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Detroit Lions predictions vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Is a playoff repeat in store?

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September 15, 2024

Detroit Lions predictions vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Is a playoff repeat in store?

Free Press sports writers share their Detroit Lions vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers game predictions for Sunday afternoon (1 p.m., Fox) in Week 2 of the 2024 NFL season.

Dave Birkett

The Lions are just the fourth team in NFL history to open a season against two teams they played in the previous year’s playoffs, according to ESPN, and all three of their predecessors went on to reach the Super Bowl. There’s a lot of season left before that happens, but there’s no denying the Bucs will be out to avenge their two losses to the Lions in the past 11 months.

Tampa is a good team with a dangerous offense, and Todd Bowles is one of the best defensive coaches in the NFL. But he’ll have his work cut out for him Sunday given Tampa’s injury-derived shortcomings in the secondary. I don’t think this game turns into a blowout, like the oddsmakers project. If Tampa has any success running the ball, this game won’t be decided until late in the fourth quarter. But as long as Jared Goff avoids turnovers, the Lions will walk away with the tiebreaker edge over another NFC playoff contender. The pick: Lions 28, Bucs 24.

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Carlos Monarrez

If the Bucs weren’t decimated by injuries to their secondary, I would be tempted to pick them based off last week’s dominant 37-20 win over Washington. But that was in Tampa, Florida, and Ford Field ain’t Tampa. The Lions’ defense needs to clean up its tackling and will be challenged by the Bucs’ potent pass game, which will get its points. But Ben Johnson’s offense will be too much for a shorthanded Tampa secondary. The pick: Lions 36, Bucs 30.

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Jeff Seidel

My ears were still ringing on Monday morning after the Lions’ season-opening win. Why point that out? Because Ford Field has turned into an amazing home-field advantage. It’s wildly loud and crazy and this team feeds on it. Perhaps, you recognize the score in my prediction — the final score against the Buccaneers in the divisional round of the playoffs last January. One thing to remember: That game was tied entering the fourth quarter, 17-17. This game will be close again, but Lions pull away late. The pick: Lions 31, Buccaneers 24.

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Shawn Windsor

For the second week in a row, the Lions have to play a team they just beat. Baker Mayfield and Co. return looking for revenge just as Matthew Stafford did Sunday. The Bucs are missing folks in the defensive backfield, but their offense looked primed and pumped in Week 1. This will be a good test for the Lions revamped defense. Meanwhile, the offense starts to work out some of the kinks. The pick: Lions 27, Bucs 23.

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PWHL players bond with women’s hockey pioneers at Detroit clinic | NHL.com

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March 28, 2026

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PWHL players bond with women’s hockey pioneers at Detroit clinic | NHL.com

Both generations on the ice Friday are intent on growing the game for today’s kids. Hartje and the Polar Bears believe an important step for women’s hockey in Michigan would be starting a Division I college team.

“I think if the PWHL establishes a team in Detroit, it will put a lot of pressure on the colleges to make sure there’s a D-I team in the state,” Hartje said. “Michigan has the second-highest number of players in the league, and it would have been a dream for us to be able to stay in the state to play.”

It’s been a problem for decades. Pierson had to turn down the offer from Boston University, because her family couldn’t afford to send her to New England for college. Hartje ended up at Yale University, and Megan Keller, who scored the gold medal winning goal for the U.S. in the 2026 Winter Olympics and plays for the PWHL’s Boston Fleet, went from suburban Detroit to Boston College.

Meanwhile, 2026 U.S. men’s Olympic team members and Michigan natives Dylan Larkin of the Red Wings and Zach Werenski of the Columbus Blue Jackets were able to stay in the state to play with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, then based in Ann Arbor, before moving on to the University of Michigan in the same town.

“Megan’s brother played at Michigan State, and I’m sure she also would have stayed here to play for a Michigan school,” Skarupa said. “It’s imperative that Michigan gets a college program.”

Skarupa is serious about growing the game. She is working with Keller and the NHL Foundation U.S. to identify recipients for its $100,000 Empowerment Grant Program for Girls Hockey.

“Every time I go back to a city, there are new teams, new girls and new faces,” she said. “It’s a testament to growth all over the world, but it is tremendous inside the U.S.”

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Retired Detroit sergeant faces new sexual assault charge involving 14-year-old victim from 2002

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March 27, 2026

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Retired Detroit sergeant faces new sexual assault charge involving 14-year-old victim from 2002

Updated on: March 27, 2026 / 12:23 PM EDT
/ CBS Detroit

An additional case, this one involving a victim who was then 14 years old, has been added to the sexual assault investigation against a former Detroit Police Department sergeant.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced the latest charges on Friday against Benjamin Martin Wagner, 68, who now lives in Greenville, N.C. He had retired from the Detroit Police Department in 2017.

The victim in the additional charges was 14 years old when the assault happened in October 2002 in Detroit, Worthy said. The prosecutor alleges that Wagner approached the victim, pointed a handgun at her, ordered her away from the location and then sexually assaulted her.

In this case, he faces charges of kidnapping, two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. An arraignment hearing took place Friday in the 36th District Court in Detroit. A probable cause conference is scheduled for April 7.

The woman is now 37 years old.

“She has lived with what happened to her for 23 years and has now bravely decided that she wants to be a part of holding him accountable,” Worthy said.

Wagner participated in a court hearing Thursday and was remanded to jail, one week after he was charged with 15 counts of kidnapping and rape in five separate sexual assault cases. All of those incidents happened between 1999 and 2003 in the northwest side of Detroit, with the victims being young women between the ages of 15 and 23.

The court dates for the earlier list of charges are April 7 for a probable cause hearing and April 14 for a preliminary exam.

Wagner joined the Detroit Police Department in 1989 as a police officer and was eventually promoted to sergeant. He retired in 2017 and moved to North Carolina.

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Metro Detroit weather forecast, March 26, 2026 — 11 p.m. Update

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March 27, 2026

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Metro Detroit weather forecast, March 26, 2026 — 11 p.m. Update

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