to a full-page ode to the Tigers’ return to Detroit. Featured is another outstanding illustration by Eric Millikin. This [...]

Oct. 26, 2012: Friday’s World Series pages

Here’s a look at today’s World Series pages… ____________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 2, DETROIT TIGERS 0 Giants lead the series, 2-0 Next game: Saturday at Detroit, 8 p.m., FOX From all sorts of offense to hardly any offense at all. This is shaping up to be a very strange World Series. Starting Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner threw seven shutout innings, [...]

Oct. 25, 2012: Thursday’s World Series pages

Here’s a look at today’s World Series pages… ____________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 8, DETROIT TIGERS 3 Giants lead the series, 1-0 Next game: Today at San Francisco, 8 p.m., FOX This game was supposed to be all about ace Tigers’ pitcher Justin Verlander. But instead, Pablo Sandoval — “Kung Fu Panda” — tagged Verlander for a solo home run in [...]

Oct. 24, 2012: Photoillustrations highlight today’s World Series pages (2)

Tonight, the World Series begins: Game One DETROIT TIGERS at SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 8 p.m. EDT, Fox And man, do we have some outstanding illustrations to review today. Here’s a look at the day’s pages… — DETROIT FREE PRESS Detroit, Mich. Circulation: 232,696 The Detroit Free Press wiped everything else off the front today and went with a full-page illustration [...]

Oct. 23, 2012: Tuesday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… ________________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 9, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 0 Giants win the AL pennant The Giants racked up five runs in the 3rd inning on their way to a 9-0 shellacking of the St. Louis Cardinals — a team that had seemed like a clinch just three games ago. — SAN FRANCISCO [...]

Oct. 22, 2012: Monday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… ________________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 6, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 1 Series tied, 3-3 Next game: Today, 5 p.m. EDT at San Fransisco, FOX If this was a battle of the pitchers, someone forgot to tell the Cardinals’ Chris Carpenter. He gave up five runs in the first two innings while San Francisco’s Ryan [...]

Oct. 20, 2012: Saturday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages, plus a few from yesterday that I didn’t have time to post… ________________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 5, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 0 St. Louis leads series, 3-2 Next game: Sunday, 7:30 p.m. EDT at San Fransisco, FOX The Giants scored four runs in the 4th inning to beat the Cardinals and to hold [...]

Oct. 18, 2012: Thursday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… ______________________________________ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 3, SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 1 St. Louis leads series, 2-1 Next game: Today, 8 p.m. EDT at St. Louis, FOX Cardinals star Carlos Beltran reinjured his bad knee in the first inning. Matt Carpenter — batting for Beltran in the 3rd — smacked a two-run homer that gave [...]

Oct. 16, 2012: Tuesday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… _______________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 7, ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 1 Series tied, 1-1 Next game: Wednesday, 4 p.m. EDT at St. Louis, FOX The Giants buried the Cardinals on the back of second baseman Marco Scutaro. Scutaro — who was injured when the Cards’ Matt Holliday slide into him in the 1st inning [...]

Oct. 11, 2012: Thursday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… __________________________________________ ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 8, WASHINGTON NATIONALS 0 St. Louis leads the series, 2-1 Next game: Today, 4 p.m. EDT at Washington The first baseball playoff game in D.C. since 1933 was pretty much a debacle for the Nationals. — ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH St. Louis, Mo. Circulation: 187,992 The Post-Dispatch led page [...]

Oct. 10, 2012: Wednesday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… _____________________________________ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 2, CINCINNATI REDS 1 Cincinnati leads the series, 2-1 Next game: Today, 4 p.m. EDT at Cincinnati The Giants kept alive last night, but just barely. With the score tied 1-1 in the 10th inning, Giant baserunners advanced on a passed ball and then scored when Cincinnati’s Scott [...]

Oct. 8, 2012: Monday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… ______________________________ DETROIT TIGERS 5, OAKLAND A’s 4 Detroit leads series, 2-0 Next game: Tuesday, 9 p.m. EDT at Oakland A crazy, crazy afternoon in Detroit. According to the MLB’s own account of the game: It was the first game in Major League postseason history in which both teams tied the game on [...]

Oct. 7, 2012: Sunday’s baseball playoff pages

Here’s a look at today’s baseball playoff pages… ______________________________ DETROIT TIGERS 3, OAKLAND A’s 1 Tigers lead series, 1-0 Next game: Today, Noon EDT Outstanding performances Saturday: Tigers’ pitcher Justin Verlandander with 11 strikeouts in seven innings and catcher Alex Avila, whose home run put Detroit up 3-1 in the fifth inning. — DETROIT FREE PRESS Detroit, Mich. Circulation: 232,696 [...]

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