After spending plenty of time in a bus on Tuesday, the 10 Spot's highlight on Wednesday will be a trip to the Jimmy Kimmel Show. AP

SI.com's Pete McEntegart is in Motown. He's going to cover the big events, attend the parties and soak in all things Detroit. McEntegart will share his thoughts on these things and report the details periodically throughout each day, leading up to Super Bowl XL on Sunday.

Tuesday's entries

1:27 a.m.: So far, Detroit looks an awful lot like the inside of a Greyhound. Due to the fact that my hotel is located in Livonia, some 20 miles west of downtown, I've been spending more time on a bus than Mr. Rooney at the end of Ferris Bueller's. On Tuesday alone I made two round-trip bus trips to downtown, first for Media Day and later for a media party at the Fox Theatre downtown.

Fortunately, the media party was worth the return trip for a freebie-addled sportswriter such as myself. The Fox Theatre, of course, is the largest and most exotic, eclectic Hindu-Siamese-Byzantine theatre of the golden age of the movie palace, i.e. 1925-1930. (All right, I cribbed that from a state of Michigan Web site. Either that, or Mateen Cleaves said he was there and described it to me over the phone.) I'm not sure what I'd put at No. 2 or 3 on my personal list of top Hindu-Siamese-Byzantine architecture, but I have no hesitation in placing the Fox at the top.

The food and drink were excellent, abundant and priced just right. The organizers provided a Motown band that cranked out the city's signature sound on a stage flanked, naturally, by shiny Detroit cars. The highlight was a line for free massages, a godsend considering my grueling schedule of sitting around. There was also a chance to answer Super Bowl trivia to win prizes. But when I learned that the top award appeared to be a picture book of Southeast Michigan, I lost interest.

On Wednesday, I plan to get around downtown Detroit some more. I will hit a sneak preview of the Winter Blast, a downtown festival that will include dog sledding and a 200-foot snow slide. In the evening I will check out the taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Show, if only to delight those of my e-mail critics who claim that I am simply trying to clone the Sports Guy. Then I'll sample some of the Detroit nightlife and, possibly, head south across the river to Canada. (That's no typo; Windsor, Ontario is due south of downtown Detroit and practically a stone's throw away.) Before then, though, I'd like to thank both Andrew Gansen and Craig Barker, two 10 Spot readers from Livonia who wrote in to welcome me to their fair city. Be sure to look me up if you come to New York.