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Detroit has been known as the City of Champions since the 1930s when the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings all won titles in the same decade. Also, back-to-back victories were celebrated by the Detroit Pistons in 1989 and 1990 and the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998. It's no wonder that USA Today rated Detroit the #1 sports town in the United States.

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• Detroit is no stranger to major championships. The 35th Ryder Cup Matches were held at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills in 2004, and Detroit's Ford Field hosts college football's Motor City Bowl every winter.
• The Detroit Red Wings have won 10 Stanley Cups in 1936, 1937, 1943, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1997, 1998, and 2002.
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• The Detroit Tigers won the American League Pennant and World Series in 1935, 1945, 1968 and again in 1984.
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• The Detroit Lions won the National Football League Championship in 1935, 1952. 1953 and 1957.
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• The Detroit Pistons won the NBA Championship in 1944, 1945, 1989, 1990 and 2004.
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• The Detroit Shock won the WNBA Championship in 2003.
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• The City of Champions was topped off in 1937 when Detroiter Joe Louis, the "Brown Bomber," defeated Jim Braddock to win the world's heavyweight championship, starting a 12-year reign.
• And Speaking of Champions | The Kronk Gym, which was founded in the 1970's, has now produced over 30 world-champion boxers.
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• Thomas "the Hitman" Hearns, a Detroit native, won seven boxing championships including the WBA welterweight, the WBC super welterweight and the WBA light heavyweight titles.
• Recent Olympians, who hail from Detroit, include Olympic Gold Medalist in Swimming Carly Piper, Olympic Gold Medalist in Swimming Peter Vanderkaay, Olympic Silver Medalist in Track Lauryn Williams and NHL Hockey Player Darrien Hatcher.

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