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Who is Mark Sutter, you ask? A fellow N&R employee, member of one of my fantasy football leagues and an ardent Detroit apologist.

That's why I assume Mark is giving people a big "See! I told you so!" today after the Sporting News named the Motor City it's No. 1 sports city for 2007.

But I've come not to praise Mark Sutter, but rather to ask where Greensboro has been buried in all this. G-Boro didn't even make the top 100. Ouch.

Heck, Winston-Salem was No. 69. Double ouch.

Good lord, Starkville, Miss. was No. 99. (banging my head against a wall now).

Actually that tells you that having a major Division I team in your town will trump a lot of things. Like having the ACC women's tournament annually, the ACC men's tournament most years, the NCAA regionals recently, two Division I programs (UNC and A&T) and easy access to all of the Big Four. Heck I didn't even mention that we're John Isner's hometown!

Perhaps we should just take solace that we didn't make SI.com's list of the Top Five worst sports cities.

I'd argue that maybe Atlanta is only second-worst, but really, when you're that low does it even matter?