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For the month of July, the Tigers are on their own. Thankfully, they have been playing some real good baseball as of late.

Get your July Detroit Sports Calendar here.

A few weeks ago I upgraded my display to an LG W2361V-PF, which required me to do some reformatting of the wallpapers as I now run at a 1920 x 1080 resolution. While doing so, I wrote a script that uses ImageMagick to automatically crop and resize the different wallpaper sizes. The real benefit for you guys is that I wrote the script to support the TWELVE most common resolutions I can find. This script makes my life a lot easier as I don’t have to manually crop and resize the wallpapers. If I still don’t have your display resolution, I’m sorry. I can’t support every resolution out there but I’m doing the best I can.

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Barring any sort of Stanley Cup Final schedule re-arrangement, this will be the only version of the DSC for this month.

Get your June Detroit Sports Calendar here.

Sorry about the delay getting these wallpapers done; my personal life has kept me quite busy recently. The Tigers’ wallpapers feature retro logos along with an updated (and hopefully final) version of the George Kell/Mark “The Bird” Fidrych memorial patch.

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Great Lakes Loons

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Enjoy!

I’ll update this if the Red Wings’ series versus Anaheim hits Game 6 as well as for any further rounds.

Get your May Detroit Sports Calendar here.

UPDATE: The time for Game 6 of the Red Wings’ series with Anaheim has been added. Another update will come if there’s a Game 7 and/or the Wings move on.

UPDATE 2: The Red Wings’ series versus Chicago has been added. This will be the final version of the calendar for this month.

UPDATE 3: The Red Wings’ Stanley Cup Finals series versus Pittsburgh has been added. This will DEFINITELY be the final version of the calendar for this month.

On the Tigers wallpapers there’s a new memorial patch for George Kell and Mark “The Bird” Fidrych. I am a bit ticked that the Tigers haven’t even memoralized their Hall of Fame third baseman and broadcaster with even a simple black armband.

Detroit Tigers

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Lansing Lugnuts

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Great Lakes Loons

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Opening Day for the Tigers is near and so are the playoffs for the Red Wings (and hopefully the Pistons). I will update the DSC for every playoff round.

If you’re wondering what the heck happened to the Lions logo on the bottom right of the calendar, check this out.

Get your April Detroit Sports Calendar here.

UPDATE: The Red Wings’ first round playoff schedule versus Columbus has been added.

UPDATE 2: Updated to the final April version. No more revisions will be made.

This is the busiest month of the year with FIVE wallpapers. I will not be adding any playoff series to the Red Wings and Pistons wallpapers, but I will make any updates to the Tigers if games are bumped to Fox Sports Detroit Plus. Included on the Pistons wallpaper is a tribute to William Davidson and on the Tigers wallpaper there is a tribute to George Kell. RIP.

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Detroit Pistons

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Detroit Tigers

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Lansing Lugnuts

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Great Lakes Loons

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Enjoy!

A full month here with Tigers Spring Training action. If you don’t recognize the station, Google it.

Get your March Detroit Sports Calendar here.

UPDATE: I have fixed a few errors. Please download the updated version.

Just in time for the Tigers first Spring Training game, here are March’s wallpapers. With the help of a good friend, I have added out-of-town radio and TV stations for games that locals won’t be carrying. All of these radio and TV games should be blackout free since they’re all exhibition games.

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Enjoy!

It’s hard to believe, but Spring Training starts this month. If any of the Tigers games this month are on TV or the radio, I will update the DSC.

I may also update the DSC if the Red Wings/Avalanche game ends up being on NBC due to the flex scheduling.

Get your February Detroit Sports Calendar here.

Yet more design changes! I finally found a new font that I really like after much searching. A new background design is in the works and it will be ready for next month. I’ll have March’s wallpapers before the Tigers start playing Spring Training games as I’ll be including the February part of their schedule on the March wallpaper (a whopping 4 games).

I did the best with all of that empty space. February is hard like that.

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Detroit Pistons

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0-16. I’m still alternating between laughing and feeling sad. At least the Lions won’t be crapping up the Detroit sports scene for a while. The Red Wings and Pistons will be by themselves on the DSC until Spring Training rolls around for the Tigers.

I carried over the “retro month” festivities from the schedule wallpapers to the DSC with the same classic logos and retro font.

Get your January Detroit Sports Calendar here.

In honor of the Winter Classic, I have made retro-styled wallpapers for the Pistons and Red Wings for January. You will find a classic logos and an old school font. I even used retro TV network logos (where possible) I really went all-out on these! Retro month seems to be the most popular of all of my designs.

As far as the Spirit, the logistics prevented me from going full retro. There just aren’t enough good quality classic logos out there for OHL teams (not to mention the possible unfamiliarity with Saginaw being a relatively young OHL town). I used the same font as the Pistons and Red Wings wallpapers and utilized the shoulder logo found on the 3rd jersey.

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Detroit Pistons

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Happy New Year! I hope your year went a lot better than mine did.

The Lions finish out their quest for perfection while the Red Wings and Pistons chug along.

Get your December DSC here.

Hard to believe it’s almost 2009. Take a break from your holiday shopping madness and go watch a game. Here’s your desktop wallpapers for December.

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Detroit Pistons

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Saginaw Spirit

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Enjoy!

The Lions, oy. Thank God the Pistons’ season starts tonight.

Get your November DSC here.

The Pistons’ season starts tonight, so let’s commemerate it with the wallpapers for November. The biggest change this month (for the Red Wings and Pistons wallpapers, anyway) is a new logo for Fox Sports Detroit (formerly FSN Detroit, formerly Fox Sports Detroit). I give Fox three more years before they change the name back to FSN Detroit.

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Detroit Pistons

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Arguably the most disappointing season in Detroit Tigers history has finally come to an end. Thankfully, the Red Wings start their season very soon along with the Pistons beginning their preseason slate. Too bad the Lions won’t be bringing us much joy, but firing Matt Millen finally was a step in the right direction.

Get your October DSC here.

I have the October wallpapers done a bit early because of the Red Wings’ preseason starting up. I managed to squeeze September and October into one month without it looking bad. Yes, I know there’s 31 days in October, but I couldn’t fit it on the Wings wallpaper because the info box had to go somewhere.

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Detroit Pistons

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Saginaw Spirit

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The DSC will be available in the next few days. Enjoy!

The Lions start their 2008 season while the Tigers finish theirs up. Get it here.

Fall has arrived and so has hockey. The Spirit will be playing exhibition games starting this weekend. Oh yeah, those woeful Tigers have one more month in their very dissapointing season.

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I won’t be doing monthly Lions wallpapers this year, so here’s the entire schedule in one shot on your desktop. The plain silver helmets for the CBS games aren’t a mistake; the Lions will be wearing their throwback uniforms on those dates.

I will update this if the Lions have a game moved due to flex scheduling (I’d say there’s a greater shot of monkeys flying out of my butt).

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The Tigers have company for this month as the Lions return with preseason action. I have included the Lions TV affiliates at the top. Get it here.

It’s time for everyone’s favorite wallpaper theme: Retro Month! Well, it is for the Tigers, anyway. I declined on using retro logos for the Lugnuts and the Loons because of probable confusion.

Detroit Tigers

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Lansing Lugnuts

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Great Lakes Loons

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Enjoy!