After briefly reaching the break-even mark, the Detroit Shock have lost two in a row to fall to 14-16 as the end of the regular season approaches. They remain tied for fourth place with Washington and currently hold the tiebreaker with them. Detroit plays Washington twice, Charlotte and Indiana once each in their last four regular season games. They need to win both against Washington and at least one of the other two games to finish ahead of Washington and make the playoffs. Second place is no longer possible, all Detroit can do is tie Indiana and Indiana holds the tiebreaker. Third place would require a strong finish by Detroit combined with a New York collapse.

As always, we will see what we will see with the Shock. It is more and more obvious that coach Bill Laimbeer was a One Year Wonder and he either needs to resign or be fired at the end of this season regardless of what happens.

The Detroit Tigers are once again creeping towards .500, currently they are four games under that level. They are 9.5 games back in the American League wild card race and could still make it, but a lot would have to happen. A more reasonable goal is to at least get up to and a bit over .500 and build for next season.